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Old Posted Oct 26, 2007, 6:41 AM
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A THEATRE DISTRICT! AHHH lol, I'm excited about that.
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Old Posted Oct 26, 2007, 7:22 AM
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looks like an awesome place a MLB stadium next to
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Old Posted Oct 26, 2007, 7:28 AM
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I heart river north
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Old Posted Oct 26, 2007, 7:41 AM
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looks like an awesome place a MLB stadium next to
If only, although you do bring up a good point. River North would be the perfect location for a professional sports team stadium. The ideal location within River North would be Central Catholic High School. That is the area where you see the track and field oval.
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Central Catholic? and ATT Campus?

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If only, although you do bring up a good point. River North would be the perfect location for a professional sports team stadium. The ideal location within River North would be Central Catholic High School. That is the area where you see the track and field oval.
I thought that was Fox Tech HS, but I could be wrong.

The Archdiocese of San Antonio is looking for land to place a new Catholic HS so maybe moving the Central Catholic campus may be an option. The land that is sits on is worth a lot of money and the Archdiocese could use that money to build a bigger, better Central Catholic HS.

The cluster of conceptual buildings by the two ATT buildings look like they could be the beginning of an ATT campus. They are of close proximity to one another being right across the river. Who knows?
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I thought that was Fox Tech HS, but I could be wrong.

The Archdiocese of San Antonio is looking for land to place a new Catholic HS so maybe moving the Central Catholic campus may be an option. The land that is sits on is worth a lot of money and the Archdiocese could use that money to build a bigger, better Central Catholic HS.

The cluster of conceptual buildings by the two ATT buildings look like they could be the beginning of an ATT campus. They are of close proximity to one another being right across the river. Who knows?
That is true about the Archdiocese building a new high school on the north side. However, I don't think that means there shutting down Central Catholic. Someone would definitively have to buy the school and land while possibly donating land near downtown for a new school.
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If only, although you do bring up a good point. River North would be the perfect location for a professional sports team stadium. The ideal location within River North would be Central Catholic High School. That is the area where you see the track and field oval.
I second that! If only the city could see the commerce that that would bring to the downtown area. My friend who is a huge cardinals fan says there is nothing better than having a stadium downtown because not only can you get a hotel close to the game but before it starts he can go shopping and go sightseeing in st.louis, not only would it be beautiful it would help the local economy as well
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This will be one of the best downtowns in the USA!!!! Best in Texas with no doubt!!It's just my opinion!!
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This will be one of the best downtowns in the USA!!!! Best in Texas with no doubt!!It's just my opinion!!
I think it will be world class.
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I'm having serious problems with what you did in the other section.
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I'm having serious problems with what you did in the other section.
Nixed.
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Old Posted Oct 26, 2007, 11:55 AM
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This looks like a sweet project. So are all the brown models new stuff? Obviously some of those highrises are new, though conceptual, but is all that really part of it? I guess some of those might be renovations also. At any rate, this is exciting.
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Nah, that's not Fox Tech, it's the catholic school across from KSAT-12
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WOW, this thing looks great! Although, as verbl, said, a pro-sports stadium would be perfect.
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Nah, make it more like the upper west side meets Greenwich Village. No stadiums in those great residential areas.
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I hope they heed Homer Williams' pseudo-warning about their plans to forgo installing a streetcar.

It would be the best move, but I've no idea why everyone is so against it when people with billions of dollars of development revenue under their belts are saying "do it do it do it"
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Old Posted Oct 26, 2007, 11:44 PM
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I hope they heed Homer Williams' pseudo-warning about their plans to forgo installing a streetcar.

It would be the best move, but I've no idea why everyone is so against it when people with billions of dollars of development revenue under their belts are saying "do it do it do it"
From what I can tell, there is plans for street cars in River North.

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Old Posted Oct 26, 2007, 11:51 PM
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If only I could run back to my office right now, I could scan a sketch I did of a fantasy streetcar line through downtown-- it's almost exactly that setup!
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Old Posted Oct 27, 2007, 12:37 AM
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If only I could run back to my office right now, I could scan a sketch I did of a fantasy streetcar line through downtown-- it's almost exactly that setup!
I like how the start/end points are the convention center and the Pearl.
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