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  1. The condos are going to be at HWY6 I believe, not in front of City Hall. The building in front of City Hall is going to be an office building I think. Plus, it's positioned where the entrance road would go between that building and the Mariott, so I think there will always be a clear view of City hall from 59.
  2. Johnny Rockets is open now http://www.johnnyrockets.com/index2.php Looks like the italian restaurant is coming along too.
  3. I noticed there are some updates on the city's website. Including the land use plan. http://sugarlandtx.gov/sugarland/imperial/index.asp
  4. First Colony is Sugar Land though. First Colony is just a master planned community - an area of Sugar Land since the annexation. It's the kind of thing where you say you're from Sugar Land and then you add first colony as a qualifier if anyone actually gives a crap. Now areas like New Territory and Greatwood are differant because they're techincally not in Sugar Land - just in the ETJ. The thing is that a lot of people don't even realize that since the mailing address is Sugar Land and those areas techincally are not in any city. People from those subdivisions would probably also say Sugar Land because "greatwood" and "new territory" are not cities.
  5. http://www.pcdltd.com/ Not too many details out there yet. Just the same old renderings and such that have been there for over a year. I can see driving by it that the infrastructure is coming along and the offices are popping up fast.
  6. I know 2 of the structures are the "char house" which is the big building that's the main landmark, and the water tower. They're the only 2 I had heard about them preserving, but I guess maybe there are 2 more.
  7. I think the issue is that there were a lot of delays in working with the GLO to purchase tract 3. That was a conditions of development - that it would only work if they could get the big chunk of land next door. I just saw in the paper a month or so ago that they did get the land. Supposedly it was the biggest purchase in the history of the GLO. One of the local piece of crap Ft Bend newspapers was trying to get details of the sale under an open records request but they were denied. I bet we'll see something start soon if tract 3 is secured.
  8. Sort of what happened in all major cities. I've been reading this book called Privatopia that is the history of homeowners associations (a-holes). It's pretty interesting. The part I just read talks about how much damage the suburbs have done on all cities by moving a lot of the middle and upper class (and their tax dollars) out of the cities and into these little private suburban kingdoms. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through the book, but so far I'd recommend it. The funny thing is that it's 10 years old and everything it talks about is still true today.
  9. That area is know as Lake Pointe - http://www.firstcolonytexas.com/LPVillage.htm For some reason I believe also heard talk about a river walk around the Imperial Sugar redevelopment. That is if they ever get started on it. I believe the builder is having some trouble acquiring the recently annexed open land further down the road. https://svrch13.sugarlandtx.gov:5202/forms/imperialinfo1.htm
  10. I have only lived in Houston for 3 years, so apparently I never saw the Westwood Mall. I guess these places just look so similar that I confused them. I guess my bearings were off a little!
  11. I don;t know that area too well and I guess I just assumed that was the Sharpstown Mall. I mainly just drove over it on 59 and stopped there to go to Sears once twice in the 3 years I lived in this area. That was a mall until recently though, right? Even if I have the name wrong, when did it change? I was just shocked to see a place that was once a mall suddenly turning into a corporate center. I had never seen that before. Speaking of Town And Country - what did they do with it? Is it still vacant, did they bulldoze it, or will it too become a corporate center. Maybe a church, knowing Houston. hehe
  12. Am I mistaken or did the Sharpstown Mall recently disappear? I went down to Sears there last week and wondered why the parking lot was empty. It looks like it recently changed into the Southwest Corporate Center or something like that and Sears is the only retail tenant left. I didn't hear anything about this and was surprised when I noticed. What's the story?
  13. Astroworld was terrible anyway. It had to be the worst Six Flags park of all. Anyone that's complaining about it should have went there a little more often, spent lots of money, and kept it profitable. I'm just kidding, but I'm really not too upset to see it go. I bought a season pass lsat year and only went twice since the park was so bad. A bunch of their rides were hand-me-downs from other parks.
  14. It only says it's a retail center so far. I have no idea who the tenants will be. Although I believe one will be The Home Theater Store. About a year and a half ago there was a press release saying they were building at that site. However, something makes me think that they'll be a stand-alone and not in that strip you see at the corner.
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