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  1. RedScare
    Ummm....OK?
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    Perhaps, but ten times a very small number is still a very small number. Hopefully, you and Mister X will take pictures for us so that we won't have to go.
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    Apparently there is one poster that thinks so. I wonder sometimes if he expects to be taken seriously.
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    So, you could say that the demise of the Houston-Galveston railroad was due to greed. Interesting. I didn't think greed existed anywhere but in automobile factories and concrete plants.
  5. RedScare
    I don't think there is a point, other than his desire for rail transit causes him to say anything that comes to mind.
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    When the meteor knocks down my house, will I have to get permission from the HAHC in order to rebuild?
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    I'm told that the Galleria had to do the same thing in 2006, during the last NBA All Star weekend, but I don't recall it personally, and have not seen it reported.
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    http://www.chron.com/communityblogs/atmosphere/item/Photos-Crowds-inside-outside-the-Galleria-15171.php Galleria shut down by HPD. Yes, it was that crowded.
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    GOOD TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL Though I got caught in court and could not make it to City Council this afternoon, I am happy to post this email I just received from Briekelman... Congrats, Brie. You never let the preservationists get you down.
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    This article? http://www.chron.com/business/article/New-cinemas-in-Houston-give-luxury-a-starring-role-4276779.php?t=863144c6ed For future reference, if you see an article on the paid Chron.com website, you can copy and paste the headline into google and find the entire article online for free.
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    Prior to becoming an attorney, I was involved in construction of Deerbrook Mall, the Houston Design Center, the San Luis Hotel & Condominiums, and the Huntingdon Conominiums. They seem to have done alright.
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    Looks more like the standard construction project to me. There is a lot of activity as dirt work, foundation framing and exterior are built. Then, nothing appears to be happening as the electrical, plumbing and mechanical trades perform their work on the inside, out of sight of onlookers. Sounds like you are engaging in wishful thinking more than insightful observation.
  13. RedScare
    Perhaps you should brush up on your "walkable neighborhoods" knowledge. Urban planners promote parallel and diagonal parking as a means to make traffic slower and to protect pedestrians. Bagby Street is being rebuilt in exactly this manner.
  14. RedScare
    Go to Google street view and look up 1000 Ross Avenue in Dallas. It was mentioned in the article. Almost the entire block is empty. Only the corners have tenants.
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    Here is one article describing the problems filling retail spaces in Dallas. http://www.ucrurban.com/press_detail.php?sec=4&id=141
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    Robber dude is currently charged as a habitual felon. We will not see him around these parts for a few decades. Punishment range is 25 years to life, and not eligible for parole until at least 50% of sentence is served.
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    It actually IS a problem in Dallas. There is a Dallas Morning News article that I linked somewhere on this forum that described all of the empty groundfloor storefronts that had been required by Dallas, and some of the problems in filling them. What many people do is look at one building or one location where groundfloor retail works, and believe it will or is working everywhere, when that is not at all true. Their walkable fantasy will not allow them to consider that financial realities preclude groundfloor retail in many developments.
  18. RedScare
    Sev, try this website. www.pciplan.com
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    Faux outrage becomes you. It is no surprise that you would fixate on a little wordplay in order to deflect attention away from the fact that your favorite government bureaucracy is doing exactly what we predicted they would. I don't blame you, though. If my favorite bureaucrats had dropped me in the grease as HAHC has done you, I'd not want to defend them either.
  20. RedScare
    Perhaps with a scary Camelback snarling at a bungalow?
  21. RedScare
    I think the Nazi and fascist comparisons began in this thread a very long time ago. In fact, the HAHC has now eclipsed passe Nazi references. What we need here is a term to describe capricious and arbitrary rulings, as HAHC just made a ruling, not on the rules in the ordinance, but rather based on "complaints from the neighborhood". Ironically, these complaints were of HAHC's own rulings.
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    If there is ever created a HAIF Hall of Fame, post #1007 will certainly win for best 180 performed by a poster. He didn't even attempt to fit it into his narrative of HAHC Uber Alles. He simply claims that he always told us, as if we didn't read the previous 1006 posts in this thread. Flip flopping on this scale should be banned everywhere but during presidential debates.
  23. RedScare
    You do have a point. Since one specialty grocers on the first floor of a 37 floor building in downtown with no other grocers within the entire downtown area succeeded, that is proof that every apartment complex in the entire city would have successful ground floor retail. Well, of course, if those complexes were 37 floors, had no competition, and were specialty grocers. Other than that, yeah. If the concept was as profitable as you claim, these for profit developers would put it in. You should do some research on the trials and tribulations of ground floor retail in Dallas. It may be enlightening. Oh, and you might stop having heart attacks every time a complex is announced without ground floor retail.
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    If there is stuff going on "right across the street", why must there be retail in the bottom of the apartment complex? Are the potential tenants incapable of walking "right across the street"? Why must the definition of a walkable neighborhood include no walking? I would post a facepalm pic of your obsession with ground floor retail, but instead I will just use yours for my comments.
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    The law specifically provides that no criminal prosecutions or jail may be assessed for failure to pay the "tax". Also, no property siezures or tax liens. http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/how-much-is-the-obamacare-tax/ You'll have to find another way to get the government to provide free room and board. Bank robbery still works.
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