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  1. Actually there are more residences closer to Bayou Place. I lived at the Rice Lofts and walked to the movies at Bayou Place among all of the other places around that part of downtown. There are other lofts within blocks such as Hogg Palace, Sabine Street, Franklin Lofts, St. Germain, Keystone Building and several others on nearby streets. I just wanted to point that out. I'm not sure how the Pavillions will do, I guess we'll have to wait and see. I work in a building one block from the Pavillions, so I can tell you that there aren't many restaurants in this part of downtown. We have the Park Shops and a few little quick casual restaurants in the tunnels, but there are only 3-4 actual restaurants to have lunch meetings or take clients to. We usually have to go to the other side of downtown. Some decent restaurants in the Pavillions are much needed.
  2. Yeah they are fundraising machines, too bad they seem to do that more than interesting exhibits. One of their last shows featured dog portraits. How interesting...
  3. Between beds and showers, downtown provides wonderful amenities. The best is the Roman Baths across from Cabo on the southeast corner of Travis and Prairie. There is a stand-up shower and a tub there.
  4. A friend of mine did the PR for the opening of BoConcept furniture on Westheimer a couple of months ago and their things look really nice and modern. It's in Highland Village where Surprises used to be. It's Sweedish but more upscale than Ikea obviously.
  5. Like Roche Bobois, Ligne Roset on Kirby has beautiful things but is definitely high end. Didn't sound like that was the route you wanted to go, but the thing about furniture is that you keep it for some time. It's not like a seasonal fad like clothing so sometimes its worth the cost and the wait. Two months isn't that long if you love it. We get so spoiled and want everything instantaneously these days. Your friends will understand that you have a bad ass sofa on back order during your first couple of parties. Pull out the lawn chairs and be done with it:) At least no one can spill.
  6. I'm not sure but I think I've seen some Fingers store over by U of H off of the 45 feeder. Is that it?
  7. You're right about Marshalls, also don't forget TJ Max, they have furniture too. They had some modern chairs that went with the sofa I bought from Storehouse and were really inexpensive. I can't believe Storehouse is closed! I didn't realize that. Damn, that was a good store. Glad my house is complete, furniture shopping and house decorating is tiresome and expensive. GOOD LUCK!
  8. I've bought some nice pieces at Storehouse Furniture by the Galleria on Post Oak and Westheimer. Pretty good quality, modern and not cheesy and decent prices. It's better than Ikea but it's no Cantoni.
  9. Demoliton of the Allen House is soon approaching in a couple of weeks but one pretty cool thing about it is that the developers have teamed up with Historic Houston to preserve some of the finishes like doors, fountains, hardware, etc from the old Allen House apartments to be recycled and used for other projects (Habitat, etc). Channel 11 (Doug Miller) did a story on it 2 weeks ago this Friday as his last on-air piece since he got a promotion and is now "behind the scenes." On another note, about 50+ architects from all 5 of the national firms who are collaboratively working on the project and the developer got together in Houston a couple of weeks ago for a "design charrette" to make final design decisions on the new Regent Square mixed-use project such as brick, windows, etc. From what I saw it looks really good and is going to be a very unique "PEDESTRIAN FOCUSED" development.
  10. Yes this service has been around for a long time. All publications offer reprints for articles. I use this service all the time for articles I place in trade publications or stories that were written about a client or when a client gets quoted, etc. In addition to advertising, this is how they make their money. It's really a professional service to companies, etc who need quantity to distubute. P.S. $90 is cheap. I just spent $2,500 to get 1,000 reprints from a national healthcare publication.
  11. It's looking more like September. I have a meeting this afternoon to talk about the groundbreaking. I think your idea is interesting. What if the rail connected to Memorial. Like from downtown/midtown up through Dallas and connected to Memorial then to Uptown? Interesting thought. What a nightmare though construction wise.
  12. Wow, it's like an Indian Disneyland. A little on the cheesy side to me. There is an icon to click on that says boat ride. C'mon!
  13. THANK GOD FOR THE TUNNELS!!! My office is on the opposite end of downtown where there aren't many restaurants. I also have several client meetings over on the other side as well. Anyone noticed that it has been raining for a month!!!??? I would have been screwed without the tunnels. Aside from the rain, being in a suit I would be drenched in sweat by the time I got to lunch or a meeting, then drenched again once I got back to the office. Besides the fact I don't have to smell piss and deal with pan handlers like I do when I walk on the street. Thumbs up for the tunnels.
  14. Or the street before it, Prairie, trying to get on Memorial at 5. It's a cluster f#$%. Closing any of these streets would be a disaster.
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