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  1. rechlin
    And this land purchase was approved yesterday (the 24th): https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/government/2024/07/24/george-r-brown-convention-center-to-expand-with-purchase-of-new-land
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    One thing helpful for keeping the world safe for the blind is tactile pavement. Houston doesn't do a very good job of this, but some cities try very hard to accommodate the blind with tactile paving in all high-pedestrian-traffic areas. It seems most common in Japan but I've seen it used fairly extensively in parts of the UK too, and some US cities use it also. This means putting different textures on the sidewalk to indicate things like intersections and ledges and things like that. For the ledge at rail stations, the pavement is supposed to have an "offset blister" pattern. MetroRail mostly gets this right, but several stations incorrectly were built with regular "blister", where the dots are on a regular grid instead of rotated 45 degrees. Last week Metro finally replaced the panels with the correct offset blister pattern (now in bright yellow) at Wheeler Station, which was one of the stations with the wrong pattern. Thank you Metro for finally addressing this thing that has annoyed me for many years!
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    Exterior looks almost done now. The sign on the front identifies it as "St. Andrew's Children's Place".
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    That's because very few phones support it. Only a few models of the Galaxy S series, like my old S7 and my current S20, can do it. So for most people it isn't possible. The cashiers are really surprised when they see it work.
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    All of them have it. Samsung Pay is unique in that it supports both NFC (the way iPhones do tap-to-pay) and also their own proprietary technology called MST, which works on anything with a magnetic strip reader. Just hold your phone up to the magnetic strip reader and it will emit a magnetic signature equivalent to swiping a credit card.
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    For what little it's worth (and I know this is waaaay off-topic), Samsung Pay has always worked just fine for me at HEB.
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    I keep forgetting to take a photo of this as it has progressed. Progress has been slow but steady since last year. First they added a whole bunch of large windows to the sides (previously only the side facing the freeway had large windows, with only a few tiny windows elsewhere), and now they've built out a big second-floor patio above the main entrance. There's a rendering at the ground level that I haven't managed to photograph yet, but it looks like it will be a nice improvement when done. Here's the current state as of today:
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    I know this has been photographed before, but I really like this one and wanted to get a better angle of it. Still need to try again when there are no cars blocking it, however. The Strongest of Us, 1306 Travis:
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    Wells Fargo Plaza seems to have suffered the worst damage from the storm. When I was looking at it earlier I thought the plywood was exposed to the elements, but when I looked more closely (especially in my close-up shot) you can see the plywood is actually covered in glass.
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    They've added a temporary support structure to hold up some new I-beams in the basement level. They also extend into the tunnel area: And the construction elevator is now almost to the top:
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    The newer buildings seemed to mostly avoid much damage from the storm, but this one was unlucky:
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    As I recall the circular glass inner facade is recent. I was briefly doing a project in that building maybe 15-20 years ago and I remember it being different. I agree, it looks great. The main Kinder Morgan building seems to have largely avoided damage from the storm, though their garage did not:
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    This suffered worse damage from the storm that I previously realized:
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    This one is finally starting to become visible to me too:
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    No movement on this yet, but I figured I'd take a photo to preserve the state it's been in for a while:
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