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    Is this new? I wonder why they chose that plot of land. Wait. This can't be new. There's an incomplete development right next door that appears to have been abandoned, and the apartment complex on the site of this development has been aggressively trying to attract new residents with promises of a month or two of free rent. Those aren't the actions of a complex that's planning on shutting their doors to make way for the bulldozers, plus I would imagine the undeveloped land next door would be less expensive to acquire.
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    Claim it's an extension of the GRB. Or loosely interpret the Pan-American Games bit to mean any games played across the Americas. Then we could get a public funded Jai Alai stadium too.
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    I know a lot about earth. If we can get an expert in wind and one in heart, then we can form a know-it-all Captain Planet.
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    One of the last remaining vestiges of Little Saigon in Midtown no less,,, Mai's proximity to the Firehouse Museum is almost disheartening in its irony.
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    Speaking of Helen Keller and sports... How do you drive Helen Keller crazy? Give her a basketball and tell her to read it.
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    I've got a couple shovels and a bag of plaster mix. Me and LTAWACS are all over this. You can sit this one out.
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    How many different ways have you seen people die? Should we be worried? Anyhow, if an elephant crushes someone, can we consider that a CONCRETE happening and therefore worthy of comment?
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    When you characterize Downtown as a pig, it's easy enough to dismiss any additional funds used to improve the neighborhood, but there are many of us who don't see Downtown as such. That said, I certainly wouldn't object to other places getting considered (the heart of River Oaks, for instance), but Sharpstown?... Also agreed with LTAWACS - No.
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    Downtown was the neighborhood that was most devoid of these things (until very recently). Downtown is the city's core but it had virtually nothing beyond office buildings and hobos for a good long time. And, Downtown is Houston's face to the rest of the world. Why wouldn't a new multi-million dollar park or museum or stadium go there? It's about putting your best foot forward and all. Look at the bottom of this page. What skyline is that in the banner? Is that Downtown? Or is it the Galleria or Greenway or the TMC or Greenspoint?
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    And here I thought I was the only employee.... Oh well, at least I still have my night jobs at Hunk Co and Strapping, LLC.
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    I know who that guy is. He's always talking to himself (sometimes screaming). Once I saw him walking around Midtown with his junk hanging out of his pants. To say he's got mental issues is an understatement. As a person of interest, does anyone know if he'll turn into a suspect, or is he just "of interest" because he's an eyewitness? If the latter, I seriously doubt any testimony he gives will hold up. If the former, I seriously doubt any testimony he gives will hold up.
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    Eh... probably not. The thing is, you people on the outskirts of town use the same services us COH residents pay for, so you should be taxed for it too. I have no sympathy for the anti-annexation zealots.
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    Great. Now I won't be able to get any sleep tonight.
  14. AtticaFlinch
    I care about Downtown. And, I can think of several compelling reasons to head to a central location for work. Primarily, though by no means exclusively, it makes relocating unnecessary if you move to another place of employment. That versatiliy, especially with today's volatile job market, makes for a more mobile and reliable workforce. Take, for instance, the subject of another recently started thread. KBR was planning on moving from downtown to the Energy Corridor, far out west, near Katy. Had they made that move, any KBR employees who lived in say Clear Lake or Humble, who until the move would have had a manageable commute, would now either need to move to get closer or quit and get another job. Neither are really viable options right now for most Americans. But, bully for you if you don't have the same problems. That said, Downtown being a destination for employment and not much else had sucked the life out of the area. It was a ghost town after five. Remember how people used to joke about that? The surrounding neighborhoods fell into decline as well. Our city's core was a drab (and rather depressing) reminder of the cost of sprawl. The revitalization, the investment, all those tax dollars - these things are being employed to make the area our citizens work become more enjoyable for the people to live and to play too. Even if you live in Katy or some other such run-of-the-mill suburban clone, your job and your home wouldn't exist there if Houston didn't exist here. Katy would be a cow town like Brookshire if it wasn't located near Houston. You wouldn't have a soccer team to root for if it wasn't for Houston. As such, why wouldn't you want to make an investment in the city your little 'burb has a parasitic relationship with. It's time you give back to a city that's given so much to you.
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    Cheaper land and they can specify the building designs to meet their specific needs. Plus, ten to one the corporate officers live closer to the middle of nowhere than they do to Downtown. I bet the only reason they decided against it was due to the current cost of money making prohibitive the borrowing to build.
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    Getting in, out and around Downtown and the surrounding areas is actually quite easy if you're familiar with the area. Plus, all those extra grid roads eases traffic congestion quite a bit. Traffic-wise, it's a much worse idea to put a new stadium smack dab in the middle of the two most heavily congested portions of 59 and 610 accessible only with a spotty suburban quality street grid. It's still better than Pearland, I suppose, though I'm more likely to attend a game if it's near Downtown. (Who am I kidding, I'm not likely to attend a game.)
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    Dude, seriously. HAIF isn't about sucking or pwning or failing or winning. And, way to make this whole thing about you. Get back under the bridge with the other trolls. You've complained that we aren't giving enough reverence to this person's death and then you turn around and hijack this thread, turning it into your personal angsty bitchfest? [deleted] (Sevfiv, feel free to delete that last sentence if you think it went too far.)
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    Whatever. Well, now I know how I'm an epic failure in your eyes. Thanks for sharing. Oh, by the way, I never once made fun of the trannie or called her a shim or assumed she was an addict or a hooker, but then, considering you'd actually skimmed through the thread to satisfy your curiosity about that, you must have made yet another broad (and false) stereotype. Also by the way, mine wasn't a grammatical critique, but rather a critique of your logic. So... fail. Try again.
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    You kinda suck for using the second person plural "y'all" (a contraction for "you all") without so much as carifying who "y'all" are. Because, you see, by not clarifying it, you made it inclusive of everyone who'd posted previously to you, thereby relegating all of us to suckness regardless of whether or not we wrote what you accused us of writing. In other words, you just did the exact same thing you've accused everyone else of doing: stereotyping even in the absence of evidence to support the notion that "y'all" assumed the trannie was a hooker or a drug addict. Welcome to the board, by the way.
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    The glass is anemic?
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    I hope this doesn't signal a return to the days of rampant hate crimes.
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    Who needs doctors anyhow? This guy can heal just about everything with a prayer and a laying of hands.
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    Thompson Elementary... wut wut. And north side! Hadda do it.
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    ketchup?
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    Here you go.
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