Daniepwils

Paddling around in a life-sized boat in a lake that size could get old pretty quick.

I meant renting RC boats not ones to actually paddle in. (I can just see a 200+ man in a paddle boat trying to paddle but not going anywhere because it is to shallow)

Also, the entire lake will not be used for the RC boats, just a section (they actually have a bumper or something that is right under the water to make sure the boats don't go outside of the RC boat area)

The other day it looked liked Buffalo Bayou. Some dirt fell off into the lake, and it was a bit ugly (lol).

There is water in the lake now (not full though).

I think they will have boats you can rent to use, or something to that degree.

The water "shoots" and mist tree have been working for awhile, I think they are just working out the kinks with the water "shoots".

We received a call a few months ago asking if we were interested in moving into 6 Houston. Crescent is our client and they use to be our building management until they sold 5 Houston to Wells Reit (I will hold my tongue about their management style...as they are our client as well)

Yes those are the staircases to the parking garage, there is one on each side.

Those stairwells are just, um, WOW. Looking at the park from high above, I can say those things really stick out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_McDermott

yup, that is him!

They just landed a 5th one, that is weird. Maybe they are having a Helicopter show at the GRB.

Edited, yes they are indeed having one.

http://www.houstonconventionctr.com/meetin...s/calendar.html

http://www.heliexpo.com/

This morning I noticed helicopters landing in the parking lot on the left hand side of the GRB, it looks as if they turned that parking lot into a Helipad (there is a BIG H painted on the lot). Three helicopters so far have landed, one of which is extremely huge. (They have gone behind the GRB so I am not sure where they are now, but they have not taken off into the air again).

Kind of scary when they come in that fast and very close to my windows.

This is the fourth one:

Also here is a current picture of the "tent" on the new park:

When you're buying a table of 10 for $1,000 a ticket, black tie, you get a tent!

LOL why am I not suprised! This is typical Houston... so backwards...build a park then put a tent on the park for a party...

At night the back of this building is pretty cool looking, it is all glass on the backside, and you can see into the building.

It is either for the Democratic Debate this/next week or, yes the grand opening of the park.

IMO though having a huge tent cover part of the Great Lawn of the park opening is kind of odd, why not just have it on the great lawn, after all it is a park!

Also,

They are going to start bulldozing another parking lot next to the new park. It will be another office building, right in front of 5 Houston Center facing east.

It is also obvious that the cars were not moving at the time, which probably means that the walk sign is up. So I am guessing that she thought she was safe to cross the entire street. That being said. I cross Main Street every day, and I stop and look both ways on the street and the metro rail.

Also, just because you make more today doesn't mean you will be making more in the future. I would hope you would not judge your relationship with someone based solely on income.

At one time my dad made more than my mother, but he quit his job because he was always traveling and never saw us. He landed another job that he liked but it paid far less, and he didn't have to travel. To this day my mother makes more than him (well not anymore as she retired early from the corporate legal world) and there has never been an issue.

I think if you truly like/love someone and see that they have goals in life it shouldn't matter how much they make. Now if you have some schmuck who isn't goal orientated then that is another story.

I guess that is why I don't care who makes more in my relationships as long as they have aspirations in life.

Most middleastern countries have bathrooms with just holes in the ground. At the airport in Dubai it is this way. There is also "western"ized stalls now.

Where can I sign up for a sugga mamma? I will stay home and take care of the kids and the household!

LOL I know what you are talking about Jax. They have those in Monte Carlo as well. My grandparents were using them and didn't know that they clean themselves and for some reason my grandmother couldn't get hers to work properly. So, after my grandfather was done he held the door open so she could go in and use it, all of a sudden all this water came out of every side of the wall. Needless to say when she came out she was soaking wet with a tint of blue.

I never laughed so hard in my life.

Oh the cost to use these toilets was about $3.00

Are you basing this on recent findings? I ask as it sounds like the quality of food (including produce, of course) is what they aimed to improve upon as part of this grand re-opening. Things might have changed. I don't have enough experience with Specs/Rice Ep. to say anything about them but I can say that I thought the produce at Randall's looked pretty good to me--a person with a suburban HEB background.

I have not been since the re-grand opening. I will have to try it. I too lived in the suburbs and have always liked Randall's but for some reason this one was always sub par. I will go take a look this week and check it out. (I hope they are as good as you say! I can stop going all the way to Wesleyan for groceries now)

Wayne needs a new job imo. The last few "investigative" reports he has done have turned up to be flops!

I miss Marvin!!!!

I was just making sure, because from the view in my office it looks exactly the way it should. (Maybe the structures are taller than you expected, they certainly are taller than I expected)

How do you know that the restaurants are larger? Just curious if they posted anything about the parks dimensions.

I did notice that this Randall's is even more expensive than Randall's out in the burbs (The only thing I compared was canned items, as that is all I really buy here anymore)

Specs and Rice Ep. have better produce than Randall's nowadays.

I did get in the mail a coupon/flyer announcing the re-grand opening of Randall's.

I looked out a window from my office at 5 Houston Center today, and it looked like they planted several acres of sod over the main greenspace recently, although the part of the park closest to the ballpark (north?) is still very torn up.

That is where the lake is going to be

The Marriott has two hotels downtown. The Courtyard and The Residence Inn, both of which seem to do very well during the week.

Currently the only buildings right on the park are: The Convention Center, The Hilton, 5 Houston (my building) and Park Place (new Fingers res. building).

As of right now there are three lots around the new park that have no buildings on them. Two of these lots will be starting construction within the next year or so. One will be an office building the other is the new Embassy Hotel. So that leaves one lot (one huge lot actually).

Wow I am shocked! I live only a few blocks from this building and did not even hear this happen. I am sad to see this building go, after all it was part of Houston's past in many different ways.

There should be a grocery store in downtown by the end of the year I would imagine. It is going to be at the corner of McKinney and Austin (in the new Park Place Building aka Fingers Building across from 5 Houston Center)