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If so, it sounds as if HHA may have stumbled into a good location.

Interestingly, the locations of the affordable housing project being discussed here are in the areas marked as having good transportation but low supply of affordable housing. Seems like a perfect location.

Well said, H-town Man and CREguy. Musk is obviously an outside-of-the-box thinker, so maybe we could have a chance to convince someone like him to not just follow the herds to Dallas and Austin. The home city of the dinosaur industry he hopes to replace could be the perfect match for him. On a related note, we should adopt "A New Kind of Energy" as a marketing slogan for Houston.

After a little more digging and thinking, I am skeptical that this hospital program is for real. I think it may have just been a proposal to HCA. HCA's "Medical Center" hospital is on the north end of Hermann Park and is currently undergoing a pretty extensive renovation. I wouldn't think they would be spending that money if they planned to move 1 1/2 miles south to the Medical Center (and even more unlikely is HCA building a second "Medical Center" location).

Not sure which Transit Center you are referring to. Hopefully they are not waiting for the entire route to be done, since the portion from Richmond south to the new Uptown Transit Center is apparently not scheduled to be done until 2022.

Seems like a good time to go for the redevelopment we've all been waiting for.

1st Quarter, 2020: Very slow quarter. A net 2 units were absorbed in the CBD, while 271 new units were delivered. 88.1% occupancy. The "Central Houston" market (downtown, Montrose/Museum/Midtown, Heights/Wash Ave., Highland Village/Upper Kirby/West U, and Med Center/Braes Bayou) delivered 1,768 new units during the quarter, with 501 units net absorption (for approximately 700 additional residents).

Source? (It seems highly unlikely)

I found some information on-line that indicates that is definitely on TIRZ 5's to-do list or wish list, but I found no information indicating they have funding for it or a plan for funding it.

Yeah, pretty huge program change. They didn't originally plan to house a hospital in this building. It was originally programmed for housing and medical office/lab space. I wonder if this change is certain (in which case, construction is probably pretty certain to occur), or if it's a proposal to HCA and UH.

Very cool information, but the narrative does not match with the stacking plans shown in the attachments. The plans show 35 stories, PLUS two floor of underground parking; 17 floors of hospital, 5 floors of medical/corporate office, 2 floors of educational, 9 floors of parking, 1 mechanical , and 1 lobby/retail (plus 2 levels of below-grade parking.

So, your concern is TSU parking, not the restaurants' parking?? Seems like a topic for another thread.

Just to follow up. Texas Central won on appeal. On to the Texas Supreme Court.

Presumably, both establishments will be required, and have plans, to provide parking according to City Code. They are not in the expanded "no parking requirements" zone are they?

To be clear, the two facilities are in Kennedy and Corpus Christi, Texas.

Not sure why they have the large setback, but it looks to be only about a 1/4 mile walk from the rail station.

I don't think most of those even made it into the 1980s. And the best information I can find says the Whitehall didn't close until 1991.

There is indeed a Doubletree out beyond the Galleria, just to the west of the Galleria. The Doubletree Suites Hotel was previously a Guest Quarters (and apparently was at one time known as Guest Quarters West).

Probably to the facilities to which they relocate... The article says they plan to relocate these post offices.

Wow! So it IS still possible to build a good-looking parking garage. Good to know. 😉

It is ignorant, dishonest and pointless to compare raw numbers of infections and deaths without also factoring in the size of the population. For example, no serious person would suggest that 50,000 cases in Montana was a better result than 100,000 cases in New York. Population COVID Per 1,000 COVID Deaths Per 1,000 US: 330,625,701 826,248 2.5 43,442 0.13 Spain: 46,755,548 208,389 4.46 21,717 0.47 Italy: 60,473,516 183,957 3.04 24,648 0.41 France: 65,242.781 159,315 2.44 20,796 0.32 Germany: 83,742,152 149,044 1.78 5127 0.06 UK: 67,818,041 134,635 1.99 18,100 0.27 Belgium: 11,580,103 41,889 3.62 6,262 0.54 Canada: 37,679,832 39,598 1.05 1,834 0.05 Netherlands: 17,127,78 35,026 2.04 4,054 0.24 Switzerland: 8,642,719 28,268 3.04 1,478 0.17 Portugal: 10,202,232 21,982 2.15 785 0.08 Ireland: 4,927,367 16,040 3.26 730 0.15 Sweden: 10,087,439 16,004 1.59 1,937 0.19 Austria: 8,996,754 14,925 1.66 510 0.06 Israel: 8,629,831 14,326 1.66 187 0.02

Condos with utilities included in the HOA are almost all (to my knowledge, ALL) older buildings. I don't think anyone builds new condos with the intention of having utilities included in the HOA fees. (I may be imagining this, but I thought I remembered once seeing that doing so is not allowed by the building code.) EDIT: I found it. The Texas Utilities Code requires each unit in apartment and condo buildings (new construction and conversions) to be individually metered (electric meters). Sec. 184.012. NEW CONSTRUCTION OR CONVERSION. (a) A political subdivision may not authorize the construction or occupancy of a new apartment house, including the conversion of property to a condominium, unless the construction plan provides for the measurement of the quantity of electricity consumed by the occupants of each dwelling unit of the apartment house, either by individual metering by the utility company or by submetering by the owner.

OMG, the Houston House deserves to be on the cover of Architectural Digest compared to this.

I stripped out the politics and just want to address the data, by correcting the misstatements and adding some context: COVID Cases: US: 788,920 Total of next 5 countries: 815,350 (Spain: 204,178; Italy: 181,228; France: 156,495; Germany: 147,593; & UK: 125,856) Context: Population of US: 330,625,701 COVID Rate: 2.386 per thousand Population of next 5 countries: 324,032,038 (Spain: 46,755,548; Italy: 60,473,516; France: 65,242,781; Germany: 83,742,152; UK: 67,818,041) COVID Rate: 2.516 per thousand COVID Deaths: US: 42,000 (Your number; I could not quickly find anything to confirm or dispute this number, but it seems about right) Total of next 5 countries: 88,168 (Italy: 24,114; Spain: 21,282; France: 20,265; UK: 16,509; Belgium: 5,998) Context: Population of US: 330,625,701 COVID Death Rate 0.12 per thousand Population of Next 5 countries: 251,869,989 (Spain: 46,755,548; Italy: 60,473,516; France: 65,242,781; Belgium: Belgium: 11,580,103; UK: 67,818,041) COVID Death Rate: 0.35 per thousand (nearly three times the rate in the US) So, let's review: Claims made: 1) The United States has more COVID cases than the next five countries combined. FALSE 788,920 vs 815,350 2) The United States has more COVID deaths than the next five countries combined. FALSE 42,000 vs 88,168 3) The United States is the worst. FALSE. See above numbers and rates of cases and deaths.

No spin here. Just trying to stick to the facts. Contrary to your claim, the plans for the glass tube exterior of the new museum building were not revised. Yes, the pictures of the model appear to show a different material. But guess what? The pictures of the model also don’t match the renderings or the architect’s descriptions of the glass tubes.