Opinion: By the time we all live downtown it will be ‘Lake Downtown’

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Opinion: By the time we all live downtown it will be ‘Lake Downtown’
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One of the three atriums of the new POST Houston is photographed Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Houston. The space will be dedicated for events, retail, exhibition and cultural events.Essay: You can see all of Houston from POST

,” : The Barbara Jordan Post Office failed as a government business. It has stood there underutilized for years even though the Post Office still owned it until 2015, and then it was bought mainly with “tax credits” at a substantially under-market price.

There isn’t anything to recommend the place as a mall or a set of shopping experiences. It’s hard to get to, it’s pretty homely , I’m pretty sure it is a great echo chamber and, let’s face it, “downtown” is a concept that is just not saleable in the car-centric suburban living that all major cities in America predominantly exist in.

For good or evil, so it will be here in Houston as The POST moulders awaiting that glorious day when everyone lives “downtown” — albeit hundreds of feet in the air. By then it won’t be “downtown,“ but “Lake Downtown” as Houston sucks its groundwater dry and slowly subsides below sea level.

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