samagon
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awesome! any accommodations for cyclists (place to chain our bikes)?
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Well that sucks. I fear downtown will always struggle to be the urban mecca of Houston until they have a proper ice cream shop and I'll have to try the Guinness float next time I'm in there
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I was just browsing google maps, cause I was disappointed when coldstone went out of business in midtown. I saw that there is a google maps listing for Amy's Ice Cream at 909 on texas avenue? Is this true? I just looked on their site and there is no mention.. I think once there is an ice cream shop downtown, people will flock to downtown in droves! or at least I won't have to drive very far to get a few scoops on a waffle cone.
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It is a great course, very fun to play, but I think Gus Wortham is a bit more fun. Hermann park is better than DG in my opinion as well, better park for strolling around, better park for sitting and watching people, great venue for free shows and well wooded but not in an overpowered way. A note about Central Park vs Houston Parks, Hermann is almost half the size of Central Park. DG does a really good job though of generating interest by bringing in some really interesting entertainment. I make it a point to ride by there on friday nights in the summer, you catch everything, from folk dance groups performing their traditional dances in traditional garb, to cover bands playing Tool with an ice sculptor going crazy with the chainsaw to the music. Not sure who coordinates the live shows, but they do a really good job of keeping it diverse enough to bring in people from every walk of life and offer them exposure to not only the park, but downtown itself. I do wish there was some way for the park to be larger though.
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I may have to make that a stop on my bike ride this saturday morning!
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heh, if you mean 'the weekend' for 'time of year' then yeah, cause every weekend I ride or drive by that place, it is packed on saturdays/sundays.
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that is great news!
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hahahahaha
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you only have to walk as far as the place to rent the electric wheelchair/scooter thingy.
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I think you're wrong here, as someone earlier corrected me, the land was 3/4 of the $20 Million being paid by the city/county, and that $15 Million has already been used to acquire the land. The remaining $5 Million would go towards upgrading utilities. Why not? Because the toyota center was built with their use in mind, and it is not a 57 year old high school football stadium that has been continually re-purposed through the years. Another excellent reason is that this stadium will also host TSU's football team, as their home field.
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Not sure if this is the article you were linking or not, but that one was dead when I clicked. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/realestate/6720224.html
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you may want to state 'light' rail, as it could be confusing
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sorry for using a confusing word, they are going to pay for it. 100%.
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They are confusing the sports complex with the soccer stadium.
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I'd like to see a health department/taco truck chase televised, I bet it's every bit as good as I imagine it is.
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I think you're right. It's damn good that the Dynamo are fronting all the money to build a stadium that will be owned by the county, and will be used for more than just soccer. The reason this isn't moving forward is that somewhere someone has decided they don't want to upgrade the utilities.
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Well, of the parking lots pictured, the only one that is gone (well, underground now) is the one in the bottom right corner. The other 5 lots are still there. it would have been awesome if disco replaced them all.
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well, when everything else they say is the same, why not vote based on 1 issue?
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The Galleria Mall At 5085 Westheimer Rd.
samagon replied to TreaderCRC's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
Price never really made those places of any interest, not when you can just go to a BW3, get food that is just as filling, and watch just as much sports, for way cheaper. Maybe in an area of town that has an attraction of traveling business people, say, the Houston Pavilions. Or an area of town that caters towards people who think spending lots of money makes it better than the next place to watch the same football game, which would have been the Galleria, maybe not in the Galleria, uptown park may have been a more appropriate location, but then, I think when they opened, Champps was still over in the UP. -
well, one way to fix it, and I've seen it mentioned in this thread a few times by intelligent individuals, is to transplant them somewhere else.
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http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/2009/10/city_election_casts_cloud_over_dynamo_stadium.html nothing really new, but news regardless..
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One can only hope that Karma comes back around for them!
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One can only hope that the money the city has to pay comes directly from the taxes of the homeowners who complained enough to get this shelved, and that only their property taxes go up as a result. Reality is, we're all going to have to pay for the selfishness of a few residents.
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restaurant 5 days a week, and hip club Friday/Saturday night?
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really neat, I didn't know they employed that much green tech, it is mostly hidden from view. Which is good and bad, I'm glad that it isn't in our faces, saying, look how green we are, we have solar everywhere! But then, because it isn't in your face, most people that utilize that area have no idea about how earth friendly it is. It is a most peaceful spot in the late afternoon with the sun going down behind the buildings and the frogs going crazy.
