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The last rendering also looks like it was made by some bozo using Sketchup.
Its better than nothing.
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Today, By Priller
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No it means opening 2015/2016
No, more like 2013/2014
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The Galveston attraction will close on Oct. 5 and will reopen for the 2010 summer vacation season.
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By AgainToTheFuture FLickR
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Trees on Broadway are now being removed.
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Crews start work on new fire station
By Leigh Jones
The Daily News Published October 1, 2009
GALVESTON — Construction crews have begun preparing the site for the city’s new fire station, moving forward on a project first announced almost two years ago.
The building, next to the Galveston County Justice Center, will replace Station 5, which was at the corner of 56th Street and Avenue K before Hurricane Ike. It also will house the county’s EMS station now at 50th Street and Avenue Q1/2.
Crews were ready to begin work when Ike blew through, disrupting almost all the city’s normal operations for about a year.
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Work on the 11,000-square-foot building, which will have six vehicle bays and 4,000 square feet of living space, should be finished by late April, Maxwell said. The building’s walls will start going up within a month, he said.
Although the city is funding the construction, the building will belong to the county once it’s done.
County Judge Jim Yarbrough offered his management department for the job as a way to save money on the project.
After fire crews move in, the city will reimburse the county for utilities, as it does for the parts of the justice center that house the police department and the municipal court.
The fire station will be added to the long-term lease the city already has with the county.
City officials started talking about building a new fire station in 2007. Station 5 was too small to house modern fire engines, and the 54-year-old building had structural problems that weren’t worth fixing, officials said at the time.
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City expanding trail system
By Rhiannon Meyers
The Daily News Published September 29, 2009
LEAGUE CITY — As work begins on what officials call the area’s “most ambitious hike and bike trails project,” residents are asking for a system that is friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists.
League City is in the beginning stages of a plan to build 137 miles of hike and bike trails that would connect the east and west sides of a city divided by Interstate 45. The proposal to expand the city’s trail system from 10 miles to 147 miles is the most ambitious of its kind in the Galveston County region, Councilman Neil Baron said.
At a series of public meetings in September, residents asked the city to consider using the trails to stitch together the bedroom community’s patchwork of neighborhoods and parks that, in many places, lack sidewalks. Many residents said they don’t feel safe walking or riding bikes in the city.
“This is the worst city in the county to be training in,” Mike Robertson, a League City resident and cyclist, said. “When the safest place to ride in the county is on the feeder road, you have a problem.”
Consultant Clark Condon Associates plans to use the comments gathered from residents at the public meetings to design the trail system.
The consultants will recommend:
• Where to lay the trails. Residents said they wanted trails that connected parks, the library and schools. Where possible, residents wanted trails that were separated from busy streets, they said.
• How wide the trails should be. The trails could be as narrow as 6 feet and as wide as 10 feet.
• The type of trail surface. Residents suggested the city consider different surfaces for different areas of town. Many residents said they favored soft surfaces, including crushed granite and asphalt.
• The types of amenities offered along the trails, including benches, exercise equipment, water fountains, bird watching stations and educational markers.
The city already has run into problems trying to develop an interconnected system.
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Some of the proposed trails in the city’s plan — including bike lanes on the FM 270 bridge over Clear Creek — already have been funded by the Texas Department of Transportation or Galveston County.
The city plans to pay for other trails using sales tax revenue specifically set aside to promote amateur athletics.
The consultants will present a draft of the plan at three meetings in November.
The final plan should be finished by January.
http://www.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=a4b15c4d6a7182b0
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9/25 by Priller
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Repairs, amusement rides planned for Flagship
The Daily News Published September 25, 2009
GALVESTON — Landry’s Restaurants Inc. said it plans to repair the storied Flagship Hotel, where today curtains billow out through shattered windows and tourists stop to photograph gaping holes torn in outer walls by Hurricane Ike a year ago.
Landry’s had said it would consider demolishing the hotel and developing a “pleasure pier” with amusement rides if a sale of the 44-year-old property fell through.
But island native and Landry’s CEO Tilman Fertitta will move ahead with plans he made years ago to improve the troubled hotel, officials said this week.
http://www.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=52c78399fa7b4021
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QuoteGALVESTON, Texas – The Galveston Independent School District Stadium Committee unanimously voted to for go calling a bond election in November and analyze different options available to build a new athletic stadium for the district. The Board approved a timeline set forth by the Stadium Committee to research proposed sites for the new stadium as well as different ways to raise money for building a new athletic facility. Those results will be presented in January 2010 with a bond election proposal deadline set for February 2010.
The current stadium sits on 27th and Ave M.
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South Padre's 'leaning tower' to be demolished
By Lynn Brezosky - Express-News
BROWNSVILLE — The company that imploded the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas, the Seattle Kingdome and the RCA Dome in Indianapolis has been hired to demolish Ocean Tower, an unfinished condominium tower that has been sinking into the sands of South Padre Island.
The 31-story building, since dubbed the “Leaning Tower of Padre,” is now the subject of a $125 million lawsuit against Raba-Kistner Consultants Inc. of San Antonio and Datum Engineering of Austin.
Demolition is set for November...
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http://www.statesman....ate/index.html
Earlier this week, local developer Tom Stacy, who plans an ambitious mixed-use project on Congress between Fifth and Sixth streets, told a group of real estate professionals that his project, would “someday get off the ground when the capital markets recover.”Stacy said some gas and water lines are being relocated at his site from an alley onto Fifth Street, a $3 million project, to pave the way for the proposed development. He said he is “still excited about the project,” but added that he doesn’t expect it to “come out of the ground anytime soon.”
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Cant wait to see renderings.
Well, here yo go the wait was'nt long.
Renderings:
EDIT: New info, the renderings were for Washington DC's Hotel proposal.
It looks like you do have to wait longer, sorryy LTWAS.
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More Renderings and Info here .
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Retailers lining up at Nassau Bay Town SquareThe Daily News Published August 27, 2009
Hip to be Square: Houston-based development firm Griffin Partners isn’t letting a tough economy slow progress at Nassau Bay Town Square, a 31-acre development at the intersection of NASA Parkway and Saturn Lane.
The development, which will include 73,000 square feet of retail space, already has attracted Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Verizon and Baker St. Pub.
All have signed leases.
Also, a wine bar, an eatery specializing in hot wings and a fast-casual Mexican restaurant all have signed letters of intent to move into development, reports the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership.
Besides retail, Nassau Bay Town Square will include multifamily residential developments, a 200-room hotel, conference center and three office buildings.
A 313-unit apartment complex already is under construction at the development.
“That’s pretty nice when you look at the current state of the economy, they’re still moving forward,” Nassau Bay city manager Chris Reed said.
Streets for the development are expected to be complete in about a month, with retail construction beginning soon after, the partnership reports.
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2011 Infiniti QX Caught:
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Houston's Astrodome could become a Hollywood style movie studio
By Brad Woodard / 11 News | 05:23 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The Astrodome is a Houston landmark that may become a movie studio if the county agrees to a new proposal presented by a group of private investors. When the Astrodome opened in 1965, it was dubbed the eighth wonder of the world.
Now it is the focus of a documentary that provides a definitive look at the history of the dome. But the backers of the film would like to see the dome as not only the subject of the movie, but also the place where movies are made.
“We have all this dirt, all this floor space and no columns. It is 140,000 square feet where we can build anything -- any galaxy and any town set that's imaginable. Then it's taken down and somebody else puts up another setting. There's nothing to compare with the size,” said Cynthia Neely, Vice President of Astrodome Studios.
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The building that has inspired so many visions has inspired Neely and others to envision a Hollywood style movie studio that would be unlike any other. It would be called Astrodome Studios, and it would be completely self-contained and privately funded. Neely says the studio could help generate millions of dollars for the state’s economy.
“The production budget for the average film is about $53 million. They generally spend and leave behind about a third of that amount in the community. So one film could result in $17 million for the community,” said Neely.
The studio says it's willing to pay to bring the dome up to code, and could be up and running within a couple of months.
It would also lease the dome from the county.
But the deal has not been approved.
The county says it’s one of several options being weighed, but that it's not ruling anything out.
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Here's a better rendering, and they have a website.
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Hotel proposed at Fifth and Colorado
By Shonda Novak | Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 03:47 PM
In the first major new hotel announcement in nearly two years, a 17-story hotel is planned for downtown Austin near the Warehouse District.The hotel, proposed for the southwest corner of West Fifth and Colorado streets, would be a new “eco-luxury” concept called One, by Starwood Capital Group. Starwood Capital has billed the concept as the first luxury, eco-friendly global hotel brand.
Starwood has hired Woodbine Development Corp. to build the hotel with 250 to 275 rooms.
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The higher side of the Starwood project would face Fifth Street, rising approximately 210 to 215 feet. The southern side, backing up to the Warehouse District, would be 30 to 35 feet high. There also will be a large deck, about 60 feet above ground level, with amenities including pool, public bar and “green” roof with significant landscaping.
The site is now occupied by a two-story brick building.
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The hotel is the first new hotel project to be proposed downtown since Hixon Properties Inc. announced plans in February 2008 for a Westin hotel at Third and Colorado Streets.
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