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  1. The Pragmatist
    This discussion reminded me of this scene from The Simpsons. https://youtu.be/M9CnqoUB5xM
  2. The Pragmatist
    Yep, right at Beltway 8 and JFK.
  3. The Pragmatist
    I found a UH tuition/fee statement for my uncle from the late 1970s. A full load of courses plus fees was around $250, if I remember correctly. Just two classes over the summer at UH now cost around $2,500 in tuition and fees.
  4. The Pragmatist
    This is the first house just across the bayou if Sage were to cut through to Silber, which would be wonderful for traffic flow in the area: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/home/trends/article/At-43-million-mansion-listing-breaks-Houston-5783587.php Needless to say, there's is no chance of that happening.
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    I can imagine the HAIF plan for this site now: A 1,777-foot tall (take that One WTC) ultimate mixed-use multi-tower development spreading onto the nearby blocks designed by the hot architect of the day. All of this comes with a miniscale Central Park at the towers' bases. A suspended skydeck at 1,400 ft between the towers provides an excellent opportunity for the first "Drive to the Sky," a new sky-bound golf driving range concept with a full restaurant and bar. Seven full-sized grocery stores adorn the development at levels 1, 25, 39, 52, 75, 88, and 103. At the top of the westernmost building, a high-speed zip line descends into a now open air Astrodome wunder park. A short escalator ride down provides easy access to the newly-built subway station that lies beneath. A hub of sorts, the development sits at a junction between the IAH/Downtown/Med Center/Reliant/Hobby subterranean replacement for the Metrorail Red Line and the east-west line between the East End, UH/TSU, Montrose, and Uptown. In a high-minded effort to shift away from the outdated car culture of the 20th century, no parking garages will be built on site. Rather, seven floors of bike racks will be provided for all those residents or tenants that wish to commute into or out of the property. All of this will be completed in a remarkable time frame in order to be ready for 2017's Super Bowl LI.
  6. The Pragmatist
    Shoot, if I would've seen this earlier, there is free on-street parking on Sabine, just across the bayou. You walk through Sam Houston Park and you're at the library.
  7. The Pragmatist
    Just as a note, since someone posted the FAA filings for another building, I went and looked this one up on the website. The initial HOK rendering was proposed at 859 feet in height. https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=202116051&row=0 Whether that's true anymore with potential changes as it's on hold, who knows?
  8. The Pragmatist
    Yeah, baby! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOk2T6Uweao
  9. The Pragmatist
    That's cool looking. Like a spaceship above the woods.
  10. The Pragmatist
    I'm starting to think the high-speed line may beat all of them to the finish line...
  11. The Pragmatist
    I figured this would already be posted here. The comments, as always, are entertaining. http://www.chron.com/houston/article/New-Urban-Land-Institute-plan-for-Astrodome-calls-6153207.php#photo-7291846
  12. The Pragmatist
    In reference to the FAA junk, the story from the 600 Travis website is interesting: Source: http://www.chasetower.com/building.php?sect=1 Apologies for contributing to the off-topic part of this thread.
  13. The Pragmatist
    It's good to know that Bullet-Tooth Tony is driving around in a Porsche scrubbing the seedy underbelly of Houston.
  14. The Pragmatist
    Sort of looks like a modernized Houston House to me.
  15. The Pragmatist
    It looks like a large number of buildings on the A&M campus with that brick.
  16. The Pragmatist
    Are you sure that's 610 in the shot? You must have Photoshopped out the other 100 cars that were originally in the image.
  17. The Pragmatist
    It looks like it went from Midtown Manhattan to downtown Austin.
  18. The Pragmatist
    Maybe not the best photo of the actual project, but the photo looked cool this morning when I took it. I figured I'd share it here.
  19. The Pragmatist
    Remember, friends: Don't drive while intoxicated. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Witnesses-Driver-plunged-20-feet-into-downtown-5924452.php
  20. The Pragmatist
    Using United's website: IAH-->SFO-->IAH |12/15/14 - 12/18/14 | $600 non-stop / $432 with stops SFO-->IAH-->SFO | 12/15/14 - 12/18/14 | $570 non-stop / $402 with stops
  21. The Pragmatist
    Though I wasn't alive, my cousin tells me how big of an event that show was.
  22. The Pragmatist
    Here's an update on the new engineering building. This is welcomed as the current engineering complex is dated and dreary at best.
  23. The Pragmatist
    Here you go: http://offcite.org/2014/03/25/the-alps-of-pasadena
  24. The Pragmatist
    Still, it could be worse...
  25. The Pragmatist
    Here's a link to the ongoing thread on this... http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/30882-new-apartment-building-for-fairview-and-montrose-hollywood-vietnamese-closing/#entry472022 ...and here's one to a Swamplot article. http://swamplot.com/apartment-block-planned-for-montrose-and-fairview-replacing-hollywood-vietnamese-and-parking-lots/2014-08-14/
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