houstontexasjack Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 The City of Houston has renderings of the proposed Cap Parks over the soon-to-be-trenched I-69 at Fannin, Caroline, and Almeda at the link below: http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/midtown/public-open-house-midtown.pdf The buildings in the rendering are speculative and subject to Rice University's plans. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Given Houston's climate, are cap parks really a good idea in case the freeway floods and they need to do aerial rescue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Do we normally have aerial rescues from the highways during floods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 21 hours ago, Naviguessor said: Do we normally have aerial rescues from the highways during floods? We do not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 This is a nice use of the space and will add some diversity to the street grid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Could these also include ideas of what the Innovation Distrcit Master Plan is? There is clearly a plan for the Wheeler Transit Center and just north of it are multiple buildings where the Sears is at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Yep smh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Toopicky said: The Fannin and Caroline caps along with the "garden" bridges appear way to chopped up in my opinion .... i wonder why they decided to do so instead of making it one cap with a continuous park area like they did next to Eado? 18 minutes ago, kennyc05 said: Yep smh I agree, yet I don't. No reason they can't do it later, but I honestly hold out for buildings to cap those portions. That would be interesting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 7 hours ago, Toopicky said: The Fannin and Caroline caps along with the "garden" bridges appear way to chopped up in my opinion .... i wonder why they decided to do so instead of making it one cap with a continuous park area like they did next to Eado? The reason presented to MPNA was ventilation. The freeway is much wider by EaDo and has room to install ventilators. Here, the engineering was apparently more difficult, and by chopping up the parks, ventilators would not be required. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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