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Will there be an HEB on the second floor?

What easement behind the building? From the aerials and street views, it doesn't look like there is any room behind the buildings.

SJL is 73, I think, so maybe the travel to and from DC is getting to her. I don't think she would ahve any issues getting reelected to Congress, given she seems to get 75% of the vote every election.

He's less disliked by the majority of voters than SJL, who is popular in her district but is highly disliked everywhere else.

That makes sense, since most neighborhoods are supplied by 8 inch mains. 72 inch mains do not make sense at all for local distribution.

Since railroads have already given up right of way, as along the Katy Freeway, there's not really enough tracks to support current freight movement, much less passenger, without significant delays. Heavy rail only works if the timetables are reliable. And Houston has far too many people who are just flat out opposed to rail at all to attract enough ridership to make heavy rail even semi-successful

There are some issues with building heavy rail here. First, is where do you run it? I don't think anyone would sell the concept of taking houses and businesses to build rail - there would be torches and pitchforks. The railroads are not going to give up their right of way at all. The only real alternative is along freeways, and that will bring screams from all directions. If you think the opponents of the 11th Street road diet were loud and shrill, it would be far worse for heavy rail. There's also the folks who will refuse to ride rail, because they might have to mix with poor people. I'm not sure where you would start, either, since metro flat out told me that heavy rail can't be built until there is a comprehensive light rail system to connect the heavy rail. And, where does the money come from? I'm not sure Washington is a good choice. It's too useful for cars right now, and building rail would eliminate a lot of capacity on one of the main East West routes out of Downtown.

Staying in dry dock forever is hard on a ship, as they are designed and built to be supported by water on all sides. Staying in dry dock tends to make them bend, then break. It would be better to put Texas into fresh water.

Our market value went from $414k to $518k in Timbergrove. We'll see what happens. It's the biggest one year increase I've ever seen.

Love her quote on Cottage Grove. It was definitely crappy.

Is there anything in there on death rays to take out the owners of unleashed dogs? No use improving the baseball field if stupid morons with unleashed dogs continue to allow them to run all over. That was one place where one of the teams my kid was on had dogs come up and grab baseballs. We didn't think that was nearly as cute as the owners did.

Sacred Heart is the Co-Cathedral for the Houston-Galveston Arch Diocese, ie one of the two main Catholic churches for a 10 county area of Southeast Texas. There's a map on this page showing the boundaries https://cabrinihouston.org/archdiocese-of-galvestonhouston It's a major church for Catholics.

Lots of discussion like that, and I occasionally just become a grumpy old man and point out that sometimes there's nothing you can do if you do not own the property. And the Catholic church is less worried about what anyone thinks than most developers.

Their property, their choice. If it bothers you that much, make an offer for the property and develop it as you wish. You will fail, because the Catholic Church doesn't care at all what you think.

My wife and kid go there. I recall hearing about the old building being slated for demolition before the new building opened, along with a history lesson on how Italian immigrants to Houston did the finish work inside. The Catholic Church doesn't care what anyone else thinks, it will do what it wants and never look back.

Harris County does not collect sales taxes.

Harris County does not collect sales taxes.

Time for some traffic police to sit there and write some $200+ tickets.

I preferred the Rice Campus as it was around 1980. But, I'm just a grump old man. The new buildings are very nice, but I dislike the loss of open space. I also disliked how Leebron remade the school.

We haven't had much rain, so there's not a lot of silt in the water. The next time it rains, it will be brown again.

That's a great song, along with My Wife Thinks You're Dead.

The hospital closed in 1985 or so, and it looks like the whole thing moved to West Houston Medical Center on Richmond near Dairy Ashford New owner convicted of exposing workers to asbestos https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-man-sentenced-in-asbestos-case-2011159.php Mentioned here https://www.chron.com/news/article/Area-medical-lab-to-honor-employees-1836171.php

McIlvain died in 2015 in Los Angeles. He was an investigative reporter here in Houston for nearly 20 years, working for Channel 11 https://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/McIlvain-longtime-Ch-11-reporter-dies-at-73-6126072.php

Live ammunition is not a hazard during a fire unless it is confined. Ammunition that goes off during a fire has very little energy.

Both. Eureka Heights is to the NE of Timbergrove. You can see the wells in the area below