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  1. The Great Hizzy!
    You stole my thunder. They had some clean cut dude holding a mike and looking "really" serious and stoic, but you could tell that deep inside, he couldn't wait to throw on some bowling shoes and hit Lucky Strike when it opens up.
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    San Antonians: "moo, you and your tall buildings..."
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    Well, I'm not sure what GBV 1 and GBV 2 designate but the homes north of Bellfort an on either side of Broadway are of higher value and generally of larger size than those south of Bellfort. There's a fairly shabby apartment/condo complex with a large number of ramshod Vietnamese businesses mixed in but it's less dicey crime wise than the complexes south of Bellfort along Broadway. If you pull out a map, find Santa Elena street and take it in either direction away from Broadway, and the homes in those areas are very nice, with nice landscaping (some homes sit along Sims Bayou). There are some solid homes south of Rock Hill on either side of Broadway as well but they generally aren't as elaborate, as well maintained or as high in value as the homes north of Bellfort and on either side of Broadway.
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    Wouldn't it be shocking to see that Treasures has signed on as a tenant?
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    Don't worry about it. It's usually just a bunch mumbo-jumbo anyway. (j/k)
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    And creme de la cream, too.
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    ROTFLMAO!!
  8. The Great Hizzy!
    There's a passing comment on the Superblock site in that Washington Avenue article talking about Camden's continued desire to develop their project on said site. That's what Subdude was referencing.
  9. The Great Hizzy!
    Like a lot of clubs, it started out okay but then word got around and of course... you know how it often goes after that.
  10. The Great Hizzy!
    Quality-schmality. That's good stuff, Quinlan. Thanks for posting the updates.
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    The main point is that we'll be able to spend hours nitpicking the tenants and their clientelle, which is better than spending hours arguing over whether the project is even going to get off the ground. Wee! That said, I tend to believe as WG believes that not all tenants listed will actually come to be. Most of them? Sure. All of them... not quite as confident. For example, does Hard Rock Cafe really want to move? Possible but not sure. And I'm also a little concerned about Red Cat's ability to support two locations downtown. Sure, the RC is one of the few places DT that has good business 7 days a week but even so, two locations less than a mile apart seems like a stretch to me. And I think the big contributors to the development WILL BE the bookstores, music stores and specialty shops.
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    I'm trying to picture this... is it the NW corner? The stretch of I-10 from about Dairy Ashford to Barker-Cypress is and will be a sea of construction for the next several months--even without work on the Katy Freeway.
  13. The Great Hizzy!
    That's one of life's really freaky events. I experienced one in Arizona about 15 years ago.
  14. The Great Hizzy!
    Kind of looks like the Camden project located right next to "The Edge".
  15. The Great Hizzy!
    True. But unless they are planning on tearing down the old structure, it also leads me to believe that it's going to become part of a multi-tenant retail center.
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    Hooray!
  17. The Great Hizzy!
    It depends on saturation and the desire to live DT first. I think even with the onset of several high rise condos in DT, the prices would be more dependent on the level of demand. If demand is still high in lieu of all that construction, then I don't think you'll see a negative affect on property values. OTOH, even with a small number of highrises, if the demand dips, then so will the property values. The good thing is that for all of our laments concerning the swaths of parking lots and unused lands in and near DT, it does allow for numerous developments in the even that demand does become exceptionally high for highrise urban living.
  18. The Great Hizzy!
    You said Ross, so that means that I've probably driven past the thing a couple of dozen times during my visits to Dallas over the past few years. Is it part of the West End District "officially"?
  19. The Great Hizzy!
    Don't worry about it. Human beings generalize quite a bit nowadays. Pasadena is essentially what most established municipalities have become: aged, with some warts and some successes. The southern third of Pasadena continues to prosper while the northern part, given its location, is having a harder time sharing in that prosperity.
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    Widespread development isn't the problem in Houston. There's tons of developments all around the city. The problem is that a segment (read: HAIFers) of the population so desire to see an expansion and evolution of the TYPE of development found in the core that they anxiously await them and immerse themselves in every detail. There was a massive retail complex that finally opened up in NE Houston, but that's NE Houston, and it's strippish in nature, so we here at HAIF shrug our shoulders at it. However, a large, mixed-use development inside the Loop? Ha-cha-cha!!
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    That is a nice photo. What is the gritty building at the very front of the pic? Is it an old warehouse waiting for renovation or is it already in use?
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    I noticed this too a couple of days ago and forgot to mention it. I can't tell what they're doing, though. Doesn't look like they're really doing anything to/for the building itself. Obviously, I might be wrong.
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    There's currently a Target undergoing remodeling on Westheimer @ Woodland Park. I wonder how the two locations would affect each other longterm, since they'd only be seperated by about three or so miles.
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    LMAO!
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    Wasn't their a Target somewhere around the intersection of Hwy 6 and Westheimer some years ago or am I wrong about that? Seems hard to believe that that area's just getting a Target of some sort, given the demographics.
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