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I was wondering, are there any plans to build a light rail line to the "uptown houston" area? it would be really cool and with the west loop cursed by an ancient indian burial ground to have terrible traffic, i could see a lot of going to a park n ride and riding metrorail over there. PS: how do i edit my posts?

Pffiscchhh... I hate what seems redeveloping old indoor malls with strip centers no matter how pretty they are. Especially in houston where some of the malls seems to have some history about them. I wish they had remodeled gulfgate. even my grandparents shopped there in the 60's and now its just a crappy old strip center. I hope they keep northwest but i bet in 20 years nearly all indoor malls excluding big fancy ones like the galleria and stable ones in mid sized towns like college station will be gone judging from the way things are going. I like the style of denser centers like the new ones in the woodlands mall area though.

whats with downtown and creepy 50's style high rise abandoned hotels anyway?

I live in college station but i come to houston A LOT. i was on I-45 with my cousin and was looking out the window at downtown and i noticed a particularly sorry looking building. I looked like one of those buildings in Sarajevo or Baghdad. It had that 60's modular concrete look and had a lot of broken glass. It was Pretty Tall and had a parking garage at its base and the word "hotel" was all that was left of the lettering on it. I know it is not the savoy hotel but i think its somewhat close to it. its retangular and the front(i didnt see the back) had glass windows from midway up the floors and the windows went all the way across the front. but as i said earlier most were broken. Obviously its out of business. i wonder if they will blow it up or just let it sit. Its kind of creepy seeing a somewhat modern high rise all decrepit and abandoned.