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I was at Porsche North Houston a few months ago. They didn’t have any 911s, Boxsters or Caymans. I was told to get a new 911 would take about 6 months.

I remember he had the half of Chapter 9 with Feeling Like a Stranger on it for $300! Rebels was a rare one too? I don’t think I ever got a copy of it.

33 minutes ago, SMU1213 said:

Hanover is burying the power in front of their development. I'd imagine that anything like the above is temporary but who knows. 

I’ve been watching them work on the infrastructure for burying utilities for a long time. It’s all there. I just wonder when it’s going to be used.

1 hour ago, Kim Brown said:

https://www.hanoverautrypark.com/

 

So it’s no longer a hotel?

8 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:

Demolition permit issued for the Cullen Residence Hall at 810 Marston St.

The building is coming down now.

I can have an Uber at my front door in less than 10 minutes.  Why would I ever ride a train to the airport?

2 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

So you think the Mandolas are ready to close all three of those restaurants?

If I owned the land and the businesses I would shut them down and sell it. The tax appraisal is pretty low and I’m no expert but I figure it would sell for 4 to 10 million. 

There’s still a lot left to gentrify!

Tickets and concession sales are the key to saving it. Everyone who wants to save the theatre needs to give them some business.

I walked by it yesterday. No activity. 

There was a crew removing material from the former America’s location today.

How many flights from Houston to Dallas and back can you buy for $30 billion? 

You guys have me interested in finding out who this guy is.  

Guess I’ll look him up.

6 minutes ago, mollusk said:

 

Having a grocery store within walking distance is dandy, but not necessarily something to be "enjoyed" on a daily basis as a park like environment would be.

I have one within walking distance but rarely ever walk there. 

Glad to see this closed. 

The brochure seems to be gone. Did they already take it down?

Edit: just noticed the “updated” brochure was in a post from 2.5 years ago.

Another tower crane has been erected on the South side.

58 minutes ago, West Timer said:

 

More people are coming to grips with new realities and

Are now realizing that we are just

Going to have to adapt and 

Adjust to having much, much less in the future.

We Houstons never knew how good we had it

All along. But now we

Should really think

About preparing for life without a lot of things we used to 

Help ourselves to without having to consider the consequences.

Our decisions and future

Actions now could hurt us by

Xmas if we keep making excuses for believing excuses.

There comes a point when the solution is worse than the problem. I’m starting to think 2% of the population dying might be a sacrifice we should make. After another month of this we might be very close to social unrest caused by economic issues, not medical ones.

Downstream projects that are currently under construction are considering long delays and staff reductions now. We could be seeing massive layoffs in about 3 weeks. This is about to start getting very, very bad. I never thought I would see multi billion dollar construction projects that are underway grind to a halt.

I figure that question was about construction sites closing due to the virus. From what I’ve read construction workers are exempt from lockdown. I live close to regent square and can see the crane from my window. They appear to be working today.

On 3/11/2020 at 9:39 AM, X.R. said:

 

It has been expressed, by the Uptown management group, to a client of mine in the galleria area that the BRT is supposed to alleviate that "Oh crap" feeling almost completely during the normal course of the year, and quite a bit during Christmas. My initial thought tho is that all these entities, Uptown Park, Galleria, the Whole Foods Development, the Dicks strip, etc, are possessive enough about their parking that I don't know how happy they will be that people will park at their place, initially go into their store, do some shopping, put stuff in the car, and then get on the bus to go to another development. If the BRT can somehow elevate the general experience of going to the galleria, primarily by helping congestion or parking, it would be a big boon. And those businesses, including the Galleria, that sat through the construction deserve it. 

The traffic issues aren’t why I dread going to the Galleria. The whole place has a flea market vibe these days. 

34 minutes ago, H-Town Man said:

 

Although oil is down because of the coronavirus, so it really is ultimately the virus. Things might get real slow around this forum for awhile. I hope that all the projects expecting financing decisions soon will get them (TMC3, Laneways, Block 98, etc.), but the economy is collapsing and credit could freeze up.

 

The silver lining might be that if fracking gets killed in a price collapse, that could open the door for a revival in offshore projects in a couple years, which fills a lot more office space in Houston than the fracking sector does.

 

I would think pricing that kills fracking would super duper kill offshore.

The only silver lining I can think of, and this is a real reach, is that downstream could benefit from lower feed prices. 

A large crawler crane is being assembled on site today.

9 minutes ago, Specwriter said:

Last week I noticed the "marquee" on the front of Stahlman Lumber (facing Greenbriar) read that it was moving to Stafford. It seems appropriate to have a Porsche dealership in that location. There are several Porsche's in West U. and Southampton and many, many Audis. I wonder who patronizes the Porsche dealership way out the North Freeway. People in the Woodlands perhaps.

I live in upper Kirby and drive all the way to Porsche north Houston because Sonic dealerships are the worst. I’ve bought 7 Porsches since 2007. Sonic is so bad I’ll drive 15 miles up 45 to avoid them.