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i hate that the night work is bothering you but i love that i can get my mcgriddle sooner than later

It looks like they are starting to dig the holes for some columns. http://s7.photobucket.com/user/brijonmang/media/SH_zps1c6a5078.jpg.html'>

Which was my point. I'm being tolled for roads I will never use. This is the same argument that people use for rail lines and the rail lines get shot down repeatedly for the same reason. Why there's even a ballot for rail in the first place is beyond me, it should be funded and built in the same way as a freeway.

That's the problem, you weren't joking. You can call my jokes classless, as they were intended to be such. But when you're serious it's not the post that's classless it's the author.

I'll gladly put a REMOVE ELLIOT FROM THE HAHC sign in my front yard.

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So, now that this thread has become a travesty of a worthwhile HAIF discussion, let's move on with the posts

This 2008 looking building will really be an eye sore amongst all the other great buildings in uptown that people come from all over the world to see.

I disagree with the lady who said that as the city evolves, downtown will be just one of several multi-use centers, and not a "dominant downtown" as it was in the past. Of course it will never be as dominant as it was when Post Oak was a country road, but the idea that downtown is destined to be on the same level as the Uptown, Memorial City, Woodlands Town Center, etc., just doesn't wash. People in Gen. Y crave a return to authenticity, and these new developments will never have the authenticity that downtown does, no matter how badly the tunnels and parking garages screw the place up. I have given tours of Houston to a lot of people from out of town and out of country, and downtown simply registers with them in a way utterly different than the Woodlands Town Center, which leaves them cold. The theater district, the historic architecture, the sports stadiums, the bayou, the 150,000+ jobs, and the transportation infrastructure are here to stay. Proof of this is the number of residential units that have been built and sold surrounding downtown in the past ten years. Glaeser mentioned 3,000 units in Midtown planned for delivery within 24 months, and that doesn't include "EaDo" (still think it's a silly name), Wash Ave., Montrose, etc. What do these neighborhoods have in common? They're all next to downtown. No other multi-use center in our area has generated such interest. It is a magnet drawing people towards it, and the only reason the residences and retail haven't come into downtown itself is the prohibitive price of real estate, which won't remain a barrier forever. In the short term, I look forward to seeing the post office site redeveloped. This could add hundreds or more than a thousand residents to downtown's doorstep, and as the city controls the land, they can (hopefully) make sure it's done right.