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    They painted over the graffiti.
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    So I was talking with a guy from Embassy Suites who I assume was a manager, he mentioned that Skanska was going to remove the huge Oak tree across the street in the parking lot and move it to this project. It will supposedly cost them $150,000 to move it.
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    Astros Playoffs Ceremony at city hall, guest included Mayor Turner, council members, GM James Click, Astros owner Jim Crane and ex Astros Jose Cruz, Jeff Bagwell. Astros players were at Minute Maid practicing.
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    Chef Billy Kin, known for beloved Heights restaurant Blackbird Izakaya and Galleria-area spot Hidden Omakase, has a new project in the works for the former Golden Bagels location at 3119 White Oak Drive. The spot will be two restaurants in one — a reservations-only omakase restaurant, and a more casual izakaya-style eatery. The first phase of the project, the omakase restaurant, is expected to open in early November. Both restaurants will incorporate influences from Kin’s many projects and previous jobs, as well as establishments run by his father and grandfather throughout Asia and San Francisco. Called Kinokawa, the omakase portion is named after a Japanese restaurant Kin’s father ran in Taiwan for more than three decades. The izakaya half, which will be called Tesserack, will likely open in early 2022, once Kin secures a liquor license. That aspect of the restaurant is inspired in part by the science fiction film Interstellar, a favorite of Kin and his daughter. The restaurants, like the movie, are “about communicating with the past and the present,” Kin says. Kin’s previous Heights restaurant, Blackbird Izakaya, opened in 2018 and gained a loyal following for its innovated take on Japanese cuisine, including dishes like curry katsu and super-fresh sushi. However, the restaurant could not withstand the early days of the pandemic and Houston stay-home ordinance, and shuttered in July 2020. Kin took a few months off of cooking, but was quickly tapped by restaurateur Tuan Tran to help open Hidden Omakase, which debuted in a Galleria-area office building in December 2020. Kin worked to get the much-lauded restaurant off the ground, eventually handing the kitchen over to chef Niki Vongthong at the end of March. Like many people at the beginning of the pandemic, Kin says he went through a low period, especially after the closure of Blackbird. But working at Hidden re-inspired him. “I was thinking, ‘I’m never going to open a restaurant again,’” he says. “But Tuan’s the one who helped me rediscover that it’s fun to cook again.” He also never thought he’d land in the Heights again, saying he had an “emotional attachment” to Blackbird’s location and his many neighborhood regulars. But when Golden Bagels closed in September, the timing — and the location — were just right. https://houston.eater.com/2021/10/4/22709046/kinokawa-opening-chef-billy-kin-houston-heights-restaurant-golden-bagels-location
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    Buck Mason, a Los Angeles-based apparel brand selling hand crafted T-shirts, denim jeans and button-up shirts, will make its Houston debut in Montrose Collective this spring. Montrose Collective is a development of Houston-based Radom Capital combining old and new buildings along Westheimer with spaces for 25 merchants, chefs and wellness tenants, multiple office tenants and the future Montrose Library. Founded in 2013 by Erik Allen Ford and Sasha Koehn, Buck Mason will occupy a 1,300-square-foot space within a 1940-building at 906 Westheimer. The space is now occupied by Hue salon, which will move to a larger space within the project at 888 Westheimer this year.
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    Kamalan Bakery, the Asiatown spot known for its layers cakes, fruit and vegetable-flavors buns, smoothies, and teas, will take over the Montrose spot that was formerly Avondale Food and Wine. Details on the new location are scant, but signage is already up at 240 Westheimer Avenue. Avondale Food & Wine, the cafe and bottle shop that was originally called L’Olivier, closed in July after 10 years in the neighborhood. Owners Mary Clarkson and Olivier Ciesielski said at the time that they were hoping to reopen in a smaller location.
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    Most projects I've seen all seem to have it know. They just don't have the room for a detention pond so they have been putting them underneath a project.
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    According to the two guys I talked to inside the CVS will located at the front entrance under "The Houston Post" sign.
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    You can see where the crane boom landed on the raised concrete and the damage it did. The rear deck of the tower crane still has a section of the walkway missing.
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    The storage trailers have been moved away from the fence.
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    You would have thought the city would wait to replace the sidewalk right next to a project that is about to start. If you go 10' past this they haven't done anything to those sidewalks. This is one of 3 entrances to the project where heavy equipment comes in.
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    They are doing a lot of work on the sewer and water tie-ins on Praire and Milam streets.
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