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http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2013/06/popular-austin-based-wing-bar-pluckers-coming-to-houston/

Based on this Pluckers will be in River Oaks.

It doesn't.

Has the fire hydrant been moved yet? 

I don't know. Ive never found it. Other than the one that isn't even adjacent to Ainbinder's property.

You were wrong. Apparently this was taken out by a crotchety angry, vaguely crazy middle aged lady and they are now looking for her.

I could use a good cleaners, auto parts store, or place to get some checks cashed along 11th.

So your anecdote was a bad joke?

WalMart is on the route of the proposed Inner Katy line that was in phase III or whatever of the old Metro Solutions maps...

I'm willing to pay a premium for organically grown, local crunch berries.

Where is this fire hydrant in the sidewalk? Are we talking about the hydrant next to Alta Heights? Because that's not adjacent to Aimbinder at all. That was originally Orr.

I have a buddy who lives literally within a stones throw of Sprouts on S Lamar in Austin (formerly Sun Harvest) and Ive been in there. Also been in revival.  Whole Foods is also a competitor for Revival. There are direct dollars spent both places among the same customer base that could choose to spend in either one.  Wal*Mart is not even in the discussion.

LMAO. I find it just absolutely fascinating that we are hoping that Sprouts can give evil Wal*Mart a run for its money in the critical produce department with no mention that Sprouts would be a national (or at least regional?) chain store, going into direct competition with a local/neighborhood owned mom and pop place just 3 blocks away.

No, no. Leonard has come out and stated that it wasn't sarcasm, and that's definitive!

So you don't think the developer is going to put in sidewalks.  We'll see how that goes for you.

IMO, Orr built the ugliest buildings in the area.

This sidewalk talk is a bunch of crap.  There will be sidewalks on both sides of Yale from bridge of death, to railroad graffiti pit of night terror once development by all developers is complete. I have no idea why this is even an issue.  Even right now, thanks to Ainbender north of Koehler, and Orr south, that stretch of Yale on the east side has a sidewalk when it was just broken up parking lot, old sidewalks overgrown with grass, and stretches without sidewalk at all, prior to development.

The fact that thee is a big stink about a couple hundred feet is still left without a sidewalk in an area where it would likely be about to be closed for construction of the new development, have curb cuts added, and have it all torn up anyway to fit the new developers site plan, etc is ludicrous.

Trinity Steel used the entire site, as does the current retail center.  I doubt Trinity Steel let their plant become muddy and boggy retaining rain in their storage and rail yards, there was probably fast artificial drainage offsite even if it wasn't all concrete (which it may have been, I dunno).

Pluckers will be opening a place on Shepherd north of Washington Ave, according to their twitter feed.

The idea that Yale was a pedestrian paradise that has been ruined is bunk.  For one, I think there is a sidewalk across the street now that didn't exist before so pedestrians can technically just walk on the other side.  For another, there is currently active development there, and we have no idea what it will look like, unless the new development doesn't put sidewalks it will have been, what like a year or a year and a half of no sidewalk there? There will be a pad site there, so I'm guessing that there will be a sidewalk.

The picture is also of a stretch of frontage that doesn't even front this development, but is of the San Jacinto Stone site which has just been cleared.

I now take Yale instead of Durham to go west on I-10 (and I live at 14th and Nicholson, closer to Shepherd/Durham and its faster to backtrack east to Yale). Perhaps there is another high impact time where people like me are backing you up, but the only time I ever have to stop on Yale is for maybe one circuit of the lights at 11th, 6th, and/or I-10 depending on timing (or a truck trying to get into Pappas warehouse) so I only ever see normal traffic pattern, not any delays..  Traffic getting back is definitely affected by the Shepherd exit being closed and more people having to use Yale (I would use Shepherd to get back home if I could).

Durham in the morning is cluster**** compared to Yale.  You have to wait a long time at I-10 up onto the bayou bridge and god help you if there is a train south of I-10.

I like how in the comments, once again, we get to hear about 50+ year old live oaks that I can remember being planted less than 20 years ago.

Why on earth did they not face center field southwest?

Because that's the opposite direction of the way a baseball stadium is supposed to face. If a ballpark has a southwest orientation,then the batter is looking into the sun in the early evening.

"It is desirable that the line from home base through the pitchers plate to second base shall run East Northeast." - Official Baseball Rules, section 1.04.

Minute Maid Park is actually the only park in MLB where the plate-2nd base line actually does face slightly westerly. It runs just slightly west of North.

I hope it gets built, I was thinking last night when I saw the renderings how cool the skyline would look from inside Minute Park if some these new proposals get built.

Right. It will look just fantastic.

Looks fine.

I am OK with a park only if they do not remove the picturesque giant reed field.