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    Dallas Childrens hospital moving a short distance to a new location, much as Parkland and St. Paul University Hospital, now Clements, did in the 2010s.
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    https://www.archpaper.com/2024/02/hks-perkinswill-dallas-revamped-childrens-health-hospital/#google_vignette
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    I mean, we already know that Houston gets tactically nuked in Independence Day, so a radio tower here and there is immaterial.
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    No, if you look on Stadium Drive along the banks of their bayou, you'll see similar bland four-storey buildings with acres of composition shingle roofing like Overture and Imperial Lofts. They even have their own waterfront silos at the sugar mill redevelopment site.
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    I don't know that the bedroom suburbs need to start so close to downtown either though. This is Sugar Land style living with the convenience of the inner loop.
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    NIBRT’s mission is to help the growth and development of the biopharma manufacturing industry by providing cutting edge training and research solutions. The Institute is based on an innovative collaboration between Industry, Government and Academia and opened its world class facility in 2011 in Dublin, Ireland. https://www.nibrt.ie got the "from outside Houston" part...
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    Stephen Fox: "The Camilla Davis and John H. Blaffer House was built in 1949 or ’50, not in 1940. It was next door to Philip Johnson’s Menil House. The Blaffers’ serpentine brick wall along San Felipe Road is still in place." indeed it is https://www.google.com/maps/place/3345+San+Felipe+St,+Houston,+TX+77019/@29.7477719,-95.4282155,3a,75y,269.72h,90t/
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    Wonder if Mayor Whitmire will revive Mayor Parker's idea of leasing 800 Bell for city use. In 2014 she was proposing a police and justice center for it. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/In-surprise-move-Parker-now-looks-to-lease-6047196.php#/0
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    Germans wouldn't dare to compete with Arandas Bakery, Panaderia La Michoacana, and all the kolaches, anyway. Nothing's lidl in Texas. I wonder if it was like when the big Spanish banks' leadership decided to hunt for growth stateside, and Banco Bilbao went for the Sunbelt while rival Santander went for the upmarket I-95 corridor. Aldi and Lidl leaders seem to have both arrived at analogous conclusions in a similar movement. And @HoustonIsHomeno I've never seen security guards at Aldis.
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    Not marked on the map in the Third Edition of the Houston Architectural Guide.
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    After Aubry left the firm [Barnstone & Aubry] in 1969, he finalized design on three of the partnership’s most important buildings: the Rothko Chapel (1971) and the Rice Museum and Media Center (1969 and 1970, respectively), all commissions received from John de Menil. Philip Johnson was the original architect of the Rothko Chapel but resigned the commission because Mark Rothko objected so strenuously to Johnson’s design of the skylight. It was Aubry who worked out the skylight design to Rothko’s satisfaction, obtained the artist’s concurrence on such details as the interior floor surface, and surreptitiously consulted with Johnson to organize the chapel’s site plan. -- Stephen Fox https://www.archpaper.com/2024/01/eugene-aubry-an-architect-of-late-modernism-in-texas-and-beyond-dies-at-88
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    The biggest obstacle to success in Freeport is not the infighting there, but the quasipublic quasiprivate Port Freeport, which wanted to redevelop everything east of downtown. Their past leadership was aggressive and somewhat effective in throwing friendly neighborhood threat of future eminent domain shade over property owners to suppress their property values starting way back in the 1990s. Their idea -- as I understand it -- is to create intermodal container tractor-trailer loading yards all the way up to Pine Street, hoping that future container traffic will be available and be sold on the idea of getting in and out without having to wait in line for access to the Ship Channel. But this is across the street from downtown and one block from the Park Ave. esplanade. And who wants to go shop and hang out by an industrial fenceline?
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    https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/office/skanska-pausing-us-growth-amid-office-market-challenges-122361
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    The jeopardy being that there are tax dollar rebates involved and other hotel occupancy is still subject to the tax mechanism, I assume. "Al Kashani, a real estate developer behind the proposed W Hotel downtown, asked that more hotels be eligible for similar tax incentives." Does that mean he is looking for more city-subsidized convention space opportunities for his hotel project?
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    "Dr. Dave Creech of SFA Gardens, Nacogdoches, Texas in cooperation with Dr. Yin Yunlong and the Taxodium Breeding and Improvement Program at Nanjing Botanical Gardens in China have developed and selected this highly improved kneeless Cypress that was bred from controlled crosses of the Montezuma Cypress, Taxodium distichum var. mexicana, and the Bald Cypress, Taxodium distichum var. distichum. LaNana Cypress, a.k.a 'T406', has proven to be the most popular of the resultant clones and has been trialed across much of the southern US." https://www.almostedenplants.com/shopping/products/c217-trees/
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    Looks like they were possibly the same size, around 27,500 square feet? https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-12-15-8903180243-story.html https://casestudies.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/C025014.pdf
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    I went to one in Chicago and the only place I had been in Texas that was anywhere remotely near that size was the Planet Music at Meyerland Plaza. I don't think Houston had a Tower Records.
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    #Ultralight beam
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    I don't remember what advantage monorail was forecast to have vs people mover or elevated train. Possibly it was some greater simplicity of maintenance to wear surfaces, plus some kind of superior future ability to be heavy rain and wind-proofed for regular operation during public advisory/emergency events. Train trestles are universally expensive so there may have been an idea that you could install a precast monorail span that simply spanned an entire six-lane intersection and be done with that.
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    Doesn't block access to the bayou, better view of the bayou, better insulation from grade-level traffic than it would have at grade on Dallas, and of course floodproofed. An el that went along Dallas to/from Shepherd and came back Washington Avenue would have similar traffic-skipping and overview-of-the-landscape benefits. A bus circulator following the same route would just be a slower and less atmospheric version of a streetcar system.
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    At some point it would be cheaper to build a monorail than a massive car cabinet per each and every single lot along Allen Parkway that we redevelop. 20 years ago there was a Houston monorail advocacy group. But monorails can't go the last mile all the places cars can go. But wait! Now that the downtown garages have empty space galore, let's just build the parkway monorail from Autry Park to Allen Center and everyone can store their automobiles right there (or board with their bikes from the Pierce Elevated Park).
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    By the rules of order, we have to have a motion seconded before a project can be officially jinxed. Does anyone second his evaluation?
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    West. The McKinney side of the 1926 public library building on Smith at McKinney is in the background at the upper righthand corner.
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    The salt marsh mosquitoes are considerably less aggressive in College Station
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    https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/construction-development/the-last-stop-for-americas-bus-terminals-as-hedge-fund-developers-eye-assets-122136
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