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  1. Houston19514
    The retail portion of Houston Pavilions is approximately double the size of the retail portion of West Ave (360,000 vs. 190,000 square feet) pet tiddlywinks, indeed.
  2. Houston19514
    So true. And the "movie set that suddenly shut down production" is a pretty good description of Victory Park too...
  3. Houston19514
    Your revisionist history is entertaining, but not convincing. The record shows that YOU claimed that the 32% number applied to the Boston metro area, not just the city of Boston. I do not appreciate fabrications. You seem to have a sliding scale . . .
  4. Houston19514
    I think you meant to say Down at the Great Magnet of North America by over 3%. ;-)
  5. Houston19514
    <yawn> Is that your round-about way of saying that the statement you made earlier was incorrect? (The metropolitan area includes what it includes. You flatly stated that the 32% number applied to the "greater Boston area" and then told us that the "greater Boston area" was the same as "Boston Metro area".) Anyhoo, I'm not sure why we are supposed to be excited about the use of mass transit by Bostonians and certain carefully selected its suburbs.
  6. Houston19514
    Wow. About 2/3 the size of the TMC. And completely, utterly, incomparable in just about every way imaginable.
  7. Houston19514
    ;-) I generally support urban rail, but also get chuckle out of people referring to what is essentially 19th (or is it 18th) century technology as somehow "progressive".
  8. Houston19514
    Hold your horses, there buddy. The 32% number you quote is indeed for the City of Boston only. For Boston metro ("Greater Boston") is in 11% See the actual source of information: US Census Bureau US Census Bureau re: Boston (City of)
  9. Houston19514
    Source? Link? That "study" is not about congestion and gridlock alone. The study ranks "best and worst cities for commuters", only one element of which was congestion (and they made a pretty weak and indirect attempt at that factor). So, again I ask for meaningful examples of metro areas with higher density and lower congestion and gridlock compared to Houston.
  10. Houston19514
    ?? Care to cite some meaningful examples?
  11. Houston19514
    That's pretty much what it said: "...a proposed commuter‐like LRT extension of the existing Red Line..."
  12. Houston19514
    70 residential units
  13. Houston19514
    Enough already, sheeats. NO CITY as a whole is entirely walkable! If that's the standard, then no city is walkable. No way, no how.
  14. Houston19514
    Ditto! Great post, tomv!
  15. Houston19514
    We know you have to be making that up, Ricco. We all know this "park" is nothing but a boondoggle that won't ever be built (in part because they can't come up with enough money for it) and if it is ever built , no one will ever go there (because it's surrounded by parking lots, because it's surrounded by big buildings, because there is too much to do there, because there is not enough green space, because there is parking underneath it, because there is no place to park, because there is no residential component in Houston Pavilions . . .) ;-)
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    I am considering having a spray-on radiant barrier "installed" in my attic. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about this? Any recommendations of what brand of material to use? Or comments on whether it is worthwhile?
  18. Houston19514
    Just as the office building portion of HP sets HP apart. ;-) So I guess we could say HP is also the first of its kind. ;-)
  19. Houston19514
    Does anyone know the status of this project?
  20. Houston19514
    I guess if you don't count Houston Pavilions
  21. Houston19514
    More or less; at least according to the media at the time. It was reported at the time of the announcement of One Park Place that Finger had obtained control of an adjoining block for a potential future second tower. I have posted that information here before and the information was disputed by someone who claimed to have insider information about the owners of that block... (I said "More or less" at the beginning because it is my understanding that Finger did not actually buy either of these blocks. He has leased the block on which One Park Place is being built and, as mentioned above, it was reported that he had obtained "control" of the adjoining block.)
  22. Houston19514
    When they said "new downtown residential tower" I think they meant "new", as in new construction.
  23. Houston19514
    Nope. the tree is up. That's what prompted my post telling everyone it had topped out. It is on the north side of the building, towards the east end, IIRC.
  24. Houston19514
    And even more to the point, some fact-checking might be in order before you commence your Metro bash-fest. Metro has been adding hybrids to the fleet since 2002.
  25. Houston19514
    sometimes it's wise not to be buy the first ones off the assembly line. And trust me, all of the Metro bashers would have been lining up to complain if Metro had bought early hybrids and then had trouble with them. It seems noteworthy that San Francisco got its first hybrid buses only a year ago.
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