stan the man

i was searching for luggage on the flight 101 website and i saw it has a future location coming to houston, does anyone know where this is suspose to be?

Not sure where (wouldn't say on website) but a rather impressive store, nonetheless. Looks more like an airplane cabin converted into a spacious lounge.

Btw, it is "Flight 001" (pronounced Flight One)

Bottega Veneta

True Religion

Hanna Anderson

Hallmark Gold Crown

Ruehl

Tory Burch

are opening

Forth & Towne is closing

and i heard a jewelry store De Beers is opening somewhere in Houston

ive seen a store in LV

Just checked RUEHL's website. They do not list a Houston location (or even one coming soon). But they do list stores at the Galleria in Dallas and also at The Domain.

Jason Brewer anyone?

He's now in Orlando.

Errrrr, She said it was coming to Willowbrook soon and was told to her by a mall employee.

Vans is also opening soon at First Colony Mall.

I'd hate to see this facility leave the Houston area, but I can understand their needs and the ability to remain on air as well as the ability to expand. The current facility is quite small and surprised that it stayed there as long as it has. I guess the money really started coming in until relatively recently.

Fox Sports is NOT leaving Greater Houston. The Woodlands is in the northern suburbs in Montgomery County, which is north of downtown, just like Galveston County is to the southeast, Fort Bend County is to the southwest, and Waller County (which is bound to be the next "boom county") to the far west past all the disappearing pasture around Katy.

I have always though KHOU was number one in total viewings? I know ABC 13 is king in the mornings, but KHOU was better in the evenings and nights.

Actually, they go up against each other in just about every timeslot. It's like the battle in Anchorman between Ron Burgundy and Wes Mantooth (the anchor at Burgundy's chief rival).

It is now home to the headquarters for Imperial Sugar Company. I believe the cafeteria was called Piccadilly...

I can't imagine since both restaurants sound the same verbally, it caused confusion I guess.

So instead of Gringeaux's and Gringo's, we now have Gringo's Grille and Gringo's

What is the theme now? Doesn't sound like seafood to me...

I watched bits of the funeral as well. It was not as sad as the day I found out he died. That day it just kind of hit me hard and I knew Houston would never be the same again. The funeral was more of a celebration of his life so it was upbeat for the most part. Many people talked about famous Marvin moments and trivia so it was great!

I'm sure KTRK will air the funeral again this weekend for everyone who was at work or for other reasons missed it. I'll watch the whole thing this time around.

They are actually re-airing the funeral and special tonight on ABC-13.2 (Comcast Channel 314). ABC-13.2 is a digital subchannel that repeats EWN (Eyewitness News) and airs some obscure syndicated programs that otherwise would not air on the main ABC-13. I believe they also air repeats of Deborah Duncan's old show and various specials the station produces such as those specials that air at 10:35 after the Sunday edition of EWN.

The third restaurant in FCM Lifestyle Expansion is BRIO. I know they have a location at the Woodlands Mall. Brio will be across from The CheeseCake Factory. Cant wait untill this Fall to see what the new expansion will look like? Lets say more palm trees, a nice large water fountain, and parking inside the new expansion. Like Sugarland Town Center you will be able to drive in between the new stores. Want a picture of the finished product email me at: dortega005@aol.comWell, thanks for your time.

I haven't actually seen anything about BRIO...not even a sign saying it's coming soon. The only thing at the expansion they described was Grimaldi's Pizzeria. Could BRIO have backed out of the project?

BTW, check out the website for Grimaldi's. If you have seen the coming soon sign across from Kona Grill, you might be able to identify with the lettering of the sign in the middle of the top part of the website below...

http://www.grimaldis.com/

Marvin Zindler will never be replaced...the way he does his stories...the way he looks on camera...the kinds of stories he does...he is a Houston institution...a household staple across Texas...

I can recall regularly tuning in Friday nights to watch Marvin's Rat and Roach Report, and oddly enough some of the places my family frequented made at least one appearance on the Rat and Roach Report. I can also recall his "Action Mail" segments back in the 1990s during Live at Five...he even continued to say "Channel 13, Box 13..." even after "Channel 13" became "ABC 13", he most likely never used "ABC 13" during his segments...makes anyone wish for days when you didn't have to name a station after the network.

God bless his soul...

Comcast is not Comcastic. I miss my TV Guide Channel/Network.

It won't be long, Pumapayam, before the TV Guide Network drops the channel guide...especially in this day and age when interactive program guides are more worth it...

I just did a search of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on Architectural Barriers Projects in Fort Bend County and these are some of the projects that came up:

Home Goods, 2545 Town Center Blvd, Sugar Land (former Barnes & Noble, Targeted completion: 11.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7820223

City Park Renovations, 225 Seventh Street, Sugar Land (Targeted completion: 3.1.2008)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7820108

Chase Bank, 3651 Hwy 6, Sugar Land (New construction on former Chevron station, targeted completion: 5.1.2008)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7819815

First Colony Church Of Christ, 2140 First Colony Blvd, Sugar Land (Targeted completion: 10.1.2008)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7819546

Arby's, 6127 Highway 6, Missouri City (former Jumbles, Targeted completion: 10.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7818806

Triumph Hospital, 1550 First Colony Blvd, Sugar Land (addition/renovation, targeted completion: 3.1.2008)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7818590

Uncle Bob's Self Storage, 4717 Cartwright Rd, Missouri City (new construction, targeted completion: 8.1.2008)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7817859

Texana Center, 2535 Cordes Dr, Sugar Land (new construction, targeted completion: 8.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7816940

Sugar Land Mortuary, 1222 Eldridge Road, Sugar Land (targeted completion: 12.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7816853

Shell Food Mart / Burger King, 1250 FM 1092, Missouri City (targeted completion: 12.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7816254

Arby's, 1535 Highway 6, Sugar Land (targeted completion: 8.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7816216

Jack in the Box, Eldridge @ West Airport, Sugar Land (targeted completion: 11.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7815890

Dickey's Barbecue Pit, 24004 Southwest Freeway, Rosenberg (targeted completion: 9.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7815654

Ironstone Bank, 1295 Highway 6, Sugar Land (targeted completion: 6.1.2008)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7815653

Chase Bank, New Territory Blvd @ unknown street, Sugar Land (targeted completion: 12.1.2007)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7812085

Sugar Creek Baptist Church (Project cost: $20 MILLION), 13333 Southwest Freeway, Sugar Land (renovation/addition, targeted completion: 4.1.2008)

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7808306

http://ripple.sugarcreek.net/

In other words, this gives out the details of what is expected to emerge around here...

BTW, the state licensing search site is:

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearch/

KAZH is no longer a Spanish independent...it is now an O&O of a new Spanish network called TuVision...

By the way, I am receiving the new Azteca America LP affiliate (channel 34) from my Sugar Land home...

I've noticed issues recently with both the analog and digital stations. I've been holding off calling support since it hasn't been frequent enough to really be annoying and I assumed it may be due to the switch over from Warner to Comcast.

I should note that the problems all started with Channel 2...which had a terrible signal on cable channel 2, which is why channel 2 is now on channel 12 instead. This probably started with the problems in the Sugar Land system that go back to the days of Prime Cable, because I can recall in some places KNWS took channel 2's place when Warner Cable dropped BET in a controversial move to accomodate KNWS, but in SL it was KTMD that took channel 2's place...

At one time (1999 probably) I think Channel 2 was distributed in different parts of Houston on 2, 4, 6, 10 and 12 depending on area...it was 12 in SL.

Any news on what's going up in its place?

Rooms To Go. It's a furniture store chain based in Florida that claims to have the nation's largest furniture inventory.

They currently have 13 Texas showrooms: 10 in DFW, two in Austin, and one in San Antonio.

Texas Architectural Barriers Project Report:

http://www.license.state.tx.us/ABDataSearc...=EABPRJA7802855

Rooms To Go:

http://www.roomstogo.com

The City of Stafford report on this property (go to the top of Page 2):

http://www.cityofstafford.com/agendas/PZMi...07/07-04-10.pdf

They are also building a location in Spring, another near Baybrook Mall, and yet another near Willowbrook Mall.

This may be off-topic, but I have been getting fuzzy pictures on Comcast recently. This started just a month or two before the switchover and it happens at least three times a week in the late afternoon. Could they be fixing all the signals that do not come in clearly?

I was looking at this Ken Hoffman article on Chron.com and this is what it says...

"Earlier this year, weatherman Ed Brandon retired from Channel 13 after 25 years on the air.

Now I'm hearing the ground shake that another long, long, longtime Houston weatherman is going to hang up his dart and blindfold at the end of the year."

Looks like Houston could be in for something...

The article:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/h...an/4954397.html

First Colony mall probably couldn't support it if not only for the fact that it's the closest suburban mall to the Galleria. It's only 15 miles away. I could see higher end stores going into The Woodlands before First Colony, it's 33 miles away.

The Woodlands would get the stores first because of the distance, but First Colony is already having the makings of a first-tier mall...the only problem is the space limitations. The Woodlands is much larger (200+ stores to FCM's 130+). Hundreds more exist in that area.

FCM would need another expansion at least 10 years from now if this demand for high-end retail keeps rising higher and higher, since Town Square is about to get booked in the next few years, Lake Pointe will be booked a decade from now, and the shopping project in Telfair across from the airport is about to get built. In other words, expect the roof to be raised.

In addition to Marvin Zindler being diagnosed with this disease and Robert Finger dying of it last Sunday, I should also mention that Sylvan Rodriguez died just one year after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

RISK FACTORS:

- Age

- Gingivitis

- Male gender

- African ethnicity

- Smoking

- Diets rich in meat

- Obesity

- Diabetes

- Linked to chronic pancreatic disease

- Exposure to gasoline-based chemicals

- Family history

- Some weird infection called Helicobacter pylori

PROGNOSIS:

"Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer typically have a poor prognosis partly because the cancer usually causes no symptoms early on, leading to metastatic disease at time of diagnosis.

Median survival from diagnosis is around 3 to 6 months; 5-year survival is much less than 5%

With 32,180 new diagnoses in the United States every year, and 31,800 deaths, mortality approaches 99%, giving pancreatic cancer the highest fatality rate of all cancers and the fourth highest cancer killer in the United States amongst both men and women.

Pancreatic cancer occasionally may result in diabetes. Insulin production is hampered and it has been suggested that the cancer can also prompt the onset of diabetes and vice versa.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Other notable pancreatic cancer deaths:

- Count Basie (jazz musician)

- Melvin Belli (The King of Torts, he was a celebrities' lawyer)

- Jack Benny (pioneering radio, TV and vaudeville comedian)

- Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (led the Archdiocese of Chicago; popularized the Consistent Ethic of Life philosophy (which means that human life is sacred))

- Joan Crawford (one of the greatest actresses of the Golden Age of Hollywood)

- Dick Cusack (actor and filmmaker; father of John and Joan Cusack)

- Art Fleming (host of the original Jeopardy!, from 1964-1975)

- Dizzy Gillespie (jazz musician)

- Mark Goodson (very prolific game show producer (The Price is Right, Family Feud, Match Game, Password, etc.))

- Ken Kennedy (Rice University professor who founded its Computer Science Department)

- Fiorello LaGuardia (popular Republican New York City mayor from 1934-1945, who ironically supported the New Deal)

- Michael Landon (TV actor, writer, director and producer (think "Bonanza", "Little House on the Prairie" and "Highway to Heaven"))

- Henry Mancini (Academy Award-winning film composer)

- Harvey Martin (defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys, 1973-1983)

- Benjamin Orr (vocalist for The Cars)

- Winthrop Rockefeller (the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction; third generation member of the Rockefeller family)

- Richard Rorty (American pragmatic philosopher)

I blame Shelly Sekula Gibbs. Ever since she started her 2 week fill-in term, things in Ft. Bend County have gone rapidly downhill.

And this topic just got much bigger under Nick Lampson's watch...After all, no one else has a congressional district that is home to a posh suburb (SL) that is the target of home invaders, another suburb (Mo City) under fire because of their city leadership (and no term limits unlike well-managed SL), another suburb (Pasadena) that gets a derisive nickname because of its refineries and the smells they emit, and another suburb (Clear Lake, which is actually part of Houston) that is home to a part of the government that's a mess because of reasons I'll explain later...

Add Sugar Land's crime problems (mostly home invasions and robberies at FCM and such...even a bomb threat last year at Dulles HS), the mismanagement of Quail Valley C.C., a school district in disarray (FBISD), and controversy over a schoolteacher showing up on "The Bachelor" (not to mention the news stations filing suit against a landfill owner over a poorly-thought plan to raise the height of the landfill above the weather radars)...then throw in a U.S. News and World Report segment naming Fort Bend County among the worst commutes in the nation...and go east to find more trouble...residents having to deal with noise, evacuation and disaster ordeals because of the BP plant in Texas City (which I believe is actually in neighboring Ron Paul's district, not Lampson's, not sure about where the plant is evacuated) and whatever families within the 22nd District were affected by the explosion in '05...and all the recent troubles at NASA...with the space shuttle on the verge of retirement because of the Columbia tragedy, the recent standoff at JSC where one employee was murdered, the suspect committed suicide, and another employee got away...and because of Lisa Nowak, the official piece of clothing among District 22 residents is now a diaper...even Texas Monthly did a story on the Nowak love triangle...and mentioned the word "DIAPERS" in small print on the front cover...

Expect every news organization in the country that covers politics to have a reporter every day of the week in CD-22...because Karl Rove has made this district numero uno for the GOP. I wouldn't be surprised if this topic (and so many others) is a factor in Rove's decision to put this district at the top of the target list.

Oh, and btw, HPD needs to get involved to stop the criminals in SW Houston from crossing over and terrorizing the SL...and do something more like what a police department ought to do...I'm sick of hearing news stories about taser controversies, but I at least want to see HPD get rid of their pathetic "sanctuary" law...which to my knowledge Sekula Gibbs (courtesy of a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee flyer last year) approved of...

The outdoor life-style still needs better stores. Do not get me wrong BN is a strong point. I believe they need a real Starbucks outside. However, with BN, Black & White Market, W. Sonoma, Ann Taylor are all great stores. They still need a store to attract young people. Oh yes and Anthropoligie is also a great move. A&F needs to come back and Urban Outfitters would also be nice (I know it's hard to imagine it). Also, more marketing for Sugarland and their attractions should increase in Houston magazines and papers. (Oh yes..COACH is also a very smart move to FCM).

As a matter of fact, A&F is returning to FCM. They're also bringing in abercrombie (that's right, all lowercase...it's the Abercrombie kids store). Here's what the store list from the mall's website (and also from a leasing map taken from the website of the mall's owner) shows:

Leasing map of FCM: http://www.ggp.com/content/live/data/PDF/612-LP1.pdf

Coming soon:

A (Food Court):

Famous Cajun (next to McDonald's)

B (Area of mall surrounded by Dillard's and Macy's wings, JC Penney, the soon to be Dillard's Men's store (if that's what it is), all the mall entrances, and the Food Court):

Abercrombie & Fitch (possibly across from Bath & Body Works, taking up either three or four vacant spaces next to Sunglass Hut and Pottery Barn and surrounding Gordon's Jewelers; there are many vacant spaces in this portion of the mall, but that agglomeration is the largest on the map)

Cache

Levi

Sheikh Shoes (listed as being next to Select Comfort, could be open though...)

C (Dillard's wing):

abercrombie (the kids A&F)

Charlotte Russe

NY & Co.

(One notable vacant spot is in the former Talbots, which moved outdoors...the old Talbots could be either abercrombie kids or Charlotte Russe; NY & Co. already has a spot listed)

E (new outdoor section):

Black Walnut Cafe (not in the restaurant expansion area)

Grimaldi's Pizzeria (no clue...)

James Avery (this is most likely a relocation from the First Colony Commons...since SL would practically have to be richer than River Oaks to maintain two James Averys)

In the end, there remain a number of vacant spaces remaining...and retailers that could potentially fill them once the ones above fill in the blanks...

I would really like to see Steak & Shake return to the Houston market. We used to go there when I was a kid and we loved it.

Steak 'n Shake actually broke ground in The Woodlands, I'm told.

dang! crime out there! I mean...when we moved to SW Houston the others left like we had a disease or something..if crime gets crazy, where do they go? Needville? El Campo?

Calm down, hbcu, it will get taken care of...Fort Bend is growing rapidly, and our crime problems are no different than what you see in Katy, The Woodlands, and several other burbs. Channel 13 even did a report on crime problems in The Woodlands (and the sheriff's resources being stretched very thin out there).

BTW, I hear the local GOP is looking to field someone to run against the incumbent GOP sheriff (who is at least 60-70 years of age, has been in the post for 20+ years and is the potential target of a primary challenge). BTW, SLPD recently launched a stealth vehicle (can you say gray police cruiser with all-silver trim?) in their force.

Also, if you want to get political about it, try running in Missouri City...where a lot of people are looking to challenge the incumbents there because of a number of 'special interest' controversies I have heard about (e.g. requiring homeowners to pay for sidewalk repairs, ignoring the blight of the 'East End', etc., etc.).

I think the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce building on Commerce Green is a relocated rail depot. I can't find any photos or info on the Chamber web site, however. Perhaps someone could verify/refute my suspicion.

I think in the 1980s, the rail depot was physically moved from its previous location (probably over by the Imperial Sugar Factory) to Commerce Green in the Sugar Creek Center office development to become the headquarters of the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce. You'll see a brownish-looking sign that says "SUGAR LAND" below the shape above the sign.

The address: 445 COMMERCE GREEN BLVD., SUGAR LAND, TX 77478-3591