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    That's fascinating, although I find it hard to believe there was ever a serious proposal for that location. The first unbuilt one that springs to mind for that location is the Campeau Tower, but that would have been in south downtown.
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    Sears exists more as a real estate holding company that happens to have a lot of empty Sears and Kmart stores occupying the real estate. I don't think they are really that interested in operating retail and much as unloading the real estate. At some point the Midtown location will be sold for some other use.
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    News like this gets me a lot more excited about this project.
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    That is true. They were acquired by Chemical Bank. If that hadn't happened though I suspect their fate would have been the same as the others. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I think that Bank of the Southwest, First City and TCB ended up as part of today's Chase Bank, InterFirst and Republic ended up within Bank of America, and Allied part of Wells Fargo.
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    Note duplicate topics merged
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    Maybe this can develop into downtown's Parking District North.
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    Yea!
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    You are probably right. Second-tier malls like this are a dying breed. I don't know about potential for mixed use, but I could picture a large apartment complex on the site.
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    Note merged dupe topics.
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    This is just crap. Why are they giving a pretentious name like "One Market Square" to a freakin' parking garage? Is this really the best they can come up with for what could be one of the best locations downtown?
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    I have to admit it is a great location. Being in walking proximity of all that retail, River Oaks Theater and Kroger is going to be a big draw.
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    Removed in the topic about redevelopment into a Sheraton, since there isn't any appreciable progress or news about that.
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    It seems a bit disproportionate citing it for graffiti when the entire structure is such an eyesore. Nothing ever came of the Sheraton rumor?
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    If you look at the explosion of retail for the "upscale and wealthy" lately (River Oaks District, Galleria expansion, Kirby Collection, Rice Village redevelopment etc etc) it is hard to see how much demand there could be for yet another retail destination for the upscale and wealthy. Or maybe they feel they don't have enough choices, and I'm just blind to it.
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    Something like Target is the only thing I can see working. The days of the old-style department stores are quickly drawing to a close. I wouldn't want to pay incentives to support a business model that is going away.
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    Note Block 98 topics merged.
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    I had never seen the Arquitectonia proposal before. It is a shame that was never built.
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    I really like the Stinger. It reminds me of a Maserati Quattroporte somehow. And I like that they didn't go with yet another alphanumeric name. The Camry I don't get. This is supposed to be a regular ol' car for regular ol' people, and yet Toyota keeps trying to push the styling envelope with it. My guess is that the typical Camry buyer would be perfectly content with a sedate, boring design. That is the Camry heritage. The LS is OK, but that grill and front end just don't work.
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    I used to have meetings there back in the day and it was always nice, but a little dusty and dated. I always thought the Houston Club had a great design - very urban. Along with the Gulf Building that block on Travis was one of my favorites in Houston.
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    It is a nice design.
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    For a while didn't El Chico have a happy hour buffet thing?
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    Now that the structure has been cleaned up, you can imagine how when it opened in 1951 it must have looked like a vision of the future. This was the first modern-style skyscraper in Houston.
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    Didn't the Banker's Mortgage/Great Jones Building house a large menswear store back in the day?
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    Window awnings on southern exposure in Houston's climate make perfect sense. What I don't get is the point of having orange window awnings, except as an homage to mini-storage buildings.
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