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  1. Texasota
    Narrator: "It will not."
  2. Texasota
    This sort of development drives me crazy. Get back to me when the giant parking lots are replaced with apartments, townhouses, and the occasional garage. Walkability should not be a destination you have to drive to.
  3. Texasota
    people can be allowed some hyperbole. 900 across 50 states is not very many, especially considering they're more concentrated in some areas than others. Easy enough to go years between seeing them.
  4. Texasota
    Good for wherever Fulshear is. *I mean that less sarcasticly than it sounds*
  5. Texasota
    Man I really wish rich people had better taste.
  6. Texasota
    This is such a great project. It just needs a 39 story tower in that leftover parking lot.
  7. Texasota
    The ocean. The bulk of fentanyl production is Chinese.
  8. Texasota
    I'm sure I qualify as a "Regent Square apologist", but this is pretty unimpressive. It wouldn't take *that* much to make this space look a lot more inviting, but the fact that the restaurant owners didn't bother (along with the loss of the original team) really makes this look poorly managed.
  9. Texasota
    You're talking about these things as ors when they should clearly be ands.
  10. Texasota
    Maybe a plant somewhere? Even just one?
  11. Texasota
    This is such a well thought out concept. Hopefully this is a prototype for future work too.
  12. Texasota
    Kids should not be allowed indoors. Indoor activities should be a privilege of adulthood; kids should play in the bayou as god intended.
  13. Texasota
    That would be a huge Trader Joe's and pretty much a full size Target.
  14. Texasota
    Westheimer doesn't need an LRT extension. It needs a subway.
  15. Texasota
    What does that mean?
  16. Texasota
    That's ridiculous. It's hundreds of homes in a perfectly fine building. Is it less than it should have been? Absolutely. But it's a whole hell of a lot better than a vacant block.
  17. Texasota
    I'm always a fan of high-end cars getting smashed, but pedestrian safety needs to be a priority here. Midtown as a whole would benefit from a light or stop signs at *every* intersection. Nearly every intersection downtown is signalized, and it really helps a lot despite massively wide streets.
  18. Texasota
    They do not. Those cowards at the Planning Department didn't make the 82 a transit corridor.
  19. Texasota
    There are other colors in addition to white, black, natural brick, brown, and beige. And this "urban farmhouse" white/black scheme is already a bit dated.
  20. Texasota
    No! Drive-through? Come on!
  21. Texasota
    Yeah it looks cheaper than would be ideal, but the scaling, site plan, and lack of parking? I love it. Give me hundreds more of these (with maybe better exterior finishes and balconies).
  22. Texasota
    Huh. I don't agree. I like the way they screened it and the big double height entrance area with its forest of columns. It's a still a giant parking podium, but I've seen much worse.
  23. Texasota
    From the August meeting: Pursuant to the DRA Board’s recommendation, Staff has distributed a letter of request to property owners inside the boundaries of TIRZ3, seeking participation in a feasibility study to go to an RFP later this summer. The study will evaluate approximately five opportunities for conversion of office space into other uses such as residential. The study is intended to inform the development of a financial tool that can be used to more easily facilitate the conversion of obsolete office space. Also this sounds pretty interesting: Staff has submitted a revised strategic annexation & term extension request to the City Planning Department for Mayoral review later in August. This request will come before the DRA Board in the Fall as a proposed Project Plan and Financial Plan, as has been exercised in the past. The limited annexation holds the promise of assisting the DRA in its mandate to address blight remediation and invigorating Downtown public spaces because the proposed annexation involves a significant redevelopment project that would generate significant incremental tax revenue.
  24. Texasota
    The first one is Audio Video Plus, which, I guess ClutchCity94 hasn't lived in Montrose that long. It's never been pretty, but it hasn't been vacant *that* long. The real mystery is how it stayed open as long as it did. The third one is Mark's/March. I think the whole topic is over-stated at best. EADO still has a ton of vacant land, and two of the examples given for Montrose (Disco Kroger and the Tower Community Center) were torn down with the intention of replacing them. Now, if Skanska never does anything with the Tower block, that's a different story.
  25. Texasota
    It would, but they don't have a large enough space for that.
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