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I don't agree with you on not considering an enclosed facility. With this weather we have here in Houston who wouldn't pass up an enclosed facility like the Dome, or Reliant? I wouldn't. Matter in fact, I think every sport stadium in the nation should have an enclosed facility. This will be a great benefit to the MLS league.

It is just right. They don't need all those seats in the Dome tare them out. All they need is about 20,000-30,000 seats in there, and have resturants, retail and other amenties. They also can use it not only for soccer, but for high school football and playoffs, even the State Championship. That will bring more money back into the Dome. They also could dig an underground practice field like they did the Toyota Center. It's ways around it. Even they could have a hotel inside for the visiting team, and for people. And I agree with you Volvo on they could borrow the Texans facility.

I got a great idea, and volvo you gave it to me. Since Reliant and Astrodome is convenient for people cause of the light rail. Renovate the Astrodome into a soccer stadium, with other amenties that will boost up the Dome on having a franchise MLS team. This will be great.

Burger King Headquarters will never happen. They said it might not leave South Florida after all. So please, don't get y'all hopes up.

Why they just build a brand new stadium like dallas is doing now?

My dad do business with A+P Architects, and they said the project is on hold at this time. They will notify my dad when the project is in transit.

No citykid. They said " The plan consists of two condominium towers, a five-star hotel, office space, retail space, a private leisure and dining club, an entertainment venue, a culinary arts center and meeting facilities."

http://www.mhcenturyproject.org/ Check out this great website for all of the new construction that Memorial Hermann has on books.

Jan. 31, 2005, 6:46AM CELEBRATION BY THE FAITHFUL 'A beautiful edifice for downtown' Archdiocese blesses the site of $32 million house of worship By RICHARD VARA Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Despite overcast skies and chilling winds, more than 1,200 Roman Catholic clergy and laity turned out Sunday to celebrate a ground blessing for a new $32 million cathedral for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. ADVERTISEMENT The event was celebrated with choirs, a brass ensemble and a colorful procession of robed clergy, altar servers and teens carrying banners. Work is scheduled to begin immediately on the 1,820-seat cathedral, with completion in 28 months. "I am so grateful that so many of you are here to ask God, with me, to place his particular blessing upon this square block upon which will be built the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart," Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza said. The cold weather forced a change in the ceremony, which had been planned primarily for the outdoors at the new cathedral site between San Jacinto and Fannin, facing St. Joseph Parkway. Instead, most of the service was held inside the current co-cathedral, a smaller facility built as a parish church. Plans for the cathedral were announced in 2001. Fiorenza said Sunday that he had hoped to be dedicating the cathedral at this time but acknowledged that several events during the four-year capital campaign had intervened and forced a downsizing ofplans. "First came Sept. 11, a terrible blow to this country and to our hearts," Fiorenza said. "Then there was the collapse of Enron and other large companies based in Houston. The economy began to go south. "We had to face the terrible tragedy in the church of the clerical sexual abuse of minors." Despite the problems, the capital campaign, which is in its final year, collected $76 million, the bishop said. He said the campaign was also to support improvements to St. Mary's Seminary and for contributions to Catholic inner-city schools. Fiorenza said he has launched another campaign to raise about $8 million for furnishings and an endowment for the new cathedral. "It will have a quality of light and space that makes it a sacred space,"said Scott Ziegler of Ziegler Cooper Architects. He said the cathedral will have the size and capacity that invokes a sense of spirituality in its exterior and interior. The limestone and marble building will include stained glass and be topped by a metal-domed roof. A free-standing bell tower will reach 140 feet in height. Original plans for an underground crypt have been scrapped. The cathedral also was originally planned to have a capacity of nearly 2,200. "It is going to be a beautiful edifice for downtown and will contribute to making Houston a city of God," said Brother Jim Barrette, director of the secretariat for pastoral and educational ministries for the archdiocese. "It will be very beautiful and majestic in a way a cathedral should be," Barrette said. richard.vara@chron.com

You have a picture of this upcoming project?

Well, Sugarland is in Houston's Metro, just like Woodlands.

This is today's article from the Houston Chronicle.

Looking for lots Turnberry, a Florida-based developer, is sniffing around Houston for a site to build a swanky high-rise residential tower. A spokeswoman from the company said there is talk about a Houston project, but there was "no information to give out." A look at the company's most recent brochure, however, reveals a lot more. It says Turnberry is planning a 42-story tower for the Uptown/Galleria area. Sources said the company may be looking at a site owned by Walton Street Capital near the Williams Tower. Founded by Donald Soffer, the company has such developments as the Aventura Mall in southern Florida and the Residences condominium hotel at MGM Grand Las Vegas.

Hey that music sounds tight. I like it. It's a hip jazz type.

This is wonderful news for Houston Texas Medical Center. It's the best in the world. The best in new technogoly.

Up Close: Amazing transformations in the ever-growing medical center 10:04 PM CST on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 By Dan Lauck / 11 News It may seem with all the construction, you need to be a brain surgeon to navigate your way in and out of the Texas Medical Center these days. KHOU-TV The Texas Medical Center is already two to three times larger than any other medical center in the world. With the building blocks of a new era in medicine, the area is going through an amazing transformation. At MD Anderson Cancer Center it was a day to celebrate, a day to remember. Not because Judy Jordan had beaten cancer, but because she'd never had cancer and was at the prevention center anyway. This was the day that MD Anderson opened the doors of its new, $110 million cancer prevention center. Judy Jordan was their first patient. "The idea that we'd have a building that was dedicated strictly to prevention was a dream I never thought I'd see," Dr. Bernard Levin said. If you're a doctor or medical researcher, the Texas Medical Center is the place to be. The Texas Medical Center is a tangle of traffic and trains, of overhead skyways and crowded walkways, an ever-changing, regenerating kind of medical invertebrate, part hassle, part charm. "If you're to attract the best and the brightest, which really is our objective, they don't want to spend their time driving around from a hospital here, a teaching facility there, a research laboratory over there," said Andrew Icken, Texas Medical Center executive vice president. The challenge for Andrew Icken and Paul Sanders is to create an environment dense enough to satisfy the doctors, but not too intimidating to the average patient. They have accomplished the density. It's comparable to lower Manhattan or downtown Chicago and it's growing every day. Memorial Hermann, for example, is putting up two buildings along Fannin. Both Prairie View's nursing school and Texas Women's University are building new homes. The University of Texas Health Science Center is rebuilding both its medical and nursing school and UT is already underway on the Institute of Molecular Medicine. But no one has been as busy as Susan Lipka of MD Anderson. "Let's see, one, two, three, four, five. Five buildings," Lipka said. Which would mean a building being built each year. The same day they opened the cancer prevention center, they also opened the ambulatory care center, a huge, imposing building next door. When done, there will be five new buildings at a cost of nearly $1 billion. "In our case, the baby boom population is coming of an age when cancer is a disease that you get in that age group," said Lipka. With the forerunners of the baby boom turning 60, the construction has no end in sight. They couldn't expand to the north or west, but they were lucky to the south. There were nearly 400 acres with mostly tract homes and small apartment buildings, which is nothing they couldn't afford. Almost all of the property in the area they are calling 'mid-campus' has been purchased and should take 20 years to fill. "But that doesn't mean that later on, it won't expand down to the 610 loop," said Lipka. This boom comes at a time when health care costs are racing wildly ahead of the ability of Americans to pay for them. And according to Lipka, "That was always on our minds." She points out they used carpet, rather than terrazzo tile and precast concrete, rather than granite, which doesn't matter one bit to patients like Judy Jordan. What matters is that they have a home. The Texas Medical Center is already two to three times larger than any other medical center in the world.

I agree. Tire down the bayou place and just build another mixed use project.

Well... bye.

All I have to say is.. Sorry ass texans!

Wow. I've never heard of this club or place, whatever you wanna call it, but checking out the website pardon my french, but that s.h.i.t. looks tight! I've been in houston all my life and never known they had this. That's why I love coming on here, cause I've find out different stuff about houston everytime. I must check more into this forbidden city place.

To bad Houston don't have a casinos, it would be great for Tillman to built one here.

y'all still showing those pics? That's the same pics on the other thread. Besides, why get name brand stores outside the galleria, and they already have all these stores inside the galleria.

LATEST NEWS 11:00 PM CST Wednesday Video chain teams with hospital to bring cheer to youngsters Mary Ann Azevedo Houston Business Journal Construction is under way on a Hollywood Video Starlight Site on the ninth floor of Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital, the only such site in Texas, hospital officials say. The home video retail chain and sister Hollywood Entertainment subsidiary Game Crazy are partnering with the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation "to enhance the healing environment of the hospital." "A patient's attitude can play an intangible but profound role in the healing process," said Steve Allen, CEO of Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital. "Bringing a little fun to the hospital experience makes it less stressful for our patients and their families, and we are grateful to Hollywood Video, Game Crazy and Starlight Starbright for this contribution." When completed, the Starlight Site will include a movie theater, video game and computer stations, a lounge area, and a large, colorful fish tank. Hollywood Video will contribute more than $150,000 to develop the site, while its building-trade vendors will donate more than $100,000 in labor, materials and supplies. The company will keep the site stocked with popular movies that can be accessed any time, and local employee volunteers will host group movie nights for patients twice a month. The Memorial Hermann site is one of eight the company is building in various cities. Game Crazy also recently donated $5,000 worth of consoles and games for patients. Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital volunteers pitched in another $3,000 to purchase carts and televisions, so 15 mobile game units can be wheeled from room to room. Local Game Crazy employees also volunteer twice a month at the hospital, running video game tournaments for patients. Craig Cordola, assistant vice president of Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital, says the site will be about 800 to 900 square feet and will also include an Internet cafe. The site should be completed by the end of the year or early January, he says. Each year 37,000 sick and injured children receive treatment at Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital.

It's nopt David Carr's fault, it's the lineman they the ones not blocking for the man. They watch tapes of the Clots throughout the week, and they know what the Clots is going to do. The defense is another issue, the secondary is wreak. Aaron Glen cornerback, he's old 12 years in pro. He is slow reacting toward the ball carrier, and he's not making big plays like an pro bowler should be, so I say he needs to retired and let somebody young and could get to the ball carrier on time. Roethelisburger quaterback for the Steelers really don't show me nothing, he's a rookie, yes, and he's doing good cause he already have vetern team leading him on, DUH! Roethelisburger step into a gold mine that's all as a rookie. If David Carr had a vetern team like the Steelers, David would be doing the same thing as Roethelisburger taking them to the playoffs. Now take Roethelisburger and let him be the quaterback for the Texans, I bet he do the same crap David Carr is doing.

Bob lanier's light rail plan had failed when he was the mayor for the city. When Lee Brown was the mayor for two terms, Lee Brown went to d.c. for funds for the light rail and they wouldn't give it to him, so he done it anyway, but with the help of Bob Lanier to help push the issue the light rail is here today. All the work you see downtown is from Lee Brown. The work at the airport is, Lee Brown. Lee Brown brung people back downtown cause of the expandsion of GRB Convention Center, and by adding a five star 1200 room Hilton Hotel, etc. If y'all say Lee Brown hasn't done nothing for the city, why he been elected twice to serve houston? This mayor we have today (Bill White) he's only out to fix lights. Wow, fixing lights must be a hard job as a mayor! Lee Brown brung in entertainment for the city. What entertainment Bill White brung in lately? His entertainment is fixing lights. Some of y'all talking bad about the new court house, that will be the largest in the nation after they get finish. It looks great to me, just another high rise in downtown. And yes, I see alot of hatin in here.