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    Post office seems like a good idea. 1. Somewhere I read the post office was supposed to be a train station in the first place. 2. The main railroad is right there, and it could be moved slightly to allow for HSR. 3. The 290 corridor plan left room for HSR right of way, which is directly connected to this line. 4. As for not being on the light rail line, this can always be a solution.
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    They sure do, but if you undermine the arguments against it, there's no chance of stopping future attempts to monitor and control it.
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    My favorite memory of Northwest Mall (well, I only went there once) was with one of my friends, while waiting for the antiques center to open, I looked at the inactive fountain that's in the court and lamented of the fate of the mall fountain. And hey presto, it turned on almost immediately after, almost as if someone had seen us looking at it and decided to flip it on that day. (I may or may not have written anything on Yelp about the antique center)
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    "Original" Montrose existed from 1920s to sometime around the 1960s. Nevertheless, Montrose "Version 1.0" was carried over to the well-known "Montrose 2.0", what with its older bungalows and original structures (Wilshire Village Apartments, for example), which weren't spared in the conversion to "Montrose 3.0". However, the culture has shifted to incorporate much of the original "counter-cultural" elements, so any "new Montrose" will have a completely different feel.
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    Thanks for the reply. I think if you account for the total labor and cost to go from abandoned, structurally unsafe building to lofts ready to move in, it may be cheaper to build anew, especially when you take into account adding new HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems. I wouldn't say they're "redneck" cities (unless you use redneck and Texas conservative to be interchangeable terms), but in those cases, they would only put up scaffolding to prevent the shell from falling apart and hope that a developer steps in and saves it before weathering damage (as the roof tends to go first, then the floors below) causes the whole thing to collapse in on itself.
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    Maybe not "pretty full", but it was more than I expected, people walking around even in the morning, food court had some things open. It was fairly early, though, which accounted for some things.
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    Question: which would be cheaper, to repair the building's structural issues and work from there, or to completely demolish the interior (except for the brick shell) and build an entirely new building, which would maintain the original facade?
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    The store at 249 and Houston Rosslyn is now a Family Thrift Store. This store was sold to Kroger, though I can't be sure if they actually opened a store here or not. The store at Houston Rosslyn is now some sort of office building that has been modified, but the original grocery store still seems to be intact. A few of the stores closed and within 48 hours, had put up new price tags and signage, but I'm wondering if there were any sold stores that never closed. P.S.: Yours truly worked at #1193, though it wasn't called AppleTree anymore (same management team, though)
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    No, they aren't mine, they were one of the things on YouTube that I put on a playlist. I never got to see the MKT in action.
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    Yeah, the antique center uses only the lower level. Despite that, the interior was far larger than I imagined. Even though the decor was stripped out, there's still quite a sense of how grand it was.
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    Maybe "bust" is not the right word, but when the big real estate push dies down.
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    It's at the corner of Houston Rosslyn Road and Highway 249. 239 W. 20th Street for the first one, 1805 Ella, that's there too. It's on there, it closed after 1994, and thus, at the bottom of the list.
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    Sorry to remind you of things to come, but I read that the boom that Houston is undergoing (new towers, everywhere) won't last after maybe next year. What will happen in that time after the boom ends and the bust begins? Will new construction just shrivel up, or will neighborhoods really start deteriorating? I wasn't alive in the 1980s, so I wouldn't know too much about it...
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    Almost five million to repair the building's financial structures alone?! It's a goner for sure.
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    I know my colleague and I walked around the mall and took a couple of pictures. The fountain outside of what was Penney's still works, at least as of April of last year. Antique mall's huge. I didn't buy anything, but I know I didn't walk the entire building. It's still pretty neat, but I feel that time is ultimately running out for it.
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    My sources (an old book from the 1970s called "Houston Today", checked it out from a library) say that Almeda Mall and Northwest Mall both had 71 stores at start (this may or may not include the department stores). If you find the Almeda Mall store opening list, you've found Northwest Mall's.
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    OK, I've been working on a list of AppleTree stores in the entire chain, and I've published the first edition here. This covers more than half of the chain. What do you think? What's missing? AppleTree stores
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    The original page has been updated. Unfortunately, the Jack in the Box picture didn't make it in this update, but please send me information if anything else has met the dozer.
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    Given that it has fresh produce and dry staples at discount prices as opposed to the junk at convenience stores, which is the main issue here, I'd say that Aldi would be a rather fitting choice. There is something to be said in terms of liquor sales near schools, and now is not the time to discuss it, but what happened at H-E-B Montrose Market was embarrassing, considering that said school was a block away, and even then facing the back of the store. It's Houston! Things are denser, and thus going to be closer to each other.
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    Unfortunately, I feel that it's a step that won't quite work. While it would help in situations like how when the Montrose H-E-B opened the beer/wine section had to be empty and roped off (due to a school nearby), large grocery stores (H-E-B, Kroger) just don't tend to locate in areas that are very low-income for whatever reason. Even Fiesta can't be found in these so-called "food deserts". The best thing going for these places is Aldi, which clears a major hurdle by having a relatively small footprint, and tends to survive in areas where other retail will not.
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    In terms of going too FAST, when speed limits fail to do the trick to slow down traffic, on smaller residential roads, they put needless all-way stop signs at entrances to cul-de-sacs. My uncle's neighborhood in Baton Rouge added them around 2007-2008. My own 'hood added them as well (but thankfully, not where I drive on it).
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    OK, I reread the topic, and it was on the first page.
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    I thought I remember reading on this thread--maybe it was a similar one, about a serious high-roller illegal casino, like the "break your legs" type place. I specifically remember reading that the owner would send teenagers home without entry (but not without giving them something like a Coca-Cola)
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    The bus system clearly needs work, but man do some of the roads need help. I'm pretty sure parts of Richmond haven't been touched since the 1970s, and it shows. Indirectly, the construction of the light rail created nice smooth roads that have been altered for light rail use.
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    The mayor's not a federal judge, but she's right. However, the police don't appear at protests for their exclusive benefit of protesters, it's to keep the peace. Running lights with the crowd won't get you arrested, but if some clown thinks it's okay to vandalize cars during the event, then he WILL be arrested, because the cops will be there. And since the police are there, that tends to discourage obviously illegal things anyway.
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