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    SEE YA LATER, SIDEWALKS.
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    It's from the Bayou Lofts (former Southern Pacific Building). For posterity, here is pretty much the same view from 1911. Pre-Rice Hotel. 622x350 South View 1911 by differentryana, on Flickr At the left you see what is now the Icon Hotel. That is Travis Street in the right 2/3rds. Market Square Park right next to it. I believe we can all still see Frank's Pizza.
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    Apologies for the crappy zoom, but they have the big auger bit stood up.
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    I was talking about Henke and Pillot.
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    Updates on two new places at 108 and 502 Main. http://houston.eater.com/2015/1/21/7867847/are-barringer-and-woosters-garden-owners-opening-bars-on-main-street#4649186
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    Employees at Franks confirm this is not for their space, which they think will kick off in April.
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    OOOH OOH THAT CRANE. https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/98750154@N03/16317917781/
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    BREAKING NEWS FLASH: Old dudes in suits are at this moment walking around the muddy parking lot, pointing at things.
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    Checked the place out last night. Very upscale. They are building out a rooftop patio, which they say will be where they will eventually be having party brunches. They cited classic pre-burn down La Strada as a reference point. The second floor will be finished into a live music venue with a capacity as high as 200. Impressive.
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    Oh. And sorry if the post above made you think a major grocer was headed to downtown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henke_%26_Pillot
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    Henke & Pillot (809 Congress) is having their soft open tonight. http://henkeandpillot.com/index.cfm
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    @mkultra - they seem a lot more like folks that got priced out of Brooklyn rather than people who moved there to be an artisanal food star on their parents dime.
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    I don't blog about traffic. I do live and own a business downtown, which will color my responses. Here are some great reasons to dislike the tunnels Zero data reception on your phone, and often no text or cell, in a labyrinth where you are trying meet people for lunch and no one can decide where to go, so eveyone just goes to subway because it's the only place who's name anyone can remember. Brooklyn Meatball Co. is so delicious that it being sealed off from the world at 3pm just plain sucks. In fact, sometimes I'll be thinking about those meatballs with that balsamic sauce and how it would hit the spot after having some drinks on Main street and then I'll remember that it is nearby, and even though there are lots of great retail spaces available just one floor up from where it is buried, it's down there locked in a cave and having one of those sandwiches for dinner is just a sad old man's dream and then suddenly I've wandered into Subway and am crying into a shitty meatball footlong.You know that if there is ever a zombie outbreak, it's going to start in the damn tunnels and some object that is required to save the world or whatever is going to inevitably end up being down there and you'll have to fight your way in and out to get it. SUCKS.They've got those flood gates, so you can't stuff paper towels in the running sink of one of the Subways bathrooms and flood the entire system, causing Pennzoil let you and your colleagues leave early on a Friday.The Chronicle won't let you use their access stairs unless you can prove you're a subscriber, and every conversation you have with them puts you at risk of their "accidentally" upgrading you to twice daily delivery plus La Voz. Mayor Holcombe's ghost is always down there throwing shit around and complaining about how they should have named Bissonnet Street after him. Dude is seriously the crankiest spector.Every now and then, especially during knee-high-boot-season like it is now, I'll be in one of the connecting tunnels and think for a second that maybe, just maybe, I've been transported to the world of Star Trek and that big smile comes out and then I round a corner and see a line at a Subway.
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    It appears they have performed the traditional scattering of sparkly gold heels on the parking lot. Surely groundbreaking is not far away!
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    As of Sunday.
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    GUYS THE SCENE IS DEAD.
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    Site status as of January 1st.
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    As of January 1st, 2015.
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    As of January 1st, 2015.
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    As of January 1st, 2015.
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    Project Update: January 1st, 2015.
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    As of January 1st.
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    State of the hotel as of January 1st, 2015 for future generations to marvel upon.
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    Projects as of January 1st, 2015. Convention Center Improvements. by differentryana, on Flickr The Greater Houston Partnership Building by differentryana, on Flickr Greater Houston Partnership Building by differentryana, on Flickr
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    For future reference, state of the renovation as of January 1st, 2015.
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