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Originally Posted by shakman
Is this the same concept as the Bayou Center?
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This is just under 1/2 a mile to the north of Bayou Place. It is across the Bayou beyond the aquarium, between the Amtrak station and Downtown UH (accessible to neither), at the now shuttered downtown Post Office. It is "theoretically" accessible by foot from downtown but...
I think there is a lot of grumbling about this on this site and HAIF because the potential of this site is amazing. But this ain't it. It actually will compete with downtown for bodies and unless they put the Battleship Texas, the London Eye, or a Saturn Five rocket on the roof, as suggested on another forum
it won't work. Right now "going downtown" is actually -- can this word ever be uttered by a Houstonian with a straight face -- cool. People at restaurants, bars, people in Astros gear before and after games, people walking dogs, joggers, OMG a tourist!, etc. This is not "going downtown," it's going near downtown. I know the scales are not remotely comparable, but nobody goes to New York to visit Jersey City. If the area had it's own residential population, on the order of a few thousand apartments, it might escape the fate of Mercado del Sol which turned into a ghost mall.