Downtown nightlife making a come back?

[thirdcoastnole]

Originally Posted by Truth713

When was the llast time you even heard about a shoting , break , robbery in Downtown ???

Police find man dead in middle of street near downtown Houston | abc13.com

[Truth713]

Originally Posted by thirdcoastnole

Police find man dead in middle of street near downtown Houston | abc13.com

first it said near downtown.. not in downtown

[Truth713]

Originally Posted by Redlionjr

Exactly, the last couple of times I went on Main street. which was sometime last year it was mostly hip-hop crowds or let's be frank black crowds. Which is why I could never understand why people would say downtown is completely dead at night when I would hit up downtown at times and see tons of people outside on main. It's just people really mean to say it's either not enough "other" clubs around or they don't feel comfortable with a large black population downtown at night.

Either way I haven't been clubbing downtown in months. However I was downtown last Saturday attending a TUACA drink and ink event at the Bayou Center. And it was a couple of restaurants and bars in that area that I hadn't notice before that was filled with people and that kind of shocked me. Because I'm use to seeing most businesses in that area close around that time. So seems to me some new life is kicking back into downtown at night.

yeah alot of the new bars are like orka and have a certain theme to them, which makes them unique and places like that have more a friendly know the bar tender by name feel, which can go a long way to building a loyal base. Something a business in downtown is going to need.

instead of people constanly finding something to ***** about, why dont you go out and try to help these places.. when this thread was posted I knew there would be someonre who would find something negeative to say bout what this group is doing.

I mean these guys got to togther and decided to open bars and restarants in downtown Houston, along the same block by design. To create a string of business in one area thats more vision than the city so called leaders have ever had..lol

I try to support the new business any time I am downtown.. roma pizza, bruger guys, I will stop in banatga when it opens. and even thou I no longer drink , I may swing into a bar during a big game or so..

It time for Houstonians to stop making excuses after excues for not going downtown. the places are coming or have taken a chance and opened there . The question is will you support them or just find another excuse as to why you dont want to go.

[OducksFTW!]

Originally Posted by Truth713

yeah alot of the new bars are like orka and have a certain theme to them, which makes them unique and places like that have more a friendly know the bar tender by name feel, which can go a long way to building a loyal base. Something a business in downtown is going to need.

instead of people constanly finding something to ***** about, why dont you go out and try to help these places.. when this thread was posted I knew there would be someonre who would find something negeative to say bout what this group is doing.

I mean these guys got to togther and decided to open bars and restarants in downtown Houston, along the same block by design. To create a string of business in one area thats more vision than the city so called leaders have ever had..lol

I try to support the new business any time I am downtown.. roma pizza, bruger guys, I will stop in banatga when it opens. and even thou I no longer drink , I may swing into a bar during a big game or so..

It time for Houstonians to stop making excuses after excues for not going downtown. the places are coming or have taken a chance and opened there . The question is will you support them or just find another excuse as to why you dont want to go.

That maybe part of the problem, people only occasionally go to downtown after business hours.
And since there are so many offices sprawled all over the city there are even less businesses that have offices downtown, there are fewer people during peak weekdays.

I admire what these guys are trying to do, but Houston has never been a centralized type of city, new businesses pop up where there are other attractions, such as the Galleria, or a towncenter or along major highways.

[Truth713]

Originally Posted by OducksFTW!

That maybe part of the problem, people only occasionally go to downtown after business hours.
And since there are so many offices sprawled all over the city there are even less businesses that have offices downtown, there are fewer people during peak weekdays.

I admire what these guys are trying to do, but Houston has never been a centralized type of city, new businesses pop up where there are other attractions, such as the Galleria, or a towncenter or along major highways.

Which is why word of mouth is just as important.. I know alot of people who go to HCC central campus . So I tell them if they have time to kill inbtween class go downtown to eat. its its a 12 min ride from the station to main street...
I lost count of the number of people who love freebird now, but when I meet them they had never even heard of it

as for business popping up where there is attraction, that has never been a problem for downtown.. between sports , and the theaher.. the hard parthas always been conivincing the people to stick around after and try the business in the area.

Downtown Houston problems breakdown like this.

1.A lack of venues opening after 10pm( luckly alot of the new guys are bucking this tread now)
2. a precevied sense that it a dangerous place after dark .(Again how many murder, or crimes have happend in downtown proper
3. lack parking which I do not undertsand why we just dont build parking towers like they do in chiago and other cities
4. A low residney rate( finely the city is starting to address this, but the process is slow) second this is not maddetten stop trying to create everything to cater to the super rich, create some places for mid- income too and you will see a DT population expode . I look at potenial the city has and wonder if the leadership just misses it or dont give a damn.

Take the U OF H downtown campus, I look that huge vacent lot across from it and think man if you put a colleage dorm there . you would be flooding DT houston with hundreds if not thousands of young people everyday

[Mr. Krinkle]

Except the U OF H downtown isn't affiliated with the University of Hosuton. I don't think a dorm would work there.

Lack of parking is another misconception. Street parking may fill up, but there plenty of lots that charge $5.

[Oildog]

Originally Posted by thirdcoastnole

Police find man dead in middle of street near downtown Houston | abc13.com

This is north of the viaduct and not in downtown.

[Truth713]

Originally Posted by Mr. Krinkle

Except the U OF H downtown isn't affiliated with the University of Hosuton. I don't think a dorm would work there.

Lack of parking is another misconception. Street parking may fill up, but there plenty of lots that charge $5.

oh yeah I keep forgetting that, ither way it would make for some nice apartments then but I think down town U of H owns that land and are just sitting on it if they ever decided to expand.. shame that would be prime properly right along the bayou for residenal use

[Redlionjr]

Originally Posted by Truth713

yeah alot of the new bars are like orka and have a certain theme to them, which makes them unique and places like that have more a friendly know the bar tender by name feel, which can go a long way to building a loyal base. Something a business in downtown is going to need.

instead of people constanly finding something to ***** about, why dont you go out and try to help these places.. when this thread was posted I knew there would be someonre who would find something negeative to say bout what this group is doing.

I mean these guys got to togther and decided to open bars and restarants in downtown Houston, along the same block by design. To create a string of business in one area thats more vision than the city so called leaders have ever had..lol

I try to support the new business any time I am downtown.. roma pizza, bruger guys, I will stop in banatga when it opens. and even thou I no longer drink , I may swing into a bar during a big game or so..

It time for Houstonians to stop making excuses after excues for not going downtown. the places are coming or have taken a chance and opened there . The question is will you support them or just find another excuse as to why you dont want to go.

Exactly, I've been saying if you build it they will come.