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  1. kylejack
    Under The Volcano? No, not a tiki bar.
  2. kylejack
    All new construction should have sidewalks along the public right-of-way, Q.E.D. all new construction should be in a walkable area, especially inside the Loop.
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    Totaling them: Hampton Inn, Homewood Suites, Hyatt Place, Marriott Marquis, JW Marriott (806 Main), Holiday Inn (Savoy building, maybe still speculative) Anything else?
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    806 Main has white wood or some similar material going up on the brick. The Texaco building doesn't draw many homeless, not nearly as many as, say, the convenience store at Main and Walker, where the Commerce Towers are thriving.
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    Work requires permits. The permit process is slow.
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    Yes, Ladybird is a welcome respite on Thursdays.
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    I figured they were just using Battelstein's for access into 806.
  8. kylejack
    Fortunately I do not believe in ghosts and would therefore never need to disclose the presence of one.
  9. kylejack
    Wow, you really are in a bad mood. As I said earlier, the taco idea sounds great. Funny you should complain about reading comprehension.
  10. kylejack
    Yes, they've peeled off a ton of the gunk and a lot more brick detail is visible. Most of the upper areas are being painted with the green paint. Base coat or something?
  11. kylejack
    The trouble with good kolaches: Not enough demand. Much as I'd love to have a Hillje's or Prasek's quality kolache in the tunnels, they don't have hundreds of people stopping through like those places do. This low demand and the pressure to provide a good selection means you have to throw out a lot of kolaches at the end of the day. Kolache Factory is resigned to this and sell theirs for half off after 2 PM, but are still left with plenty of spares. So with all that waste, that means to break even with a higher quality kolache is to raise prices significantly. But not too high or you start hurting your demand. Not optimistic that it would work.
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    First of all, premium burger joints tend to stay pretty busy during the lunch hours. Now if they're getting by charging a higher margin, why would McDonald's benefit from charging a lower margin? Besides, the surface McDonald's by the police station already does stay busy all day. Not like they need another location for possibly higher rent. Only certain spaces have a vent hood installed in the tunnels, and installing one where one doesn't exist is expensive, hence all the cold cut shops. Thirdly, McDonald's sucks.
  13. kylejack
    I think your taco suggestion is the most likely. Some of the others have execution issues because of the limited hours they have to sell.
  14. kylejack
    Danielpwills must be happy Gertner's closed.
  15. kylejack
    I prefer Secret Squirrel's photos.
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    Agreed
  17. kylejack
    You keep two dollars for every one you give to the government out of your $400K income. Seems fine?
  18. kylejack
    Whenever it gets spent, it is counted against your income. You're playing a shell game of trying to make it seem like $400K is really only $100K year after year, but whenever you spend that $300K on an investment in your business you get to discount it from income for the business. And besides, your original premise is about spending that money on capital investments, so you're not saving it to spend it later, you're spending it now. In the hypothetical, that is.
  19. kylejack
    Revenue and income are different things. Capital improvements, maintenance, and expenses (and depreciation, and lots of other things) are claimed against income. Capital investment losses can also be claimed against income.
  20. kylejack
    Why are you so worried about "being on welfare later" if you're in the top tax bracket? Only the top bracket pays 20%, everyone else 15%. That is, people making over $400,000 a year.
  21. kylejack
    No, you had $150 of income, not $100.
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    Working link http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.houstonchronicle.com%2Fbusiness%2Farticle%2FOld-Savoy-Hotel-to-be-Holiday-Inn-flagship-4577185.php&ei=8UOvUce1A4SlqwGat4HgDw&usg=AFQjCNGNJbEYcOkhz_KryCNmayOoM6uCKg&sig2=S57-V2RAFxUML1CEFlMBcw&bvm=bv.47380653,d.aWM
  23. kylejack
    Sarcasm is usually when you say the opposite of what you truly believe for effect. Like "Oh yeah, I'm sure I would have found that hilarious to see a handicapped person falling. :huh:" So whether or not it was sarcasm, that is for Red to say. Tone doesn't transfer well over the inkernets.
  24. kylejack
    I got some awesome mandarins there a little while back and they were delicious.
  25. kylejack
    Pavilions is a far more hostile pedestrian experience than that corner. There are no exterior businesses at all. If you choose to walk down the center area, there is no way to cross the street without jaywalking unless you walk back to the corner. You have to zig zag your way through the complex like this if you wish to walk past the open businesses. I don't condone street harassment of a "hey baby" manner, but asking for money is just free speech at work. I believe there is still a sign next to the tree on that corner saying not to feed the pigeons. Anyway, a little bit of perhaps not ideal walking retail is better than none!
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