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3 hours ago, shasta said:

They could have a section of the Hall for Houston inspired sports movies or movies featuring Houston sports/athletes/venues..

 

- Bad New Bears II/ Astrodome

-The Batttle of the Sexes/Astrodome

-Friday Night Lights / Astrodome

- Boys Life featured an Astros game at MMP.

 

Also,  weren't the two main golfers in Tin Cup, former teammates at the University of Houston?

 

Oh, and Jamie Foxx's  UH character in Any Given Sunday and I'm sure many more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part of Tin Cup was filmed at Kingwood Country Club. 

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/texas-sports-nation/article/Houston-icons-to-put-a-ring-on-it-at-Hall-of-Fame-12907434.php

 

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Houston icons to put a ring on it at Hall of Fame groundbreaking

Melanie Hauser

May 11, 2018 Updated: May 11, 2018 10:30am

 

Earl Campbell is counting down the days.

 

Every morning. Same smile. Same headshake. Same thought. Maybe a word changed here or there, but Christian Campbell knows what's coming.

 

His dad wants to be able to slip that size 20 Houston Sports Hall of Fame ring onto his finger next month. The problem? The gnarled knuckle that carried so many footballs and took so many beatings over his Hall of Fame career.

 

"I just hope,'' Campbell says, "I can get it over that knuckle.''

 

No one may be more excited for June 4 to get here than the former Houston Oiler and Texas Longhorn legend.

 

Just after 3 p.m on June 4, Houston's Legendary 34s -- Campbell, Nolan Ryan and Hakeem Olajuwon -- will all slip on their rings at the groundbreaking ceremony downtown for phase one of the Houston Sports Hall of Fame.

 

 

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On ‎3‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 9:54 AM, CrockpotandGravel said:

 

 

 



Good find, Mab. These updated renderings and proposed changes coming to GreenStreet Houston looks sweet. (link to older proposed renderings of GreenStreet renovations)

 

It looks as though they will be adding some small retail spaces opening on Dallas Street. I talked to someone involved with this a couple months ago who said they were planning on down-leasing the building in order to perform renovations aimed at opening the project up to Dallas Street more.

 

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14 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

the first induction ceremony for the Houston Sports HoF was at HoB today. Honestly, it was sad watching Earl Campbell ride in on a wheelchair scooter. (H)Akeem was looking well, and Nolan Ryan sent his son to accept his ring.

 

How, er, nice of Nolan Ryan.  Kind of tacky . . .

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On 5/14/2018 at 0:02 PM, H-Town Man said:

 

It looks as though they will be adding some small retail spaces opening on Dallas Street. I talked to someone involved with this a couple months ago who said they were planning on down-leasing the building in order to perform renovations aimed at opening the project up to Dallas Street more.

 

 

What is down leasing? Lowering the rates?

 

The CBRE shows of a few things that are somewhat ambiguous to me and interesting things already pointed out by others.

 

It says there are four emerging food halls downtown. I know of two, are there others we know of?

Forever 21 doesn't look like they're renewing their lease or the tapas restaurant across from HoB

Looks like they're the old bookstore spot is exclusively being marketed as a gym, it's just a matter of who.

 

http://ucr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/greenstreet-property-flyer-053018.pdf

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59 minutes ago, lockmat said:

 

It says there are four emerging food halls downtown. I know of two, are there others we know of?

 

 

 

Conservatory (Prairie St), Finn Hall (Main & Rusk), Bravery (Aris Mkt Square), Lyric Market (Lyric Center)

 

 

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1 hour ago, lockmat said:

 

What is down leasing? Lowering the rates?

 

The CBRE shows of a few things that are somewhat ambiguous to me and interesting things already pointed out by others.

 

It says there are four emerging food halls downtown. I know of two, are there others we know of?

Forever 21 doesn't look like they're renewing their lease or the tapas restaurant across from HoB

Looks like they're the old bookstore spot is exclusively being marketed as a gym, it's just a matter of who.

 

http://ucr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/greenstreet-property-flyer-053018.pdf

 

No, letting tenants go without renewing. Vacating space.

 

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Greenstreet is so inward-focused.  It is very unwelcoming from the street.  For the life of me, I don’t know why they designed it that way or why they can’t change it.  At the very least, if the businesses can’t all open to the street, give the outside some pizzazz— cool lighting displays, LED Jumbotrons, anything to bring some electricity (no pun intended) and excitement to an otherwise BLAH development.  Make it a destination, not an afterthought.

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11 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

I never posted a finished picture of the light wall at HoB.

 

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/huDlpxi


 

By the way, the light wall at the HOB is a perfect example of the various “swing and a miss” efforts at Greenstreet.  It’s arbitrary and underwhelming.  If you want to make a statement, you’ve got to SPEAK UP.  This is a half-hearted whisper.

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23 minutes ago, Chi-Char-Hou-Dal said:

I heard Liftime fitness is coming to Greenstreet - has that been posted here

 

Interesting.  Their current retail leasing brochure shows a three-level, 117,000 square foot "Fitness" tenant where the bookstore used to be.  Then, in further detail, it says that 117,000 square feet is comprised of:

-- 37,000 square feet Fitness Space

-- 35,000 square feet Coworking Space

-- 25,000 square feet Spa & Personal Care

-- 20,000 square feet Rootop Amenity Space

 

Definitely sounds like Lifetime Fitness.

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16 minutes ago, H-Town Man said:

Hopdoddy would kill it here, I'm telling you. Lines of office workers.

 

 

Hard to say.  There's a lot of competition.  Downtown has so many good burger places, in the full range of prices, with Vic and Anthony's at the top end ($21ish with tax and tip), and then the new Craft Burger (in Finn Hall) and upcoming Shake Shack (next door), plus plenty of more affordable popular long-time favorites such as Hubcap Grill and Miller's Cafe.

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1 hour ago, rechlin said:

 

Hard to say.  There's a lot of competition.  Downtown has so many good burger places, in the full range of prices, with Vic and Anthony's at the top end ($21ish with tax and tip), and then the new Craft Burger (in Finn Hall) and upcoming Shake Shack (next door), plus plenty of more affordable popular long-time favorites such as Hubcap Grill and Miller's Cafe.

 

Yeah, but Hopdoddy is a sensation. An overrated sensation. When I worked in Preston Center in Dallas, we had some good burger places. Then Hopdoddy came in and it's the only place anyone wanted to do lunch. I would sometimes convince people to avoid the line and go back to Snuffer's, and the place would be nearly empty at lunch on a Friday.

 

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Midway acquired the Pavillions in 2012, I think.  In the last 7 years midway has created lots of pretty pictures and installed some grass on some roofs and some patch of AstroTurf called a “lawn” to hold events on.  They have also built a hotel.

 

the pretty pictures that they published look nothing like what they built.  Remember that grand hotel edifice and the “value engineered structure” that they actually built?  Meet me in the Sky lobby, anyone?   How about those expansive dry goods shopping spaces?

 

They own the property and they are free to do as they wish.  And I am free to not believe that they will ever do anything at this property remotely like what they describe in their pretty pictures and flowery prose.

 

oh, and I hope, I desperately hope, that one day, they prove me wrong.

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12 hours ago, UtterlyUrban said:

Midway acquired the Pavillions in 2012, I think.  In the last 7 years midway has created lots of pretty pictures and installed some grass on some roofs and some patch of AstroTurf called a “lawn” to hold events on.  They have also built a hotel.

 

the pretty pictures that they published look nothing like what they built.  Remember that grand hotel edifice and the “value engineered structure” that they actually built?  Meet me in the Sky lobby, anyone?   How about those expansive dry goods shopping spaces?

 

They own the property and they are free to do as they wish.  And I am free to not believe that they will ever do anything at this property remotely like what they describe in their pretty pictures and flowery prose.

 

oh, and I hope, I desperately hope, that one day, they prove me wrong.

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To be completely honest, Midway does not own the property. They are the General Partner so they probably own 5% of the property and would not be putting up the majority of the capital for renovations, all they do is provide the vision and programming. It is up to the Limited Partner (Lionstone) to decide when and what actually gets funded. 

 

I know everyone likes to think designing, programming, and construction are the epicenters of buildings but I promise it is finance. I'm willing to bet that when the team got their hands on the property in 2012 and then sat through the downturn 2014, that the property needed a whole lot more money infused and that the returns weren't worth it. Sometimes you have to sit on a property and find the right time, sometimes you have to admit you got it wrong and sell. 

 

If it was easy to flip/build a property I'm sure you would be doing it yourself. 

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