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Going Back to the Near Northside School on the Hill
Overlooking Hogg Park and White Oak Bayou, the old Robert E. Lee Elementary school is being renovated into a community center for the Near Northside. The school was designed by Alfred C. Finn and...
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Hatching Baby Businesses at the Astrodome
One of those 19 private bids that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation didn’t quite get around to asking for and yet still received just in time for Monday’s deadline comes from...
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Neat Trick from Sports and Convention Corp. Cuts Astrodome, Everyone Else’s...
Correction: An earlier version of this story repeated an assertion included in a Houston Business Journal blog post by Shaina Zucker — that the Sports Corporation’s proposal for the Astrodome included...
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Beyoncé’s Dad Couldn’t Find the Scratch To Make Astrodome Splash
One of those 19 bids that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation never really asked for and passed over anyway for its own proposing that the Astrodome be converted into a slimmer,...
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Harris County Commissioners Decide Astrodome Convention Center Plan Needs To...
What’s another few weeks when we’ve been waiting this long? As some likely expected, the Harris County Commissioners Court decided today that it wasn’t quite ready to decide on the proposal the Sports...
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Super Bowl Fever Speeding Up Astrodome Deciders
If it seems kinda arbitrary and sorta abrupt, that June 10 now-or-never deadline for Astrodome ideas that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation set, it might be because another deadline...
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City Traffic Operations Building New I-10 Facility Much Closer to City Traffic
Correction: An earlier version of this story reported that the city would relocate its traffic operations to this building; that assertion is in error. The new Patterson St. building is replacing an...
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Commissioners Decide To Let Voters Decide on Convention Center Plan
You’ll get your chance at the ballot box this November to decide whether to approve a bond that would pay for the Harris County Sports and Convention Corp.’s $217 million plan to clean up and slim...
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Is Astrodome Demolition Going To Be on the Ballot in November?
Harris County Commissioner Jack Morman and Judge Ed Emmett are already saying that, were that $217 million bond election to turn the Astrodome into a convention center (as shown in the rendering...
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The Art Guys, Privacy Fencing, and City Hall
The Art Guys are in there somewhere: On Friday the mischievous duo executed Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, the latest of their yearlong series of 12, umm, performances. Cocooning themselves in these...
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Sports and Convention Corp.: We Have Ways To Make You Like Our Astrodome Plan
Unlike that rather inadequately advertised call for private bids about what to do with the Astrodome, the Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. appears to be taking very public pains before the...
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The Last Remaining Piece of the Prudential Tower
It made it: The 1952 Peter Hurd mural, formerly of the wall of the demolished Kenneth Franzheim-designed Prudential Tower in the Med Center, has completed its 2-year stop-and-go journey from 1100...
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