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    I was under the impression there was only the one guy with a very limited tool box involved in the whole project since it restarted.
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    Downtown needs a Waffle House. It would be a glorious sh_tshow, but I'm pretty sure you could keep it in the black with its own YouTube channel.
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    If Craneville comes around, that's a whole step change in development, but I echo what everyone here says. I'm 45, when I was a kid in the 80's my step father owned a family business that was located more or less directly under were I took that last picture at the corner of Jackson (now ADLA, sort of) and Polk. The Park Shops were at the outer reaches of downtown a few blocks away, but before (and even for a while after) the GRB, that area was nowhere anyone ever wanted to be.
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    Ooh, I like this game. Can Kingwood be SoPoNoRi? (South of Porter, North of the River)
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    Do bombed out old hotels count? Asking for a friend...
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    It would be interesting to see this site's stats and how many hits it gets from lurkers. Stories like this probably get a "hey, that's cool" kind of reaction from the mildly curious if/when they do a search to see what is going on, but these stories strike me as something you have to actively find rather than something a news company would want to put in front of its audience in these days of rage clicks, pooled reporters and reduced local coverage. On this and a zillion other topics, there are places on the web to find the precise facts about what someone with a niche interest might find relevant, and slogging through a journalist's interpretation leaves you worse off as often as not.
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    Finn's choices were pushing it on price even before inflation got going. DT workers might go there a couple of times a month, but it would have drained the budgets of most cube dwellers. I tried nearly all of the first group of stall vendors, and I only really enjoyed the Korean place. The Mediterranean-ish place, the one in the corner closest to Main (Dish Society?), and the burger place were all more expensive than something equivalent or better quality wise that you could find within a five minute walk. The pizza booth didn't last long at all, I'm guessing because of the rent. Pizza is cheap to make, hard to justify the extra charge. Then DT evacuated for a year. Maybe someone will figure out a better formula there.
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    Here’s an even worse shot of the sign…
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    Agree. It will make a great backdrop when facing south. The ES was very boring, but being set back as far as it was, you had the gap of the parking lot providing the frame for that side of the park as much or more than the ugly box when you were over there. This parcel and the others immediately across the street really add to the atmosphere of the park. The Avenida promenade, The Hilton, Marriott, Hess, OPP and the new Parkside tower give us a nice scope and scale to round out the field of view.
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    I like it, with this and the new Skanska buildings, DG will be in a big bowl of large structures, which is a unique effect of urban parks.
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    Beginning to get the feel for how DG will look once the ES is obscured.
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    I'm interested to see what they do for the playing surface. I know NRG has hosted CONCACAF matches and other "friendly" high end exhibitions, so they seem to have solved the "trays of green mud" approach used a few years back with the Texans.
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    Ii it possible that they have had to discount the Main facing units compared to the others due to the constant noise from the light rail? Better windows may make them as quiet as the other units.
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    Not that I'd go to the ES for lunch, If someone made a decent omelette downtown not at gouge the travel budget hotel prices I'd be all over it. There was a place in the Aris food hall (Bravery?) that made good ones, but that operator either flipped concepts or moved out.
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    Nice. This would "complete" Texas Ave/St from the new Jones Plaza/Wyatt Square to the ballpark, unless you count the parking lot that used to have the B.U.S. bar as a net minus.
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    How many games in each city?
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    My unscientific observation is that there are some pockets in the tunnels that seem to be fully "back", but overall, while you always had a lot of turnover in the shops, there are a lot more empty stalls than there were historically with only a handful of new places opening. I'd guess there will be consolidation with the successful places getting concentrated and fill their empty holes while the other locations find some other alternate use. The remaining open/accessible places are doing well, again in spots. The pan-Asian food court under the Jason's Deli at Main/McKinney is frequently jammed as is the expanded space under Pennzoil and the new BofA building does good business, though a few of the stalls did not reopen after Covid. Allen Center seems humming along just fine too. The HC shops are a hot mess, The area around the former Beck's is almost completely dead, and Chase tower is down an Alonti and a pizza shop but up a Brown Bag Deli.
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    The elevators in 3HC/Fulbright Tower will get you closer to CFA if the guv takes you up on the offer, but you'll have to eat in the skybridge. The usability of this place is drastically reduced at the moment, the few shops hanging on there must be getting a massive rent break to bother staying open in a place that can't handle what they signed up for in terms of access to and amenities for their customers. I'd imagine that they were pretty close to shutting everything down completely.
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