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    Trees are being removed! I’ll try to take photos this afternoon.
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    I saw a truck and crew doing some kind of soil sampling on this site over the past few days. Anyone heard anything about this moving forward?
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    I passed by this morning and snapped a surreal photo:
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    Swiping more news from /r/houston: https://www.texascentral.com/posts/design-build-contract-signed-with-salini-impreglio/ Some excerpts: Also from the PDF press release: EDIT: @102IAHexpress and I posted the news simultaneously 😁
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    Sharing some content from /r/houston: The above links to a cached ABC13 article: Associated video: https://abc13.com/video/embed/?pid=2311749 And TCR Press Release regarding the news: https://www.texascentral.com/posts/another-major-milestone-for-your-high-speed-train/ Another post also shared this Japan Railway Journal episode about the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw41m2pE60U Rather dull but learned about the various Shinkansen design iterations with a perfect safety rating for over 50 years.
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    Another editorial against the TxDOT plan in the Houston Chronicle: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Widening-I-45-will-be-a-disaster-for-Houston-14417614.php
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    Took this over Labor Day weekend. I haven't seen many shots from this angle.
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    Earth moving equipment on the site of City Centre North (along I-10 Frontage Rd) spotted yesterday. Something in the works?
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    New Houston Chronicle article yesterday: Houston’s long-range transit plan could go to voters without some specifics
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    New article in the Houston Chronicle that I haven't seen posted yet: Massive I-45 rebuild has big opposition to overcome, from air quality to flooding to low-income housing displacements It is a $7 billion plan aimed at easing traffic by adding managed lanes and redesigning I-45, but worries of further displacement, flooding and air quality linger as the project moves ahead. EDIT: Try this link instead: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Massive-I-45-project-will-remake-Houston-freeway-13999092.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HC_TexasTake&utm_term=news&utm_content=briefing
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    Good find! Exciting news. I hope Khun Kay Thai finds a new home in those 2 stories of ground floor retail.
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    And finally the last building comes down... Taken earlier this evening.
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    There goes the next one... Sorry the photo isn't better.
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    Snapped this from Katy Freeway today.
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    They are now tearing down the buildings in the block described in my previous post. Phase 3 coming soon? I'll try to snag a pic.
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    I visited CityCentre yesterday early afternoon and noticed chain-link fencing surrounding the entire block of old office buildings just north of the development. The tenant signage had been mostly removed and the buildings looked vacant. It is the block identified as Phase III in the plan below. Anyone have news on this going forward?
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    http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/05/09/exclusive-namesake-tenant-to-vacate-downtown.html
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    Now if only we could have our elected officials do the same.
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    Just a thought: This campus has been advertised as a "research" campus. The qualifier indicates that the campus would not function as a traditional four-year university. It follows, then, that the campus would not compete for undergraduate admissions. It may plausibly attract some local graduate students or faculty who might otherwise choose UH. However, academic recruitment at the graduate and faculty level typically draws from a national or international pool of applicants, especially for highly-competitive, well-funded departments. Anyone familiar with the academic job market will know that there is a surplus of highly-qualified graduate students, post-docs, and faculty in the United States and abroad. The University of Texas System has access to tremendous resources (probably inequitable access, as some have noted) in the PUF, which has only grown larger thanks to the fracking boom. They are proposing to invest these otherwise untapped resources in Houston; recruit a national pool of talented, yet underutilized applicants to Houston; and presumably bring greater federal and private research grants to Houston. This is intellectual and financial capital that would simply go unused or go elsewhere. The end result should be more academic faculty, more highly-qualified students, more research dollars, and more capital investment in the Houston area, all in addition to the important growth occurring at the University of Houston. The centers of innovation in this country were preceded by a concentration of top-notch academic institutions and subsequent growth in the knowledge class: Silicon Valley and North Carolina's Research Triangle come to mind. Why can't we have this, too? And I say all this as an Aggie. Now, would it be more sensible to instead simply share the PUF more equally? Perhaps. But that's a separate, if germane, discussion.
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    Above link without paywall: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/State-reps-ask-UT-to-step-back-from-Houston-6692292.php?t=dafdd51b46&cmpid=twitter-premium
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    Curious about the origin of the name "Temenos." Surname? Street name? Wikipedia doesn't offer many clues, except perhaps this: Any holy groves or rose gardens in the renderings?
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    <Edit: Removed redundant link>
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    I bet it teleports you to our city's other transdimensional portal atop the Memorial Hermann tower in Memorial City. Now that's how you beat traffic!
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    Rosemont... Montrose... Coincidence? I don't think so!
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    Awesome. Thanks for the tip. Do we know when this theater opens?
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