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  1. Highway6
    It's not faster for me to have to input the fruit code, since I don't know it by heart. It's not faster to have to wait on the one employee who has dominion over 8 self checkouts to come okay my alcohol purchase. Having never worked in a grocery store, it's not faster for me to scan items. I haven't done it a thousand times and learned how to hold each item so that it scans on the first pass. It's not faster to not have someone else bag my groceries while I'm paying. It's not faster when i have big items that I have to move off the bagging area to make room for other items and I get the "Return your item to the bagging area" warning. This is a welcome change. Random Tangent Time I also hate when I go deposit a check at the bank and the teller tells me I can just do that through an aTm. a ) No i can't.. Burned once, depositing at a BoA aTm.. never again. b ) How stupid can a teller be to encourage the use of their machine replacements ?
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    I'll give you one guess as to which Kroger this article is referring to.... For those of you who haven't visited Disco Kroger recently, In addition to removing the self-checkouts, they've set up an express-checkout area that works very well, I think. They have 1 line set up that leads to 6 or so mini-express checkouts that are similar to, say a CVS counter. No converyor belt. Not enough counter surface for some greedy bastard with over 15 items. Overall, I'd say it's just as fast as the self-checkout, but I've never been fond of them anyways.
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    It looks impressive and seems like the kind of development that would draw in others. I wish them luck in raising the money for this.
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    This was mentioned in another Midtown thread.. but figured a new project needed a new thread. Swamplot just broke a story on a new Arts Center planned for Midtown, about a block north of the Ensemble Station. 90,000 SF 3 story Owner/Developer - Independent Arts Collaborative, a consortium of local arts organizations — including Fotofest, Diverseworks, the Houston Arts Alliance, Musiqa, Suchu Dance, Opera Vista, Catastrophic Theater, Nameless Sound, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, and Main St. Theater.
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    It is ugly.. but i think demolished would be worse. Unfortunately for us.. this particular architectural gem that we love is a retail store. Not a museum, not a church, not a house... just a string of stores. Retail is business and signage and rents really do matter to landlords and tenants, more so than style. So that leaves us out of luck for having loved the wrong piece of architecture. River Oaks is a lost cause. It will have ceased to be special once the transformation is complete. Will that stop me from shopping there occasionally.. no. Is ugly, boring, and a reminder of a beautiful center better than gone.. I think so.
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    I'm still waiting for hcbu to explain how he thinks the AAC is progressive design.
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    Take away Dallas' compensating big screen and sliding wall.. you have a bland stadium with some bad seating.
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    Reliant was the first ever football stadium with a retractable roof. Conservatism ? I think you misspelled "cutting edge' there amigo. NBA stadiums.. of all professional stadiums, they are the smallest and have to be fully enclosed. Usually the only defining factor for new arenas is how much glass do they have on their front facade. Compared to MLB and NFL stadiums.. all NBA arenas are conservative and very few stand out. AAC went retro with the bricks and arches and detailing.... the whole concept of going retro in sports arenas is now 20 yrs old, since the opening of Camden Yards.. so they aren't even original in their style copying and attempt to appear American classic. More progressive than Houston.. I think not.
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    We should also buy him a parking spot up front for a year... I'm sure they do that.
  10. Highway6
    More interesting is page 2 of this recently released Metro document from the opening post. They are showing future rail expansion beyond current Phase II development. They are showing future rail ( not distinguished between LRT or CRT ) from the Phase III plan according to CTC - Sunnyland, East End and Southeast en line extensions to Hobby.. But the biggie.. they are also showing a brand new line - prolly CRT - that leaves the downtown intermodal station, goes out Dowling past the new soccer stadium and out of town along 288. This was not one of the possibilities last we heard from Metro concerning CRT.
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    30+ pages of s3mh vs the world. Why the hell is this b!tchfest of a thread even still open ?
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    Does the city even care one way or the other about Greyhound being in Midtown ? Just seems like to me, Midtown (the mgmt group and the residents) will get a lot more out of it if Greyhound decides to move than the City does.... and since the city is going to have to be the one to fork over the incentives..... does the city win?
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    I don't see the point of this game. It would cost the city and the tax payers in order to buy off Greyhound with enough incentives to move. BUT.. since this game is already being played..... I think access to the rail network and a Metro TC is much more important than freeway access. If your typical Greyhound user had a car, he wouldn't be needing a bus in the first place. Freeways are mostly used for express busses to bypass the local streets, if you look at the system map, you have essentially one bus crossing 10 at almost every major exit and no local buses running parallel. For any given site on 10, you'd only have access to 1 bus line. I think the idea of incorporating Greyhound into a Metro rail/bus Intermodal facility is the right way to go. I just wish people would stop talking about Greyhound like an object to be moved as if we the people or the city has that control. Greyhound would have to be presented with a plan, better (partially Metro funded) facilities, and financial incentives because they have all the power in this situation. I'm sure they are perfectly happy with where they are. Also.. where's the incentive for the city here? Wherever Greyhound moves, there will still be increased crime. They'd just be moving responsibility for monitoring it from one police district to another. Midtown ( the mgmt group and the residents ) and the City are two different groups. Would it be financially worth it to the city to appease one group by moving a problem elsewhere ?
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    One of the guns in this guy's procession was stolen property from a Houston resident, and this guy has been on the run since October from a shooting incident in SF.... and You blame the cops for not letting him be ???? There are ways to legally carry handguns. Without a license is not one of them. On public transportation is not one of them. Loaded in a duffle bag is not one of them. The cops acted responsibly and one less menace to society is gone..... and gone by his own choice, his own hand, may I add.
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    Problem is.. Grayhound is a private entity. Greyhound relocation isn't up to the City, isn't up to the midtown mgmt district, and isn't up to all their neighbors that don't want them there. From Greyhound's perspective.. why would they want to move ?? It's not like they would escape the several square blocks of crime that they help generate. Do you think they have an iota of civic pride in them and see it as their duty to constantly move to blighted parts of town as to not halt the forward progress of upcoming parts of every city in which they do business... of course not. For their customers, They are ideally located next to a major metro transit stations and rail line. Seems like the only way they're ever going to move is if they are offered major incentives by the city either with a land swap, tax break, piles of money, etc. But again.. that would be an offer, not a command. It's up to Grayhound if they want to move.
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    This topic was started yesterday... Calling Merge Fairy! Come in Merge Fairy! http://www.houstonar...town-phase-iii/
  17. Highway6
    The call was almost an hr ago.. and chron, kprc, and khou are reporting nothing yet.. so hopefully it is nothing.
  18. Highway6
    You should probably consider a name change, amigo - TheOmNicheEnt
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    As snarky as Niche's reply was.. I think he's right. The location you mapped wouldn't make sense - They would have to be on Gray or Webster for that much retail to make sense. I think the old Houstonist article is correct - on the 3 blocks right next to Post II - bounded by Webster, Gray and Valentine And Holy @!$@.. streetview is working for the first time in a yr. Well, that was a fluke. Nevermind.
  20. Highway6
    Ok.. Not happening. Very sad indeed, so rooting for the Grizzlies. Shane Battier's house on HAR - http://search.har.co...HAR74931484.htm
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    Since I don't get over there that often, I look forward to Frank's booth at the Sicillian or Italian Festival every year... Italian sausage poboy.. its like culinary Christmas.
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    The Chronicle had an article on the building this morning - http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7512279.html There will be a ribbon cutting and open-house for the public this Saturday. The following was nice to see, it appears the City, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, and Gensler were all working pretty close together on this one - After the construction of the Congress street bridge along the building's north side is finished, stairs will connect the center to a new path alongside Buffalo Bayou. That may seem insignificant, but the collaboration between Gensler and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership is "hugely important" in the scheme of how cities connect, suggests Downtown District executive director Bob Eury. Without that stairway, he said, the opportunity to extend the bayou-scape that now dead-ends at Baker Common, the verdant tip of Sesquicentennial Park, would have been lost.
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    Weren't they planning on expanding? Has this already happened ? Haven't been there in a few years.. great stuff though.
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    I don't think the developer knew what he wanted his tenant mix to be when they started that project. They have leased to way more restaurants than they initially planned for. They had numerous issues with additional plumbing and waste needs... all made the more difficult because the slabs were prestressed, so they couldnt just drill all willy-nilly to add 2nd level plumbing.
  25. Highway6
    Bridge is open
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