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  1. jfre81
    They look like they're fairly well-off by homeless standards then.
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    I usually see more people walking around the rail stations than anywhere else so....yeah, he just might be on to something.
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    That's got to be from at least the mid-80s because there's Hakeem Olajuwon in a Rockets uniform on the brochure showing different attractions (Hakeem represented the Summit) Hopefully this might be the start of something good on the south side of Downtown.
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    Well, it wasn't a bad building when it was new and I like that wall on the south side. Maybe if that wall faced the freeway it wouldn't look so bad. But....what can you do? It's just kind of embarrassing to have that kind of highly visible blight right there next to the gleaming CBD but I guess that stuff happens.
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    I took Metro and walked on West Gray, right in front of the New York Pizzeria, with the car parked at home. I actually walked there from Wheeler Station. This city is full of lightweights.
  6. jfre81
    Now if we could find a sucker for the other eyesore on the other side of the Pierce...
  7. jfre81
    Why not another CVS? That'd make it three on South Main between 610 and Braeswood.
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    It's no more curvy than the part of the Red Line when it switches over from Fannin to Main, is it? I don't think it's going to happen, but rail on Westheimer all the way down would be awesome.
  9. jfre81
    Yeah, I was referring to Rice Military. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. I was referring to the ones off Washington near Heights Blvd...
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    This is it. The place is there. Apparently they ended up saying "Yes way, Jose." If I start a Tex-Mex place it'll be called Pendejo's. The envelope has been pushed...
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    It's about time. The NYT may well be getting it. A far cry from the NY Post "This Place Is A Hellhole" headline during the '94 Rockets-Knicks NBA Finals...
  12. jfre81
    Is this the Rise Lofts we're talking about? Are these the $300K townhomes that are right next to a freight line? No thanks....not for that price.
  13. jfre81
    I've only eaten at the one in Texas City (my hometown). I left wondering what all the fuss was about. It's maybe a step above Casa Ole, which to me is a little like eating frozen "Mexican" food from Kroger.
  14. jfre81
    There are loads of these downtown, mostly abandoned/homeless squats. There's one on the Savoy block and one on the old Holiday Inn block. There was another one with a gold dome (WaMu?) on the corner of Leeland and Travis across from the Exxon building, but it was torn down about a year or so ago.
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    My mom has told me about Uncle John's before; she says she thinks it burned down and was not rebuilt (sometime in the 1970s). Before my time...
  16. jfre81
    God forbid any chain restaurant be left out of the mess that West Pearland has become.
  17. jfre81
    MLK was indeed South Park Blvd.
  18. jfre81
    I hope they do something good with the Ben Milam and have it be a model for what other abandoned downtown properties could become (e.g. the newer Savoy building).
  19. jfre81
    Because if you don't vote for me....the terrorists will have won!
  20. jfre81
    This is what needs to happen, and if it's secured properly it should be a whole lot better than what we have on Main in Midtown right now. It would be great for everything - and everyone - around there.
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    Actually I was thinking that would significantly raise values making it probably worthwhile for developers to pick up land along the Red Line like that before everything else gets built, bringing in even more potential retail customers. But apparently the developers are waiting for some price drop? Don't really see how. I suppose I was asking that in a rhetorical sense. I'm all for expanding transit here....
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    OK....and they might get it for cheaper when the University Line and the others open, bringing in loads of people from other parts of the city into Midtown?
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    Why don't they build a retail center in the open space around the corner from this project from the HCC building, right there by the McGowen rail station?
  24. jfre81
    Keep Montrose Queered!
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    I walked by this a couple weeks ago but it was too dark to get a good picture.... Something like this needs to go up downtown. It probably wouldn't, because not enough people live there, but not enough people live there because there's no retail. Somebody needs to take the initiative. Something like this on the east side of DT would be awesome. As it is, when (if?) this goes up it ought to attract some business from the people who do live downtown.
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