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  1. Nate99
    Someone over at TexAgs did an overlay of the pre-demoliion field on the new one now that the grass is down. A neat illustration of how much closer the stands will be to the field. You also get a feel for how big the new video board is. The old one was huge, though eclipsed by others in CFB and other sport stadiums.
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    FWIW, it seems that Reliant/NRG gets nearly all of the kid event traffic (circus, ______ on Ice, etc.) TC gets concerts and that's about it. I would bet that there is an element of scheduling flexibility that makes concerts more profitable without the Aeros crowding out weekend dates. It stinks, I really liked the Aeros games, but putting them out in the woods would not bring in half the crowd that they had at TC.
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    Any time I see a big 10+ story slabof brick wall like that I think that someone creative (not me) could paint something intersting on it. For some reason, giant advertisements on such buildings (in other cities, not here for some reason) don't offend me.
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    Dropping a billion dollars right there is almost hard to picture, but I'm looking forward to it should it come to pass, again absent the implications to traffic around my home. Still no activity on the Kingwood Parc development, but folks are clearly lining up options to go long on the area after the Grand Parkway opens up. Deerbrook Mall isn't all the way to sketchy yet, but I do think that a development like this would do Deerbrook more favors than Deerbrook would do for it.
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    They have a bunch of rebar that they are ready to lower in to the hole. I'd bet that's why the crane showed up. Perhaps the mud mat layer creates an even surface for the base layer of reinforced concrete? Will await Purdue's explanation.
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    FWIW, Gensler decided it was worth their while to hang their shingle on the project.
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    yep.
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    You can see steel beams in the now stripped side closest to Milam where the strip they are demolishing has reached the roof of that lower section. Not sure if that is more steel than concrete like what they have taken out thus far.
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    High res of the elephant march photo...
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    They have at least another level to go under that corner. And yes, a crane did show up. They were also pouring concrete.
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    Yet more dump trucks lined up this morning hauing off dirt. The Fannin/Capitol corner seems to have reached aspot here they ave leveled it off. I am still interested to see what they do with the old basement walls. Just a guess, but maybe they are keeping it intact until they have some kind of structure to tie in to the Magnolia tunnel. Any tunnel to the Chase center could be a level deeper than that, and might need to be to get under the rail line.
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    That was kind of my point. It is a bad neighborhood in spots. I just get the impression that the national debate about bad neighborhoods is limited to those in cities. Everything bad that goes on there, with a few exceptions made possible/impractical by space constraints, goes on out in the wrong part of the sticks too.
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    for reference, this was taken about a month ago...
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    They have definitely hauled out a huge amount of dirt. After you un-compact what filled the hole here previously, I can't imagine the volume of the pile they are creating. They are hauling off the piling drilling crane too.
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    I'll wander over there today at some point. I did notice a long line of big dump trucks on Texas Street earlier in the week. They are defiitely in the hauling dirt out phase.
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    Goes to show how much I know. We never did see soil samples on the other one, but off they go. Still waiting for any progress apart from soil sampling on this one.
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    LINK They own the garage across the Prairie/Milam intersection too. Can't see it being repurposed as it sits, but I lack imagination in such things. It does have a tunnel connection.
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    No, I meant seedy as referring to the types of activities that they were describing/relative position in the overall city cultural scene.
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    A big part of Japan's expansionism was to get to sources of oil in the East Indies and our embargo of them basically provoked Pearl Harbor as much as any single event. They were a big purchaser of US crude at the time, so switching what was previously their consumption to wartime needs along with domestic rationing really upended what any normal market dynamic would have produced. The price of oil was more or less centrally controlled at the time, and I'd like to know more about how it was handled, but the short answer is that the Allies ended up controlling what they needed, the Axis powers did not. Also, what is left of the market is going to do very strange things when a good portion of the shipping lanes, production fields and refining centers of the industrialized world are in active war zones.
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    Hines tower takes all of the surface lot parking out of the block it is going on, same as this one. There's way a market for seedy, it's just interesting where it goes over time. All interesting stuff.
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    I was joking. It reads like an automated translation of something that was originally in some cartoon version of an Asian language to me. They were aiming for something with all of that. They missed. As for the building, more stone has gone up and they have installed nearly all of the glass on the lower three floors. The tunnel connection from BG Place/801 Travis is closed (and has been since May, but I missed that), and a "tunnel lounge" is in the renderings. I'm still looking forward to seeing the interior, though less than I was before reading all of that mess.
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    I presumed that it was the area around St. Arnolds brewery, but have never heard it referred to as such, just sort of guessing by inference.
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    No light rail, no Audis. Must be pretty old.
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    The van in the picture in the article is no older than a 1971 model, FWIW. Sounds seedy. We have Fondren for that now.
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    Could be, though many tracks have sound restrictions. This sounds a lot like MSR down 288 toward Angleton.
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