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    West Virginia's wins? Norfolk State (an HBCU that actually led at halftime in Morgantown!) Maryland (the only thing worse than all the new Terp uniforms? Their play on the field) UConn (lost their coach and a gazillion seniors and have 1 win over a FBS team) Bowling Green (a lower level MAC team) Marshall (a team that UH will pound in two weeks) The Mountaineers have played ONE road game (Maryland) and they almost choked away a massive lead to hold on for a 37-31 win. I wouldn't be surprised if Syracuse beats WVU this weekend in the Carrier Dome...
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    Go Coogs! That was fun. Our tailgate was packed and that victory almost helped erase my memory of sitting in Dowdy Ficklen Stadium on a wet, 35 degree day as we lost the CUSA Championship in the last minute. Suck it, Pirates!
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    Susan- You are a hero. I've shared your Piedras Negras recipe and everyone loves it. It's now a fixture at our tailgate tent! Time to bring this thread back to life.
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    Are you seriously calling a 23 story tower a midrise? That's not a stretch, that's a tear. By pretty much EVERY standard, this tower is a highrise. Also, Bissonnet near Ashby IS a residential street. The majority of structures along Bissonnet between Greenbrier and Montrose are residential in nature and nearly 100% of the businesses are located in structures that were originally built as single family homes. Also, I'd have no problem with this tower being built along Montrose near the Museum Tower or 5000 Montrose Condo Tower because that stretch of Montrose is full of towers, offices, churches, libraries, businesses, restaurants, etc... That's exactly where a tower like this one SHOULD be built.
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    People need to use google earth and LOOK at this location. Comparing Bissonnet @ Ashby with say 2121 Kirby (The address of The Huntigdon, Houston's tallest and most expensive high rise) is silly. First off, The Huntingdon only has 115 units so you are dealing with FAR fewer people. Secondly, Kirby has SIX lanes of traffic at this location. It is just South of San Felipe, a four-laned major street. It's neighbors are River Oaks Elementary across the street and a 15 story office tower next door.
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    Binz has four lanes of traffic as opposed to the two that exist at Bissonnet @ Ashby. The cross streets near this proposal include major North/South thoroughfares as Crawford, Austin, LaBranch, and San Jacinto. It's four city blocks West of 288 and 5 East of the existing light rail. The neighborhood is already MIXED use with condos, museums, apartments, hospitals, offices, and some older single family homes. This location is NOTHING like the Ashby Tower location and you come across as very disingenuous.
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    For the snarky folks who were hoping for a low income housing project to shove it down the snooty neighbors' collective throats, you do realize this is replacing an older apartment complex, right? I'd imagine the rents in a new high rise will be double what they are at Maryland Manor. The folks who live in Southampton, Boulevard Oaks, Shadowlawn, and Broadacres aren't opposed to this development because it will bring in the wrong type of people. They are opposed because the scale is totally out of whack. The largest thing around there at the moment is the Rice Graduate Apartments and this Ashby Tower will be 220 feet taller!!! Additionally, wxman nailed it, this is NOT a good location for a large scaled high rise. Bissonnet will really be maxed out... FULL DISCLAIMER, I live in Southampton although quite a bit away from this project.
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    The biggest news of the weekend? UH sold out for Georgia State. Sure, there were some no shows, but the place was rocking, the students were out in full force, and red was everywhere. Oh, and the Coogs pitched their first shutout since 1999. Just a few short years ago, this game would have drawn 13,000.
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    It's definitely not the Otto's spot. Otto's and Biba's have given way to a Bank of America and another strip mall...
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    I am thinking this is going to look more Miami or Dallas than tunnel form cookie cutter judging the other renderings for PM Realty Projects.
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    This realignment stuff SUCKS. Texas and Texas ATM in different conferences? The back yard brawl between Pitt and West Virginia likely over? Syracuse to the ACC? Oklahoma State and Texas Tech (two teams that have NEVER won an outright conference title in their long histories) to the Pacific Coast? The Big East conference is likely toast. Sure, their football wasn't the best but now there's no more Syracuse vs. UConn in Madison Square Garden for the Big East Finals or Pitt vs. Nova in the battle of PA on the hard court. THAT FLAT OUT SUCKS. And all so greedy programs can hoard even more cash. 4 conferences with 16 teams is going to leave even more folks out the next time. I hate this. We might as well just award the football national title to the team with the most cash. Texas and their suck at the *** cronies have now ruined the SWC and Big 12 in less than two decades. The Pac Ten, or hell, even ACC, better be careful inviting the Longhorns to the table.
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    Again, the Frogs have played in back-to-back BCS games without the benefit of playing in a conference with AQ status! How many BCS bowls have the Aggies played in since the Big 12 was started? As for "cashing out", Patterson makes well over $1 million a year at a school that adores him. He might be the smartest coach on the planet to realize that while it "might" be better in the SEC or Big 10 or wherever, it could also be MUCH worse. He's living in a nice city in a state with no income tax and has a fan base that thinks he hung the moon. Plus, TCU has DEEP pocketed fans as witnessed by their current stadium renovation in progress in which the cash was raised in less than 10 months time!
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    15 minutes of fame? The Frogs are 98-27 over the last ten years. Here's a list of teams with more wins than the Frogs since 2001; LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia Tech, USC, and Boise State.
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    Sadly, the new sign is for "Cambridge Commons." It'll be a gated community full of single family homes by Pelican Builders.
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    I left for Boston early last week and got back on Sunday night. Sometime during my trip, this lot was cleared. It had become overgrown. Now, it is completely level and all the brush is gone. I am 34 floors up, but it appears there is a new fence and sign on the property as well as some construction equipment (most likely what was used to clear the lot).I wonder if the tower might still rise? It seems like a great location for a rental tower since it is literally just a couple hundred yards away from MD Anderson's sprawling campus.
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    I went the other night for the first time. I've wanted to go for months, but I live down near Rice U and just never got around to making the trek up North. Was glad I finally did. The pickled jalapeno mac was delicious.
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    BINGO. And this doesn't even mention that if Texas had compele control over all of the things listed above, 3 out of 4 kids would likely live in poverty as opposed to the 1 out of 4 that do today. The Exurbs would need bigger gates and more armed guards...
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    The Cheyne Walk on Sunset turned out nice and they've retained their value.
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    Your solution is to let the States handle everything other than the secret service and coast guard? Yeah, that's going to work out well. You do realize that we have no money either, right?
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    21 townhomes starting at $1.3 million+. "Embassy-like" security. Being built off of San Felipe just East of Kirby by Rohe and Wright. Looks very similar to their wildly successful Cheyne Walk (London-themed) development on Sunset Blvd. near the Sunset Clinic. http://images-23.har.com/e1/mediadisplay/23/hr2817423-1.jpg http://images-23.har.com/e1/mediadisplay/23/hr2817423-2.jpg http://images-23.har.com/e1/mediadisplay/23/hr2817423-3.jpg
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    I've been back in Boston this week to sell my condo. I've been here all week and haven't been in a car yet. I've visited friends, my old workplace, my lawyer's office, my realtor's office for the closing, to the DMV in Chinatown, to multiple restaurants, and even to Fenway for a game. There's a part of me that misses it. That said, I walk in Houston too. I can't reach the number of places I can in Boston by foot, but I still prefer Houston more. Why? Because having personal auto access allows me to have MUCH great mobility. There are so many places in Boston I simply stopped going to because they were too far to walk to (or the snow/rain/sleet/heat- yeah, it hit 103 here last week persuaded me to stay in) or there'd be no parking (or valet for the cost of a meal in Houston). I like having the option. I can walk to Rice Village or Hermann Park/Museums or I can drive to anywhere else I'd want to go. POINT: HOUSTON.
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    UT's School of Nursing exists. It's on the South side of Holcombe in the TMC. The final design was altered slightly from the renderings depicted above.
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    Why didn't they turn to ob if strings were a problem?
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    Bombay's is quite good. I love the crispy, thin crust. Surprised he hasn't opened a second location somewhere because that place always has a crowd.
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    Candelaris > Star I don't get the fascination with Star at all. It ain't awful but that isn't saying much.
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