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  1. sidegate
    Hmm, Sir Robert Armstrong might have called this being economical with the truth: "....Strong economic growth underway with exploding (sic) energy, medical and port industries...." Two of the biggest employers in the Medical Center are on an extended hiring freeze, and those are just the ones I know of. I guess there wasn't room on the flyer for that. Edit: Crunch you beat me to it, I'm a slow typer!
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    So is the original plan off the table entirely, to be replaced by this tower?
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    Research facilities (laboratories) have a fundamentally different layout and infrastructure to hospitals (patient rooms, theatres). If the interior build out has gone beyond a certain point it may cost more to reconfigure than to just tear it down and start over. This being H-town, there's even more reason to think that would happen.
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    Wow. Only last week they were announcing the possibility of layoffs at UTMDACC. I wonder how many people will get the boot so they can pay for this monster.
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    2010 is what I've heard from most talking heads and, possibly more significantly, from some financial academics....
  6. sidegate
    Well I'm not Rice so you probably know better but he did shut down Valhalla for quite a while after the Ike incident. Seems to me to reflect a willingness to hold people to the rules.
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    State felony if I'm not mistaken to impersonate someone else's e-mail address. I wonder if Leebron shares their sense of humor. I don't get the impression he would.
  8. sidegate
    Wow. That is big news. At least it would be if this weren't April Fool's.
  9. sidegate
    Based on the map in the Chron it would be Montrose Blvd itself
  10. sidegate
    The pan-Montrose Management District that's in the works will probably play a big role in what this looks like. This from today's Chronicle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took about six years to create the East Montrose Management District, but there
  11. sidegate
    Hey, where else are you going to get those frames for your old LP covers?
  12. sidegate
    I don't know how much character is left to be derived from the gas station, fast food joints and the abandoned Blockbuster. Anything of sentimental value - Ruggles, the Greek place, Mary's...is actually a fair distance away from the actual intersection. I think there's a lot that could be done here, not all of it necessarily bad. Edit: just re-read subdude's post - yes it certainly "used to" have character.
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    Didn't I hear Starbucks were cutting jobs - something like 1000 nationwide? I guess Houston must be one of their better markets if they are piling in here with more stores, and that intersection must have some of the highest concentration of disposable income in the city. Why wouldn't they fill their boots? Personally I don't see what all the fuss ius about - gimme a decent cuppa tea any day.
  14. sidegate
    I agree they could have done better in tying it into the hood but at least it's not a mini stripmall.
  15. sidegate
    There'll be a collective groan from the....er....hemp aficionados of Montrose if Liquid goes under the ball.
  16. sidegate
    Now that I think of it there is a little house/apartment at the back of Liquid on Hawthorne - the 1920s part per HCAD (thanks for the link).
  17. sidegate
    And I don't know where the residential is there either. I wonder what they have planned. What are sanborn maps?
  18. sidegate
    This in this morning's Commerical Real Estate section of the Chronicle "The Westheimer Montrose Center, a 13,350 sq ft center with retail and residential space has been sold......the property at 1417 Westheimer was constructed in the 1920s and has been renovated several times" Anyone know exactly where this is? I googled 1417 Westheimer and it came up with Liquid, the store at the curve, but that's hardly a 1920s building...
  19. sidegate
    Totally. It really is exhilirating.
  20. sidegate
    Brick, wonderful brick!!
  21. sidegate
    yeah i tend to think of St Arnold's as fall beers - too much complexity to be simply thirst-quenching. The Lawnmower is probably their best summer beer but there are less expensive options. Tecate, Carta Blanca, Modelo....all with an abundance of limes handy of course.
  22. sidegate
    At last a subject I can speak on with authority. Pacifico
  23. sidegate
    Oh, the blessed, blessed irony.......
  24. sidegate
    I've been having those more and more recently! Great pictures btw.
  25. sidegate
    I agree. There's a lot about that whole intersection that could be radically improved.
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