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    Is there a Texadelphia there in that shopping center? I know it's behind the shopping center just west of Detering. The entance is off of Asbury which is between this shopping center and the Shell station. If you read this topic you will see the detailed location.
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    Yeah, because god forbid if an Applebee's or a fast food restaurant wanted a good location that can make some money.
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    I think that the commercial development above would be a good step towards making the main UofH campus more of an urban university.
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    Hey, many northeast and some midwest cities like Chicago used to by the homeless one way tickets on Amtrak trains to other cities to get rid of them. New Orleans felt this problem when they realized that many of the homeless were seen getting off Amtrak trains during the last month. It's sad practice but at least the adminstration in Chicago can say he got rid of the homeless. Houston needs to enact an ordinance the forces people that ask for money at street corners and intersections to get permits. This allow for legitimate groups to do this but will make the homeless liable. Then, when the cops arrest them, the homeless get the option of going to jail or to a homeless shelter. This policy worked in New York in cleaning up the streets. It's a tough love sort of thing.
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    Yeah, the redstone is located along North Post Oak by the Houstonian.
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    Yeah, I've been meaning to go to Casa Manhattan. I'll guess I'll be meaning to go to the Thirsty Cactus. Something about that name just doesn't sound right though.
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    Yeah, That rendering has too many floors to be the Hanover project. Redstone has more than 30 floors, Hanover is 21 floors.
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    Cool. I think the Riverway Complex is one of the more overlooked mixed-use developments in the city. I think people just see it and think it's just the northern portion of Uptown. This will add a nice touch to the area that is alread populated with condo towers and office towers.
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    Eventhough it would appear to be oxymoronic to have a McDonalds and Whole Foods next to each other, it will have the ability to serve to markets. Is it strange to a be patron of both places, or I'm just weird like that. I don't go to Whole Foods because it's organic and everything. I went there because it was close to my apartment on Alabama. Now I go to Kroger on 11th street because its close. Its some what cheaper especially with the Kroger card. It think having it in downtown would be a great selling point for downtown residential units because another aspect that is needed for residents is close. Downtown residents don't have to go to the Randal's in midtown now. Besides just having entertainment and restaurants, groceries will have a presences.
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    Also, I looked at the aerial photo for the site. It seems they are keeping most of the site in tacked as for as the platting goes. Other than the one road they are going to have abandoned. True the site plan is not in a generall pro-urban concept, but it seems no neighborhood jumped in to voice their opinions. Also, the placing of a typical commercial site on abandoned warehouses is better than nothing at all.
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    Check the Shamrock Tower posts in the the Going Up forums.
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    Good point GovernorAggie. Where is that pro-urban Target attitude that people talk about. Wal-Mart had build facilities just like the above. The good thing is that I would rather go to this Target than the one on San Felipe by the West Loop that I go to.
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    Actually, that is a lot less parking that I would envision for a development of that size. It's probably the bare minimum. Also, the city will require the planting of trees throughout the project like the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway and US 59. Some of those trees were existing, but many or new as required by the city for new developments with large parking areas.
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    On the one people want to have more dense residential in the area, someone is building that and now they say its too big. The Vistas site makes great use of the little land they had in a "urban" way. They have very little of the property fronts any street. The open areas of the development are above the parking garage which is only two floors anyway. I'm glad this is being built as it is a move forward in increasing density in the Downtown/Midtown Area.
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    Yes closed, thanks for the correction.
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    A section of the buildings are alread cleared. A few more need to go. I need to pass by this weekend and look.
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    I guess you heard about the Shamrock Tower negotiations with Whole Foods to take the large retail location on the first floor?
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    If comuter rail, then it would be north of downtown at that rail yard or down by Fannin and I-610. Those are the two locations where commuter rail will get close to downtown.
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    Be carefule Eddie Bauer lovers. The homes stores are all closing in August and clothing stores are up in the air for how long they may stay open. The stores in the Woodlands have clothes because the mall didn't get a lease renewal from Eddie Bauer.
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    This is great. I won't have to go to the Target at San Felipe and I-610 anymore.
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    I caught a piece of the story too on 950am and 740am. I guess I shouldn't switch back and fourth. I did here about moving Greyhound some where, but didn't catch it exactly. The multimodal concept would be awesome.
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    Even LSU in Baton Rouge is in an affluent neighbor hood with 100 year old oaks and stately homes. Due north of the Campus going into downtown gets a little worse. I think the region around UH is due for a major boom soon. It will become a targe for rennovation especially when the light rail moves through it.
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    It depends. Also, 30 days to the notice to proceed for construction could mean up to 120 days. It depends on the contract. Just because the construction company has the ok to start, they usually can wait up to 45 or 90 days based on the contract. This gets them time to get equipment relocated to the site from other sites. Get in big equipment such as crane which may have to travel far. It's a setup time. They may have a ceremony with some dirt shoveling and then work gets really started. Either way, it seems like it is in motion to be built.
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    Actually, I looks like they are just going to take out some of the parking lot for the mall for the aquarium. I really like seeing the tall building in the background behind the mall. This appears to be part of the mixed used expansion for the mall side of Gessner.
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    TIRZ's are not meant specifically for blighted neighborhoods. Any neighborhood willing to take a slight property tax increase for improved infrastructure can form a TIRZ. Uptown has TIRZ and is hardly blighted. The TIRZ's allow for locals to pay for improvemnts without leaching off the rest of the city's tax revenues. I glad that one exists for Memorial City (didn't know it existed). It will allow the area to become another center for the city. It's already on a good start and the proposals on the table will make it only better.
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