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  1. They had a few signs up for "Bridge Event Parking" on Monday, at the bridge and on Harvin Blvd. I thought there was supposed to be some sort of event on Monday, but I couldn't find any listing about it from the city, and there were heavy thunderstorms all day Monday. Apparently there was an event Tuesday? But the bridge won't be open until "fall" which isn't too helpful. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/bellaire/news/6631528.html Funny, I remember the grand opening of the Westpark Tollway being rained out.
  2. I'm betting they have people in plain clothes who order stuff now & then to evaluate 'em. Also, my grandfather in his mid-70s was carded by a roving beer man at an Astros game once.
  3. I'm guessing that part of the unpaved part below is where they are going to extend Bertner through to OST.
  4. To the city limits, most of the time. And I only really refer to SW, Katy, & Gulf Freeways by their local names.
  5. I think getting more students living on campus is part of a long term attempt by UH to get students more involved on campus, and build stronger ties to the campus & other students that will result in a more active alumni pool.
  6. I heard from a "reliable source" of at least 2 cases in Ft Bend. Not surprising, Texas is one of the states with the most cases
  7. I haven't been latched to the TV in the full swing of swine flu fever, but I'd guess swine flu's been around, but this is a new strain that jumps from human to human much more easily than it has been able to previously.
  8. I'd guess that the answer to both of these would be Lakeview Elementary. It served as elementary, jr high, & high school back before more schools were built, and is smack in the middle of old Sugar Land.
  9. Per that article, isn't part of the size an effort to comply with state law? Sounds like they're being damned if they do, damned if they don't.
  10. Given that Bertner turns into Cecil, without looking at things that would seem like the road they'd build through. Also some of the posted building permits for one of the projects on the UT-HSCH road that runs parallel to Fannin on the south side of OST used Bertner street addresses for the site. But when you look at the satellite shots of the area, Selma would directly connect with that road and it look like it'd be much easier to get right of way for Selma than it would Cecil. At the moment they use Selma and the adjoining lots for parking for much of the construction going on in the med center.
  11. I know this topic is pretty old, but construction has started on the bridge. The supports & middle section are built but not connected to either side yet. The interesting thing is that there is a concrete beam at each corner of the bridge that closely resembles the pillars at one of UH entrances: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Un...45_entrance.jpg It also seems that Cambridge's bicycle lanes will continue across the bridge. The pdf linked on this page has a nice drafting of an overhead view of the bridge: http://www.bikehouston.org/content/view/326/2/ I'll try getting over there with a camera. This bridge will actually be fairly unique as far as the area goes.
  12. I found more text: Moody National Cos. is planning a 200-unit residential tower on 1.25 acres that it just bought in the Texas Medical Center. The $35 million Cambridge Tower will break ground in first quarter 2008 and deliver in early 2009. The developer picked up the site at the intersection of Woodbury and Cambridge streets in an off-market transaction with a local private seller. Brett Moody, chairman and CEO of the locally based development company, says he'd had his eye on the land to build a residential product targeting a built-in tenant base from the entire spectrum of the medical community, from full-fledged physicians and nurses to residents. The fact the parcel is situated within 100 feet of the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine's proposed 2.7 million square feet project is underwriting the project's potential as are the proposed rents. "We've projected rents at around $1.65 per square foot, with an average unit measuring somewhere around 950 square feet," Moody says. "We want to offer a lot of variety from smaller studio units to larger luxury units." He adds that Moody will manage and lease the tower. Cambridge Tower marks one of many projects that Moody is developing. It's also underway with the renovation of the 297-room Residence Inn-Medical Center/Reliant Park at 7710 Main St. Moody says there are more projects in the Texas Medical Center on his drawing boards for this year. "We currently control 32 million square feet of space in the Medical Center, with eight million square feet under development or in the planning stages," he says. "By early 2008, that will be slightly under 40 million square feet we have."
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