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    fence around the property, hopefully they get started!
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    Just a run of the mill red brick apartment would have fit in really well and would have been timeless. As an unfortunate stucco owner this is seriously very dumb!
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    I kind of feel you @downtownian - i know there are constant calls for a target downtown but having just survived a quick trip to the one on Sawyer, I think the days of the big box target store's are numbered. Picking up on your comment, an Amazon GO store where there is no checkout. I will start the calls for one of these to pop up!
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    There are some great old buildings still hiding out in Midtown on the East side of Main Street. Hopefully as the Aussie's tower goes up , they will be re purposed from urine stained sleeping sidewalks to more of what you have described. Great prose by the way. I feel like I was there!
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    looks good!
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    HAIF's favorite question - will they fix the sign? LIGHTITUP!
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    I would prefer the non fortress, but advocating for forced ground floor retail seems very un Texan and extremely un Houston.
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    I would prefer the non fortress, but advocating for forced ground floor retail seems very un Texan and extremely un Houston.
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    I think we can all agree anything but the two vacant blocks is a net positive for this side of Midtown. I struggle to accept why the GFR crowd needs it to be on the ground floor of every residential project. I get the allure , I get what kind of streetscape it provides but I don't know how you could look at this project, next to the bum infested greyhound station, a few blocks from the shadiest Mccidikkies in Houston and pronounce that it's a damn shame there is no GFR. I haven't ranted for a while , this feels good! I want @MarathonMan to pretend you are the developer, go spend an hour at the McDonald's parking lot, then picture those zombies all around your vacant GFR space two blocks East and you now know why the developer didn't decide to put the space in the first place. There is plenty of vacant and filled retail a few blocks East https://www.google.com/maps/place/2117+Chenevert+St,+Houston,+TX+77003/@29.7441786,-95.3648786,3a,75y,129.25h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sme-XxYxsSCboEsMpAHMp5A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640bf10d2829d87:0x210a015cef4f4004!8m2!3d29.7439049!4d-95.3645547 Free market economy, when the area demands it GFR will come or likely come next door in a strip mall of other form.
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    I guess they could have been prepping for demo but caught at that light coming off 59 - they looked like they were prying fake shit off the walls like sears in midtown - taking the faux stone work off im confused - will see what’s up next week
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    Doesn't appear to be a knock down - what's going in here? I am confused I know there are those cheesy apartments but I thought those were a block north?
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    This one is getting very tall. It was tough to predict how big it would look because the lower floors blended and couldn't get a good count. I will send a pic from my driveway but this one is going to stand out big time in the neighborhood!
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    yall herbivores need to take this conversation off line. lol
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    My fam and I ate at Cafe Saigon vietcajun crawfish over the weekend - walked to the park after this part of midtown is gonna be so different soon. maybe the crime stoppers building can even take down their fenced in park in a few years ! Armed seal security was working hard patrolling the new park on golf carts - no bums anywhere to be seen.
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    CVS signage is up, appears to be coming together.
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    Clock tower is cool
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    next to the holiday inn / days inn & the metro bus station, what neighbors to have!
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    Drive past the garage everyday on way to Creme - it's looking better! I'll try to post pic later
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    Does anyone know if the major underground work at Elgin & Travis was planned or came about due to new construction on Whole Foods? There is a gigantic excavator on site and it's a huge inconvenience at rush hour.
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    Checked out the park last night, security was out in force doing a great job, keeping people with dogs off the hill and no bums to be found. Park is very well done , you can't help think about the Aussie Tower across the street and how different it will feel once completed. I remember when it was just that field that free press was in for a few years, big change!
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    Tell me more about this mystery trailer? @Fitch
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    SYSCO
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    ha - will whole foods offer GROUND FLOOR RETAIL?
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    @KinkaidAlum I will back down on HACS and I really didn't mean to single it out. I do agree it's all about the location location location. To me it seems every page on this post is a new outreach, medical or service building a new headquarters. I'm officially hoping off my soap box. I believe in both sides of Midtown - here's to praying for our Aussie getting financed and Central Market taking over the WF on Elgin and Smith if WF did pull out.
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