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  1. BLVD HISTORY . . . MAY 2009 JUNE 2010 JANUARY 2011
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  2. Just found this PDF from the building company. Has a timeline of the building, which appears to already be behind, but it should be fine. Has the same view of the previous renderings but morre detailed of a picture. I think it looks pretty sweet. Manhattan Construction - PDF
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  3. Work has begun on both sites -- Interior demo on the Boy Scout building was in full force yesterday..... The parking garage site is in the process of having the old chain link fence taken down and other debris removed.
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  4. Construction will begin this year (very soon). Contracts are being written to sub-contractors already.
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  5. Let me put it another way for the humorless among us. If a building has a working toilet, then it will already have moving parts. Those parts, which move in a clockwise direction, provide a good rhetorical analog to my opinion of the moving parts that are the subject of this thread.
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  6. Perhaps someone should start a thread to promote buildings with moving parts, much as someone has for promoting downtown lighting. Therein, we can all find the courage to flush toilets on an excessive and unnecessary basis and contribute to ecological degradation.
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  7. Well IF my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. The problem is money is rarely allocated for public services and when it is, it is not sufficient to keep up with the influx of residents (140,000 new people in 2009 alone). Rather, they want to build ANOTHER stadium for a soccer team that few in this city care about (relative to baseball or football--this is not a jab at soccer).
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  8. Nothing ground breaking here, but I got to talking to this guy on our bowling league the other night and found out that he just moved to The Woodlands from Michigan. Anyway, he works for Exxon and he said that the development at the Hardy and 45 is on the fast track and will break ground sooner than later. He said it is DEFINITELY happening and that all offices from Denver, Fairfax and some from Dallas and Houston are all moving to the Spring/Woodlands location. So there ya go. At least it's not 'dead' or on a 'hiatus.'
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  9. Well he said that SOME jobs from Dallas would move here. He said nothing about the headquarters. However he did say that from what he understands, ALL jobs from Denver and Fairfax are headed to Houston. Of course, we already knew this.
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  10. No, it's not paranoid. It is just nuts. The word "determines" obviously refers to the process of the director counting and verifying the returned ballots, not some super secret special way the director can say that an unreturned ballot means a ballot in support. I mean come on people. This provision is one the realtors and builders wanted. They made it very difficult for further expansion of the districts, if not impossible. But even in the pro-builder/realtor provisions, you all see some secret plot. This is about as bad as the paint/HVAC/political yard sign arguments. Just because you think that it is possible to read an ordinance a certain doesn't mean that it is read that way. Move on. Go get in on the hot property market surrounding the Historic districts. Property prices are going to shoot through the roof as every builder, resident and renovator flees the historic districs and rushes to west of Ashland to build monsterous McVics. But watch out! The decay in the historic districts will be so fast and devastating that the old bungalows will become crack houses and meth labs (granite countertops are a plus for cutting drugs). People moving into the non-historic areas will probably see their property values plummet as soon as they move in due to the crumbling historic districts. Eventually the entire Heights will become a post-apocalyptic war zone where gasoline is currency and gangs of out of work contractors fight for control of the Citgo on W 11th and the Valero on Shepherd. Or, actually, life will go on. Gas will eventually go to $4.00+ a gallon when the economy rebounds and people will pay piles for a bungalow in a Heights Historic District to avoid paying hundreds a month to drive in from The Woodlands.
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