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    Rebekah Townhomes At 2100 Taft St.

    in Montrose

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    Space X chooses Texas for Spaceport

    in Other Texas Places

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    http://www.dallasnews.com/business/business-headlines/20140804-billionaire-musk-chooses-south-texas-site-for-spacex-launchpad.ece

     

     

    SpaceX has chosen a South Texas site to build its planned commercial rocket launch facility,Texas Gov. Rick Perry's office said Monday.

    Texas is offering $2.3 million in incentives to SpaceX from the Enterprise fund, the governor's office said. The state is offering $13 million from the Spaceport Trust Fund to the Cameron County Spaceport Development Corp. The Spaceport Trust Fund is used to support the development of infrastructure necessary for establishing a spaceport.

    Founded by billionaire Elon Musk, SpaceX plans to build the world's first private, commercial vertical rocket launch site. The proposed South Texas site — which is at Boca Chica, a remote beach surrounded by wildlife areas about 20 miles east of Brownsville — had been competing with sites in Florida and Georgia for the launch facility.

    SpaceX getting the state incentives money is contingent on approval of local incentives deal, the governor's office said. The facility is expected to create 300 jobs and bring $85 million in capital investment into the local economy.

    "SpaceX is excited to expand our work in Texas with the world's first commercial launch complex designed specifically for orbital missions. We appreciate the support of Gov. Perry and numerous other federal, state and local officials who have partnered with us to make this vision a reality," Musk said in a written statement. "In addition to creating hundreds of high tech jobs for the Texas workforce, this site will inspire students, expand the supplier base and attract tourists to the south Texas area."

    On July 7, SpaceX cleared a Federal Aviation Administration environmental review for the Texas site, which some experts had said was the final key hurdle for the Texas site.

    SpaceX will continue its NASA-funded launches at Cape Canaveral in Florida, but Musk envisions a commercial spaceport focused on business from companies and foreign governments as well as space tourism.

    SpaceX is expected to continue building its Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy rockets at its Hawthorne, Calif., plant, but Texas officials hope the next generation of larger rockets will have to be built closer to the launch site because they will be too big to transport long distances over highways.

    In 2013, the Texas Legislature changed the law to make it easier for SpaceX to operate in Texas.

    Under the new state law, SpaceX could launch rockets up to 12 times a year, mostly between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., but not on weekends or holidays unless the company can show local and state authorities that scrubbing a launch would cause significant business consequences. At least one nighttime launch would be allowed per year.

    “Texas has been on the forefront of our nation’s space exploration efforts for decades, so it is fitting that SpaceX has chosen our state as they expand the frontiers of commercial space flight,” Perry said in the statement.

    In the region near the proposed launch site, at Boca Chica Beach in the state’s southernmost tip, two of five residents live in poverty. Leaders of the border town are seeking to make it as well known for space travel as Houston, home of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

     

    Richland Companies Planning Mixed-Use Headquarters

    in Downtown

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    From the Bisnow article:

    "Richland Cos is planning a new mixed-use HQ for itself, and it’s bringing in major star power. Here are Richland execs Suzanne Klein and Edna Meyer-Nelson with world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid (sitting) and designer Vladimir Kagan discussing the building plans in Miami recently. (She's the architect of the distinctive stadium for the 2022 World Cup.) She's also the first female and the first Muslim architect to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize (equivalent of the Nobel Prize), and has been named one of the most world’s most powerful women by Forbes and one of our most influential thinkers by Time."

    http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/2260-why-you-should-get-into-seniors-housing/

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    Mixed-Use Development At 7200 Main St.

    in Going Up!

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    What is that Mixed Use Development on Pgs. 136-37 of the HOK book in the link above? It looks a lot more conceptual (and thus much further from development), but the book did say that it was to be located in Houston.

    Nothing serious. Pickard Chilton also has its conceptual renderings of this. It suppose to be an outline for a 50 year-plan. Metronational seems to be the client, I guess this means they will develop the area throughhout the years.

    Pickard Chilton:

    http://www.pickardchilton.com/mobile/urban_mp.htm

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    World Cup 2014

    in Sports and Stadia

    Posted · Edited by TowerSpotter

    No way! Holland is very tricky, they have a specialist for penaltys and only comes out for penaltys. On top of that Robben is such a faker, throws himself on the ground whenever he has a chance to. I don't like the way the Netherlands play. I hope they lose against Argentina.

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