JJxvi
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Renovating the Dome would probably cost much, much more than building a simple soccer specific stadium would. A huge stadium like the dome also costs money to ramp up for an event, so the team probably wouldnt make money on it with an MLS sized gate.
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I walk down 14th to go run on Heights, and Ive never seen the place either...
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address/cross street?
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Houston is a football town and it will become plainly obvious once we have a playoff type season. Until then Houston is a baseball town.
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Hello HAIF, I'm looking for any information regarding an old motel in the Texas Medical Center. A buddy mentioned to me the other day there was a small motel called Old South Tourist Court located at 8803 South Main Street. Does anyone have info? When was it built and demolished? Are there any historical learnings around the internet? What about postcards or memories? Thanks!
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The LA Galaxy is already a more valuable franchise than all but about 10 NHL teams, and probably right at the value of a couple MLB and NBA teams. Red Bull bought the MetroStars for about $100 million a few years ago, which was already knocking on the door of the lower tier hockey franchise values.
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Pachuca are not really the South American champs. Pachuca are the reigning Copa Sudamericana champions which is like the UEFA cup winner in Europe (as opposed to the Champions league). It is a continental championship, but is not the true continental club championship. Boca Juniors are the current Copa Libertadores holders and thus South American Champions. In Europe Sevilla won the EUFA Cup but are not European Champions (AC Milan won the Champions League)
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I dont think this would have had a very large negative impact on the view of the skyline from MMP. Those drawings make the place look a lot more impressive than it would have truned out in actual size. I dont think from inside the ball park you would have a building blocking out the rest quite like they show (nor do I think the apartments themselves would have had the view into the ball park that they were likely marketing). Would have been a nice building that added to the view from inside the park IMO.
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Yes. http://rudys.com/locations/index.html
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Chronicle Article
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2nd Ward starts at the railroad tracks East of the site. Lot C, MMP, 59 etc, are all outside the western edge of the 2nd ward.
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288 @ Reed Rd
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It also does not follow that if you got rid of the prime and most high tech advertising spots, that the company's advertising budget would stay the same...
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How exactly did you make this leap? What I'm saying is that if you go around saying, give us money to improve all of Houston's parks (or as I have seen, give us money to help fund scholarships and programs) you dont raise nearly as much money as you do when you go in and say, give us money we have a goal for a beautiful new $70 million park and here are conceptual drawaing (or give us money to help fund a new 40,000 SF wing for the business school building, that will contain, X, Y, and Z). Im saying that if you dont spend $70 million on Discovery Green or whatever, it DOES NOT folow that you would have that same $70 million to spend somewhere else.
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Then she called Bob Garner. He was working at the Palladium Ballroom, at 3145 Southmore Blvd. tonight. It was Don Robey’s club, and the leading R&B and Soul Club in Houston. She told Bob about my arrival, and she also promised me free discs.
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We, the taxpayers, own a parking lot. A sucky one. Lot C pass holders are almost completely made up of corporate season ticket holders who give tickets away to clients or employees along with a Lot C pass. Thos people who are smart ditch the pass and pay $5 and walk or $15 for convenience. The tightwads and the ones who dont know what they are getting into in Lot C park there and wait for an hour to get out of the lot after the game, probably while cursing to themselves. Our options are simple, 1) Lease the land for this abomination of a parking lot to AEG for a soccer stadium that they will pay for or 2) Continue leasing it to the Astros for a parking lot that essentially adds no value to us. Easy choice IMO.
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Let's assume it happens. How does this affect East Downtown and the Near East End. You would begin encroaching upon 150-175 sports dates in that area per year (MLS, MLB, NBA, high school football, college basketball, college baseball). Youve got a convention center and hotel. A new park. Concerts that go with the 3 sports venues. Is it enough for entrepeneurs in the city to look at that area and say...this is the perfect area for a restaurant or casual/sports bar. Seems like this area of town would be perfect for a casual entertainment and dining district to develop.
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The Dynamo average about 16k at Robertson. Max of about 25k. (A 70k doubleheader game at Reliant skews the "official" numbers a bit). The games are usually Saturday or Sunday evenings/nights. Some games on weeknights (which have caused problems with UH), and an occasional weekend day game.
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Won't be long now before the anti-stadium crowd grabs their pitchforks and starts taking to the streets. Probably before any kind of funding issues are publicized.
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German stadiums of the 20-30,000 capacity are generally single bank of stands around each side of the field. Most generally include terraces with standing room and seating and generally the terrace areas can be converted to seating. German stadiums also almost always have a roof covering the stands but not the field. Examples
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I suspect that all you would get at that location is a fabulous view of US 59 towering over the west end of the stadium.
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Regent Square: Mixed-Use On Allen Parkway At Dunlavy St.
JJxvi replied to Travel_n_Transport's topic in Going Up!
Makes sense. It was very hard for me to pick out a spot where an E/W street was crossing through in the unedited rendering. -
Regent Square: Mixed-Use On Allen Parkway At Dunlavy St.
JJxvi replied to Travel_n_Transport's topic in Going Up!
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Bradenton is the US Men's National Team academy for the USA youth teams. Also, each team now has its own academy where they train youth players per a directive from the league. Houston has signed 5 players or so in the last couple of weeks to start their academy. Each team will be allowed to keep a certain number of their own home grown players from now on without exposing them to the SuperDraft. Before that rule was in place, it wasnt worth it to have academies since domestic players had to go through the draft. You would invest in a bunch of players and any team could reap the benefits by taking him from you before you got anything out of him.
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Houston was pursuing Marioni before he signed with Boca. He just signed with Boca a couple weeks ago so its doubtful he's headed here.
