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Old Posted May 9, 2012, 2:02 PM
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Does anyone know why Downtown isn't lit up at night like other cities?
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Old Posted May 9, 2012, 3:14 PM
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West Ave phase II has broken ground. Here are two renderings and the description





The second phase of the West Ave development in River Oaks is a 288,389 s.f. mid-rise apartment project with 305 housing units. The eight-story, concrete structure with attached garage will have 640 parking spaces, 157 of which will be for retail use from Phase 1.The project finish will consist of mostly brick with accents of Arriscraft and terra-cotta. The design will feature an interior courtyard with swimming pool, outdoor kitchen and living room, lounge, theater, fitness center, dining/wine room and is estimated to complete June 2013.

http://www.zieglercooper.com/project...=41&projid=174
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Old Posted May 9, 2012, 10:23 PM
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http://parceltool.generationpark.com/
Wow! That's pretty big. I was wondering when that corner of Houston would be developed. This would definitely throw the metro area's center of gravity back east a bit.
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 1:40 PM
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Wow! That's pretty big. I was wondering when that corner of Houston would be developed. This would definitely throw the metro area's center of gravity back east a bit.
I'm glad that the center is bringing some action to the east side of Houston. Downtown Houston hasn't been the center of Houston for decades (they might as well call it East Houston) and I always like to think that the pace of development in downtown will pick up if it becomes more centrally located.
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 3:17 PM
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Anadarkos new tower in the woodlands from this morning. And there's a new mid rise going up across from it too which will add some really nice density to that corner.
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Going back a couple of weeks, there was an article in the HBJ that left the impression that no new towers were going up Downtown, despite a developing space shortage. Why is the supply lagging behind the demand?
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 7:42 PM
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University of St. Thomas’s New Performing Arts Center Moving in Next to Menil Campus:

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The university is touting the venue as “a big boost to other performing arts groups in the city” as well as its own programs. The design by Houston’s Studio Red Architects includes an 800-seat proscenium theater, a “black box” flex theater that can seat 250, a conference hall, classrooms, large rehearsal spaces, and extensive lobbies and terraces for university events
Source: http://swamplot.com/university-of-st...us/2012-05-10/
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 7:51 PM
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List of Developers for new Convention Center Hotel:

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/p...mpete-for.html

Why are they even holding a design competition? We all know its going to be some box fugly building. Hopefully it wont be some box fugly short design. I get tired of Houston's mass creation (and obsession) with boxes. This city is moving way to fast to be so plain in its design. Sorry for the rant.
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 7:58 PM
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The Chronicle has a cool article about a soon-to-be-open public art installation entitled “Skyspace”. Opening in mid June, Skyspace will have light shows at sunrise and sunset that will nearly change your perception of what’s around you…

The installation will be open to the general public, and they even plan to hold concerts at the place.
Source: http://innerlooped.com/1786/new-publ...rice-skyspace/
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 8:04 PM
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Midtown Houston Proposes Arts + Entertainment District:
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Tonight at 6pm in Central Bank’s large conference room, Midtown will be holding their quarterly night community meeting where they present what each committee is working on. The cool part about tonight is they will be having a presentation on Midtown’s next endeavor, becoming a state recognized “Arts and Entertainment District”. The presentation will occur later in the meeting, but it will probably be a good talk and reason for residents of Midtown to come out and learn more about the next cool thing Midtown is shooting for. You can download the agenda for tonight’s meeting
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Full information here: http://www.houstonmidtown.com/cmsFil...da_5-10-12.pdf
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 8:11 PM
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By the way, you guys wont ever believe this because I'm still in denial this actually happened but my cousin & I found blue water (sky blue Cancun like water) beaches in the Houston Metropolitan Area. Except it cost us $550 to find it and the island has a population of 0 with no developments or anything except plants and animals on it. Its not that big either, walking across will take like 3 minutes but its big enough to enjoy with your entire extended family if you want that.

The water color and the island looks VERY close to this (except its like 5 times larger but not all that large at all):
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 8:37 PM
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Going back a couple of weeks, there was an article in the HBJ that left the impression that no new towers were going up Downtown, despite a developing space shortage. Why is the supply lagging behind the demand?
From what I've heard online (and possibly read) is that lenders are scared of oil boom/bust aspect of Houston. They are requiring a higher percentage of preleasing.
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 8:41 PM
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From what I've heard online (and possibly read) is that lenders are scared of oil boom/bust aspect of Houston. They are requiring a higher percentage of preleasing.
50% is the minimum. Personally I like it better this way, its safer for the local economy otherwise it'll be overbuilt and overspeculated like Las Vegas.
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 9:38 PM
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Crappy iPhone photo of that new apartment building going up across from the CVS in the galleria area, the name of it escapes me right now.
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 10:26 PM
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Why are they even holding a design competition? We all know its going to be some box fugly building. Hopefully it wont be some box fugly short design. I get tired of Houston's mass creation (and obsession) with boxes. This city is moving way to fast to be so plain in its design. Sorry for the rant.
It was my impression that it would be a mirror image of the Hilton Americas. Anybody?
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 10:29 PM
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Going back a couple of weeks, there was an article in the HBJ that left the impression that no new towers were going up Downtown, despite a developing space shortage. Why is the supply lagging behind the demand?
This is the way The Woodlands goes about it's development. It's good to keep the lid on potential development and let it (the potential) build. The Woodlands could put up multiple highrises right now if they wanted to AND FILL THEM. But by stifling development ensures near 100% capacity of the buildings built. There probably isn't much of a rush to build anything downtown being that a few new highrises were just completed and many more projects are on the drawing board.
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Old Posted May 10, 2012, 10:35 PM
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Please please go to this link and sign the letter to send to our representatives to help Houston public transit. It's on the bottom left of the page, the link is.

http://www.houstontomorrow.org/
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Please please go to this link and sign the letter to send to our representatives to help Houston public transit. It's on the bottom left of the page, the link is.

http://www.houstontomorrow.org/
I went to the last workshop meeting they had and when they asked "are there any questions?", I raised my hand (I know very elementary school of me to do) and asked them if they think people take them seriously. They asked what I meant by that and I just straight up told them that for the 7th largest UA, 7th largest CSA, 5th largest MSA, and 4th largest city in the nation how they feel about only having 8 miles of "rail transit" compared to thousands (both HRT & CRT) and hundreds in every place of comparable size (including Dallas) and they were awestruck that someone can even ask such a thing.

I later told them that the transit infrastructure in Houston is laughable and that METRO absolutely needs to get its act together and straighten things out. George Grenias has time to watch a porno flick at work but doesn't have time to sit down and go to Wikipedia and see the numbers behind why Houston is so far behind? Yeahhhh we need to restructure METRO from scratch.
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50% is the minimum. Personally I like it better this way, its safer for the local economy otherwise it'll be overbuilt and overspeculated like Las Vegas.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when was the last time we over built office space?
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correct me if i'm wrong, but when was the last time we over built office space?
1982-1983.
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