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For anyone who wants truly local sourced produce and/or a very wide array of native flowers and shrubs for positive landscape and pollinators there is City Roots Nursery at 31st and Highland(NW corner of 71-Bruce Watkins). They live in the area, have purchased multiple vacant lots and are growing in...

Will traffic crossing the bridge southbound that is heading for 70 eastbound still have to use Broadway and make a left?

The interior slanted walls and windows make me feel as if in one of those fun houses where water appears to flow uphill and balls roll uphill.

A park and water feature where the legendary sunken gardens were?

Someone who once worked here was claiming there was a planned twin tower to be built on the garage to the east. First I have ever heard this. Seems to me it would have been much too close to the existing building. Anyone know anything of this?

So only about 30' higher? Essentially the height of Two, plus the slanted parapet hiding the rooftop mechanics?

What is the height in feet of Two Light(too lazy to scroll through the 2 light thread)?

Wish they could put the old giant fiberglass cow head from the Hereford House back up on the corner.

Is it to have a shed roof or is that an illusion of forced perspective because that portion of the building starting at the SW corner is at an angle? I remember the renderings of the Fed Reserve gave an illusion of a slanted roof.

What's the view looking directly out of your balcony from the inside?

I find the photos very much deceiving in giving a sense of the scale of this project. In person it is huge. If there was a photo with the current terminals included it would be more illustrative. Old terminals=strip mall, new terminal=Oak Park mall. Approaching the new terminal the scale and massing...

As well was Port Arthur,TX. Stillwell chose that as the gulf terminus of the KC Southern after his mystical "pixies" warned him of the forthcoming Great Galveston hurricane.

Something may happen soon on vacant lot on 29th just east of Paseo, abutting Troost Lake. Property looks like part of park, but only because Parks and Rec keep it mowed when they mow park. Someone bought it at auction. Historically there were 4 or 5 multifamily buildings there. Would be good spot fo...

I too, miss that old Lamar's at Linwood and Oak. But I stopped when I realized what I thought was bonus chocolate sprinkles were a gift from a mouse.There was a nice little burger stand across the street(name?) and a fish and chip franchise(was it Arthur Treacher's or H Salt?).

That west side of Oak south of 31st has been ripe for redevelopment for years. No standing structures, and completely level, almost an entire block length.

There's a lot of legal density between Troost and 71. Most of it underutilized in vacant lots or vast underused(if at all) asphalt lots on 31st. Look at the 1925 map and its shocking how much multifamily housing has vanished. Most multifamily bldngs have 2 br as largest units. Families need 3 afford...

They have, which is both bad and good. Good for owners, bad for renters. In south Beacon Hill and in Mount Hope moderate size 2 floor houses that are complete gut jobs(basically paying for the lot, hole in ground, and frame if it is not completely termite eaten) are going for more than 90K. Little 1...

Charlotte is about the closest the east loop has to a north-south arterial. Could it be tunneled under the complex? Doc friend purchased the bldng on the NE corner of 10th and Charlotte in 2018. Would his property be untouched? Guess he made a better investment than he ever imagined.

The varying cladding helps break up the huge mass of the building, but subtly. Contrast this to City Place that seems to have everything but the kitchen sink hot glued to the exterior. On the trees, would be nice if they put in the large planting wells with oaks like they did on Broadway. I have not...

The nice looking west side is due to the donation of the property owner across the street who wanted to keep the historic look of that intersection intact(too late for the Marriott side).