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  1. zaphod
    At least it's something to make that part of town feel full besides just the medical center buildings. That area to the southeast of the core part of the med center around the future TMC3 is such a wasteland.
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    It would be a shame if the crane operator had to sneeze and those porta potties took a tumble...
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    Well, it looks like Galveston dodged a bullet. So we'll start seeing these rolling eventually!
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    Are they standard gauge? Maybe they could hitch them to the back of a freight train and take them out of town to a siding somewhere.
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    Awesome news. Just in time for another hurricane... But yeah it will be neat to see these return. Maybe by the summer of 2021 we'll be free again and those will be rolling. Seems like good timing.
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    That's rather frightening... It looks this thing is still higher up than that though, so it should be okay?
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    The training buses are having to go far and wide to avoid the construction I guess Westpark and S. Rice (all pictures by me) They are parking in the westpark transit center now. I wonder if they are going to put paint or finish on that exposed concrete?
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    River Oaks Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge is south of 59 on Kirby. I couldn't tell you when they adopted that name of its always been called that but its been around a while from what I can tell. But yeah, they should have kept the Sonic name as seen in the property flyer hotlinked above. Sonic the Porsh-ah has a better ring to it.
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    Who knows. The idea of building a lot of small units gave me the idea that they could turn it into a dorm for the homeless. They'd have an efficiency unit and there would be onsite security guards. Eligibility would be based on history of involuntary institutionalization, substance abuse, etc. Get them off the street, that would go way further in de-trashing that area than anything else proposed thusfar.
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    I don't like the EaDo cap. Where is the money going to come from if the city is so fiscally spread thin? Are they going to close down or stop funding other parks or parks services? Why are so many neighborhoods in the city under-served with parks and why are various activities lacking? This would be really expensive project to build a patch of grass next to some "visionary" development locations and put on it a gym and other facilities that could be built at 1/10th the cost elsewhere in town that needs them and leave money over for 100 other things. I like how the 59 trench is proposed. They put in extra wide sidewalks with landscaping to join the two sides together, they went with an aesthetically pleasing decorative molded concrete for the walls, and where a mini tunnel is necessary due to the oblique angles a couple streets cross at they'll put some grass on top and line it with bushes. Why not just do that for EaDo and be done with it? They could set up the trench walls to support a roof at a later date if private funds come from developers who are interested in building adjacent.
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    That would be seriously wild if 2020 was the year they redeveloped this thing.
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    It all looks very slick, especially the residential portion. The titled roof sections are better than the typical flat top apartment donut you see built most of the time here.
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    Looks kind of spooky at the moment. Hopefully it does get completed.
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    The siding in the first picture looks like it is bulging and uneven, is that normal?
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    I love the linear "halls" of trees, that is going to look so cool from the ground. Has there been any status of the proposed replacement of the tennis courts and swimming pool that's there currently? I know they proposed a natatorium at one time. That is the only pool south of the heights in the west loop area at the moment.
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    Just a thought here, if those Target stores opened in 1976 that would have made them some of the earliest in the chain outside of their first locations in Minnesota, right? I don't think Targets became especially prevalent nationwide until the late 1980s or early 1990s, right? That store would have been roughly similar to the one on Fondren, right? I remember that one vaguely as my grandmother lived nearby. Somehow as a small child I think we went to that FM 1960 North Oaks Target sometimes too. But then when they opened the one in the The Woodlands in Pinecroft Center that was much closer to where we lived and we always went there.
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    This thing and broadstone memorial park both had their garages go up seemingly overnight but have been taking a while to build the rest of it.
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    I like the windows, not gonna lie.
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    It looks kind of like a bigger Texas City dike, IMO. Same concept, I guess. I know they do stuff like this in The Netherlands. I love it. Not only is first and foremost essential infrastructure, but also we another beach in addition to Galveston and the dike, too.
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    Those "tents" appear to be more like a modern day version of a quonset hut.
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    I wish there was some more traction for building LRT to Missouri City. They are one of the few member cities of Metro beyond Houston that actually pays in tax revenue to the agency yet get a couple crappy local bus routes. A lot of the criticism of such an extension would be that it runs through a low density area. Yet my impression of that part of town is that its kind of poor and having a fast transit connection to all the employment that exists in the medical center would be beneficial? Then further out there could be a P&R for people in the suburbs.
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    That's one seriously fancy-pants hotel. 354 residential and 410 hotel rooms, how tall is this going to be? Buildings with that many residential units seem to end up at least 30-40 stories and then with the hotel rooms...
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    Looks like some progress has been made on the front of the building, and the sign on Westheimer now says "Target" (all images taken by me) sign:
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    I can't imagine them allowing that to be a permanent thing. I can't imagine it would be that hard to re-do the curbs in some areas if they had to, right?
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    I never noticed how there was a street(Blossom) which goes straight on from that area of the park. From above it looks pretty cool.
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