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  1. Texasota
    Ugh, what a Heightsian response. They're renovating the building, so any visibility issues would already be present, but basically cannot exist on that corner of the intersection as skwatra described.
  2. Texasota
    spelt?
  3. Texasota
    oh ok. nice. thats a big piece of vacant land
  4. Texasota
    which corner? where the body shop is?
  5. Texasota
    ...for what?
  6. Texasota
    with ground floor retail!
  7. 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)
  8. 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
  9. Texasota
    Would you prefer bare concrete?
  10. Texasota
    What? That section of 59 is the prettiest freeway in the city. The vines are fantastic.
  11. Texasota
    Seriously doubt that strip center (on Westheimer) is long for this world.
  12. Texasota
    cautiously optimistic...
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  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
    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...
  21. Texasota
    Now we're getting somewhere!
  22. Texasota
    Except! Think about that site. Immediately east is Houston House; immediately west is the soon to be renovated Savoy. That's not to say just *any* retail would succeed, but I think it could work if carefully curated.
  23. Texasota
    I kind of really like that site plan. Dividing the block helps separate parking garage traffic from pedestrian shoppers. There's retail and a little dog park on Main. Retail on Leeland gestures vaguely toward toyota center, discovery green etc.
  24. Texasota
    ...And this is the problem right here. The idea that the tunnels are some sort of refuge from homeless people.
  25. Texasota
    I've never been a fan of the Market Street murals. There's one facing (I think) Lake Woodlands of a smiling boy holding some fruit. It is absolutely terrifying.
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