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  1. Texasota
    Bueno. Coffee shops desperately needed downtown.
  2. Texasota
    The shopping center is a city Historic Landmark, meaning the owner has to submit plans to the historic commission, but their decision is only binding for 90 days.
  3. Texasota
    Ugh, I wonder what the motivation was.
  4. Texasota
    Regardless of their concept, Georgia's execution was poor. They could never decide whether they wanted to be a market or a deli, so they were unsuccessful at both. Obviously it *is* possible to successful at both, but Georgia's was not.
  5. Texasota
    I couldn't give two craps about a supertall. True infill like this building is exactly what Houston needs.
  6. Texasota
    Yeah, replacing Numbers with anything else seems pretty heretical.
  7. Texasota
    So... this is a food hall. I really hope they do a good job soliciting interesting tenants and keep decent hours. The fact that they can appeal to theater-goers, office people leaving work, bar-hoppers on Main, AND increasingly downtown (and midtown) residents should make it possible for this to be something cool. The updated rendering also gives me hope that they'll try to make this a destination.
  8. Texasota
    http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/transportation/CMP/LowerWestheimer/docs_pdfs/intersections.pdf Wow, this is ...weird. I generally like it though. They are clearly trying to do a *lot* without expanding the ROW (except in a few limited spots.) Although, hmmm... no bike lanes on Dunlavy and Taft...
  9. Texasota
    Eh, race and income separation are not wholly disconnected though. Look at the history of redlining - the ability of families to get loans, mortgages, access to credit - this had as much to do with race as it had to do with any legitimate measure of credit worthiness. Even if, for the sake of argument, race weren't an issue today, it would still have an effect because this generation might not have the advantage of relying on the financial success (helped by access to credit) of the previous generation.
  10. Texasota
    My understanding is that a big part of the problem is that much of Third Ward is, despite being single family homes, renter occupied. So these houses are owned by random landlords all over the country who feel no particular responsibility to the community. I'm not sure how you address that without finding a way to give renters significantly more power than they currently have. The city could mandate that renters who've been in their homes for some minimum amount of time have right of first purchase if the landlord tries to sell, but how many people could actually afford to act on that?
  11. Texasota
    Exactly. Shade trees make a huge difference here.
  12. Texasota
    Much better! Anchor that intersection!
  13. Texasota
    There's somewhat of a chicken/egg situation here. Lack of transit makes it impossible for Houston to get anywhere near San Francisco in terms of density, but, especially since we are continuing to grow in population, there's no reason for that to continue in perpetuity. This really does seem like a great, catalyzing spot to work on that: High speed rail connection to Dallas Connect to Uptown BRT Short term: express buses to downtown Medium term: extend Green Line LRT to NW Transit along Washington Long term: Extend high speed rail to downtown; add links to other cities
  14. Texasota
    HUGE seems like an overstatement, but sure, getting these two buildings fully leased up is definitely good.
  15. Texasota
    WHO IS STORING ALL THEIR STUFF??? WHY??? JUST GET RID OF IT! YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT USING IT!
  16. Texasota
    Well that is absolute idiocy but I would think Weingarten could resolve that, depending on lease terms with their tenets.
  17. Texasota
    This block is outside of the historic district, likely because it was vacant when the district was created.
  18. Texasota
    The Mall in DC seems like the obvious precedent, since it's mostly grass but regularly hosts massive crowds of people. I think they use these temporary plastic things to protect the grass. Edit: here's an article on the pretty in-depth thinking going into protecting the Mall's grass: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/once-barely-surviving-the-grass-on-the-mall-gets-a-serious-makeover/2016/09/19/c815b8d2-792b-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?utm_term=.c935cf50438e It doesn't go much into the temporary decking, but you could see it in the inauguration size comparison photos that were all over the place a month ago.
  19. Texasota
    I wonder if any stadiums open their concourses up as full-time food halls, even when no events are going on. This would help boost the quality of concessions during a game and create a more full-time value for the neighborhood. This stadium seems perfect for it, and Houston is in serious need of more food halls.
  20. Texasota
    Serious question: What does "parking is an issue" mean? Is it just that the drainage ditches limit parallel parking? Are there any solutions short of rebuilding the roads without them? Would limiting traffic to one-way, one lane, with permanent, well-marked street parking and some sort of partial curbing protecting the ditches work?
  21. Texasota
    Right, which is what the excised stub of Rosalie will be for. This should be a pretty standard sized WFM: not Austin-flagship sized, but normal urban Whole Foods.
  22. Texasota
    Happily. St Joseph Parkway is not a great name, but Calhoun is much, much worse.
  23. Texasota
    I appreciate the pavement treatment (assuming it gets done as shown.) It makes that corner more of a plaza. Hopefully they'll frequently close it off to parking for events.
  24. Texasota
    To be fair, that's quite a large studio. This thing seems to have a decent set of amenities as well.
  25. Texasota
    I have to imagine an actual Australian would have better taste than that.
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