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Bar For Sale Downtown Houston

Productive and popular Gay Bar, Well established and centrally located in the Houston Montrose area. The sale is (as is) and includes the business, parking lot, all the furnishings. (liquor inventory will be extra and will be evaluated at time of closing) All records will be made available after signing a Confidentiality Agreement. For inquiries please call Gary Bergner with Century 21 Brooks Ballard, Tel: 713-522-7474 Ext. 252, email gary.b@brooks ballard.com. Fax: 713-522-3636

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Unnecessary Train Noise

I am a realtor and a resident in the Cottage Grove area of the city. That would be the Washington Avenue Corridor. There has been a large amount of new construction in this area. The Houston City is collection a lot a tax revenue from these homes and unfortunately we (the residents of this area) are being bombarded by train horn noise at all hours of the day and night. The city has somehow been able to get a quite zone for West University, Bellaire, and the Galleria area I.E. (no horn blowing), But we the residents of the Washington Avenue corridor are somehow not it the loop for this same consideration. I have written to the city council starting Jan 25, 07 complaining about the unneccessary noise, inviting members of the City Council and the Mayor to come to home and experience first hand the noise levels. In April there was an article written in the Houston Chronicle by (mat.stiles@chron.com) requesting that a 16 foot wall be built along I 10 to reduce the traffic noise so that the users of Memorial Park would not be bothered by the noise. (cost as much as $ 480,000) Excuse me but the users of Memorial Park are not there all day and all night. The homeowners and high tax payers are along this route all the time. I wrote Mr. Stiles with no reply but again he is representing a special interest group. I wrote another letter to the Mayor and City council Feb, 22,07 about the unneccessary noise from the trains, again no reply. I wrote again Aug 12, 07 spelling out the problem for the homeowners along this track. I recieved a letter signed by Bill White indicating that the complaint was be sent to Terence Fontaine, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. We are still waiting for a response from this person. Since the opening of the new terminal on the ship channel we are overrun by trains and the noise that follows day and night and Sunday nights are usually the worst. But the City is making money from the new terminal on the ship channel and from the homeowner tax payers and we are putting up with the nose with apparantly no help from the city. Today the Houston Chronicle (Dec. 28, 2007) has an article by Eric Hanson (eric.hanson@chron.com) about the city of Sugar Land attacking this same problem, I can only hope that the city council members and the mayor of Houston will read it and maybe do something for us along the train route of the Washington Ave. Corridor. If other owners in this area would like to have some input please write to the following.

Terrence Fontaine
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operation
Office of the Mayor
P.O. Box 1562
Houston, Texas 77251

and send a copy to Shiela Jackson Lee, since she is on the Railroad commission perhaps something will be done in our collective lifetimes

Gary Bergner
Century 21 Brooks Ballard
4150 Westheimer Rd. Ste 120
Houston, Texas 77027

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City Lifestyles

What are the lifestyle opportunities in and around Houston, Texas. Are there hiking clubs, biking trails, civic clubs, golf clubs, local arts and theater, lakes, streams, fishing, boating, camping or other types of lifestyle opportunities?

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