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Just a brief comment - WOW, Detroit's drop out rate is 78.3% ! edit - wow, they're all crappy rates (most less than 50%)

^Geez...maybe that deserves its own topic... edit: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=19426

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6280447.html The U.S. Postal Service is selling the downtown post office after 47 years of sorting and delivering mail from the 16-acre operation. Whoever buys the property at 401 Franklin must build a replacement processing facility for the postal service, as well as provide a retail location near the existing site where consumers can mail packages and buy stamps.

Yeah, it was built by the Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church which is just a couple blocks south on Hadley.

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With a small hike in your rate and no unusual activity on your part, something else seems to be sucking your electricity (faulty appliance? neighbor?). That's a huge jump, even if you average it out over the past couple months...can you look up how many kWh used this time last year?

Yikes - definitely check your kWh usage, your rate for that bill, and cross reference the number on your meter. I had a huge jump like that once, but it turned out to be a problem with the AC unit running inefficiently (and it wasn't summer, but still).

I think it may be a Robert G. Durst v. a Robert A. Durst (or something like that).

^I agree, and thanks to Ben for posting it.

I had some of the Kroger king cake (comes in the box pictured above with the choking hazard). They had two kinds - regular and filled (the one I had was vanilla-filled). There's the icing on top, then vanilla icing-like stuff leaking all over. It was the most sugary food I've eaten in recent memory, but it was actually pretty good.. The golden baby was pretty creepy, though, outstretched arms and all..

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^It's now Greenway Court apartments, and I would have never known.. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...000000000000017 http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...1&encType=1

Unfortunately, like others have mentioned, the Chronicle leaves out a lot (including a source to see the text of this proposal). The article mentions "The proposal has aroused critics who say the city should not use public funds to help people pay down car loans, credit card balances, or other debts" - specifically highlighting credit cards and cars, even if the "other debts" make up some portion of what this is going toward. But who really knows.. This is all I could find so far, from the City Council agenda: 21. ORDINANCE deappropriating $444,064.90 from the TIRZ Affordable Housing Fund 2409 (Fund 2409) under Ordinance No. 2008-828 for the Temporary Emergency Home Repair Program (“TEHRP”) in connection with Hurricane Ike Damage; approving and authorizing guidelines for a New Credit Score Enhancement Program; reappropriating $386,390.00 from Fund 2409 to a New Credit Score Enhancement Program, including delivery costs; and reappropriating $57,674.90 to the TEHRP for Project Delivery Costs

If your credit score isn't great (and you have some credit history), it's probably because you have derogatory account(s), make late payments, or have a high debt to credit ratio. Maybe not the best time to buy a home..

There is now a list from this thread pinned at the top of the Houston Mod forum

From BenH, WAZ, grayhomes, and Jersey01: M+A Architecture Studio http://www.maarchitecturestudio.com/ Savino Architecture (Monica Savino) http://savinoarchitecture.com/ Collaborative Designworks http://www.collaborativedesignworks.com/ Robertson Design http://www.robdes.com/ Intexure http://www.intexure.com/ Interloop http://www.interlooparchitecture.com/ Nonya Grenader http://nonyagrenaderarchitect.com/ Gordon Wittenberg, AIA (Wittenberg Oberholzer Architects) Glassman Shoemake Maldonado http://gsmarchitects.net/ Natalye Appel http://www.appelarchitects.com/ Su Nguyen, Metropolitan Design Group, inc. and StudioMet.net. http://www.mdgi.net / http://www.studiomet.net Strasser Ragni http://www.strasserragni.com/

The one with the half-timbering on the NE corner (1212 Hyde Park)?

My goodness. For those interested in checking it out, the SAVERPLUS promo code works just fine when entered here: http://www.championenergyservices.com/residential.asp

It was edited - the notation was left off. Fixed now.

And now the HAR listing has changed - no interior photos anymore, and this is the text: A long private drive leads to this fabulous 3+ acre lot located in the heart of exclusive Sherwood Forest. The heavily treed grounds create a beautiful park-like setting backing to a tributary of Carter Lake. This is truly a rare opportunity to create the estate of your dreams. Also, the exterior photo of the home that is still on the listing has this description: A long private drive leads to this fabulous 3+ acre lot located in the heart of exclusive Sherwood Forest. Photo shows previous home no longer in existence.

Oh, and this was the house he built for Robert A. Mosbacher (who sold it to Giorgio Borlenghi in March 1979, who sold it to ALV Interests. Ltd. in October 2007). More on Borlenghi here: http://interfin.com/ManageDetail/CDetail_P...x?contentid=486 ALV Interests also recently bought the Gerhard Wurzer Gallery at 1217 S. Shepherd. Here's an excerpt from Howard Barnstone's The Architecture of John F. Staub: Grantor: MOSBACHER ROBERT ADAM ETAL Grantee: BORLENGHI GIORGIO Date: 19790306 Type: W/D Desc:SHERWOOD FST Section:0D Lot:L0007 Grantor: BORLENGHI GIORGIO ETAL Grantee: ALV INTERESTS LTD Date: 20071002 Type:W/D Desc:SHERWOOD FOREST Section:0D Lot:L0007 Not sure what ALV Interests is, but this is from the SEC and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: ALV INTERESTS, LTD. Amy Vaughan King Amy Vaughan King, President Amy Lynn Vaughan Interests, LLC General Partner AMY V KING 300 WEST AUSTIN MARSHALL, TX 75670

I was in the area after dark (and it was dark), but the deed has been done..

The Sagemont one isn't the huge beacon I thought it was going to be from 45, but it's still...huge:

I drove by there earlier today, too, and the sign facing westbound traffic was blank, and the eastbound had the South Pointe information like mentioned above..

I combined the threads, but if there is an interest in Perry's at La Centerra having its own thread again, I can undo it...