Popular Post amashgo Posted June 19, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2015 I like this new guy^ Does anyone else see a slight height difference between 11-12? Wrong gender. I don't have the dangly bits between my legs 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Wrong gender. I don't have the dangly bits between my legs 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amashgo Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I like this new guy^ Does anyone else see a slight height difference between 11-12? http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/market-square-tower-aerial.jpg Based on that image it looks like that may be correct; it definitely jumps in height. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I wonder that could be...golf simulator level? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Someone's had an explosive first start to the forum...I won't ask where u get ur info but u best keep it going 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted June 21, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2015 I count 17 stories. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Triton Posted June 25, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2015 Market Square Tower by Marc longoria, on Flickr 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 how is parking going to work for this building? Will they lease space in the adjacent garage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 $2,900,000.00 remodel of the parking garage. Construction permit pulled in Feb 24, 2015.Here you go TangledwoodsYeah they plan on using the Kim Son Garage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 how is parking going to work for this building? Will they lease space in the adjacent garage? Here you go TangledwoodsYeah they plan on using the Kim Son Garage. I think the owner of the garage is the developer of the tower, or at least that is the impression I have based on nothing specific that I recall. It may be buried in the thread somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I park in that garage. It was always my understanding that it was to be used for this apt. bldg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nate99 Posted June 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2015 Stone going on... 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LarryDierker Posted June 28, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2015 20150627_195812 by Not.Larry Dierker, on Flickr 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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monarch Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 ^^^ great illustrations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2015/06/organizers-criticize-citys-residential-incentive-program/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2015/06/organizers-criticize-citys-residential-incentive-program/ While I agree about affordable housing, I also can disagree about the incentives. What do they think would happen? Yeah eventually Downtown could have rebounded with spectacular residential projects, but they might have only been even more expensive than the ones coming to the market now.Putting upper middle class citizens Downtown will help support a street life. Letting the market build only for the upper classes would take longer and really exclude everyone. Then you'd see more tunnel connections and sky bridges. Downtown stays stagnant and wealth divides the street life even more so. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I have been saying we need to target more middle class, police, nurse, etc.. this is not NYC not everything need to he 1700 one bed room 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) I have been saying we need to target more middle class, police, nurse, etc.. this is not NYC not everything need to he 1700 one bed room yeah but this is in the financial district of downtown Houston, where i believe land prices are the highest in the state. do people seriously expect the downtown developments to be low income housing? it just doesn't make sense economically.. unless of course, wait for it.. incentives are provided. GASP! Edited June 30, 2015 by Subdude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTHONYHTOWN Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 agree and disagree but downtown is always going to be more expensive and that's pretty much any downtown in any major city but ours is one of the cheaper ones in my opinion yet there are other projects that are on developing stages that is more affordable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Everyone wants high quality everything at the price they deem personally “affordable”; I guess these folks are making a run at the same pot of cash that was given to DT residential incentive recipients. I can’t blame them for that, I guess, or at least no more than I blame the developers. How much might we all have to pay for a vibrant downtown, who knows? If it works, will it be worth it? Probably depends who you ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Could you make an affordable residential high rise similar to what is going up on Wayside - granite counter-tops but no amenities? Would it be worth living in? Or would that not make financial sense in downtown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 affordable residential high rise I think that's been tried before in other cities. Didn't really work out so well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 The incentives are supposed to pay for themselves through increased property tax revenue in the future. $15k credit now, increased property taxes in the future based on the improvements and overall increase in property values due to more demand. If affordable housing is built, it will increase the future property taxes less and thus would really only make fiscal sense if less than the current incentives. Who know if developers would still be willing to build downtown with less incentives in order to make less money in the future? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt16 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Why does everyone have the right to live downtown? What's wrong with a all the affordable housing surrounding downtown? Does a 10 or 15 minute bus ride really put people out? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I understand their argument, but I feel having a vibrant downtown will benefit the city as a whole and not just the higher income people living in the apartments. Once downtown is more vibrant, it will bring more money to the city via taxes from tourists spending money and property taxes. That will in turn fund other projects in the city. I'm pretty sure my tax payer dollars are used to build roads ill never drive on, schools ill never attend, social programs i'll never benefit from, but that's the point of paying taxes so everyone can benefit even if it's for something you personally might not benefit from. There's affordable housing all over the city. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 (edited) - Edited July 9, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I don't understand their argument at all. If you want to live Downtown, work you're way up to the top. The problem is everyone wants handout these days (and this statement is coming from a brown person)If really you want an affordable housing crisis, look at NYC and stop complaining... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTHONYHTOWN Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 i go to nyc often and is not pretty their affordable housing and when my friends came here for the first time from nyc said wow.. this is paradise compare to the projects up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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