Just wondering: What if Houston had one CBD (i.e. TMC, Greenway, Uptown merged) (China: luxury, living)

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

I dunno, Chicago and Manhattan have tons of buildings in a really small area.
DT to TMC is about a mile.
DT to GW is about 4Miles
DT to UT is about 6 Miles
DT to GP is 14 miles

DT to TMC is the only one that is feasible. and it is very likely because of all the undeveloped land in between. All they need to do is start building tons of 10-15 story buildings. Many people would kill to live in midtown but the land owners are just sitting on the land making it more and more expensive. Crap by the time condos start going up there no one will be able to afford living there. So sadly its is probably gonna be more apartment complexes going up there

Apartments add great density and street life.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Apartments add great density and street life.

no they don't. Apartments house thousands here and everyone drive. in some areas there are seas of apartments housing tens of thousands and no retail whatsoever. those don't fit in well with merging skylines. who wants to merge skylines with apartment complexes? most of them build more parking lots than living areas.

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

no they don't. Apartments house thousands here and everyone drive. in some areas there are seas of apartments housing tens of thousands and no retail whatsoever. those don't fit in well with merging skylines. who wants to merge skylines with apartment complexes? most of them build more parking lots than living areas.

I guess it depends on the city and the aparment development. DC has some nice apartment developments that add density and street life.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by SouthernBoy205

Apartments add great density and street life.

the key is "urban planning"
Yes, apartments are a good idea, just like the suburbs are a good idea.
But the longer I live in the suburbs, the more I see that there is really bad urban planning when suburbs are built (no public parks, roads too narrow, no sidewalks, etc, etc.)

Same thing applies to apartments,
you can't have 1000s of people living in a few buildings without making sure that there was some good urban planning done before.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

no they don't. Apartments house thousands here and everyone drive. in some areas there are seas of apartments housing tens of thousands and no retail whatsoever. those don't fit in well with merging skylines. who wants to merge skylines with apartment complexes? most of them build more parking lots than living areas.

And that's why I'm annoyed by development in Houston; the midtown, 4th ward areas and more have extreme potential, but the city is screwing it up. Small sidwalks,little to no retail, and more. It's more than just throwing up urban style apartments.

[NYer75]

The "Urban" sprawl and different BDs are what make Houston special.

[stoneclaw]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

I dunno, Chicago and Manhattan have tons of buildings in a really small area.
DT to TMC is about a mile.
DT to GW is about 4Miles
DT to UT is about 6 Miles
DT to GP is 14 miles

DT to TMC is the only one that is feasible. and it is very likely because of all the undeveloped land in between. All they need to do is start building tons of 10-15 story buildings. Many people would kill to live in midtown but the land owners are just sitting on the land making it more and more expensive. Crap by the time condos start going up there no one will be able to afford living there. So sadly its is probably gonna be more apartment complexes going up there

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I think you're being a little generous on the 1 mile difference between TMC and downtown. It's gotta be at least 4.

I think we all tend to forget how spread out Houston really is

stoneclaw/C2H

[westres1]

No one can name a # 3 other than us? Of course we are already third best skyline. Who else ?

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by westres1

No one can name a # 3 other than us? Of course we are already third best skyline. Who else ?

Miami????

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by stoneclaw

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I think you're being a little generous on the 1 mile difference between TMC and downtown. It's gotta be at least 4.

I think we all tend to forget how spread out Houston really is

google maps says the distance straight up San Jacinto from the MD Aesthetic Surgery Center (Tall buildings near Binz) to the Tall buildings near Webster is 1.7miles.

At least 4????Maybe if you take highways to get there.

I think we all tend to overplay how far apart things are in Houston sometimes. Thats why we don't walk anywhere.

And there are tall buildings in between the two points that I chose. There are good sized residential buildings, plus there are the HCC administration buildings etc.