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    And this side of downtown or anywhere in downtown, frankly, could use places like this: https://stagprovisions.com/
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    I think that the buildings that I mentioned above would not be in the correct orientation from this vantage point. the best tool that I have found to use to help me visualize is Apple maps 3D view on an iPad. Really helps me to “see” the rough angles.
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    I can’t say . But, from the relative positioning of the Gulf building and the Eperson building, I would guess that this shot may have been taken along maybe Bell or Pease in what now would be the area maybe just inside 59?
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    At the rate they are going, they will be finished building on Tuesday, have their occupancy permit Wednesday, and the first tenants will move in Thursday. wow.
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    How about an urban Target concept? I think at it would be smashing there.
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    The physical logistics of building a building that on this site will be impressive to watch. Safely Navigating the turns inside that finished parking garage up to the 11th floor will take until Lunch. i am thrilled that this project is coming out of the ground (hopefully) very soon.
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    We’ll just have to bribe the Roach Coach driver for excavation status details!
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    With this being a hotel, any ideas or known plans on how they intend to handle guest parking?
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    This is a cool shot...... why? Because of what I think is missing........ isn’t the building that now contains the Le Méridien not yet built in this image? It looks like there is ar three level brown building there...... and, I wonder what building this image was taken from?
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    I have similar concerns but I think that convention goers will flock to the place. If the theme is as described above, the place seems to me to be designed as a caricature of what Houston might have been like at one time (but never really was?). However, that image is in the collective imagination. As such, I think that many conventioneers will flock there to experience a “Texas Honky Tonk”........ i also think that it will attract the before and after sports event crowds and also the before concert crowds (imagine a Country western act at Toyota...... this place will be packed to the gills before the curtain). is the enough to prosper? I don’t know. But I am glad it’s coming.
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    Fair point. I guess that if they expanded, they could do both and perhaps they might choose to sell only “healthy fresh” foods along with the new “health services” and other healthcare /grooming items.
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    With CVS announcing that they are buying Aetna and then wanting to use their stores as “neighborhood health centers”, I wonder if this store (and its “take away food” concept) will survive as-is or will it be quickly branded into a “health center” after the merger is complete and drop the food concept??? I guess that we will know in a year or two......
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    It won’t look like a medieval fort when they are done. Of course, without the arrow slits, it was kinda useless anyway. So much for having those walls strong enough to ward off cannon fire. The new place will actually look inviting from the outside!
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    Great to hear!
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    Ah! Thank you for this. I understand now.
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    What does “TAS concrete” mean? ...... just trying to learn......
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    Bravery sounds great. I’m excited! it sounds like they could have saved a bunch of flowery prose and simply said, “it will have multiple ‘lunch counters’............”......... what’s old again is new.
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    More curiously, is that snow on the roofs of the houses? Perhaps that “blizzard” was why this image was taken?
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    Well, at least the companies that make synthetic stucco will have a good Christmas knowing that a big order might be coming!
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    Perhaps a few but all I see are empty.
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    Taking a walk through downtown these days shows countless “newspaper/alt paper distribution kiosks” that have long ago been abandoned. The city needs to rip them out and recycle the steel. As of now, they are simply industrial flotsam and raise potential security issues.
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    Interesting. The archive shows that in 1950, they may have also occupied an adjacent building (now a taller parking garage). Thanks for posting this.
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    iOS. Redirecting to google Walmart thingie. CAnt use site
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    Good to see Rustic starting!
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    I can’t see how.
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