Howard Huge

MODS!

It will be nice when it's all done - but I feel bad for that coffee shop and the existing retail. Drove past the other night and no one at the coffee shop but the barista - on a saturday night.

I want to tell them to HOLD the line - better times are coming - hope they can hold on.

Isn't the "Dallas Street Retail" project a city project? Could the city have offered the mom and pop stores some sort or concessions for ripping up the street for so long?

I dont get it.

How do they poop?

They even have lunch up there?

In a bucket.

Have to bring your lunch.

I like the guy who has the biggest single dreadlock I've ever seen, like literally all of his hair (which goes down to his waist) is one giant dreadlock, shaped like a huge rectangle. It's so matted it doesn't move. I think a few street rats call that nest home.

I'm gonna go ahead and use my higgly intelligent deductive skills to assume crane operators have legs for days.

Lol, not really.

You'd be surprised at how out of shape most of the guys I work with are.

You only make that climb twice a day, once in the morning, and then when your shift is over. The other 12 hours you're just sitting on your ass.

The higher cranes usually have an elevator on the building that takes you most of the way up.

It's almost topped out!

Am I the only one wishing this was still in downtown in the same cool looking historic structure?

That area of midtown would be so much cleaner, albeit all the trash would be in downtown, but, wouldn't that be more acceptable?

I guess it takes away the downtown view from the southeast on the Pierce elevated.

But it IS downtown!

This building has "stretched the skyline" all the way to the furthest southeast corner of downtown proper, although it's not exactly a skyline changer, it's part of our skyline now...

Maybe the Hotel Logo will really dress it up.

I hope this isn't deleted just so that everyone would realize their complaints will never reach the level of this one. This is the hottest take, and it's a beauty.

There are just so many great ways to read this comment, most notably the idea that someone is either walking downtown or browsing HAIF at maximum torque while looking at the construction. Perfect.

I read it like he was referring to the perspective of a couple of lovebirds checking in at this hotel suddenly losing the urge to bump uglies when they see this pile of vomit stacked 14 stories high.

Architectural salt-peter, if you will.

I'm generally against lots of government regulation, I don't think giving them a say do over what does or doesn't get built is a bad idea.

That being said, I'm not against some other way of regulating final structure appearance, but how?

English?

There are too many damn "powers that be" in Houston.

It's getting old.

Butt hurt much? People don't go down telephone and lawndale bc they don't want to get robbed. Maybe in 20 yrs...

Yes indeed, (all political bs aside) the next mayor/council MUST find a way to proceed with mass transit, full-speed-ahead. Houston has become a gigantic clusterf*ck, and it gets worse everyday; especiallly with the continual influx of people. I'm in NY right now, and it's a breeze getting all around town on the trains.

Yes, I am fully aware of how easy it is to get around without a car whenever I'm in NY, it's unbelievable, you can go literally anywhere in the city in a breeze, the trains and buses are so well connected. Truly a marvel of mass transit, the finest system in the world. I am so jealous.

Heard a rumor that a new music venue is going in, and a "luxury" bowling alley too. There might even be a Piano bar, or a low tier fashion store there as well. A few restaurants have been confirmed as well. Who knows, maybe one day they'll put in a hotel too!

Oooohh!

You know what really anchor this development? A House Of Blues!

One can only dream!

Wow. Post oak is going to be mad dense, and isn't even close to being fully built out yet.

Traffic will be a nightmare, which is scary because it already is a nightmare.

If only we had some sort of system to get people moving without cars on the road.... HMMMMMM

Houston: 2025

http://www.trbimg.com/img-5612e0a6/turbine/bal-bs-bs-skytrain-p3-20130727

Yeah. I love it.

I wish the high point on the roof (the unoccupied area) was just a little higher and sharper, maybe with spires/poles like that med center building that looks like a sailboat.

So 90 minutes from Dallas to Houston, then another 90 minutes via bus/rented car to downtown? Haha.

Pretty much.

Might as well catch a flight from DFW to Bush then catch a cab downtown, the extra cost would be negligible.

No doubt there will be a taxi stand. And rental cars.

Plus, isn't the Northwest Transit Center about a half mile down the road? I would think there would be a shuttle.

Or maybe we could have, I don't know, JUST HAD THE F*****G TRAIN GO ALL THE WAY TO DOWNTOWN.

JESUS CHRIST this cow town is just one massive fail after the other.