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    Hope everyone is safe.
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    It is on fire right now. Smoke coming out of the center "tower" onthe Texas Stret side.
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    Thanks for the update, I have not seen any activity there on my walks by the block.
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    It is the yin to the "contact a realtor and pay me $250 to learn about my bazillion dollar development going in downtown" website's yang.
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    I parked in this lot and the one next to it nearly 15 years ago. At the time, vehicle burgaries were extremely common there, but it was cheap and I nothing worth stealing in my truck. Stray dogs wandered through regularly too.
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    I typically get in the left lane and keep up with whoever I end up behind, presuming the traffic is more or less following the "slower traffic keep right" rule, which it generally does on the Eastex. 80 mph is not unusual at all.
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    That is a walled in private parking lot with an automatic gate entrance on Prairie between El Big Bad/Cabo and Byrds/Georgia's Market. I figured it was for the tenants of whatever was upstairs from Georgia's, but don't actually know.
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    Looks sharp in action with good sight lines from the pics above.
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    Nothing has changed that I can see.
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    Bonus horse in the shot too. There were people going in/out of the back door of the State National building.
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    Four-ish floors to goin the removal section, then another big pile o' rubble.
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    Having Main accessible will be novel too. Looks like the drive up/porte corchere should be going in shortly. There were people inside cleaning furiously. The interior must be entering the home stretch.
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    I have been hoping to give a substantive update on this one for months, I'm grasping at straws.
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    Probably doesn't count as activity, but there were some workers in a pickup truck next to an empty flatbed trailer parked on the lot today. They weren't actually doing anything, but they did look to be employed and purposfully on the site, so the pot is still being watched.
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    College football stadiums often come together over decades and end up less than visually cohesive. Though as long as the experience in the stadium is good, it is about all you will hear. Rice Stadium is a great piece, but no one that enters the place ever thinks about that. TDECU seems like a good setup for UH, though skewing the field away from N-S to get a skyline view (for a few folks) seems obtrusively hokey. Tinted face shields all around for afternoon games.
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    Looking at the night shot, I wonder if the current downtown skanky hotel torch bearer, the DeGeorge (taken over from the Montagu), might get priced out of its real estate after the area gets built out
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    Nice work all. I will stop by tomorrow and get an after shot.
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    Looks like they need to work on the aim a bit. This one is nearly finished. A really cool project. I'm totally going to go snoop around the lobby when it opens.
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    I had not seen any, so I was surprised as well. MarkLTD's link has these: I guess whoever drew up the top one did not care for the Lancaster Hotel.
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    It should be rationally discussed, but like so many things related to urban density, it takes on a moralism angle that does a disservice to the utility that a rational plan might bring. Name calling ensues, as it so often does when one is convinced of his moral righteousness. I'm neutral on rail as a concept, would need to see specifics of any particular plan, especially including cost, and do not trust METRO at all.
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