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    I think whatever the owner wants to do with is what's best for it. Of course within certain boundaries... they shouldn't put a toxic waste dump on it. Believe me McDonald's didn't become one of the most successful companies in the world by making bad decisions. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that they probably know better what to so with this land than I do.
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    We all pay for the highways because we all use them. Even if you stay inside the hieghts or midtown for your entire life you still get huge benefits from the highway system. ALl those 18 wheelers are carrying the products that you buy to make your life in the city possible. I'm not against mass transit, I ride Metro buses all the time, but just remember our highways are not just about getting people from the suburbs into the city.
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    The train just moves a few people around. I-10 is used for that plus a lot more important things. Look at all the 18 wheelers hauling heavy equipment built by small businesses in Houston, plus countless other cargoes that make Houston possible.
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    Some people think differently and have different priorities than you. That does not make them irrational.
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    I walk by the park side every weekday. I've seen no signs of retail. I could be wrong but from what they have put up so far it looks like all apartments.
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    I'm glad they're going this route while we wait for rail. I'll be using the BRT. I won't retire for another 20 years at least but rail might take longer than that.
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    I was threatened by a bum downtown once. He told me to give him my shoes or he would kill me. Luckily he was too high on something to stay upright. When I worked in downtown I would walk sometimes 10 miles a day. The bums are usually not dangerous, they're just ugly and disgusting. I don't want to live, eat, go to a movie or otherwise spend any time around them. They have a right to exist, but I also have my right to avoid them and shall continue to do so. I do the same with ugly areas of Houston. Greenspoint, Sharpstown, Harwin, etc... Not going to these places makes Houston a more beautiful city to live in.
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    The access controlled part wouldn't be where they would connect. They'd have to go through the open parts of the tunnel to get to the access controlled part.
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    There are two construction sites shown in the photo. One is the Whole Foods complex, I'm not sure what the other is but ChrisPHous seems to indicate that it is Hanover tower. I think he is referring to the bottom photo in which piles are being or about to be driven.
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    Usually when someone sends you an empty cad file it's because they had external references to files on their network. I've done that myself. If you let them know the files were emtpy maybe they'll merge the xref onto the drawing and send it again.
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    LTAWACS wastes all our time. Many times when I check new posts on this site I view 4 or 5 threads where he has left a one word respones like ugh. I've just wasted my time opening multiple threads where there is nothing new to read. It's like spam.
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    It may as well be on Mars. It would have to be some kind of fantastic development to get me to go over there. If they had people handing out $100 bills I'd consider it.
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    I used to eat lunch at the waterwall a lot when I was young. I would take girls from work there. This is one place in Houston where street level retail might work. The empty street level retail under apartments one street over has probably convinced the developers that it doesn't work in the Galleria though. I think they may be wrong in this case but the people who develop these projects are not walkability geeks like many HAIF people. They do the studies, see what works in the area according to statitisics and go home to their families. It's just a job, they want to make money, go home and forget about work.
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    I think mfastx must have meant the building on the right. That's the old Turnberry leasing office. I was wondering the same thing.
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    From 8.2.2012
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    Seems like it would be a good publicity stunt to declare that you are a non-profit, pay high enough wages to yourself and employees to make almost no profit and donate what's left to charity. I'm not saying that's what they're doing here but non-profit doesn't mean that no one is profiting.
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    Heavy equipment is on site. They're digging up a lot of dirt.
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    Crime In Midtown

    jgriff replied to eLy383Inc's topic in Midtown

    I was walking around midtown Frday, not exactly the area where this occured, closer to the Greyhound station. I was amazed at the blatant drug dealing at 9:00am with cops less than a block away. Serisouly the cops were on the same street while a guy was selling drugs to some women in a car.
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    I wonder the same thing. I live between Beltway 8 and 610 so I'm not inner loop and not quite the suburbs either. I usually find the people who think everything and everyone should be inside the loop or downtown are really annoying. In this case though if I worked for ExxonMobil I would rather be downtown. Downtown is a great place to work. You can get there via bus from everywhere. It's a great place to work if you live in the Woodlands or Sugarland. I guess cost and privacy may be it. I've worked on many ExxonMobil projects. I've also worked downtown. They really do take corporate espionage seriously. There are so many related business in Houston and especially downtown. Some companies I've worked for have poilices of not talking about work at lunch in a public place. You never know who is sitting next to you. We also have to put all documents in locked trash bins that are sent to be shredded. Sometimes they send people out to inspect your desk to make sure you've left no confidential documents out. This is inside an office building where you have to show your badge to get in and swipe it again to get onto the project floor.
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    And far more boring. I find myself visiting here less and less.
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    BMW does have great lease deals. Driving a BMW doesn't get you anywhere near the appearance of the 1% though. BMWs are ordinary cars for everday people. That doesn't mean that the OWS 99%er people don't hate them though.
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    Must be the 99%, they're probably BMW haters.
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    Interstates are paid for with taxes on gasoline. The gasoline was bought to get people to Katy where they want to live. If you can get everyone to agree to live downtown and ride bikes the funding for highways will disapear. It could be done. Everyone can live inside the loop. If we could just corral them all up in some kind of Katy to downtown forced march then all our problems would be solved. It's always those stuborn people who don't want to obey that get in the way.
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    There's a big empty lot just South of the Transco Tower parking garage. It's where the Turnberry high rise was going to be bulit.
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    These guys are absolutley scared to death of industrial espionage. I've been asked to not even say the word Shell when I'm around Exxon people. Of course any one who works on their projects that has a CD burner or a thumb drive can take whatever they want. I've never been able to figure out how to reconcile that.
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