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  1. I wonder how many truly homeless people know about all these shelters?

    They know the options...word gets around really fast, and they help each other.  Way back when, I even heard one guy giving another guy the current code to get into the men's restroom at Macy's.

  2. I think the monorail idea was part of the original Houston Center development plan, and was abandoned decades ago.

     

    The people mover was part of Texas Eastern's Houston Center vision -- a city within a city. People would drive directly from freeways to parking garages and use the people mover (above ground) to get to their office and other buildings.  Part of the plan: turn your back to the street -- who wanted to be there? So 1, 2, 3, 4 Houston Center have little street presence. The people mover was planned, in part, to help people move around the 74-acre site without having to go to street level.

     

    Then Panhandle purchased Texas Eastern, and the future plans went away.

  3. There is an effort underway to put radio and cell signal in the tunnel system, but I don't know when it'll be installed.  Has been discussed for years, but HPD jump-started it.  Cell service is good and bad, the bad part being that downtown needs more people walking at street level!

  4. That's the problem. The cross causes some confusion. St Joseph is no longer affiliated to the Catholic Church. It's been bought by Hospital Patners of America, a struggling hospital group that also owns River Oaks Hospital (formerly Twelve Oaks) and pockets of hospitals in Austin and one of the Carolinas.

    The Sisters sold hospital, yes, but the hospital/HPA doesn't even own that building.

  5. This building has a lot of lawyer's offices on the ground floor. Was it a hotel at one time? I think it had a bar or comedy club as a tenent at one time. I think the building has a clever name now.

    By referring to McDonald's, do you mean the former McDonald's on Texas at Main Street, the McDonald's in the tunnel system, or the one at street level in the HPD building?

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