freundb

@hindesky got the back and top, so here's a shot out front. Gates for the garage and lot. And some landscaping including fun rock berm thingies

4 hours ago, Avossos said:

Their map is a bit incorrect…. Their pinpoint is a good 11-13 blocks East of where this is actually going.

It's behind Star pizza and the cars wash right? Skybridge is over Harvard?

Laying bricks today which raises a question. Why do we not have a more efficient way to lay bricks than 1 by 1?

Nothing says "refined elegant living" quite like a freight train 12 feet from your bedroom window. Ahh, the squealing of wheels on track at 3 am, pure bliss

Do they start it backwards so they don't end up with this embarrassing situation?

28 minutes ago, 79ta said:

Live at Houston's most iconic address? 759 Gillette St? What's so iconic about that?

That's the address of the sales office. The tower address is 1711 Allen Parkway. If that makes it any better...

21 hours ago, pokemonizepic said:

Talked to the Sherriff sitting outside of the construction site, they've been there for at least a couple of weeks now, stopping traffic anytime construction crews are crossing Waugh due to a worker being hit last month by a car. He Said the city currently has no plans to rework the intersection, which was a little disappointing. I don't think them sitting out there is a good use of their time nor a proper long term solution for the increase of foot traffic that will happen once this building is complete. 

Looks like a plan has been submitted,

8 hours ago, editor said:

Green Bay, Wisconsin; Appleton, Wisconsin; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; Paterson, New Jersey; Newark, New Jersey; and a hundred other places clung to a "backbone industry" for so hard and so long that they couldn't recover when it moved or was no longer needed.

Thanks for the shout out! I spent the first 33 years of my life in Appleton before moving to Houston. I wasn't aware it didn't recover. Despite the entire area being largely sunk into the paper industry, the whole metro area has continued to grow despite all the plant closings. 

On 7/2/2022 at 9:44 AM, Fortune said:

I forgot about this place. Have they signed any retail or office tenants? Still just the food hall, concert venue, and rooftop?

I was just there on Wed and it looks like Common Desk is taking quite a bit of space on the second floor. 

2 hours ago, editor said:

In the Chronicle article, it says because of the expense.  This program is being paid for with $575,000 in federal COVID relief funds. 

Apparently, having those toll lanes open costs a bunch of money.  In addition to paying the workers to open and close the barriers (expected); cops have to be paid overtime to patrol the route; and the toll operator, TransCore gets $388,000, for what I'm not sure.

People like to believe that once you build a highway, it's free.  It's not.  Highways are expensive.  If people knew how much it really costs to build and run a highway, they wouldn't think that railroads are so expensive.

Not knowing if the toll lanes will be open or closed is a big reason I don't use them.  I don't mind paying to use a toll road, but I don't like the uncertainty when I'm driving 65 miles an hour.

Sure it costs money, but they are collecting tolls for it. I dunno. I won't try and pretend like I know the financials of operating a toll road. 

I don't know why they weren't doing this already

We should start a pool and make guesses on when the project will start (or finish). At this point I feel like I'll be able to vacation on the moon before I drive on this. 

9 hours ago, Ross said:

Here's the previous Federal Reserve building, not the Cathedral Center for the Houston-Galveston archdiocese. The building still has the FRB features, which is kind of weird. https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7497408,-95.3676946,3a,75y,36.22h,90.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sa1bYtFh15yK42gl3RAgI3A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Da1bYtFh15yK42gl3RAgI3A%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D82.52848%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

lets move it back there and tear down the current one!

Oh hell yeah! Right down the road for me!

It looks like a strip club to me

I believe you are seeing this

11 hours ago, ChannelTwoNews said:

so we piled into the '78 Cougar XR-7 

I was born in 86 so I missed out on a lot of the 70s and 80s "fun" cars but I had a couple family members and friends that had 80s cougars. I remember them all smelling the same lol

Parking podiums would be tolerable if they beautified them. Cover the damn things up so it can blend in with the rest of the building. Ugh 

3 hours ago, samagon said:

this leaves the people of freeport totally exposed, can this loop go farther south to include Clute, Lake Jackson, and Freeport?

basically, from Wharton straight down through West Colombia, pick up 36 down to Surfside Beach. from there, you can go straight through to Bolivar. 

nothing like a good old fashioned 6 lane highway along the beach!

and on the west side, you may as well push out to East Bernard, Sealy, Hempstead.

eventually at some point we're going to have to talk about one of these loops including Key West, Havana, and Cancun, with signature bridges between each.

By that point Daddy Elon should have his boring company going strong and we can do a bridge/tunnel system that'll put the Chesapeake Bay bridge and tunnel system to shame!

4 hours ago, Naviguessor said:

Sounds like the two "River Pavilions" / Restaurant spaces South of The Laura.

Not sure. The square footage of 10k and 20k don't match up with those pavilions.

On 5/10/2022 at 3:32 PM, hindesky said:

I guess this replaces the ones where Marquette is building apartments.

 I wondered why we had double the teams in our league for volleyball tonight. I didn't see a league for Sideout Volleybar. Now it makes sense.