Comments on: Discovery Green Hits the Visitor Guides http://swamplot.com/discovery-green-hits-the-visitor-guides/2008-10-20/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:29:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: kjb434 http://swamplot.com/discovery-green-hits-the-visitor-guides/2008-10-20/#comment-10353 kjb434 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:51:29 +0000 http://swamplot.com/discovery-green-hits-the-visitor-guides/2008-10-20/#comment-10353 I'm still of the mind that the taxpayer portion for this park was a little outrageous and more corporate sponsorship should have paid for it. The park itself though does change the landscape of eastern downtown. This park and the Houston Pavilions perform the job of connecting the GRB, Hilton Americas, and Toyota center to the west portions of downtown. The concept of walking from Main St to the GRB doesn't appear as daunting as it once did. using the Park and the Pavilions provides a visual journey along with the walking one. You only have two blocks between the park and the Pavilions (but since they are still surface parking, it allows you to visually connect the two while walking). To me, this reminds of how you can walk many blocks in downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter without it seeming like an endless trek. The Park and the Pavilions provide a continuity across downtown. Here's to private development for finishing it. They now have the other components they claim they needed. A park and a functioning commercial retail destination. Does anyone feel if Houston Pavilions is successful that it will turn out to what the Bayou Place was promised to be? I’m still of the mind that the taxpayer portion for this park was a little outrageous and more corporate sponsorship should have paid for it.

The park itself though does change the landscape of eastern downtown.

This park and the Houston Pavilions perform the job of connecting the GRB, Hilton Americas, and Toyota center to the west portions of downtown. The concept of walking from Main St to the GRB doesn’t appear as daunting as it once did. using the Park and the Pavilions provides a visual journey along with the walking one. You only have two blocks between the park and the Pavilions (but since they are still surface parking, it allows you to visually connect the two while walking).

To me, this reminds of how you can walk many blocks in downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter without it seeming like an endless trek.

The Park and the Pavilions provide a continuity across downtown. Here’s to private development for finishing it. They now have the other components they claim they needed. A park and a functioning commercial retail destination. Does anyone feel if Houston Pavilions is successful that it will turn out to what the Bayou Place was promised to be?

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