Houston19514

A Victory style development is just about the last thing Houston needs.

I love Tranquility Park. It could use a few revisions to make it more accessible/used. Like take down the walls blocking it from the street view. Put in some table and chairs maybe, so people could sit down for lunch? I especially love the fact that it IS a parking garage and that fountains incoroporate the vent stacks providing ventilation to the parking garage.

There is no federal detention center across the street from Tranquility Park. I presume you are referring to the Federal Court House.

Gotcha. I thought you were referencing the prior post, which had nothing in it about Gotcha. I presumed you were referencing the prior post, which had nothing in it about the speed from Hempstead to Houston... That does seem like a bit of a problem, to say the least. I can't make sense of spending millions upon millions of dollars for transportation that is worse than we already have... To be fair, the TXDOT study did not actually even study the Hempstead-Houston portion of the route and said that the 50 MPH was preliminary based on information from someone else.

Huh?

GGP is buying the Sears building at The Woodlands Mall, and apparently Sears plans to close the store sometime in 2013 or after. Maybe Nordstrom will finally come to The Woodlands?

Sounds great! Finally, someone has figured out a better way to build retail in midtown??

:-) One minor problem with that roughly $1.25 Billion price tag . . . It only goes from Austin to Hempstead. They did not study the Hemstead-downtown Hoston portion.

What are you smoking, dude? ;-)

It indeed seems as though the current meetings are for a plan other than the RTP. Nevertheless, your comments regarding their "current plan" were apparently related to the growth forecast. Their growth forecast does not show any hard-and-fast demarcations along county lines such as you described.. I provided the link to the growth forecast.

It's still in HGAC's Regional Plan as a tollway.

1. You are apparently referring to HGAC's Regional Growth Forecast, not the Regional Transportation Plan. 2. Your description of the methodology is inaccurate, as is your description of the results of the forecast.

Likewise, I ride Metro buses and MetroRail regularly, including after dark. I have not once felt the least bit unsafe. Yes, the park n ride numbers are in Metro's monthly ridership reports. Average daily ridership is running 28,007.

There will be a station (east-bound) directly across Rusk Street from this building and a (west-bound) station adjacent to the property on the Capitol side.

Interesting. I had not noticed that before.

I never suggested it would not be controversial. No doubt it will be. (The Dallas developer may be surprised at that, since up in Dallas they just upon the city vaults for anyone who whispers the words "downtown residential".) You may be right on the pricing. I have to agree the location is not quite as nice as One Park Place, but not so sure it's much lesser of a location than Humble or Rice (perhaps a little quieter location than either of those). Depends on what one is looking for. Finished out correctly, it could be a VERY attractive property, IMO. It may depend on the amenities (which they are saying will be high-end) and finish levels. Probably a significantly different product than the loft-like Rice apartments and probably higher-end finsishes than Humber Tower.

I got the rental and square footage numbers from the Chron. You have apparently jumped to the conclusion that the tax credit financing is for low-income housing. Not likely. It is almost certainly an historic rehabilitation tax credit. Why have you assumed that this is "no One Park Place"?

Is voluntarily giving a little personal information (e.g., home address, email address or phone number, and preferred language.) in advance of a flight really giving up an essential liberty?

That would be ideal. But I would accept a spire to reclaim our rightful spot. ;-) In my dreams, Hines will do a career-capping "gift" to Houston, by developing a multi-use project downtown, including a super-tall tower. Something unique and ground-breaking in the way that the Galleria was unique and ground-breaking when Hines developed it.

.... other than the fact that the Allen wake board park is located in a city park

Where do you get "housing for poor people"? These are slated to be approximately 1,000 square foot apartments renting for $2,200/month.

That purchase is (a) much much smaller than the triangle, and ( is not even part of the triangle. The purchase was of only a 3,589 square square foot strip of land. The triangle is 3 acres (approx. 130,000 square feet). The purchased strip of land (according to the articles you linked) is on the northeast corner of the Hidalgo/Post Oak intersection. The triangle is on the southeast corner of that intersection.

Duplicate pos

Plans usually need updates every once in a while.

Why so much focus on a couple failures in a very high-risk business? In the very recent past, two grocery stores with cafes have opened downtown plus another new club/restaurant (Scott Gertner's). I'm probably missing some recent openings.