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They're working on some sort of roof to the wind turbine structure.

There's a Ruggles Green on Alabama b/w Greenbriar and Kirby. It's a Ruggles, but 'green.' Not sure what that means. Green building? Green food? Does it mean the original restaurant is Ruggles Gay? In any case, good for them on expanding.

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That's awesome news! If it's the lot I'm thinking of (along McGowen between La Branch and Austin)... I met the developer (http://parradesigngroup.com/) for this last year who said he was going to build it in 2010. He said it would have retail on the bottom w/ residential and office on the second floor w/ balconies looking down onto McGowen. The sidewalk was widened along there during the McGowen rebuild to work with the development so it will look really nice once it's built. I'll have to go check out the rendering today. Here's the old meeting on it (La Plaza de Midtown, first thing talked about in section D)... HTV

If anybody cares to look at the most recently available crime data in Excel format from HPD, it will reveal that there are significant concentrations of murders in places that aren't reputed as crime centers. Acres Homes/Independence Heights was a problem area. So was the Near Northside between downtown and Northline Mall. There was one murder in the 'greater Heights' but that was east of Main Street, so nobody really cares. Aside from those neighborhoods, murder very predictably tended to occur at crappy apartment complexes, and since there is such an abundance of such complexes in southwest Houston, southwest Houston did not fare well. However...there were zero (0) murders in Greenspoint, Fifth Ward, or in Sharpstown...none, nada, zip. Furthermore, I used the crime data and a geocoding program to determine the lat/long geographic centroid of each of the 24 murders that were known by HPD to have occurred in the City of Houston. The "murder center" of Houston was...[brace yourselves]...River Oaks. Specifically, the murder centroid of Houston is on the grounds of Bayou Bend, former residence of Ima Hogg and a component of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Behold Houston's nefarious murder centroid! Fear it!