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    I don't know about violent crime, but I think the general crime rate is much higher around the Greyhound station than downtown (number of incidents, not necessarily number of incidents/resident, since there are so few residents downtown). Downtown for the most part is vacant after 11:00 pm. There is no one around to commit crime or become a victim. During the day, there are too many people--all of whom are business people--for many crimes to occur. And there is a reason there is such a strong police presence around the bus station -- that is where all the crime happens. There are undercover cops galore in the immediate vicinity running drug and prostitution stings (interestingly, a lot of male prostitution). The city is (or was) trying to shut down the gas station across the street as a public nuisance due to all the crime occurring there. Admittedly all the crimes I've identified are non-violent, but my assumption is that there must be some violent crime associated with these because there normally is. And this is not unusual -- the same issues exist in Chicago and other cities that are trying to redevelop the areas immediately around the bus station. All of that said, the more people that move to the area, the safer it will become (as Nuclearreaction noted), so I'm all for this new development.
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    We should turn the overpass into a unicorn preserve as well. Perhaps have leprechauns handing out candy at each end for the kids.
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    I think you can walk across the tracks. Not many trains.
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    I thought you were trying to show that an old structure could be attached to a new structure/mall. But if you were just trying to show that you can have a hotel on top of a mall, then yes I agree with you.
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    This is a deceiving picture. Water Tower Place was never part of the original structure. There is street between the two that you can't see from this angle.
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    A lot of people have suggested Hilcorp should have restored Foley's. Can someone with building knowledge comment on how expensive it would be to install the windows that would be required to make a building with no windows into a Class A building with as many windows as would be required for such? I'm not a builder but I assume it be cost prohibitive times a thousand.
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    You must be right!
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    i don't understand the southbound traffic lane from Lamar to Dallas on Main. Because you can't take lefts over the rail tracks (which you would have to do if you were coming down Lamar), i don't see how anyone could ever use it. so shutting it down makes perfect sense.
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    As someone that takes the light rail to work (and they're aren't many if us), I absolutely understand why they would not face this towards Main. As a practical matter, dropping people off or picking them up would be a nightmare. The road is one lane there. It wouldn't work. Also the bums down there are awful. I wear headphones so I don't have to deal with them. But they are still an eye sore. If I was spending a hundred million dollars, I would try to lessen the impact of homeless as mush as possible. Also, this doesn't really look like a parking garage. Finally, why is rail suppose to be something you build towards? In Chicago, folks don't build buildings so they face the L.
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    Correct (and your space between Chevron Phillips is correct as well). Now we can get back to name dropping about how some executive at Chevron allegedly told X that this was a for sure deal in downtown.
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    ChevronPhillips is a chemical company, not to be confused with the former ConocoPhillips. ChevronPhillips is headquartered in the Woodlands.
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    This is a silly conversation. Chevron tower is being built. Notably Chevron sent an email to all Houston employees stating that the Bellaire location would not be consolidated downtown. I suppose it could move that location and Westpark up North, but it would seem odd and against what it is telling/suggesting to its employees.
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    Yes, the huge empty fenced off lots. While it prepared folks going into downtown for the many surface parking lots, I would have preferred to see Allen House there.
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    Nearly 7 years after announcing the project. We've had an eye sore along Allen Parkway for many years as a result of these developers, but I suppose it's better late than never.
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    The neighbors here don't seem nearly as obnoxious as the Stop Ashby crowd. They won't get nearly as far though.
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    very similar question to if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound? if an apartment building is built in the line of sight from minute maid to downtown but no one is sitting in the seats, is the view blocked?
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    Parking is at a premium in that area. 1100 Smith, which is on the other side of the Hyatt from this project, is booked and anything but cheap.
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    Looks great, although the latest renderings completely distort the surrounding area. Can't wait for it to start going up.
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    But what do the signs add to the lawsuit? the signs on the fences along Greenbriar are a great example. they are all faded and almost completely covered by the vines on the fences. if your plastic sign has disintegrated and the vegetation has covered it up, then it's been up too long.
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    I believe MFAH has a large fall out shelter, although I doubt anywhere near that size.
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    If not the Star of Hope, then something with lots of neon and 2 am last call.
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    i agree that living in a downtown environment means giving up easy access to a wide variety of things. Usually you are only in easy walking distance of one grocery store, and in general those stores are much smaller than the huge grocery stores most Houstonians are used to. You can walk to perhaps two convenience stores, but again they are much smaller. And it's a super pain to try to go to a place like Target or Home Depot. Of course in return, you can walk to most everything you need to get by and there is a vibrant interaction with the City and your neighbors. That said,I think that most people (not all) like the wider selection of goods and easy access to them, which is why cities like Houston and similar cities are growing much faster than the dense urban centers (and in particular, why the suburbs and near suburbs in these cities are growing).
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    Marvy went to an Astros game and realized people really don't want to live near the ballpark.
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    The signs alone aren't arrogant. But i see them as representing arrogance because i associate them with the entire movement's attitude towards the development and the reasons it should be stopped. I'm not going to rehash the arguements on the previous 29 pages, but needless to say I don't support the stop Ashby highrise movement. And regardless of how I view the signs, I stll can't imagine that people are in favor of yard signs up for three years and beyond. What purpose are they serving at this late date? Would you feel different if someone in the area put a rusty car on cinder blocks in the front yard and painted stop ashby highrise on the sides and left it there for three years?
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    Poe is a good school, and I agree that the reason it doesn't do better is the multi-family on the north side of 59. But having ugly, arrogant signs in your yard for three years is a problem. It's like a house leaving up christmas decorations for three years, but it's an entire neighborhood. If you don't see that, wow. Just wow.
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