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Old Posted Mar 8, 2021, 2:06 AM
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For Sale sign spotted at Richmond & Buffalo Speedway. Very lucrative land. High probability something tall would go here.



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Old Posted Mar 8, 2021, 4:52 PM
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^ that whole area is ripe for redevelopment. Most of the buildings around there are MCM era that are crumbling and weren't well built to begin with.
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Elon Musk investing in the Houston area

Tesla is making a giant battery to plug into the Texas power grid

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Tesla is making a giant battery to plug into Texas' power grid, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

Gambit Energy Storage, a subsidiary of the electric-car giant, is developing a battery-energy-storage project in Brazoria County, Texas.

The system is registered with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state's power-grid operator. An ERCOT filing from August gave the project an expected commercial opening date of June 1, 2021, and said it has capacity to store 100 megawatts of energy.

That would be enough to power 20,000 homes on a hot day, Bloomberg reported.
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Old Posted Mar 9, 2021, 2:51 PM
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I wonder what it will look like.
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Class-A office on San Felipe.



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Old Posted Mar 15, 2021, 5:43 PM
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Looks like it is just starting.
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Old Posted Mar 29, 2021, 7:21 AM
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Why the palms? These kind are useless.
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Drove by the construction site of the block enclosed by Drew, Helena, Dennis, and Albany Streets. Looks like the parking ramp is starting to rise above the ground.

102 Dennis St, Houston, TX

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Old Posted Mar 31, 2021, 3:10 PM
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Also, the Spec's, Half Price Books, and 24 hour Emergency room on Westheimer (across from Kung Fu Tea) is now almost fully demolished.

1011 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX

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Also, the Spec's, Half Price Books, and 24 hour Emergency room on Westheimer (across from Kung Fu Tea) is now almost fully demolished.
That parking lot entrance on Yoakum just feet from Westheimer always irritated the hell out of me.
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That parking lot entrance on Yoakum just feet from Westheimer always irritated the hell out of me.
Ha, yea it was super steep and just right by the light and people wouldn't let you in or out the parking lot entrance and stuff. One of the many joys of Houston driving :-)
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Old Posted Mar 31, 2021, 5:25 PM
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Also, the Spec's, Half Price Books, and 24 hour Emergency room on Westheimer (across from Kung Fu Tea) is now almost fully demolished.

1011 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX

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Thanks for the updates, brew.
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Is that the strip center on corner of Westheimer and Montrose? That intersection will look radically different now.
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Is that the strip center on corner of Westheimer and Montrose? That intersection will look radically different now.
Yup, south of Westheimer across from that Shake Shack and Circle K gas station north of Westheimer. I'm so used to seeing that Half Price Bookstore there, it kinda saddened me. But Houston's always changing, lots of construction projects.
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Yup, south of Westheimer across from that Shake Shack and Circle K gas station north of Westheimer. I'm so used to seeing that Half Price Bookstore there, it kinda saddened me. But Houston's always changing, lots of construction projects.
That location was the 'new' Half Price Books. Used to be in an old house a few blocks away. I wonder if they stayed in the area or just downsized locations. Rice University area lost theirs a few years ago.
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That location was the 'new' Half Price Books. Used to be in an old house a few blocks away. I wonder if they stayed in the area or just downsized locations. Rice University area lost theirs a few years ago.
I remember when they were in that house... wow.
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That location was the 'new' Half Price Books. Used to be in an old house a few blocks away. I wonder if they stayed in the area or just downsized locations. Rice University area lost theirs a few years ago.
It was actually an old church.
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That looks pretty nice!
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