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    If there's coffee, I'm there. It's nice that there's so many coffee options downtown, though I wish more of them were open later, since sometimes I like to sit in a coffee shop with a book and decompress after work. I noticed lately that Campesino is open until 9pm. I really thought it was only open until 4pm. Maybe it's a sign that business is doing better.
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    The Museum of Fine Arts Houston turns 100 on April 12, 2024
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    The boast is off by an order of magnitude. $76 million ≠ $760,000,000, even in real estate.
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    I've wanted to stop in a number of times, but I'm always on the other side of Fannin, so I use the little non-denominational meditation room on the second floor of the outpatient center.
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    The Chronicle says Federal Grill opened last weekend. Looks like just in time for all that juicy oil industry convention expense account money. Pro: The red umbrellas give a good pop of color to a fairly sterile space. Con: It doesn't seem the kitchen vents to the street, so no free smells like when you walk by Morton's.
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    The stylized caduceus is interesting. It doesn't match the rest of the building. I wonder if it's an artifact from a medical building was at this location before the parking garage was built.
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    Looks similar to a parking garage near where I once lived. Here's the Apple Maps street view: This one was built for the IBM Center (Now a Langham Hotel). Perhaps it's the same architect. Certainly looks to be the same era.
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    This may be HAIF's first four-star review for a parking garage!
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    That is kind of cool. Maybe for emergencies? I know a medical facility out west where the employees are always complaining about the quality of the drinking water. I should send one of them this photo.
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    Pre-cast concrete rarely ages well without a lot of maintenance. Especially in moist environments, like Houston.
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    Care for the concrete, and let the landscaping die. Very Houston!
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    I saw this mentioned in the Chronicle the other day. Sometimes it strikes me as weird that the federal government has to pitch in to fix things that should be basic city services, like sidewalk repair.
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    I wonder if that tower was built for future expansion. I've seen buildings where all of the pipes and elevators and other utilities are put in a tower like that in order to maximize the floor space for the office. They build the tower to the height they aspire the building will achieve, then build enough office floors to pay for the tower. In time, when demand was high enough, the remaining office floors would be added. This was more common back in the 1920's — the adding floors part, not the utility tower part. But in the 2010's I watched a building built in the 1980's to 36 floors expand to its original design height of 64 floors. Around the same time, a building a few blocks away built to around 18 floors in the 1920's gained another five floors to reach its design height. I guess some buildings take longer than others to grow up.
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    If Houston has an online GIS system, you should be able to find the Marlborough Drive address. In some cities, you can click a plot of land on a map and it shows you a list of all the legal and alternate addresses. But I haven't looked for Houston's yet. But for now, I think use the current building's address just so it can be mapped.
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    Possibly. It likely depends on if it's operated by the Medical Center, or contracted out to a private company to run. But speaking as a Medical Center frequent flyer, if I ever got to the point as a patient where I needed monthly parking, that would be truly depressing.
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    Ugmo. Looks shiny and new, but hopefully it will eventually be demolished and replaced with a proper building.
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    Thanks for posting those. Coincidentally, just a couple of weeks ago I was looking for this park, but couldn't really see it on the street views. I wish there were more parklets in the Medical Center to sit in between appointments, or just as a refuge when you're waiting for someone or get some bad news. I saw an episode of 72 Hours a few months ago where a hospital converted the roof of one of its parking garages into a park for doctors and patients and visitors. It would be nice to see more of this sort of thing.
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    That's an interesting idea. I've seen mini-roundabouts in tighter locations than that in other cities, so maybe it's possible. But since there's so much pedestrian traffic, there would need to be some lights or other means of causing traffic breaks for non-motorized traffic.
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    I assume you drove there, but do you have any sense of how far it is from the Red Line? One of my doctors might move there, and I'd rather change doctors than have to take an Uber down there. (If I'm visiting this particular doctor, walking is difficult, and driving is not an option.)
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    Works fine on my devices, including an iPad. Checked with: MacBook Pro (M2) MacBook Pro (2018) iPhone X iPhone 14 Pro Samsung Galaxy (an older one) And various combinations of AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, plus Safari, Firefox, and Duck. Seems to be something with your iPad.
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    The Houston Super Neighborhoods Map has it as Greater OST/South Union https://mycity.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e87cdc21ac3a43ecb2cdf2c31d75ca8e#!
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    So they serve word salad. Yum!
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    As for "sneakiness," Highrise Tower has the same right to change his online status as any other HAIFer, including you. And I'm not sure how it would be "sneaky" since there is a record of every change made to the thread. It makes sense to me that it would have been put into Holy Places, since at the time that was what it most recently was, and the future plans for the location were not yet clear. Now that there is an indication of it being something else, @Triton is correct to move it to the Heights section. If construction starts on something substantial, it would make perfect sense for it to then be moved to Going Up. This is HAIF, not a Tom Cruise film. Not everything is a conspiracy.
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    I think Exxon or Chevron is doing the same thing. I read something in the Chronicle about it buying a bunch of convenience stores and the fast food chain attached to them. The name escapes me, but I've seen them elsewhere in Houston. So maybe this is Shell's version of that. But I like @HNathoo's EV charging station idea much better.
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    It makes me a bit sad to think that all downtown Houston can aspire to is gas station tacos.
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