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  1. Texasota
    While I would also prefer to see this building reused, I feel the need to point out that: pieces of it literally fell off and hit the ground.
  2. Texasota
    ROW on Westheimer east of shepherd is inadequate for what's there now, much less anything additional.
  3. Texasota
    There's also a utility easement. It would be really cool to see a greenway/ bike trail put in there to connect the quasi-walkability of that stretch of westheimer to Memorial Park
  4. Texasota
    aw, poor rich white people have to cross the train tracks. with their feet, no less.
  5. Texasota
    I like Highland Village. It sounds vaguely Dallas-y, and that and Uptown are definitely the Dallas-iest parts of Houston.
  6. Texasota
    That rendering is hilarious.
  7. Texasota
    I would not conflate Whole Foods coffee with what they serve at Starbucks.
  8. Texasota
    ...no. This has always been described as a collaboration between midtown and camden. There was never going to be a full superblock sized park. What we're getting is a park (larger than a normal midtown block) along Anita, a small park along mcgowan, and multifamily in between. If anything, this is actually more park space than was originally indicated. I'm particularly interested in the sculpture garden and market space along main. Hopefully the Midtown management district is responsible for the design of that, and not Camden.
  9. Texasota
    wooo! contemporary looking!
  10. Texasota
    Yeah that building is great. I'd be fine with repurposing it I suppose, but it seems fine for what it is now.
  11. Texasota
    I think it's a fortune cookie factory...
  12. Texasota
    Which street? Polk? Leeland?
  13. Texasota
    Woo, y'all. Woo.
  14. Texasota
    You can criticize something without thinking it's terrible, worse than whatever is there, or even mediocre. Criticism is healthy and positive as long as its constructive.
  15. Texasota
    It's happened before. I'm not saying it's not retail; it probably is. A floor plan would offer some sort of confirmation though.
  16. Texasota
    I'd still like to see a ground floor site plan. I don't actually see any confirmation here that there is any retail.
  17. Texasota
    we need better renderings of the main side.
  18. Texasota
    I don't, but my only objection to this building is the loss of a perfectly nice existing tower. No reason they couldn't have built around it, and I think that's almost always more interesting than a single monolithic building taking up an entire block.
  19. Texasota
    It could, but another option would be to put them in middle-class neighborhoods that are either stable or on the upswing. Or just to not try and actively remove them from gentrifying neighborhoods. One other thing: this article addresses a situation that doesn't exactly exist here. One thing that's almost unique about Houston is that we never had the large-scale housing projects that other cities have had; instead most of our poorer population is still in normal neighborhoods full of single-family homes.
  20. Texasota
    sarcasm, slick vik
  21. Texasota
    ...No, that's not really what that article says. It's not about "nice" neighborhoods so much as neighborhoods that are already declining. Most certainly *not* neighborhoods like the Heights: "Studies show that recipients of Section8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods. One recent study publicized by HUD warned that policy makers should lower their expectations, because voucher recipients seemed not to be spreading out, as they had hoped, but clustering together. Galster theorizes that every neighborhood has its tipping point—a threshold well below a 40 percent poverty rate—beyond which crime explodes and other severe social problems set in. Pushing a greater number of neighborhoods past that tipping point is likely to produce more total crime. "
  22. Texasota
    True. But it's at least a step up from nothing at all.
  23. Texasota
    Oh. I don't hate that.
  24. Texasota
    Superblock! Woo!
  25. Texasota
    Ha. Imagine this was the Heights. Would anyone be asking that?
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