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I have an idea for a Youtube video.

* First get shots of the lady panhandling

* Several minutes later, show a clip of the same woman driving a car

Perhaps a message at the end could say "Some beggars have more money than you think!" or something to that effect!

By the way, Lisa Gray had a column in the Houston Chronicle stating that the city did not try enough measures to take the "35%" (mentally ill) homeless off of city streets.

"HOUSTON PANHANDLER BUSTED!!!" would get more views and attention.

Why not MORE grocery stores in the loop open 24 hrs??!! Miss my 24 hr grocery stores on west coast!!!! But, I guess the answer to that from most on this noard would be..."GO BACK!"

Sometimes, Houston makes me sick. This is a time when. Why demolish it? If the Alamo was built in Houston, that thing would have already been demolished.

Yet, we can't get rid of the Astro Dome.....yet!

I found this in The Woodlands Conroe forum. It was posted in 2005 by Jonah and nobody post back so I am puting it up again since I live in the Humble/Kingwood/Atascocita area so I am excited about this project. Looks like its moving along nicely and the web site seems like its almost done and I think people will like it so here it is.

This is the Brownstone Living at Kings Harbor

Some nice places to eat on Lake Houston

http://www.kings-harbor.com/ is the project homepage

So, far it looks more like a business park. But maybe what im looking at is strictly office space...but i thought perhaps retail would be on the bottom...if that is the case....it looks like a business park. But the new apartments they are building look nice.

it is the people who believe everything should be "urban" development who want this. it has to make economic sense for a business to come in. not having parking will definitely limit their customer base which doesn't make sense economically.

YEAH! We can't have the suburb of midtown ghetting all urban on us yokels.

waiting to cross the street in a busy city.

LOL

Instead the 24-hour city needs to focus on entertainment and services that people would need at 3am.

It amazes me the lack of 24 hr grocery stores in this town.

he's very religious so don't go there.

What a shocker...someone very religious in East Texas.

Theres a cutie white weather guy on KTRK 13!!!!!

Looks like lots of turns and few if not only one significant drop=LAME!

Sawyer Heights Village will be an urban shopping center, similar in style to Highland Village and Town & Country Villages, Moss says. The developer is turning Taylor/Sawyer into a heavily landscaped boulevard with brick roadways, and has designs to make the entire project pedestrian-friendly.

This just makes me laugh. The idea that any shopping center anchored by a target would remotely be like a highland village is simply hilarious...Especially in this location.

Regarding something like a 24 hour Galleria and the conservative ascriptions thereof...it's not just a Houston thing...America in general is conservative in terms of keeping late hours with the total exception of New York and Las Vegas. Driving down Wilshire in LA through Beverly Hills at 11 pm most nights is even a bit deader than nocturnal 610 and Westheimer. Of course, Vegas is sort of artificial with no real culture and the gambling is something that keeps people up for days on end. New York...if you lived there, how can you sleep anyway?

From San Diego to Tampa Bay...people who spend the upscale money go to bed early typically...or they certainly do not keep in mind buying that pair of thousand dollar gloves at 3:30 am. It's not a "conservative Houston" thing per se. In Spain, people get socially started for the night at midnight! So no, this is America where the underlying Anglo Puritan heritage makes most of us in bed by 9 or 10 pm (except those of us who work 2nd or 3rd shift hours...and that demographic certainly ain't no Tiffany or Cartier shopping one!).

The Galleria itself is private property so I don't see that Swedish type of right-to-the-land thing applying to it in a 24 hour context anyway. It's not profitable to the property owners or merchants.

So, your saying that the high end stores similar to what one would find in Beverly Hills are open late or 24 hrs in New York City?

it looks like an inner city high school with some palm trees at the leasing office entrance.

You can't expect a guy with his talent to stay here in Houston.

Yep, what Anderson Cooper wants, AC gets...

It is the poorest and most undeveloped third world countries that pose the greatest military risks because 1) they don't have much to lose, and 2) the governments are weak or inherently unstable with few checks on power.

Dont forget a possible #3) The rhetoric and threats from the poorest third world countires rallies it's people to further support their governments in turn allowing their governments to do whatever they want. Wait, that happens here. We just sit here and talk about how we(as people) should do more to keep our government in check and dont. oh well. build the dang road and let the jobs drive south & north.

Not a loss for the Houston market here. ExpressJet is a low-cost carrier.

Everyone is a low-cost carrier these days.

... who knows. i thought i would like sam malone on 740 AM (ktrh) --is he still on there, but found him kinda lame. i had not listened to him before.

He was/is horrible. dont know if he is still on 740 or not.

Great style choice! Whatever you do, DO NOT use Urban Living as your agent. Use an agent not affiliated with that company.

Great way to get some nice pics. Good job!

No i understand what you mean by approachable celebrities. one who sure isn't is linda lorelle, former ch 2 anchor. We ran into her and my friend called out her name and she sure seemed pissed. he just said nevermind.

THAT makes her unapproachable? A stranger calls out your name...how ghetto. Im glad she rebuffed you guys.

According to O'Connor & Associates, the Broadstone Uptown Lofts were 97% occupied as of the 11th of this month. I'd say that it probably worked out alright.

Took long enough.

You are correct. The connections protrude from the ground.

You'd probably be surprised to learn this (I certainly was), but apartment complexes with visibility from freeways lease up very quickly and maintain a higher level of occupancy. A site with that kind of visibility is just a variant of outdoor advertising...and a very effective one at that.

that did not work for the "lofts" at 59 and 610.

There seems to be a hostile vibe, where you wouldn't want to look at someone the wrong way or you try to be careful about what you say to strangers you encounter as you are out doing the nightlife thing.

AMEN to that! Everyone seems so unhappy or pissed off. Very uninviting.

Very true. I suppose my point was more that, typically when you see a reference to Houston, the first thing mentioned is oil, cowboys, etc., and it doesn't stray far from there. Not that there's anything negative about that, since it is a huge part of what this city is. However, there are many other fantastic aspects of this city, and it's nice to see a write up in a major publication about another of these.

Don't you think that to a great extent every city is mischaracterized to some degree or another. It is impossible for those outside Houston to understand all that you or you or whomever think it has to offer.

But we are extremely cautious and are proceeding much more carefully than our last great success.

Oh good grief, you believe that, or do you WANT to believe that. We all live in the moment. History reapeats itself...this much we know.

You can debate this locale or that locale...it is the people in Houston...especially those with mentalities like what is being epxressed on this thread that make this place not cool. AGAIN, stop trying so hard.

"No, bbbbbbut wait, kemah is only cool in that way that Santa Monica Pier is cool, YO" Neither are cool.