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  1. Andrew Ewert
    Glad to see this great building being rehabbed. Gotta say though, nothing about the concept really grabs me.
  2. Andrew Ewert
    Really would love to see the grand vision of the Bastrop Street Promenade actually come to fruition.
  3. Andrew Ewert
    Just window service. I'd like to see them put a couple tables out front.
  4. Andrew Ewert
    I sampled several of their pastries yesterday morning in their soft opening. They're the real deal - the almond croissant was especially good.
  5. Andrew Ewert
    They will just find some other way to fight it in court until it's bled dry, just like this one.
  6. Andrew Ewert
    Yes. Not sorry.
  7. Andrew Ewert
    I will forever hate the little handful of people who fought tooth and nail to kill a project that would have benefited millions of people and the environment.
  8. Andrew Ewert
    Ahhh so they finally got around to publishing these things BEFORE the meeting took place 🙄 I had given up after like a year of trying to get information out of them.
  9. Andrew Ewert
    How did you manage to get an invite to the meeting?
  10. Andrew Ewert
    There already is one shortly before Wheeler. It's what I currently have to use. As a pedestrian I can tell you it does very little to inspire confidence. HAWK signals are pretty horrible from an information design perspective. Most drivers are only sort of tangentially aware of what they're really supposed to do with them and I've watched people speed through them countless times. The placement of that HAWK also causes a bunch of problems as it often conflicts with traffic backed up at the Wheeler light, and together with the fact that parking is allowed on Fannin, turns that whole area into a visibility nightmare.
  11. Andrew Ewert
    As someone who works at Ion, the only part about this sucks and appears to have no planned solution - walking from the parking garage to Ion in the rain. It's a problem with the current temp lot, and the garage will be even a block farther away. It also sucks having to cross a busy Fannin twice a day at rush hour. I get there will be a whole campus this garage is servicing, but having it so inconveniently located to your flagship building is kind of a bummer. Ah well, at least now that things are starting to cool down a bit I can go back to biking.
  12. Andrew Ewert
    The flyer now also lists "Eternal Beauty Salon Park" as a tenant next to Mayweather. Google doesn't turn up much information about the business, although interestingly it already lists 1102 Delano at its address.
  13. Andrew Ewert
    My experience with Hobby has felt worse each time I've flown out of it recently (which I do ~10-15 times a year). I'm sure some of it is pandemic staffing etc, but the food options are meager and for anything take-and-go that isn't Subway, you'll be waiting 20 minutes to get something. And then you won't be able to find space at a table. I've mostly stopped trying to eat at Hobby at all. Additionally, with every gate servicing a flight round the clock, there's almost never enough places to sit while you wait for your flight. I will give them that their operations are always extremely smooth, usually very on time, and getting around the airport isn't hard. But the experience of the time spent there is less than stellar and desperately in need of upgrade.
  14. Andrew Ewert
    One more little easter egg reminder of the train track gone.
  15. Andrew Ewert
    I wonder if that means building out the route between Dallas and Fort Worth first to start generating revenue while it then gets extended down to Houston. Not a bad idea, but just puts it even farther in the future.
  16. Andrew Ewert
    It's tacky, but a good tacky. I love it.
  17. Andrew Ewert
    Is it going to be the whole complex? I thought it was just the one building West of St. Emanuel but it looks like I was wrong.
  18. Andrew Ewert
    No - I just meant that a nice big multifamily residential in the area might finally bring enough density that HEB wants to come here.
  19. Andrew Ewert
    May this be the thing that finally brings us an HEB 🙏
  20. Andrew Ewert
    Tangentially related, but I've been really frustrated with the EaDo Management District. I've been interested in listening in on board meetings and potentially getting involved. I've called and emailed multiple times for information, but they always say they'll follow up and then never do. The website is always out of date. I even offered to help run the website for free (this is what I do for a living) and they said they'd follow up and then never did. I was able to virtually attend one meeting a long time ago and that's all the luck I've had. Is anyone else involved or go to/listen in on these meetings?
  21. Andrew Ewert
    There goes my dream of a full Night Shift reopening
  22. Andrew Ewert
    FWIW, I've also heard this through a grapevine... which may if traced back far enough be the same grapevine as yours, who knows. Also FWIW, Bobby denies it.
  23. Andrew Ewert
    Imo, judging someone to be disingenuous requires a much greater familiarity with a person and their beliefs than you're going to get on an internet forum. Automatically tacking anyone online who disagrees with you as disingenuous is, at best, a very weak position to argue from. If your position is strong, then take them at their word and debate the merits aboveboard. It's incredibly short-sighted to assume that others cannot possibly genuinely care about something that you yourself do not.
  24. Andrew Ewert
    Couldn't possibly agree more. It's horrible.
  25. Andrew Ewert
    I mean it certainly hasn't been transformed overnight, but every year you see fewer and fewer homeless people in the area, I think. "Problem"? I don't think I can say it was ever really that disruptive to me, except for maybe trying to get donuts at that Shipley or something. But no, in the immediate vicinity of Ion it's not so much of an issue now. I just wandered in there a couple weeks ago and someone was happy to give me a tour, you may be able to do the same. It's on the first floor off the public area, so you shouldn't have any problem getting to it.
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