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The original Alamo Tamales in The Heights...ok
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15 minutes ago, texan said:
and are not removing leaving the park if their needs aren't met as an option
Where are they going to go? Rice Stadium? I don’t see the Rodeo building another 80,000 seat covered stadium in Houston. Silly comment from HLSR.
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Elon Musk selects Bastrop for new X HQ! Ugh!
Why do these companies keep moving to the suburbs??
https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/elon-musk-x-bastrop-19777063.php
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Chief Eddie García retiring from Dallas police to become Austin assistant city manager
Dallas loses again…
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A full breakfast menu! Nice!
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City of Houston "State of the City" address to Greater Houston Partnership.
A lot of the time was spent on Whitmire's background and upbringing...a nice introduction by UH Chancellor Renu Khator.
https://www.youtube.com/live/7064xqOoQTM?si=zv0mBOVkHfY5Pv9w
He brought up again his desire to take the 300 acres owned by UT in the Med Center area and convert that into another public park like Hermann and Memorial.
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4 hours ago, hindesky said:
Guessing these hay bales are leftover from the Red Bull event last weekend.
Props for a pumpkin/Halloween display?
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44 minutes ago, hindesky said:
Ahead of the highly anticipated Michelin Guide’s Texas restaurant list dropping later this year, the French tire company announced its Michelin Keys awards recognizing top hotels across the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Hotel ZaZa’s two locations in Memorial City and Museum District, along with the Post Oak Hotel, each received one “key,” the equivalent of one of three stars Michelin doles out to restaurants. None of the 17 Texas hotels on the list received three keys.
According to the DMN there were 20 Texas Hotels rated, which makes sense because The Chronicle listed 19 of them…(I extrapolated the 20th from the DMN article).
Austin: Commodore Perry Estate *
Austin: ARRIVE Austin
Austin: Austin Proper Hotel
Austin: Fairmont Austin Gold Experience
Austin: Hotel Saint Cecilia
Austin: Hotel ZaZa Austin
Austin: Soho House Austin
Austin: The Heywood Hotel
Dallas: Casa Duro
Dallas: Hotel Swexan
Dallas: Hotel Zaza Dallas
Dallas: Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
El Paso: The Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park
Fort Worth: Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection *
Fort Worth: Hotel Drover, Autograph Collection
Galveston: Carr Mansion
Houston: Hotel ZaZa Museum District
Houston: Hotel ZaZa Memorial City
Houston: The Post Oak Hotel
San Antonio: Hotel Emma *
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On the 124th anniversary of the Great Storm of 1900 I stumbled upon this Texas Monthly long-form article written by Galveston native Paul Burka. The article is brilliant and funny and enlightened me on how native Galvestonians thought/think? about Houston.
The New Orleans newspaper article at the beginning of this thread is also very good!
Grande Dame of the Gulf
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/grande-dame-of-the-gulf/
Worth the full read! But if you don’t have access here are some interesting excerpts from the article:QuoteTo old Galvestonians, Houston was barely removed from savagery. A Galveston matron, returning from Houston in 1864, reported to her family that men didn’t dare to venture out without a gun by day or a lantern by night. The gun referred to Houston’s propensity for sudden violence, which could break out at any time on Main Street; the lantern, to the city’s paludal streets, which could swallow a man up to his waist in mud. On the Island, where the streets had been paved and free of gunplay for years, Houston was derisively known as Mudville and its citizens as mudcats.QuoteProminent Galveston FamiliesThe names are Sealy, Kempner, and Moody, and in time they came to rule not only Galveston’s business and politics but also its attitudes and its view of itself.The Sealys were patricians. They built Open Gates, one of the greatest of the nineteenth-century mansions, a temple to aristocracy, with first-floor windows topped by soaring arches and castle towers that opened onto second-floor balconies. The attic, underneath a steep red-tile roof almost as high as the main portion of the house, contained a children’s theater. In this house the last of the Galveston Sealys concentrated on his real love, developing new strains of oleanders, while the port that was his business responsibility slipped further and further into decline.The Kempners were much less ostentatious, as one might expect of the leading Jewish family in an immigration center. The world that comes to mind is “proper,” always proper. Their homes were substantial but not spectacular. The Kempners were to Galveston a model for emulation.The Moodys had more money but less grace. Like the Sealys, they lived in a mansion, but not of their own making; they bought it for a distress-sale price — 10 cents on the dollar, it is said — after the 1900 storm. The Moodys were give-no-quarter nineteenth-century capitalists long after the nineteenth century ended, as frugal and ruthless as Andrew Carnegie but without (at least until the last twenty years) any of the steel magnate’s philanthropic impulses.QuoteA Dirty Shirt and $5 BillGalveston’s historic distaste for Houston was reflected in its posture toward tourism. Galvestonians were never very comfortable with the idea of soliciting the patronage of boorish Houstonians, and their halfheartedness showed up in dirty beaches and unairconditioned hotels. The beachfront never did become an economic bonanza — mainly because, Galvestonians said, people from Houston brought a picnic lunch to the beach, stayed all day, and returned without buying so much as a gallon of gas. “They come down with a dirty shirt on their back and a $5 bill in their pocket and never change either one” has remained a local refrain.QuoteHouston has taken Galveston’s port, its people, its appellate court, its businesses, its railroads, its destiny, but it will never take Galveston’s hurricanes or its soul. Oh, Houston tried to claim Alicia, and the national media made it sound like Houston’s storm, but if you aren’t surrounded on at least three sides by salt water, you haven’t really been through a hurricane.Galveston is proof of a basic law of biology: Island species evolve in a manner so specialized that they find it difficult to do more than subsist. When outside species are introduced, like swine in Hawaii or Houstonians in Galveston, the indigenous species cannot compete. That is why the tankers laden with oil sail past the Island up the Ship Channel, while Galveston looks beyond them to the sea, so wickedly peaceful, and the sky that will bring the next storm.-
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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies_tv/article/jb-sauceda-texas-country-reporter-texas-monthly-19715112.php
J.B. talks about growing up in LaPorte in the shadow of the San Jacinto Monument on Houston Matters…starts at 15:38-
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30 minutes ago, goofy said:
Oh yes those stay but the developers have made a statement on that so I wasn’t as interested. It’s covered earlier in this thread with the general site plan.
I missed that statement…only saw where HAIF-ers expressed a desire to preserve the Sears sign and bus stop. Time will tell…
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20 minutes ago, goofy said:
Store building down. Only the auto center stands, but it will be down soon by the looks of things.
The Sears sign and bus stop is still there…
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1 hour ago, hindesky said:
The first major road work set for downtown Houston related to the $11.2 billion-plus rebuild of the freeway core and Interstate 45 remains on track for next year, but at a cost of $80 million more than expected.
Work could start early next year and last for eight years rebuilding Interstate 69 from Texas 288 to I-45, through Third Ward and Midtown. It is the second of more than 15 Texas Department of Transportation projects encompassing the rebuild of the downtown freeway system and widening of I-45 from downtown north to Beltway 8.
Bids on the project, opened Thursday in Austin, show Houston-based Williams Brothers Construction was the apparent low price, with an offer of $695.5 million. That represents an increase of 13% compared to TxDOT’s estimate of $615.7 million. Webber, the only other company to bid on the job, submitted a bid of $1.254 billion, or more than twice than what state officials estimated.
These construction companies are like insurance companies - milking the system!
“While state transportation officials have said prices are beginning to plateau, large projects in the major metro areas continue receiving bids 10% or higher than officials estimated.”This was interesting and sobering…“Work is also scheduled to stop and the road reopened in some form when Houston hosts World Cup games in Summer 2026. The soccer matches, expected to draw tens of thousands, will be at NRG Park, but lead to events in and around downtown.“We have all of that in the contract,” Mapes said of the event. “We understand what the World Cup is.”Residents, however, will live with the work for two decades or more. Work is not expected to finish in downtown until 2037, with the planned widening of the freeway to Beltway 8 to add two managed lanes in direction expected to take until 2042 or later.”-
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Downtown Houston+ has opened a survey on how to improve downtown.
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4 hours ago, gene said:
today i found this article and podcast...
they say in 2027 a UNDER 610 pedestrian BRIDGE will go from the west to east for those un Uptown to better and safer be able to get to Memorial Park from Uptown! As a bike rider from Mccue to Memorial this is awesome...
lots more interesting stuff is also mentioned:
if this should be posted elsewhere feel free to share!
Yes, this was announced in November 2023. It’s disappointing though that it won’t be completed until 2027. Originally they said it would only take a year to complete. I found this rendering in the Chronicle article. If it ends up looking like this it will be worth the wait.
Uptown Management District is still designing a proposed trail connection that would build a new bridge for pedestrians and bicyclists and then access to Memorial Park via a bayou trail beneath Loop 610Courtesy Uptown Management District-
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22 hours ago, westendobserver said:
Seems like a lost opportunity to do something great on that very centrally located corner. But I get that it's their land, this is Houston and they can do what they choose with it!
There will be a sea of parking and a small building I guess, much like suburbia. Any experts know how much space would be left over on the lot once CFA goes in? Additional buildings?
They will need all that space for car traffic going around the building. They shouldn’t need parking if it’s drive-thru-only. I’ve never seen a CFA that wasn’t always packed.
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On 8/1/2024 at 4:08 PM, hbg.50 said:
Greenspoint Mall, after 48 years, is permanently closing.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/retail/article/greenspoint-mall-closing-19609240.php
Well apparently this was mis-reported… shocker!
From today’s HBJ:https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2024/09/04/greenspoint-mall-small-retail-reopening.html
The company had previously sent tenants a letter informing them of the June 30 closing and instructing them to vacate the property by July 30. That deadline was extended to Aug. 31 because some tenants needed more time, said Rita Tumlinson, senior vice president of management and administration at Triyar. She added that news reports that said the mall was closed earlier were false.
By Aug. 31, all remaining tenants were to leave or move their personal property and inventory to a 33,500-square-foot space formerly occupied by The Uniform Superstore on the west side of the mall.
Originally, that space was home to a Palais Royal department store.
Tumlinson could not confirm how many tenants signed on to the new lease but said it is for one year with a 60-day termination option.
Meanwhile, Zieben Group is in the process of redeveloping one part of the mall property. The Houston-based real estate developer is building a 325-unit affordable apartment complex on a 17-acre parcel that previously housed Sears.
The company's president and CEO, Lee Zieben, previously told the HBJ he is trying to buy the remaining parcels of the 120-acre mall property with the hope to redevelop it into a distribution and logistics park.
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7 hours ago, EastwoodEnvoy said:
If the software supports loading the first unread post in a topic when clicking on a topic with unread messages vs just loading the first unread page that would be great. Would save a lot of scrolling to find the first post that I haven't yet read.
I navigate the site by clicking the hamburger in the upper right hand corner, then selecting either “all activity” or “unread content.” I then click on the time of the post to take me directly to that post. I skim through a lot that doesn’t interest me.
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A lengthy article in today’s Chronicle about the $60M Jones Hall Renovation.
The major updates for the upcoming 2024/25 season:
This summer, Eubanks oversaw the installation of a new orchestra shell ceiling, shell towers and a forestage reflector."We completely rebuilt the enclosure, and transformed how it sounds. Before, musicians would have to push to get the sound out. Now, we want them to finesse. By rebuilding the walls on the sides, they can hear each other better," he says. "The forestage reflector directs sound where it needs to go throughout the house, which is a big boost to the patron experience."There was previously a delay for balcony-level seats. Spoken word or lyrics became muffled and difficult to understand.Mangum explained that by changing the room from fan-shaped to a more parallel configuration, there's more support for the sound onstage and in the room, so less gets lost. "There are less holes for the sound to go into. Now the container is water tight," he said.Eubanks reduced the number of doors leading into the auditorium from 30 down to 10. Today, less external sound and lighting leaks in. He describes Jones Hall as a unique building, suggesting that many of its initial design choices prioritized form over function.—————————————————————————————————————————————
Another change that nobody will care about is major donor’s names will now be associated with virtually every part of the building (e.g. Margaret Alkek Williams Grand Lobby).
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/jones-hall-renovation-first-look-19725986.php
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1 hour ago, Triton said:
Do we have any ideas when this will be started? I haven't heard any movement on it since last year:
There is a separate thread for your question…
“Memorial Park to Buffalo Bayou Park Bike Connection”
I don’t know how to copy the link here…
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51 minutes ago, TXK said:
Every presentation I see of this just continues to impress me more and more. The vision and details are all so impressive. Should be such a point of pride for the 2nd Ward when it's all done.
The construction on the turkey bend warehouse has been going strong for a little while now, they've got a lane of Navigation closed off. I don't think I'd noticed before that it was going to be open air with connections to the waterfront behind it.
Thank the Kinders for their $130M contribution without which none of this would be possible.
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16 minutes ago, JBTX said:
"Cullen Boulevard will close seven (7) hours before game time with tailgating beginning four (4) hours prior to kickoff."
I wish they would say from where to where. Last year it was closed between Wheeler and Holman. For selfish (parking) reasons I hope that's still the same.
Based on this image it looks like only one block between Holman and Cougar Place, directly in front of the stadium.
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On 7/23/2024 at 2:20 PM, hbg.50 said:
It looks great! I hope the University shuts down Cullen to vehicular traffic on football game days. I remember when TDECU first opened Cullen was filled with food trucks and tailgaters. If they’re smart they’ll go back to that setup.
Just announced…Cullen Boulevard will be closed for game day activities 7 hours before the start of the football game…
Pregame activities shift to Cullen Boulevard for more centralized, accessible space
HOUSTON – With the University of Houston Football program beginning a new era this fall under Head Coach Willie Fritz, fans can expect new and exciting changes to pregame activities including a new location for Cougar Walk and elevated tailgating experiences and opportunities.
COUGAR WALK
New in 2024, Cougar Walk will shift to Cullen Boulevard, as fans will have the opportunity to cheer and high-five their favorite Houston Football student-athletes, coaches and staff as they parade down the University's main street. Cougar Walk begins 2 hours and 30 minutes before kickoff.
The Spirit of Houston Marching Band will trumpet their first pregame performance at Cougar Walk followed by a new second routine scheduled to take place adjacent to Cougar Alley 90 minutes prior to kickoff.
REVELXP AND STUDENT TAILGATES
New this season, RevelXP will help Coogs fans take game day to the next level with full-service tailgating. RevelXP handles all the details, set up and clean up so fans can enjoy the day with friends in prime locations near TDECU Stadium. Click here for more information.
With a new location this season, student tailgates will shift to Cullen Boulevard to create a more centralized and accessible area for attendees.
Current University of Houston students are invited to attend Houston Athletics' Student Tailgate which is held in conjunction with the Student Government Association and Student Affairs and located near the "Coogs' House" sign on Cullen Boulevard. The student tailgate will feature a DJ, food and video games including the new EA SPORTS College Football 25. Students must show their UH ID and game ticket for free admission to the tailgate.
Cullen Boulevard will close seven (7) hours before game time with tailgating beginning four (4) hours prior to kickoff.-
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11 hours ago, MidCenturyMoldy said:
“Beautiful Southwest Houston!”
Great find! My memory of that area in the 80s was knocking on doors with my church at all those apartments. It was full of Salvadoran refugees by then.
An NHL team for Houston?
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