Before/after: Memorial Drive's unreal transformation in recent years

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

We drove to two of the condo buildings delivering on Memorial recently. You wouldn't know it from the street level, but the buildings aren't "building" all the way through. They have a big parking deck in the middle. We had to go around and around and around, up 6 floors, to reach one customer. The building around the outside of the parking deck is built like you would have a building with an inner courtyard. Every level has a balcony... it just faces a parking deck and everybody's cars rather than a courtyard.

At least developers often seem to be hiding the parking deck from the street in front of the structure in newer developments and not making the parking deck or parking area a prominent feature as they may have done in years and decades’ past.

[Prickly Pear]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

We drove to two of the condo buildings delivering on Memorial recently. You wouldn't know it from the street level, but the buildings aren't "building" all the way through. They have a big parking deck in the middle. We had to go around and around and around, up 6 floors, to reach one customer. The building around the outside of the parking deck is built like you would have a building with an inner courtyard. Every level has a balcony... it just faces a parking deck and everybody's cars rather than a courtyard.

The Texas Doughnut style of apartment is usually a 5:1 (5 wooden residential floors and 1 concrete base for commercial) is built with a parking deck in the middle. In this case the hallway going between the apartments is along the interior wall where the dark parking lot is, and there’s only the one apartment facing the outside.

[seussie]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

Needs a street car or BRT.

That's questionable as anyone peering into buses sees empty shells with very few riders at all; I don't disagree the area would benefit from better public transit, but I'm sure all the eggs in the basket right now are for the Beltline light rail that'll exist never in our lifetime (though I'd love to be proven wrong at a healthy 97 years old).