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I know this was mentioned in a previous post a while back... construction is moving along... going to look nice when it's done.
Strange how that awful strip center in the front of the project got left off of the rendering. Hope they have plans of tearing it down.
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I find it odd that homosexuals tend to resort to underage boys.
What kind of b**S**t remark is that?!!
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Saw it all go down on 11 last night..they teamed with the cops to go undercover on an early Saturday morning, and the rest is history.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/kho...ey.d61d903.html
And apparently, from watching it, a radio station plastered its sign in front of the place.
Love the part about the guy driving a stolen ambulance plowing into the police cars and non-stolen ambulance parked in front of the club. Priceless.
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Oh yay. Yippee. The website now shows a Cash Store coming in. I can only imagine the clientele that's going to bring in.
Oh joy. What next a Rent-a-Center?
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or the Guardian Angels
Not in Houston, I think. Q-patrol is gone too.
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Someone with a CCL could take care of this problem pretty easily.
Wonder if the "Pink Pistols" are still active.
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"brown metal siding will replicate wood". Yuuuck. Don't like the sound of that.
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Some questions on this project, hopefully some can answer:
1. Anyone come accross any project renderings yet?
2. Is the building next to the old Ben-Hur site part of the project? It wouldn't break my heart to see those go.
If the project is done right it could be an asset to the area. Hopefully it will spur some retail additions. The only "wishes" I would have for the project would be that it would be condos instead of apartments. Some retail facing Yale would be nice but I'm doubtful that will happen. Also, it would be nice if developers would shift their focus to the Shepherd/Durham corridor, that really needs the redevelopment. There are parcels available but developers don't seem to know what to do there. One good project would probably do a lot to spur redevelopment on Shepherd.
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Not just cheapo construction, but narrow halls, spotty lighting, and way too many units. When they go bad they will go bad big time. Think Gulfton squared.
It's too bad that apartment developers have given up on smaller complexes that could integrate better into single-family residential neighborhoods.
Hopefully large complexes will go condo. That should keep them from getting too run down. I'd be interested in one myself except they would probably want 250K+ for a 1,000 SF place.
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I recall we had 2-3 ex-employees from Kaplan's come in to look for new employment. My coworkers and I (Worksource) tried to help them as much as possible. We were surprised to see how much they didnt know on how to market themselves. Blessed their hearts. They did not have to search for a job in decades and they had no typing/computer skills at all. We almost had to hold their hands through the simplest of details. It seemed as if they were from somewhere way, way back in the past. These are the kind of folks that have the hardest time accepting the now. Bet its the same ones you met.
That's really sad. It's too bad KBH couldn't hang on a bit longer. I would think they'd be a good fit for Harold's maybe?
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And worst case scenario (if the sports authority does default as you so confidently predict) the Turnpike Authority gets a very valuable chunk of real estate; one that gets more valuable with each passing year.
They are not going to default. They won't pay back the money. They will get extentions and the HCTRA won't push the issue. They will just loan them more money. Anyway, I hope your right and I'm wrong but I just don't see it.
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And I responded to tell you that you are wrong. Wrong as can be. Again, the money from the Turnpike Authority is a LOAN, it WILL be paid back, with interest. (If the Sports Authority had borrowed the money from, oh, say JP Morgan Chase, we would not be saying that JP Morgan Chase was paying for the stadium, let alone that JP Morgan Chase depositors were paying for the stadium. It is equally fallacious to say that Turnpike toll-payers are paying for the stadium.) It merely replaced a loan that was originally in place from the owner of the Texans. End of story.
The only "public" or tax money that will in the end pay for those stadia is indeed car, hotel and ticket taxes. Is there some imaginable scenario under which the Sports Authority will be unable to pay the loan? I suppose you could dream one up, but it is highly unlikely and not worth worrying about. If the Turnpike Authority had not loaned the money to the Sports Authority, presumably that money would be sitting in an account earning interest or be loaned to some other entity in the form of bonds. It would be just as easy to imagine scenarios that would cause those investments to go bad. (Plus, it is my understanding that they are earning a higher rate of interest from the Sports Authority than they were previously earning; pretty much a win-win.
The issuer of taxpayer funding of a soccer stadium is certainly a fair topic for this thread, but the Turnpike Authority loan to the Sports Authority has nothing to do with taxpayer-funded stadia.
I see how much you hate re-hashing this subject.
Anyway, we'll see if the HCTRA gets their money. I see non-payment and more loans from the toll road authority in the future. Face it. The renta-car and hotel taxes provide an insufficient funding stream to pay off the bonds. What in the future will change that? And did you ever wonder why the money wasn't borrowed from someone like JPMorgan Chase? Probably because they wouldn't like their chances of getting their money back. There is a reason they went to another government entity for the cash. -
Well, you just holler at me when the sports authority defaults on the loan. In fact, if I thought there would be a way to collect from you, I would put money on the loan being repaid to the Turnpike Authority. In the meantime, I don't really feel like re-hashing this whole non-issue. If you want to review, go to this thread (you too, Musicman):
http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=8018
No one wants the sports authority to default on the loan. I brought it up to point out you were incorrect to state only car and hotel taxes are being used to fund the stadiums. If you don't like re-hashing the issue then don't, who is forcing you? The issue of taxpayer funding the soccer complex is certainly on topic to this thread.
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(2) Toll road funds are not being used to cover shortfalls on Reliant bonds, at least not in a way that costs toll road users any money. The toll road authority has merely loaned money to the Sports authority so they can make payments on the Reliant bonds. Impact on tolls and cost to toll road drivers: ZERO.
"merely loaned money"? Yeah right. Like they will ever get that money back. Impact on tolls? Who's to say a future increase won't be impacted by this "loan". Why would you think there won't be future shortfalls requiring additional loans? That won't have an impact on tolls either I suppose.
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Well, the plan is to build a multi-field soccer complex for public use, so it would seem entirely appropriate for some public funding to be involved. (and as to getting screwed by privately owned sports teams, can we give that tired line a rest? (1) the arrangements for MMP, Toyota Center, and Reliant Stadium were all approved by the voters and (2) Unless you rent a car, stay in a hotel, or attend an event at one of the stadia, you are not providing any of the funding for them, let alone getting "screwed.")
I do rent cars but rental car/hotel taxes aren't what is being proposed for this project. And don't forget toll road funds are being used to cover shortfalls on Reliant bonds. And will city funding be confined to the public use facilities? Probably not.
One last thing, what does attending an event at one of the stadia have to do with funding the stadia? Nothing.
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The Gus Wortham proposal mentions using city funds, possibly even sales tax revenue, to build this complex. No one has a problem with this? Are we going to allow ourselves to be screwed yet again by a privately owned sports team?
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It is a big issue for everyone.
Maybe another thread? While it is on topic for a thread about the 2008 presidential race it tends to suck all of the attention to itself since it is a controversial topic and a big issue. However, it is not the only issue and tends to turn this thread into a debate on abortion instead of what it actually is.
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Think of Sim City. What do you do with dirty industry? It is an inescapable and necessary evil, and has to go somewhere. So you put it at the edge of the map, buffered from residential uses. There, it affects nobody.
Yes that worked great in Cleveland. Aaaaaah the childhood memories of roasting weenies at the flaming Cuyahoga river and the sweet smell of rotten eggs in the air. The industry in Cleveland was concentrated in the "flats" area, however beaches on Lake Erie, roughly 50 miles east and west of Cleveland, were so fouled they had to be closed from roughly the 1950's to the mid '80's. The trouble is pollutants spread. Concentrating industry has it's merits but that does not dismiss their responsibility to clean their emissions as the law demands and as much as it is technology feasible. If they are not spending "gobs and gobs of money to clean the air" (and water) they are doing so at all of our expense. Why should they be allowed to foul our air to benifit their bottom line?
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considering the downtown bar scene is competing with a resurgence on the richmond strip
Resurgence on the Richmond strip? Where?
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Exactly. Watch out!
Seriously, everybody knows Monday is Amateur Strip night at EJ's. Maybe they were just too distracted to hear all the destruction.
Aaaaaaah, to be out partying at 2:20 on a Monday night. The good 'ol days. Damn I'm getting old.
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What is a "disgruntled tweaker meth-head"?
A mythical creature that can fly around a parking lot, destroying 28 cars, w/o being seen or detected by mortal humans.
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Tweekers are magic, don't you know?
OK, if a group can do that much damage without being caught then I'd avoid that parking lot no matter what.
Parking has always been dicey in Montrose.
Avoid the parking lot? Good advice, after the fact. The 28 cars are still damaged. I'm real uncomfortable with doing anything to accommodate the thugs that did this. How about catching them and throwing their sorry asses in jail? People that do these kind of things obviously aren't mental giants. One or more of these geniuses are probably out now bragging about what they did.
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I seriously doubt it's a hate crime. If so, this person must really hate tires.
More like a disgruntled tweeker meth-head who was kicked out of the bar, or something along those lines.
One methed out tweeker damaged 28 cars sufficiently fast enough as not to be caught. Don't think so. Sounds like a group effort.
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That pretty much has been done in Texas. Of course that was only a half assed solution. Nothing was done to deny licenses to the small minority of incompetent DRs. that drew most of the malpractice suits.