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    I had a chance to stay at the Intercontinental over the Holidays. The place was packed out and there were a ton of special events/parties hosted over the two weeks I was there. The rooms were very nice and the service was excellent. A huge upgrade to the offerings in the TMC. I also noticed lots of walking activity next door at the apartment tower and most of those folks were in scrubs. I'd imagine demand is there. Hope this proposal rises because the first project knocked it out of the park. This one might just build a new park.
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    River Oaks has VERY distinct boundaries and this ain't it. There's no part of River Oaks South of Westheimer much less Richmond. But River Oaks has clout so developers love to stick that designation on projects from the Galleria to Downtown.
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    That damn flower store needs to go back to being a Mr. Gattis Pizza delivery/pick-up joint. If you know, you know.
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    That's a beautiful livery. Hoping for good things for ET.
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    Freeways are being torn down, removed, and buried in many cities that we aspire to be more like. Cities we compete with for jobs, corporate home and regional offices, and more. It's a quality of life and HEALTH issue. Expanding freeways is a last century solution. Texas needs to learn that expanding freeways does nothing for the people who live adjacent to them in the city. But I suspect the people that run the state don't really care about people who choose to live IN cities. Their constituents are the companies that get the contracts followed by the folks in the burbs.
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    Continental had 3 hubs; Newark, Cleveland, and Houston. United now has those hubs minus CLE plus Washington Dulles, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. That is the reason. Denver and Chicago are better East-West hubs, LAX and SFO cover Asia, and EWR and IAD cover Europe. It's geography. Our biggest hope was for growth in the Southeast and LATAM/Mexico but United has actually retreated a lot in those regions. We've lost quite a few smaller Mexican cities and United has basically handed Texas (to American) and the Southeast to Delta. Our best hope for new international service would start with domestic hub spokes being added. We've been the ugly duckling compared to DEN, SFO, IAD, and ORD lately. We've seen Del Rio, Texarkana, Tyler, Waco, Beaumont, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Augusta,Tallahassee, Sarasota, Palm Beach (year round), Asheville, Columbia, Lexington, Charleston WV, and a handful of smaller Mexican cities cut. Most of those cities are still served by AA to DFW. That allows DFW to offer connection opportunities that United would rather funnel elsewhere or not compete for to IAH's loss.
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    Another garage-mahal. Hopefully he doesn't go cheap on the garage but not holding my breath. Betting it'll be stucco/EIS.
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    In my 20 years or so on this site I've ignored two people. It's a great feature. It doesn't work when folks quote them though.
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    Is The Corinthian still up and running? That was the location of my favorite wedding I've ever attended in Houston. Yep. corinthianhouston.net I'm guessing it's pricy but a cool old building and you can't go wrong with Jackson Hicks catering.
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    Dangerous Disco on Sunday nights at the old Tower! I actually liked El Real. Puffy tacos, cheese enchiladas, and good queso. Old school tex-mex. Sad to see it close.
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    I went out of state for undergrad but chose UH over UT, Boston U, and NYU for grad school. Was rejected by Chicago and wait-listed by Columbia. I mostly chose UH because I missed home after 4 years in Upstate NY and a friend that was in the program at UT (she was rejected by UH) warned me that her field placement was in Dallas because Austin was limited compared to Houston with opportunities.
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    Drastic cuts to funding AND a facilities arms race have gotten universities in trouble. My dorm had cinder block walls and there was one hall bath shared by 38 freshman boys. The rooms had two cots, two wardrobes, and one counter top. When I took my daughter on tours a few years ago, many freshman dorms had private rooms, private or semi-private suite bathrooms, kitchen facilities, luxury laundry facilities, and a few even had their own workout rooms just in case walking five minutes to the over-the-top fitness center with indoor and outdoor pools, rock climbing walls, pilates classes, etc... was too inconvenient. Dining facilities looked like upscale malls with multiple options and chains. Somebody is paying for that and I bet if you asked college kids who actually HAD to pay their own way, they'd give it all up for lower costs of attendance. My two years of graduate school cost less than ONE semester now of undergrad. I graduated in 1998. That's a helluva increase.
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    I used to volunteer with HATCH. We had quite a few kids that were at Covenant House because their parents threw them out for being gay. The organization was much appreciate by me back in the day as they ran a tight ship (miss curfew, tough luck,,, most kids wouldn't miss it twice). That said, predators were always lurking in the area. To me, that responsibility falls at the feet of HPD.
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    There are a LOT of UH sorority women living in the various downtown towers. I wonder if they aren't the ones on the lease (parents) then they aren't being counted? My daughter has 20+ friends from her sorority in 4-5 different buildings downtown. My daughter moved out of the Campus Vue and is in a complex on Allen Parkway now.
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    I'm confused. 250,000 square feet on 2-3 floors over retail would make it a massive structure.
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    I have work that takes me to LA a lot. The Mendocino Farms on Santa Monica BLVD in West Hollywood is great. Really fresh sandwiches with funky ingredients. It's a great spot.
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    Trump branded twin towers; The Moscow Mule and The White Russian.
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    No, They plan of using a 787-800. However, do to the grounding of the 737-800 Max they've had to use widebodies on routes they used to fly with the narrow body.
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    Apparently Ethiopian will begin service to IAH in December with twice weekly service. ET flies a lot of 738max on long-thin routes and with that plane grounded they had to rework their current schedule which put expansion on hold.
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    I don't know, the original deed restrictions had this rule "no part of the property should be conveyed to, owned by, or leased to, used or occupied by any person other than of the White or Caucasian race, except that owner's servants..." That was amended in 2002. TWO THOUSAND AND TWO. So, luckily, changes can happen.
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    Wow. Horrible news. They did quite a bit of work and then it all stopped and the house has just been rotting in the elements. A real shame. Same guy owns this house that donated to the baseball facility at UH that isn't finished because he couldn't pay his donation. I'm guessing he was hit hard with the O&G downturn.
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    I was born on Candlewood right off of Tanglewood Blvd. I didn't read the deed restrictions as a kid but I'd be very surprised if the deed restrictions haven't been ignored over the years. I remember people being pissed when the first two story house was built but now the monster mcmansions are everywhere and there are very identifiable third stories "hiding" as gables or pitched roofs. I get that this will be much taller and multi-family but just saying. Today's Tanglewood looks NOTHING like the original version.
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    Sadly, ET's service is no longer bookable. Looks like it was pulled even before it began.
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    Ethiopian is loaded in the system. Looks to start with 3 times per week in early July but quickly moving to 4 times a week using a 788 with a IAH-LFW-ADD routing. Departures from IAH will be 1-4-6-7.
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    Follow the money. He's got ties to Joel Kotkin and the Manhattan Institute. Gattis' new think-tank does as well. That means funding from sources like the Koch Brothers and other dark money groups.
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