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  1. Texasota
    barf
  2. Texasota
    This is all so relevant to the subject of town squares in Houston.
  3. Texasota
    Go west. There are plenty of homeless people along Westheimer/Richmond etc west of Uptown. And yes, downtown is more walkable than uptown, largely because of scale. Individual blocks are much, much smaller than Uptown, and they're laid out in a consistent, predictable grid. That makes it much easier to get between places, and to adjust your route if you change your mind after you've already started walking.
  4. Texasota
    Even the Energy Corridor is well west of the city's demographic center. Even if you pretend that nothing exists east of Downtown, the Energy Corridor would still not be the demographic center. I wonder if, after they finish filling in greenfields between Spring and The Woodlands, the area between The Woodlands and Conroe will be next. I suppose it probably won't even take that long.
  5. Texasota
    If you open 3 bags of M&Ms and each bag has one blue M&M, then one blue M&M is typical per bag of M&Ms. In a single bag of M&Ms, multiple blue M&Ms would in fact be atypical. That analogy would only make sense if there were multiple "Heights Wests."
  6. Texasota
    Well that would be appropriate density for that intersection at least.
  7. Texasota
    Not exactly. This is TIRZ money, so it's only property taxes paid on properties within the TIRZ. Depending on how specific "you guys" was meant to be.
  8. Texasota
    Yeah, somewhere between Spring and The Woodlands is nowhere near the "demographic center of Houston." And if its Camp Strake then that's actually outside the Houston metro area (I believe.)
  9. Texasota
    townhomes are not the problem. "Gated" is the problem. And yes we have rivers. They're called bayous.
  10. Texasota
    Hmmm... Hopefully that means additional buildings in the vacant blocks immediately south and west.
  11. Texasota
    No, I meant the "Hines" part. that seemed weirdly specific yet totally misleading. It almost made it seem like a recent Hines development. It is home to the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, but the building is generally just referred to as the Architecture Building. As for beautiful... I dont think you've spent very much time in the building if that's your description of it.
  12. Texasota
    what do you mean, "added bonus (Hines)"? That's a 30 year old Philip Johnson building.
  13. Texasota
    yeah something about it is kinda freaking me out. but i dont hate it.
  14. Texasota
    yeah that courtyards not doin much for me. especially fenced. better than a parking lot aesthetically, but not really in terms of use.
  15. Texasota
    There are ways to provide for that without cutting the building's front door off from the sidewalk.
  16. Texasota
    ugh i hadnt noticed that nasty drop-off driveway. so much for using the whole site.
  17. Texasota
    Nooooooo... Keep downtown classy!
  18. Texasota
    of course. it's a (relatively) small lot for a tower. Plus why wouldn't they? What would they do with the rest of the lot?
  19. Texasota
    Do we know when Whole Foods is opening?
  20. Texasota
    That's a beautiful building on that block. I'd hate to see it razed.
  21. Texasota
    No I mean the actual physical buildings that are there. Check out the demo reports on Swamplot: most days there are multiple demos of older, 2 story brick homes being demoed in favor of new construction. Or for that matter, the Hines residential building in the Museum District: that's a perfectly fine block that will be mostly razed. Oh, and even just today: the Caroline Collective: http://swamplot.com/the-singular-demolition-of-museum-parks-caroline-collective/2014-01-03/
  22. Texasota
    Oh wow. That's horrible.
  23. Texasota
    Argh, the skyline fetish! Montrose and the museum district would both pretty much have to be wiped out for this to happen. The museum district is well on its way, but I hope Montrose avoids that fate.
  24. Texasota
    Yes. Reworked. As in, as originally laid out, New York had much smaller blocks. The Olmsteadification of Manhattan was then copied throughout the country, including in more western cities/towns like Minneapolis and Houston Heights. (Downtown Minneapolis, which was laid out a bit earlier, has square blocks.)
  25. Texasota
    I would hope we don't get a supertall. We need 2 50-stories, or 4 25-stories, or, honestly, 20 5-stories way more than we need some symbolic supertall.
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