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  1. Pleak
    Here are the latest updates to the IAH construction. http://www.fly2houston.com/0/3920701/0/83280D83283/ Summary Terminal B Updates. Beginning Terminal D minor upgrades. A lot of utility and central plant upgrades (which really needed to be done).
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    Doesn't Houston Pavilions have a lot of available space........
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    No - they need to bring back Chester Charge, not some amorphous green blob. I seem to remember that he even had a cannon that he would fire.
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    Well I'm not sure if that's just lazy or stupid or both. If you are going to drive a 4000+ lb deadly weapon (just read the bicycle thread) you should at least have the mininum knowledge of your vehicle. And if it is remotely tall - you should also know the height.
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    And the 29 story residential tower being built at BLVD Place has a footprint of 1.2 acres from what I have read.
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    That's good to hear. It seems like Greenway Plaza area has been quiet for a long time except for 1-2 story strip centers.
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    Have you ever been to a tiny Texas town that would have absolutely no tax base to speak of?
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    And I thought it was wayward bicyclists causing gridlock in the Heights. Now it's 18-wheelers. Man - y'all have a lot of traffic problems.
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    It looks like they were working on the 17th floor when I counted on Monday night. After the eighth floor, it appears the floors are taller. I presume that is the end of the parking and the start of the actual office floors.
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    Do you own a wrecker? Because this is the best idea to keep wrecker drivers employed I've seen in quite a long time. Just imagine the fun of all the people on the West Loop craning their heads to see what is on the big screen and not seeing the car in front of them slamming on the brakes as it crests the hill at San Felipe. Golyadkin - you'd not only have a giant TV out your window - you'd have live demolition derby out the other side of the building also.
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    Thanks for the quick response. Makes sense. The traffic merging onto the freeway has to mix with and cross the traffic simultaneously exiting Chinney Rock. Whenever I don't take the bus in the morning, I exit the freeway there - it is always a take-your-life-into-your-own-hands proposition during morning rush hour. It also causes the Chimney Rock exiting traffic to back up the right two lanes of the freeway just at the Westpark curve. That whole stretch from Westpark to Newcastle has a lot going on in a short space.
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    Not sure if this is related to the rebuild plans or not, but at the northbound lanes of 59 over Chimney Rock - they have busted out the outside barrier wall and off to the side they have formed up the rebar for what looks like concrete support columns. It almost looks like they are going to add a lane or two to the main freeway lanes over Chimney Rock. Anybody know what is going on?
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    And Red, why on earth did you start a thread on needing a tile contractor? That must be one fancy outhouse you are putting in.
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    I think we have a picture of that action here...... http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=55692
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    So would Jabba the Hut exceed the weight limit?
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    Are those the blueprints to the Death Bridge?
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    There is an endandered chipmonk? Why am I just now hearing about this? This thread is totally useless without pictures.
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    Crane is mostly up today. It's as tall as it's going to get - just have to finish building the rest of it.
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    It might be a bit bland, but compared to what was there before - 8 story concrete tower from the 70's - which would you rather have? Plus if it really fills up with all these foodie restaurants like the press releases hint at and becomes a destination for great food - will anyone actually care if it was the world's tallest faux stucco monstrosity?
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    And was there an offsetting uptick in upemployed orangutans lurking around Midtown and the Greyhound Bus Station turning an otherwise pristine neighborhood into an urban jungle?
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    I was looking at it more from a cost point of view. Comparitive cheap price of land in Houston vs. cost of a super-tall tower (which 70-80 floors is pushing). Nowadays, Houston has become extremely practical and I think more land (which we still have an abundance of) would be used over extra height. Unfortunately - for the tall building nerd in me.
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    I most profoundly apologize. I shall now scurry back to the dim recesses of the Sugarland and the Southwest Forum.
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    It took just under a year to rebuild the I-35 bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. That was something like an 8-10 lane bridge and 1200 feet long. I realize that the big ditch by the Heights can see extraordinary currents - but are you really comparing it to the Mississippi?
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    It would be really cool if a straight extrapolation of those numbers would mean we were going to get an 80-story hotel. Unreasonable, but cool.
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    Or one like the big air freshener on top of the Memorial Hermann building at Gessner & I-10.
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