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    Ah, but unfortunately I have many left-turn needs. Like all the other people who are going to Allen Pkwy from W Gray.
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    Wow, that really is a lot of retail! It's also a small area and only a couple of ways to get in and out. It will impact traffic between West Gray and Allen Pkwy north/south, and Shepherd and Waugh east-west. I'm in that area daily, running errands at lunch and after work, and it's pretty congested now. At the very least, turns lanes and lights at Dunlavy and Allen Parkway will need to go in, as well as turn lanes at Dunlavy and Dallas. There are a lot of steet parkers in that area because all the townhomes surrounding the site. During evening rush hour Dunlavy is stacked from Dallas to Allen Parkway. By 5:30, Allen Pkwy westbound often stacks up at the Shepherd light all the way back to Dunlavy. And West Gray is pretty tricky now, since there aren't any protected lefts at the Dunlavy, Woodhead and McDuffie lights. EDIT: actually the whole area is a pain because of the lack of protected lefts. W Gray and Waugh for starters.
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    There is also the AIG land along Waugh at Dallas still up for grabs, and our Cushman Wakefield contact seems to think it will go retail, possibly grocery. Only hearsay, though.
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    Finally! Some eye candy along the Bayou. Oh, wait -wrong thread. This isn't in Memorial Park.
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    Oh, I was referring to abuses of executive under GW. Has lots to do with everything, assuming you trust the constitution still applies. But I can definitely agree on your other presidential examples.
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    G.W. sets quite a precedent with regard to executive order. I would not take that lightly. Being a white American citizen doesn't necessarily qualify as an exemption.
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    Baiting!!
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    don't even get me started!
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    Another instance of my ex-husband flashbacks! Amazing! I'll bet, though, that you did not call it Intergalactica at security, at the gate, and more at the bar, then the gate again, until the men in official outfits came, and then Mrs. Crunch went on vacation by herself.
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    were you even born when that terminal opened? We could start a campaign to change the name! ....Although I think Sheila Jackson Lee has dibs. And along the same lines, look for the Carol Alvarado light rail station, coming soon.
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    not at all, we always used Hobby or "big airport"; "Intercontinental" when we wanted to sound fancy or talking to friends/family who would be flying into it. When terminal C opened, it went from big to positively gi-normous. And then of course they started getting stupid with the names. The Mickey Leeland terminal? I mean really, what kind of a sick joke was that? EDIT: (for newer locals, and youngsters: Mickey Leeland died in a plane crash.)
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    True, but my memories of Warren's in the mid 80s was as a hard-drinking hole popular with the newspaper folks, and a small smattering of college students (my crowd) wanting a crusty, Charles Bukowski type of ambience.
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    Dead like every other club in the mid-late 90s. It lasted longer than most. It did contribute to slummers and clubbers turning Warrens into a "place."
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    There's such a success story in Power Tools. It catered to punk/hardcore/dance/trance/hip hop all at the same time. Very cool. A natural offshoot of Rich's and Numbers, but with much broader appeal. When PT opened, I was sort of club-weary. It really energized some of the old punk/dance club crowd in town.
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    If we told you we'd have to kill you.
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    What's Potbelly?
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    They used to. I lived in one for a semester at SWT. Interior walls were cinderblock covered by what I'm sure was a thick coat of lead-based paint. Peeling linoluem over concrete floors. It didn't even have air-conditioning. The men's building was known as ''Beirut". Good times.
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    I could live with a Dunkin Donuts, actually. That would be more fitting for the hood. Have you noticed their anti-Bucks slant in the latest TV ads? Coffee and donuts for people out there actually getting things done. As opposed to goofing off on wifi in the middle of the day.
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    What's your opinion on Starbucks ETA for the east end? Near east--Harrisburg, say, before Wayside. A few of us in Eastwood are taking bets. I'm medium range at 2-3 years. You can get in the pool if you like. It does take a long time. I used to live in Woodland Heights with an ex; house on Bayland he bought in '88 for what seems like nothing in today's world. In the late 80s, early 90s the Heights was the place to buy in. The same booster-ish tune as in the Chron article today. RedScare will appreciate this, a couple of the budding young partners at Baker Botts at the time moved their families into Woodland Heights to much office scandal--is that a good neighborhood??? Of course now, well. It did eventually turn. I see many similarities, and some differences. It had more consistent housing stock, and more of it, but to my eye, the Heights of the late 80s was about where the Eastwood is now, minus the retail hub like old 19th street. It was more white, but not with 'amenities.' It did feel more connected to other neighborhoods, like Montrose, which is a factor, I think. On the other hand east end has the universities. We'll see. See what the rail does. Need more retail along Harrisburg.
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    Yea, we call it the Bait Camp. There's plenty of 'odd' in this neighborhood, I'm finding! Just the way I like it.
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    Cool, I just saw this. Hopefully it will bring you some good business, rps! It seems the east side was due for another article, what with the recent sales prices. I've got clippings of a very similar article, I think 2002, with the previous owners of my house. And the "Morrills" quoted in today's article were quoted then, too. They must know someone! For a while now the east end has been promised as the next Heights and it looks like the tide really has turned. Bill England's next project is across the street from me. He's turning it around on the lot and a total remodel. The dumpster is filling up already. I look forward to watching the progress......
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    Me too-- I read a number of news sources--and being in the financial business I practically swim in news. Chron has never been high on my list, frankly. I still read it, but when I have to wade to through crap to get to a locally written story on a locally HQd company, for example, it irritates me. The one thing I expect them to deliver, they increasingly don't. Do you like the MSNBC website? I'm an Olbermann fan, but find their website cluttered and never go there. Perhaps because so much is tied to the Today show? Final words on the Chron: Witney Casey, a column?? What editor received a special gift that day? And Ken Hoffman just needs to go away. There is no schtick left for you, bub. Not in the drive-thru; not anywhere.
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    This myspacing crap has got to stop. "Your stories and photos" in the middle of the page really irritates me. To the point where I probably will stop using their website. If I'm reading a traditional, major daily it's because I want news, local news especially. Not a non-professional photo of some fat dude from Rosenberg and his kitten. Nor do I want to read his poorly written but heartfelt blog. I want to read the Contintental Airlines story that would otherwise have been above the fold, if not for the link to 'mom diaries!' and 'shop girl' or some such crap. There is obviously readership and a place for that stuff. I must be in the minority to think that place is on the blog features page, rather than above local business news. OK. Rant over. The chron.com redesign is horrible.
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    Facilities just announced the pending sale of the AIG land on the NW corner of Dallas and Montrose, which includes the grassy area bordering the corner, which includes one surface parking lot off Dallas b/w entrance 6 and 7. No other scoop, yet. You should be able to see it by using the link Lockmat put up on the SE corner thread: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...8&encType=1
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    I just drove past that thing a couple of days ago. Shreveport--now there's a sorry downtown. With the exception of a newish bank building and a couple of cheesy casino hotels, timed stopped there in 1976. I guess the shiny new Shreveport, if there is one, is not near the 1-20.
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