AUSTIN | Waterline | 1,034 Feet | 73 Floors | T/O - Page 100

DougRockstead · #**1981** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 4:25 PM**

I had no idea. I need to head out there again. I buy legos for my kids all the time and have frequented that place on and off for the past 20 years. Sad to see it go.

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True, and I have painfully obvious example to share, though, it's less about any of the locations the business was located in and more about seeing those businesses having a harder time finding somewhere that they can afford and are operating under the constant possibility that their location might be redeveloped forcing them to move again. And it's not as though these aren't long lived local businesses, they are. The one I'm talking about specifically that comes to mind now that I just visited it this weekend again for the first time in a few years, is Anna's Toy Depot in the Brodie Oaks Shopping Center. It's a place I first visited 30 years ago as a kid and ultimately introduced me to LEGO. For anyone who knows me well or who remembers me mentioning it here, I collect LEGO. I have over 100,000 LEGO pieces. I would go there pretty much every weekend and buy LEGO. I went this weekend, and the guy who works there told me they're planning to close at the end of the year. Granted, Anna has been operating the business for 30 years, but there was never any indication recently that she had planned to retire or close. She's always had her locations along South Lamar but had moved several times over the years. Once the news broke about the Brodie Oaks Shopping Center, I immediately thought of her since she had just moved there not too long before then. I don't know how soon the shopping center will be redeveloped, and honestly, I don't care about it. I love what they have planned for there and I'm excited about it. Still, I do hate that every small local business has to operate here with the constant threat of having their location redeveloped.

DougRockstead · #**1982** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 4:26 PM**

How did my Anna's toy depot reply end up on the wrong thread?

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I had no idea. I need to head out there again. I buy legos for my kids all the time and have frequented that place on and off for the past 20 years. Sad to see it go.

ski-man · #**1983** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 8:44 PM**

Page 100!!

JACKinBeantown · #**1984** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 9:14 PM**

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Page 100!!

So far it's much better than page 99.

lzppjb · #**1985** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 9:30 PM**

I haven't really bought Legos much recently, but I have gotten 4 models from Cobi on amazon. They are an off brand Lego that does replicas of WWII vehicles. I've done a Mustang, a Corsair, a Messerschmitt BF 110D, and a Tiger tank. They're pretty cool.

KevinFromTexas · #**1986** Posted **Apr 27, 2022, 5:45 AM**

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I haven't really bought Legos much recently, but I have gotten 4 models from Cobi on amazon. They are an off brand Lego that does replicas of WWII vehicles. I've done a Mustang, a Corsair, a Messerschmitt BF 110D, and a Tiger tank. They're pretty cool.

Further off topic here, but I bought these recently. They're pretty sweet! With these and some other LEGO I bought recently at Anna's, I have over 125,000 of them now.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/ford-mustang-10265

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/b...-machine-10300

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/g...s-ecto-1-10274

lzppjb · #**1987** Posted **Apr 27, 2022, 8:41 AM**

Wow. Way more expensive than mine! haha

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

agsatx88 · #**1988** Posted **May 3, 2022, 4:01 PM**

Fees on the ROW permit with a start date of 5/14 have been paid and it is now showing as active on the city permit portal. Fees total over $100,000 which I imagine wouldn't have been paid if start wasn't imminent.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...rtyrsn=2019189

bobbywest87 · #**1989** Posted **May 3, 2022, 4:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by agsatx88

Fees on the ROW permit with a start date of 5/14 have been paid and it is now showing as active on the city permit portal. Fees total over $100,000 which I imagine wouldn't have been paid if start wasn't imminent.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...rtyrsn=2019189

ahealy · #**1990** Posted **May 3, 2022, 7:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by agsatx88

Fees on the ROW permit with a start date of 5/14 have been paid and it is now showing as active on the city permit portal. Fees total over $100,000 which I imagine wouldn't have been paid if start wasn't imminent.

https://abc.austintexas.gov/public-s...rtyrsn=2019189

Damn, that's aaaaamazing. No height reductions and a start date this month. We're so close to Ron Paul.....

The ATX · #**1991** Posted **May 8, 2022, 4:34 PM**

The ROW closures for construction were pushed out to 05/28.

ATX2030 · #**1992** Posted **May 8, 2022, 7:00 PM**

Hopefully these pushes aren't a harbinger of things to come!

The ATX · #**1993** Posted **May 8, 2022, 7:13 PM**

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Hopefully these pushes aren't a harbinger of things to come!

I don't think so since they have the construction trailer offices all set up. It must be some last minute issue with the City about the ROW closures. There is a lot of utility work and other stuff going on in that area.

ATX2030 · #**1994** Posted **May 10, 2022, 7:38 PM**

Pic posted by Jordan Addison from the Fairmont.

https://twitter.com/Hei5mann/status/...798280/photo/1

enragedcamel · #**1995** Posted **May 10, 2022, 7:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATX2030

Pic posted by Jordan Addison from the Fairmont.

https://twitter.com/Hei5mann/status/...798280/photo/1

thanks, now im hungry

Maximusx1 · #**1996** Posted **May 10, 2022, 8:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATX2030

Pic posted by Jordan Addison from the Fairmont.

https://twitter.com/Hei5mann/status/...798280/photo/1

#SarkAfterDark

We vs us · #**1997** Posted **May 10, 2022, 9:15 PM**

So much dirt in that pic!

I've walked over there a couple of times and have a hard time visualizing just the two projects (98 RR and the Travis #1 and #2) in all that space. It almost seems like there's enough room between the two for another project.

The ATX · #**1998** Posted **May 10, 2022, 9:32 PM**

We're probably among a rare group of people who get excited about dirt looking out of the window while enjoying a stay in a high end hotel. But that food pic is really not doing anything for me.

IluvATX · #**1999** Posted **May 10, 2022, 9:51 PM**

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We're probably among a rare group of people who get excited about dirt looking out of the window while enjoying a stay in a high end hotel. But that food pic is really not doing anything for me.

Hopefully that isn’t their “room service”.

The ATX · #**2000** Posted **May 10, 2022, 9:55 PM**

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Hopefully that isn’t their “room service”.

My first thought was they must have picked up something to go at IHOP across the street to save money because the Fairmont is so expensive. But IHOP food looks better than that.