Houstonian in Iraq Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 I could of swore there was a thread covering St. Joseph's future. If anyone finds it feel free to merge Anyways, it looks like the 119year old Hospital has found a new buyer. It appears that the new owner will continue running it as it has been. I think some people suggested turning it into housing, I'm glad it will still remain a hospital. Yeah housing especially moderately priced housing would be a plus for downtown growth, but a hospital is a much needed amenity for the neighborhood. Here's the Chronicle story 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 I agree this is really good news 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 (edited) you know, when i saw that article, i came here and searched (and searchd and searched) and couldn't find any topics. i also swear i remember reading a thread about the possibility of it changing hands... weird Edited March 11, 2006 by sevfiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 The place of my birth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 New owner names leader for St. Joseph Medical CenterHospital Partners of America's purchase of downtown Houston's historic Christus St. Joseph Hospital has officially closed, and Phillip D. Robinson has been tapped to lead the transition to a physician-owned facility.Charlotte, N.C.-based HPA announced in March its intent to buy Christus St. Joseph, which will now be known as St. Joseph Medical Center.http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...63&hbx=e_du Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo1976 Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 The place of my birth!Mine, too! My dad was also born there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexAmerican_Moose Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 (edited) my little brother was born there Edited August 23, 2006 by MexAmerican_Moose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Before the Pierce Elevated was built, we would go out Pierce Street to get to the Gulf Freeway. Every time we passed St. Joseph, Daddy would tell me that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 my little sister (she's 34 now) was born in the old st. joseph's building. my mom was in a room with a curved, corner window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 The place of my birth!Me too! (1955) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Timmy Chan's Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I wasn't born at St. Josephs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
77017 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I could of swore there was a thread covering St. Joseph's future. If anyone finds it feel free to merge Anyways, it looks like the 119year old Hospital has found a new buyer. It appears that the new owner will continue running it as it has been. I think some people suggested turning it into housing, I'm glad it will still remain a hospital. Yeah housing especially moderately priced housing would be a plus for downtown growth, but a hospital is a much needed amenity for the neighborhood. Here's the Chronicle story THEN WHAT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulco Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Me too! (1955)Yup, 1982 here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 So what do you think of the new giant crosses? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelguy_73 Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Question: What is the purpose of the professional building, and who are the tenants? Is it like other professional buildings that are basically just doctors' offices? From a design standpoint, it is an interesting, overwhelming addition. But from a cost standpoint, I see it is completely wasteful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 So what do you think of the new giant crosses?I like it. Symmetrical itself and fits nicely inside the shape of the building. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Just what downtown Houston needs, the gigantic white outline of a cross slathered across both sides of a building not designed to accommodate it.It's one thing to make a statement, and if I may paraphrase Voltaire (because I'm too lazy to verify the quote), I may disagree with what they're saying but I will forever defend their right to say it. However, the design of the statement is in poor taste. They should have just erected a clean purpose-built cross much the same way as the church off of Beltway 8 near the Gulf Freeway did....or they could've allocated the funds to indigent care. That would've been very Christ-like. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 I noticed it yesterday while on 45...I was a little creeped out because I didn't see it until the last second. I need a little advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 One struggles for words.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBuddy06 Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Nonsense. HPA moved tangentially away from Christus' philosophy when they bought the hospital, modified the name, imposed a star on the cross in their logo so much that you hardly notice the cross, giving the impression that it will be strictly business henceforth.Then after struggling for about two years with their poor business concept, they did what even Christus never do, put giant crosses that makes me think of the building as an annex of the Vatican more than a professional building. Still doesn't make their business concept better. Just my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porchman Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 ...Then after struggling for about two years with their poor business concept, they did what even Christus never do, put giant crosses that makes me think of the building as an annex of the Vatican more than a professional building. If that were the case, it should be red neon. It's Pentecost, after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpperWestEnder Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 It caught me by surprise at first. I thought, had it always looked like that and I just didn't notice? But now you've confirmed that it is a new look. Well, it looks good. It fits the proportion of a building that was otherwise quite unremarkable. There wasn't not much to look at as one headed north into downtown on 45 after the I-59 interchange. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 As soon as we let Continental get away with illuminating the top of their building with their logo... it was down hill from there.As I made the curve around the Pierce elevated from Allen Parkway, headed south... I was like: Jesus! Then I had to stop myself: "Hey... wait a minute... That's the response they're going for!"It appeared to be illuminated by several thousand incandescent bulbs. Chaser lights, blue neon, and strobes would have better.It sure is nice, and refreshing even, to see some of that suburban B-8 taste make it right to the middle of downtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Just what downtown Houston needs, the gigantic white outline of a cross slathered across both sides of a building not designed to accommodate it.It's one thing to make a statement, and if I may paraphrase Voltaire (because I'm too lazy to verify the quote), I may disagree with what they're saying but I will forever defend their right to say it. However, the design of the statement is in poor taste. They should have just erected a clean purpose-built cross much the same way as the church off of Beltway 8 near the Gulf Freeway did....or they could've allocated the funds to indigent care. That would've been very Christ-like....purpose-built? The cross at B-8, given its enormous size, like this recent St. Joe addition, is not "purpose built." They just scream: "We're here, we're Christians, get used to us!" Kind of like a polite, Christian way, of giving the rest of the world a big giant middle finger.A purpose built cross would be about 10 feet high, made of lumber, made for hanging bodies on. Or maybe I am describing a "functional" cross? ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I had forgotten about the jumbo freeway crosses. Houston can start marketing itself as City of Really Really Big Crosses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgiangmanman Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I thought houston was the most religously diverse city in the whole bible belt. building 150 ft crosses on the north and south entrances are like making people think if you go into the city you will be forced to be a christian. and building a cross by the Hobby airport and ellington field is just as dangerous.Bollucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 I thought houston was the most religously diverse city in the whole bible belt. building 150 ft crosses on the north and south entrances are like making people think if you go into the city you will be forced to be a christian.I tend not to think of Houston being in the 'Bible Belt'. I think of the belt as going from about Georgia through the South, and then sweeping up through north Texas and continuing northward through the plains states.As for the symbology: "I prefer to leave symbols to the symbol-minded." --George Carlinand building a cross by the Hobby airport and ellington field is just as dangerous.BollucksOnly Hobby Airport has a runway aligned in such a way as would put one of the giant crosses in a flight path, but the end of that runway is four miles away from the nearest gigantic cross. If a plane is flying only 150 feet off the ground at four miles away from the runway, it's because it's about to crash.If the cross were a legitimate concern, first of all the FAA would've been all over it. And secondly, there'd probably be a slew of low-rise office buildings along JFK Blvd. that are under the flight path of a runway that ends only one mile away that would probably need to be demolished as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 It is rather obnoxious, but considering my BFs urologist is located in that bldg, I shan't talk badly about it, as long as a 7 mm kidney stone is still firmly lodged in his delicate parts. On the up side, the building's not brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyEvilTwin Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 (edited) I'm not generally a big fan of loud religion, but from a marketing perspective I don't really object to this. With the prominence of the Med Center, it's tough for other inner-loop hospitals to attract attention to themselves, and St. Joseph's has been struggling to survive over the years. Somehow I see this more as an attempt to draw attention to its differentiating characteristic (its Catholic affiliation) than to blast Houston with religious symbols. What has always seemed strange to me about St. Joseph's is that its professional building is across the Pierce Elevated from the hospital. It's not exactly a dense section of downtown today -- when it was built, were all the blocks north of I-45 occupied? Edited July 27, 2009 by MyEvilTwin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Is it illuminated, or just painted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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