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    It has to be tightly-run. The street vendor situation in Washington, DC, was positively atrocious.
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    City Vista is in a great location. Every July, when Fringe starts, the area becomes a hub of activity. The only problem is no parking.
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    Sierra Nevada is apparently still in the mix. This facility needs to be designed to capture the manufacturing segment of the space business; there will probably not be anything more than weekly launches into space until the last half of this century(so much for that monorail!).
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    2Q 2015 starts a week from yesterday.
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    I looked diligently for any old records of it. It's all down the memory hole.
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    The downspouts are all up against the interior structured parking, and the roof drains towards the center. Though they could be scuppered. All I know is my apartment block has some nice waterfalls that flow into the garage.
  7. toxtethogrady
    What about a 2015 Audi being used on taxi runs?
  8. toxtethogrady
    Not as far-fetched as you would imagine. Harris-Teeter builds groceries in the bottom of apartment blocks. Works fine until the sewer backs up.
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    A string of them, actually.
  10. toxtethogrady
    The second one reminds me of the Oobleck House in Portola Valley, CA.
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    Needs to be skinnier to fit in New York. And maybe twice as tall.
  12. toxtethogrady
    Latest census numbers are in; as of July 1, 2014, Greater Houston had 6.5 million people. Even with the oil shock, the city could be at 7 million by 2020.
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    Straight outta Dashiell Hammett...
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    The only thing that would be more of an educational buzzkill would be another state-mandated standardized test...
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    Oops, it's raining; that's going to add at least three months to the construction timeline...
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    Subtle political message there?
  17. toxtethogrady
    They were wrapping things up when they first designed it.
  18. toxtethogrady
    So is anything happening behind the fence?
  19. toxtethogrady
    Are any of them things other Houstonians give a fig about? Frivolous lawsuit. Where are the Americans for Tort Reform?
  20. toxtethogrady
    6,000 sf is way too much house to deal with. Even 3,000 sf is too big. But 2,000 sf is good for a large family, and 1,500 will fit a small family. But unless Skanska is willing to build it and just wait for the tenants to roll in, I don't see this project happening anytime soon...
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    Houston was actually supposed to get an observation tower near 59 and 610 on the southwest side, but that was back in the early '80s, before the last bust. The last thing I remember being on that corner was the big mound of dirt.
  22. toxtethogrady
    Hey, you could have the same thing in Fort Worth for $1900. Slight discount. http://www.trinitydistrictapts.com/
  23. toxtethogrady
    Scopes that creep always get value-engineered down. Perhaps that's what they're doing during the "pause".
  24. toxtethogrady
    The cost creep on this project is perhaps an example of what all developers were dealing with, as costs more than doubled, making a project that was almost fully funded fall woefully short. When it only cost $40 million, $33 million in funding seemed like "almost there", but with cost growth to $80 million...
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    It's not the only one going up in town. Six stories of kindling wood framing seems to be easy enough to do....as long as no one runs a forklift into it (see Swamplot for the results).
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