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    Love the shot with the train, Scotch.
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    It is written to be google translated in to many languages and still be semi-decipherable.
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    Not sure if they have a date certain, but I did just get a bit of unexpected info on this. The cashier lady that knows my order at Starbucks in the Chase tower said she was quitting and starting over there on Monday, so they are staffing up.
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    Another bonus of the Texas shaped lazy river is that you can locate your friends easily. "Yeah, I'm down by the pool, somewhere in southeastern Oklahoma"
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    They have picked up the parking curb things and have a couple of dumpsters on the lot, but I don't know what they are putting in them, unless they are starting work inside he garage already.
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    I took another couple of pics on Wednesday when I went by the area, but the forum was redirecting me to a page that made it look like the domain expired. Looks like others were able to post no problem. Very odd. I guess that I forgot that I went by on Monday, so they are probably not all that different. It is interesting that they appear to be leaving the two basement walls of the Texas Tower in place that are up against the Texas/Fannin corner. You can see that they have drilled holes and poured reinforced concrete pillars behind it the old walls. Maybe they are using them temporarily as concrete forms, but I'm just guessing. Anyway. Here are the Wednesday pics.
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    Hines and this project both closed off a parking lot that was being used, though we did see that Hines already had soil samples taken. The last couple of surface lot tower builds that I remember (Hess and Marriott Marquis) took many months between soil samples and actual ground breaking. It is, like watching the pot boil.
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    The must have something worked out. This thing had been progressing like there was one lonely dude trying to finish it by himself.
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    We went roundy round on this before, but I still think if the porte cochere is done well, it will look good from the park, and this thing will make the old Kim Son space more valuable. One could call the entrance of OPP facing Discovery Green its front door, but I never see anyone going in or out of it (to say nothing of the empty GFR space next to it), they all seem to use the covered drive on McKinney. The Kim Son location could be equivalent to Phonecia in this case. Not facing the park, but right there. With this and Hines a block away, there has to be some critical mass for something other than typical downtown stuff. They are going to have to do something different with the existing garage entrance off Milam, I would imagine, although by the time they are done, the whole entrance/exit/ground floor situation of the garage as it sits now might need to be completely reconfigured, how they can do that has to be a limiting factor. The design looks good to me. Can't wait to see the area in 5 years, especially if the surface lot block is claimed.
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    They used it for construction offices/materials staging basd on folks I have seen coming and going out of it. Would have been nice to have the whole block rehabilitated in one shot.
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    rechlin - there is a big pile of red dirt on the area you circled...
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    The charge for tickets for students at A&M is optional and heavily subsidized based on what alumni pay for equivalent tickets. For 2014-2015, they can get in to all sports for the entire academic year for $290. Students at A&M do not pay for anything athletics related through mandatory fees. The A&M athletic department is a profit center for the university.
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    If one could preselect a theme to automatically filter out such bigots, I'd call it a good thing. Do you honestly think that someone with such a parcohial, cartoonishly simplistic idea of Big Dumb Texas is going to any theme park in New Caney? I don't think it makes for much of a theme park for various reasons, but if you look at Texas history and see KlanLand, you've spent far too much time looking for a grevance.
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    People living in derelict trailer homes that may or may not have utilities hooked up. A lot of petty crime and drugs. Kids dropping out of school, etc. Pathologies of urban ghettos spread out a bit on country dirt instead of city streets.
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    From yesterday (July 7)
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    You're thinking of Grand Chambers County.
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    I'm sure the authentic saloon is central to the business model.
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    Agreed. It was a seriously cool looking building. Not sure how much is left under all the cladding, but you can still see the points of the ornamentation at the very top poking out.
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    It is but a one block stroll to the crazy epicenter in front of the $0.99 store, but really since they dynamited the Montagu and build BG place, it hasn't been the same.
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    Stone going on...
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