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Affordable Housing Development At 800 Middle St.


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Work has started, crew is creating an equipment entrance at Freund St. at Middle St. Which I think is a bad place to put it since all the streets are tiny and everyone parks on the narrow streets. They should create an entrance on Kennedy St. at Middle St. since it's a straight shot in to the property.

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Pin drop is where they are creating the entrance.

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So I talked with the NRP site superintendent, he said it will have a precast parking structure using a crawler crane to assemble. The apartments actually have a name, "The Point at Bayou Bend". At some point they will doing sewer and water hooks up that will require closing Middle St. to traffic. He said they will be having up to 200 trucks a day bringing material to the site. 

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So...I know nothing...and I love infill and affordable housing and housing in general and hate wasted space and the sprawl it leads to...but uh...can somebody just convince me that I shouldn't be worried about flooding when it comes to this, East River, the one across Jensen from East River, Warehouse District, etc.?

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2 minutes ago, 004n063 said:

 I shouldn't be worried about flooding when it comes to this, East River, the one across Jensen from East River, Warehouse District, etc.?

None of these places flooded during Harvey which was the bellwether to judge projects in the area.

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18 hours ago, hindesky said:

This poor concrete truck got stuck cutting the corner too short. Luckily he had already dropped off the concrete.


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That's never a good thing. There was an 18 wheeler that did that somewhere near the Heights a few years ago and lost a wheel on the trailer that ended up killing someone

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"The Pointe at Bayou Bend" aka 800 Middle. Google Maps has it labeled as that too and early on when construction was starting the site superintendent from NRP Group invited me in to his construction trailer to talk, he told me that was name too. He said they still call it 800 Middle amongst themselves but the official names is "The Pointe at Bayou Bend".

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The start of the parking garage.

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Google Maps.

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When he invited me in his trailer he let me take a pic of the site plan he had on the wall.

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Good updates.  Man even that site plan could be improved by having some Discovery-Green-style-lowrise afterschool program snack and boat and bike workshop sheds on a central pocket green, instead of a proposed parking garage.  Not sure why they want to go and make "at Bayou Bend" a generic first draft ad copycat name when it is already a specific local museum name

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Talked with the truck drivers bringing the pre-cast concrete pieces for the parking garage. They said they are coming from a plant in San Antonio on the north loop 1604. It's called Bexar Concrete Works and not the one by IH 10 near Six Flags.

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