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  1. HoustonIsHome
    This building is quite appealing, I am not sure what to say. I guess we will have to see how this looks when it's done sitting there by itself on the highway
  2. HoustonIsHome
    I think this is sexy from so many angles. The building itself is nothing to shout about, but the sum of the buildings in the area photographs well. I really hope the Alliance ones don't spoil it.
  3. HoustonIsHome
    I agree.The 500 Crawford complex isn't going to be a game changer, the game has already changed. This complex is just one player in the game. I am anxious to see what the two near Market Square does to activity there. Park Place was an immediate upgrade to the convention district. Market Square already has some nice activity in terms of restaurants, bars and of course the park, so it will interesting to see what new potential will be realized. As for the 6 complexes joining Houston House in SE downtown, the change that can happen there is just too much for me to imagine.
  4. HoustonIsHome
    Let's build them NOW!
  5. HoustonIsHome
    I agree that residential is the area that will help strengthen downtown, but I think the residential initiative rather than one complex is the game changer. I think the south part of downtown is going to clean up and improve greatly once all those apartments gets going
  6. HoustonIsHome
    It would be nice to get a couple blocks of these in the east of downtown area
  7. HoustonIsHome
    College Town line? Tyler to Nacogdoches to Huntsville to College Station to Georgetown
  8. HoustonIsHome
    Are you being serious or sarcastic?
  9. HoustonIsHome
    A diverted route through college station isn't geographically that much further. In my opinion a more interesting route would be Houston to college station, CS to Waco and then transfer to the 35 corridor route north to DFW or south to Austin SA. Apart from the Houston to CS route I would have a direct route to Austin. It is closer to Houston than SA and having to go to SA seems so circuitous to me From Houston these would be my routes: 249/ highway six to college station-Waco-DfW 290 to Austin-San Antonio 45s to Galveston and I10 to New Orleans After you live the Houston CSA there's pretty much nothing between Houston and Dallas on 45. Would have been nice if we had a city the size of Waco where Centerville is located
  10. HoustonIsHome
    Lol, the McDonald's lot is so much bigger. That's suburbanism for you, a business where half the customers don't even exit their cars.
  11. HoustonIsHome
    Lol Exxon employees sitting rumors about Chevron hitting the burbs too so that workers who don't want to make the 6hr trip to work will still trying to jump ship to Chevron. In all seriousness, chevron seemed to have been doing well downtown. Ever expanding, seems an odd time to move. Its not like the burbs all of a sudden got attractive, plus downtown is on the rise. Send they would want to stake out they'd little corner and own it instead if being lost on the woods.
  12. HoustonIsHome
    The "basement" of UHD is actually the 1st floor. Where the light rail stops is the 3rd (main floor).The 1st floor is mainly used for storage. It is not completely built out. Flooding was an issue during Alison, but I think that was a freak storm and with work on the bayou to mitigate flooding, that should not be too much of an issue. I don't think the elevators in the south building go to the first floor but as you said they could build an escalator. It would be nice if the escalator lets you out on the south deck. You get great views of downtown from the south deck. It would be nice if your first view of Houston off that train is a good one as seen from the south deck. A field in the burbs would be a crappy how do you do.
  13. HoustonIsHome
    I agree with cloud. Peyote keep saying the astroworld sure would be perfect and I ask why? Is its an empty spot? What's there? What public transportation options would you transfer to? UHD is an interesting suggestions because the rail tracks go right through the building which gives it a major city feel instead of sine open depot feel like the light rail does. Hardy is a great option too, especially if they create the intermodal station. I also agree on the san Antonio priority with a spur to Austin. I just think that central Texas is growing so quick it needs to be done.
  14. HoustonIsHome
    I don't want to go to Stupid Dallas. I want high speed rail connecting Houston to Galveston, New Orleans, san Antonio and from there north to Austin and South to Corpus and South Padre. Screw Dallas
  15. HoustonIsHome
    Don't want to sound harsh, but people fit bicyles and wheel chairs on the rail, you don't think suit cases will fit? Not accusing you off anything but people who have ridden the rail know that entire seats were removed years ago to make room for bulky items such as bicycles
  16. HoustonIsHome
    Oh standing out isn't necessarily a bad thing, it was just an observation. As for encouraging taller structures, I dunno if that can be said. They are not building 40 floor structures because they think it is cool, they are building as the need arises. There is more to it than tall buildings in the area. What we need is: 1. Staunch the bleeding of commerce to the burbs. 2. Increase residential 3. Incorporate residential in these mixed use projects Houston is home to about 100 major companies. We have over 2000 O&G companies. Headquarters of about 25 fortune 500 companies and that's not even counting the ones headquartered elsewhere but have major operations here (Shell, BP, Exxon, Chevron) Houston has a huge corporate presence. I wouldn't be surprised if it is top three in the country. But sadly Exxon, BP, Conocco, Haliburton, Sysco, Philips 66, Enterprise Product Partners, All American Pipeline, Apache, NOV, Marathon, Cameron International, group 1 automobile, Quanta, FMC, Spectra, Anadarko, MRC, and many many many more fortune 500 companies are located here but choose areas other than downtown. Look I just named about 20. I don't even think Downtown had enough space to house then all. The bigger ones like Exxon and Conocco would definitely need buildings mite substantial than 40 floors. Heck if the f500 workers were concentrated downtown, the workforce downtown would almost double. Anyway, all these corporate campuses in the boonies are new, so downtown isn't going to have a big come back anytime soon. We will have more energy corridors, more Woodlands, more scattered towers in the middle of neighborhoods before we see large scale development downtown again.
  17. HoustonIsHome
    Yeah, I went with a large group. We had reserved an area weeks in advance abs yet they were not prepared. The service took hours to get out. They were severely understaffed, but the food was good though. And yes very expensive. I had an excellent burger with guacamole for about $11 I am not surprised they closed.
  18. HoustonIsHome
    I don't have a problem with parking garages. I think a couple more tall ones should go up in downtown and midtown and that new residential buildings in those areas should have limited parking. Especially midtown.
  19. HoustonIsHome
    I don't know if you ever look at population changes per zip code in Houston but the only reason why Houston didn't lose people last census was because the city limits are so damn large and growth in areas offset others. I was surprised that many of the more dense southwest zip codes got less dense. Houston population is migrating to the coffee but also to the burbs. A huge chunk of south Houston blacks left fur Pearland, the Southwest list all around to Katy, Spring, Cypress and Atascosita hollowed out north Houston. Pretty soon there will be 2million (the number was about 1.5m last census) people living outside Houston city limitd but within its jurisdiction. You know what that means don't you? Houston is going to annex huge portions of land to keep its tax base up. Let them keep building campuses in the boonies and 200 Mile loops in empty prairie. Pretty soon Houston will be struggling to provide services to uts 2000 sq Mile city limits when it should have just focused on its 90 sq mile core. Instead of attracting businesses and residents to the core its making it easier for them to flee. Dallas population increased by only 10,000 people last census despite major multifamily developments. That's because a lot of the low income areas were destroyed for more pricier alternatives. Same thing is happening in Houston. The new apartments are nice, but come on Houston, can't you build up those empty lots before you kick out families in older complexes to build new ones? 3rd ward family's are disappearing in favor of singles. Yes the building density is increasing but the family sizes are decreasing. This 20 floor building would be better suited in midtown. Leave Montrose alone till midtown runs out of space.
  20. HoustonIsHome
    I am a skyscraper Dork too and I do want a merged SKYLINE but that will never happen because they are just randomly popping up all over the city.A midtown bridge to TMC is the only feasible link. Greenway and of course Uptown is just too far away. To join those to Downtown we would need some serious density in the loop. To build density we need a better way to move people which is another plus fir the TMC to Downtown link. Look at it this way, there are over 200K workers downtown, over 100K @ TMC and a huge portion spread between at UH, Rice, TSU and HCC throw in the approximately 100K students attending school in the area and you get about 450,000 office workers/ students in the corridor but only about 50,000 actual resudents. Midtown already has the critical mass of workers and students to support the string of towers. It has a great start with the rail to transport people. Midtown should be hands down the densest stretch of land in Texas but instead we are putting up 300 ft towers next to tiny homes in single family homes and building 200 mile loops 40 miles from downtown. Imagine just the office buildings in uptown, the energy corridor and Greenspoint placed between TMC and downtown. That would increase the office space from about 90M sq feet to about 150M sq feet. Throw in the residential towers and Houston would be close to Chicago level. We could be like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomwire/3014636207/
  21. HoustonIsHome
    I wouldn't mind strings of hirises down main and Fannin from downtown to the Binz area but what's up with wanting hi rises all over the place in Montrose, River Oaks, the heights etc. Personally, I think it would look and feel better if the towers connect downtown and TMC, then 4 to 8 storey apartments surround the towers. These would extend from midtown to 4th ward, East Downtown and north of it. Around three midrises I would leave the neighborhoods as is. Those would be Montrose, Museum district, Riverside, Riverside Terrace, Washington Terrace, the Heights etc. I would continue to upgrade 3rd ward, the East End, Washington ave, 5th ward etc. I dunno, I just wish we would develop in patterns instead of putting towers randomly all over the city creating zillions of skylines
  22. HoustonIsHome
    I am tacky in this area cause I like pictures of that old gulf sign and Pegasus. I guess it is because it's solitary. I guess if they were packed in I would think it was too much. But a solitary giant glowing gulf sign seems cheesily delicious to me.
  23. HoustonIsHome
    Downtown skyline has a haunting look at night. It is dinner but at the sane time respectable. A little embellishments would not hurt but I think light shows life shine cities do would change the character too much. A relit Wedge would be nice.
  24. HoustonIsHome
    I don't disagree
  25. HoustonIsHome
    Why don't buildings that big have water chillers instead of individual units? I lived in an apartment with a big water chiller AC, that thing worked so well and my electric bill was so low
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