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Its Carib instead of Polynesian, but I don't see a big difference thematically.

I don't know what you'd call Under the Volcano if you didn't call it a tiki bar...

I assume you mean Under the Volcano on Bissonett. That is a tiki bar, but I guess it doesn't fit their ridiculous uber casual tiki bar vision.

Re: Fat Cat, there is some cinderblock construction happening on that site.

OK, it's bound to be where Maggie Rita's used to be. 1400 plain old Shepherd not North or South. Chronicle messed up the address.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Right. It will look just fantastic.

Just think, niche stores out, stores we want in. And you get to blame WalMart for destruction of Mom and Pop. Everybody wins!

The joke was that they do not exist and have never existed, in addition to the misrepresentation in the OP.

Everybody wins except "Heights Baptist" which has been sold and is getting demolished and no part will remain. RIP Heights Baptist. We hardly knew ye.

My point about the village has nothing to do with how many SF of retail and all about the fact that shopping centers rich enough to have mall chain stores (Rice Village, Highland Village, River Oaks) are surrounded by some of the richest residential real estate in the city. The idea that that kind of retail development would be bad for home values is astonishingly ludicrous.

This Baptist Temple thing is really kinda tame, small beans. The real story will be what is Weingarten's long term plan for the block across the street. When they redevelop or sell, will it be retail like the Village Arcade? Will it be apartments? Both?