Jax

The website still says the "Grove" restaurant is opening tomorrow. Does anybody know if that is really going to happen?

Wow lots of robberies along the metro rail line. That's pretty scary.

Here's a good website with monthly crime data in google maps. I find it interesting to look at what times the crimes occurred. A quick glance at midtown shows that a significant number of the robberies happened during daylight. I didn't realize it was that bad.

http://houstoncrimemaps.com/neighborhood/

I call it a Chanukah bush.

The only drawback was some of our friends got held up at gun point right around the block as they were walking in.

Damn, that's scary!!

No fair, the Dallas images are much better quality, and you can look up and down (you can't do that in the Houston street view). And the coverage seems better. And it doesn't seem like they took all of the images on a sunday at 7:00 am in the winter with no leaves on the trees. I think they need to start over with the Houston street view, it really makes a lot of Houston look bad.

Can I be the first to say that the entire street is devoid of pedestrians?

Which corner of the East End are you talking about?

I think there's a rendering in this thread somewhere. It's supposed to be mixed use in the style of Midtown Square!

Haha (the TV dishes).

I think a grocery store in this area would probably be a good thing for those living downtown as well as the East End and even parts of Midtown and the 3rd ward. I wonder how likely it would be that one would be built there.

Why is the title of this thread "Grand Opening". I don't think they'll be having a grand opening for at least another year...

Oak Farm has purchased the land in that area

Does anybody know if Oak Farm is building another plant there, or if there might be a more interesting use for the land?

Cane somebody merge this with the existing 2727 Kirby thread?

Mosaic tower 1 from Hermann Park.

Maybe we should just get Niche to become our "Judge Dredd"

Only because of all the red tape. We need to dramatically overhaul and streamline the process.

Isn't the whole point of the red tape to make it more certain that the conviction is correct? Do you believe that streamlining the execution process would not result in more false convictions? Or do you just not care if it does?

What I'm proposing basically, is a means whereby people who place importance upon something pay for it and that people that don't consider it important don't pay. Any other system is embracing a form of theft, IMO.

So in that case, people without cars shouldn't have to pay for the roads, and people without kids shouldn't have to pay for public schools. And people who are not in favor of war wouldn't have to pay into the military budget. I don't see how anything like that could ever work. If taxes were voluntary, we'd most likely have to world's worst school system, military, and transportation system, not to mention lots of other problems.

i agree. Without something to vitalize that part of town, more well loved buildings could perhaps, fall into disrepair, so this project will probably save more beloved historic spots.

I agree. I love the look of the Texaco building (much more than the New West Building and Montagu). I'm really hope something good will happen with it soon. So much potential there, and it's depressing to see it empty.

I went swimming outside last weekend. I love this weather!

I think that was a different chase on the 610. One on the highway, and one downtown...

What a lame excuse. Why accelerate if your brake is broken? And why try to run when you get out of your car?

Luckily nobody was hurt, but I saw him hit several other cars live on TV.

Did anybody ever hear why they were chasing him? After the chase I didn't hear anything or see any news about it online.

They got him!

I guess I can head downtown now.

Whoa, I was just about to go downtown. I think I'll wait till this guy is outta there. Looks like he's on Crawford now near the HP construction site.. Whoa he just hit somebody! Yeah, I'm going to stay home for a bit. There are sparks coming out of his car too.

aren't you the person who likes Chipoltle? if so that is sad. just having a doctor's appointmnt is so more valuable than you willl claim? the med center provides so many options than you cant buy your girlfriend a bracelet.

False convictions are a big problem with or without the death penalty

Yes, but you can't resurrect dead inmates who had been falsely convicted and then executed. That is one of the reason that the death penalty was outlawed in Canada in the 1970s (there was a specific case where an inmate was scheduled to be executed, and proven innocent many years later.). I think that if you're going to have capital punishment, it should only be used in cases of extreme certainty, not "much more commonly"... although I am sure you're going to argue that there are plenty of cases of absolute certainty where the death penalty was not used, or something along those lines.

There are also people out there concerned about hunting and sport shooting, but that's a tertiary issue on my list.

The hunting issue is null as far as I am concerned. Even in gun-hating places like Canada, you're allowed to have a gun for sporting or hunting purposes (as long as it's properly licensed). I know people will try to argue that requiring a license in order to carry a hunting rifle would be unconstitutional though. I used to go skeet shooting with a teacher from my high school, and it wasn't a big deal.