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  1. Texasota
    with ground floor retail!
  2. Texasota
    No reason for Midtown not to at least move forward with the park portion of the superblock. They own the land (after the land transfer with Camden)
  3. Texasota
    Hines is just building in the vacant part of the block. That block is inside the historic district, so none of those buildings are going anywhere
  4. Texasota
    Downtown. There are still way too many vacant lots. Honestly I would prefer downtown to uptown for almost *any new construction.
  5. Texasota
    Would you prefer bare concrete?
  6. Texasota
    What? That section of 59 is the prettiest freeway in the city. The vines are fantastic.
  7. Texasota
    It is *not* really like Hubble and Hudson. Not that fancy.
  8. Texasota
    It's ...fine. Went to the one on Holcombe. Their dry goods/bulk and candy selections are great, but I'm not sure that's enough to pull me away from WFM/HEB/Phoenicia/DiscoKroger
  9. Texasota
    Seriously doubt that strip center (on Westheimer) is long for this world.
  10. Texasota
    cautiously optimistic...
  11. Texasota
    The interior layout was ...awkward. The bar was fine, but then they put oversized couches against the inside wall that were too far apart for a group of people to talk to each other.
  12. Texasota
    The west side of main is physically much smaller than the east side though. At some point it will be financially way more logical to build out to the east. Maybe once the superblock is finished.
  13. Texasota
    Stone in Houston would just come across as ripping off Austin's style. It's completely inappropriate. I don't the problem is with the materials per se; it's more with the detailing and grab bag faux historicness. At least this thing doesnt have any turrets.
  14. Texasota
    "best and highest use"= maximum property taxes? The Midtown TIRZ has already been by far the most successful TIRZ in the city in terms of revenue collected, so I'm not sure I find that terribly convincing.
  15. Texasota
    Classy.
  16. Texasota
    ah, but can you really predict where you'll end up throughout the night? What if theres a taco truck? Or that guy who sells a dozen tamales for $8?
  17. Texasota
    eh, its just good etiquette to carry cash when going bar hopping.
  18. Texasota
    Yeah I'm really not sure what the objection to a Meals on Wheels facility would be. No matter how much you hate homeless people, this facility is serving people who are, by definition, not out wandering the streets.
  19. Texasota
    Yes. This is momentum. 4 adjacent blocks of residential/hotel, and ground floor retail starts to make real sense.
  20. Texasota
    I like cynthia woods mitchell pavilion. not sure additional venues, much less a full blown performing arts center is really needed up there though.
  21. Texasota
    The dichotomy here *is* pretty ridiculous, but if there's no market impetus to make "better" use of the site, then McDonald's will do whatever is in their best interest. "We" only have a say in the matter insofar as we're willing to change city ordinances, and "we" have pretty routinely voted against zoning of any kind, for better and for worse. *Although, wouldn't this be subject to transit corridor regulations? I realize that, as written, those are really more suggestions than hard requirements, but...
  22. Texasota
    Honestly I would assume that every single tract of land in that area would need some sort of remediation.
  23. Texasota
    something boring in the woodlands?!?!?! How bizarre.
  24. Texasota
    I just wonder how much overlap there is between the population that wants to live in the Heights and the population interested in living in condos. I think the fact that this project looks extremely cheap might suggest that there isn't much confidence in condo construction in the Heights. You used the new condo building on Waugh as an example, but that's a much, much higher quality building than this one. (Or at least it seems to be.)
  25. Texasota
    Houston is a lot less dense than either Boston or Chicago. I think there's still an expectation here that buying a home gets you your own property with at least a small yard, particularly in a neighborhood like the heights. I know for me personally, I would love to buy a condo in or near downtown, but I have no idea what the appeal of a condo in the Heights would be.
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