IronTiger

In all seriousness, a lot of non students drive very badly. This can be seen during winter and summer.

Sorry to bump, but one I'd like to see is a Great Wolf Lodge, the waterpark hotel! Probably not downtown though...

I've seen a lot of trucks, I've seen a lot of maroon cars, but not much of both. (Weren't you from Baylor, btw?)

Well, grocery stores are a bit of a hobby of mine, and I do remember the Fiesta Market Place, but Fiesta's first attempt to the suburbs in the early 1990s/late 1980s wasn't exactly a success either. The Webster Fiesta failed because of the gardens were an enormous financial drain the garden was, the Katy Fiesta stayed up until around 2008, and while it was a supposedly successful store, they left due to the parking dispute (which obviously wasn't a problem for 99 Ranch Market). The Sugar Land Fiesta could've failed due to the rent on the place (a favorite theory of mine), but the "Market Place" was small and more importantly lacked a lot of the things Fiesta was famous for, international foods. The c. 1990 experiments had them in addition to more mainstream groceries, and they were successful for a while, but it wasn't. Meanwhile, about that time, a Fiesta "Fresh Market" opened in Conroe, which was small (sat on a 360 x 330 sq. ft. city block) but had the international foods and seems to be a success. I don't know...if Fiesta wanted to break into the mainstream, the Sugar Land store was the wrong place, the wrong time, and the wrong design, but not saying it can't be done.

That would be Hurricane Alicia (Allison was the one in 2001, and converted any sunken highway into a canal). The map on the "full" Houston Today scan is a bit low-res, I'll have to dig out my copy, which is a higher resolution.

Well? Was it worth it?

The closest thing that may be original is a strip mall portion, northeast corner of Town & Country Blvd. and Kimberley Lane. These have remained intact since at least 1978, though the facades were altered in the 1990s re-do. There are some more shops at Beltway 8 (West Belt Road, then) and Memorial Drive, but they've been expanded (if not outright rebuilt). A long skinny strip mall at Bough and Memorial appears to have remained intact since at least the late 1970s, but that's not part of T&C Village. By the way, there is a map of the Town & Country Village with photos at the Houston Today scan I linked a while back.

Not really. If you look at Google Earth, what part of Town and Country Village wasn't torn down for the mall was "redeveloped" in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

I was astounded to learn that a) people actually were talking about this on the College Station-Bryan forum section at TexAgs it's that expensive on pay-per-view, we're talking $100 for homes and $5100 for restaurants (even smaller ones like Buffalo Wild Wings) c) $25 for a cover is considered a lower end

This may sound bad, but I blame international students. When I was living in Eastgate, I was standing at a corner to see a girl miss the protected green arrow (it turned yellow, I think), suddenly jerk to a stop, nearly causing the girl behind her to rear-end her (she looked pretty pissed off, as anyone would be), then when she had to yield on a solid green, she went forward, nearly causing a motorcyclist to collide with her.

Well, there will always be grocery store snobs. That's never gonna change.

OK, but seriously though--in retail, when has this "the time-honored private equity playbook" actually been true, except for (notoriously) Mervyn's, which was an underperforming asset to begin with? I mean, Kmart/Sears have been this (but even in 2004, neither was really going anywhere) and Albertsons (which was brutalized, but the company was losing money and they ended up turning it into a really big company). NRDC Equity Partners if I recall correctly, turned Lord & Taylor around so that they opened more stores instead of closing them.

That tells me nothing that I didn't already know. I know it's opening on Highway 6 North. What I want to know is WHEN.

The fact that they installed a new president was troublesome.

Wasn't it delayed to late April or May?

It would save the state money if they sold the freeway to the park foundation (or whatever) at market price, saving money on demolition. It's up to them to see it restored, torn down, or let it sit.

Depends on what side, I guess.

Private investment firm, so things doesn't seem like they'll change from a homogenization standpoint. Kinda lame that its being owned out of state now, and the last big supermarket to be considered "local". Randalls will go local management next month though from what I've heard, but its still controlled by a large supermarket.

Are you kidding me? Admittedly, the whole "well, they must have been mistaken" is kind of an assumption, but a 9/11 doubter shouldn't be lecturing others on assumptions, since 9/11 theories rely on a lot of guesswork. Also, "explosions" and "explosives" are not the same thing, but I'm going to assume you're not stupid and actually already know that.

For such a world traveler, you still have bigoted and prejudiced views. And it's partly cloudy right now in NYC too, not clear.

I think that a heavy rail/light rail combo will probably de-incentivize rail even further, not make it better (because transfers just add another layer of inconvenience). I find it interesting that the Red Line going northeast gets the most ridership and it's the only(?) one paralleling a highway. Others tend to meander through spaces where they can get it...the airport-downtown connection is just one example.

That doesn't "prove" anything. Nothing the magnitude of 9/11 had ever happened before and certainly not to the firefighters (not around, when, say Pearl Harbor happened) and it would make sense that some of them thought they heard explosives. I believe that there is some stuff the government's not telling us, but not anything particularly juicy (side note: about 5,000,000 pages of documents related to the Kennedy assassination are available, many electronically, and yet there's STILL all sorts of talk about it) that will change everything that we thought we knew about 9/11. If there was a conspiracy, any talking head that claims there's an inconsistency (like people shown in the links above), they'd be locked up, like Manning or (in theory) Snowden, and neither of them had anything about 9/11. Furthermore, during the 9/11 cleanup, if there was controlled explosives in WTC7, they would've probably found evidence, not to mention any reports of workers in WTC7 noticing crews doing some "rewiring", or something like that. For every question raised about 9/11, there's more questions raised back, really.

That's funny: weather reports for NYC have been sunny or overcast for the last week and a half.

The theme to Forrest Gump is a classic too, of course. I would agree, it has to be scores or soundtracks, and not musicals. Otherwise, the whole album of "The Wall" qualifies, which was also a movie (the album lacks the disturbing imagery of the movie, if the movie turns you off)

I'd guess so, since he seems to have no real idea of the state of the stores there. Any pictures to prove you're there?