Back again today for the driving portion of my sons license test and this place still gets an 11/10…read morefrom me. The pool they get the employees from for this location cannot be the same barrel the hwy 3 location pulls from. This place is great! Make your appt here, just trust me. Amazing group.

Upon my initial visit, I had the pleasure of commemorating the 100th birthday of a resident who has…read morelived in Seabrook for many years. The establishment boasts a rich history and features an outdoor monument with fascinating vintage photos.

This is a historic building. Dating back in the 1900's... I'm too lazy to read the history board on…read morethe front. I was here for Polynesian Dance venue. The building was very well-maintained. There aren't a lot of parking spaces in the attached lot. I parked across street in the police department lot. The building is surrounded by a manicured yard. On the side of building, it has a Pelican Path. Just say it's a happy place to pose with people height cement statues. It opens from sunrise to sunset. This made a perfect place for a cultural venue for the summertime. Let the breeze of Clear Lake flown to my face. That experience is never felt in Houston. My only pet peeve is lack of bathrooms. If you really really have to go, Citgo on the other side of 2nd Street should be sufficient. If you are interested about my evening spent at Seabrook Community House, please visit my blog. http://iyelpalot.blogspot.com/2016/07/polynesian-venue-in-seabrook.html

We rented the Ballroom for our business event last week. The Ballroom was perfect for our needs and…read morethey can meet all of your A/V requests as well, They have a huge screen, projector, wifi and bluetooth access. There is a full-service kitchen with an icemaker. Rhonda, the Facilities Services Manger was a delight to work with, and she answered all of my questions before the event quickly and clearly. She and her staff were on-site and the event went off like a dream. They had an event before us in the morning and the room was spotless and perfectly set up when we arrived. The team was so kind and helpful, I am thrilled with how everything went. I couldn't have pulled this off without them.

I came here for a meeting for Paws-a-thon event and its place is mostly for venues. Great space for…read moreprivate parties or city meetings. The girl in the front seemed friendly and nice no attitude given and none taken. Huge parking lot on all four sides and I guess it's next to City hall. When you drive out its a sign across the way that says no anyways which I don't know what that really means. So, I usually drive left to go back to the Webster area. Walter Hall park is right down the street also.

Houston has some truly hidden gems and the Gragg Building is one of them. A unique and historic…read morebuilding in Houston, I was lucky enough to go on a tour of the building led by the Houston Parks and Recreation director, Joe Turner. This 1950's, Frank Lloyd Wright inspired building was the original Houston headquarters for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) prior to the building of NASA Clear Lake. In 1976, the building (originally the Farnsworth & Chambers building) was purchased by the city of Houston and the surrounding land was purchased by Gragg family to create a city park. The building has served as the Houston Parks and Recreation Department's main headquarters since 1977. In 2007, the building underwent a $16 million dollar renovation designed to preserve the historic aspect of the building while modernizing it for future use. The building is now a LEED Gold certified building. The building is also recognized on local, state, and national historic registry sites. All of that history can convey how beautiful this building is. As I drove up to the building (knowing nothing about it), I noticed the low flat roof and Wright inspired design. Walking in, the beautiful original green stone is visible everywhere. Inside the building there are three very prominent features. First, the green floor. Wow! The floor is incredibly shiny and incredibly green. I love it! Second, the original wood paneling is everywhere. The wood paneling was taken down, refurbished, and put back but in better placement throughout the building. And third, the natural lighting and windows. Everywhere you look is natural light and you can see through windows into the interior courtyard as well as outside. The building did not originally have so much natural light, but when the building was being renovated and large amount of asbestos were found, the building was completely gutted and the architects made the decision to add natural light to the plan. I love this building and I'm not an architecture nerd at all. The designers thought of so many beautiful small touches. There are no lights in the ceilings, as everything is lit either by natural light or by upward facing recessed lights to conceal the actual light fixtures. The furniture matches the building, with many modern interpretations and recreations of mid century modern furnishings. The halls are long and bare allowing the structure to speak for itself. The grounds and interior spaces have large beautiful pieces of art. The director told us that the art was mostly taken from the storerooms of the Houston Public Library. The pieces have one thing in common, their names have to do with nature. There is one large commissioned piece outside the cafeteria by James Surls. The piece is reminiscent of "Point of View" which can be found in Market Square Park in downtown Houston. The offices are open and light. The conference rooms are each named after a signature park in Houston. The largest conference table in the main meeting room is the original NASA era conference table. The day we toured, there was a Hurricane preparedness meeting going on where several people were sitting around the same table that John Glenn, Alan Shepard, and Gus Grissom sat. Even John F Kennedy Jr spent time in the building before heading to Rice University to give his famous speech. The building doesn't forget its history. There is a large NASA sign in the front lobby along with photos from the era. The original building sign is still there, just covered with the Houston Parks and Rec sign now. There is a poster in the lobby that is signed by the final four crew members from the shuttle program, and the poster actually went into space with them. The building just screams "mid century modern". I want to call the producers of Mad Men and tell them they need to shoot some scenes here. It was an immense treat to have Joe Turner be our tour guide. His love for the building was apparent and he had a story about every hallway, design aspect, and conference room. What a treat it must be to work in such a beautiful building filled with art. The building is located in Gragg Park, at South Wayside and Wheeler. This area was once the center of Houston's growth. The building is not open to the public, so if you are lucky enough to get a tour, go! Information about the exquisitely done design and renovation can be found here: http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/ourparks/graggpark.html

What an amazing building. There is nothing I can say about this place that Melissa M. didn't…read morealready. Why a 4 not a 5... there are more impressive buildings out there!

I tried to get help from them, concerning a stolen gun. The same gun she tried firing again a…read moresecond time, before I came around from the sink. She was so drunk, hadn't agnoleaged I was not there anymore. Anyways, even sent the pics of the stolen gun, yet Nothing? Even know the first name of whom she stole it. Nothing!!!! No help!!! Worst part, I can only justify showing up for the dogs. When I leave, the nieborhood suffers. No barrier big enough to be rebellious. WTF? no wonder u do not care!!! Food? Really??????

I was pulled over by a Texas City police officer around 4:30pm on 5-21-16. The reason I was pulled…read moreover was because I was swerving because I was falling asleep while I was driving. I had been up for twelve hours after only sleeping about four hours. I didn't get the officer's name. He was an older gentleman. Turns out that people had called and reported me because I appeared to be a drunk driver. That was not the case, I was simply falling asleep while driving. Anyhow, the officer who pulled me over was very courteous and friendly. He gave me a sobriety test and sent me on my way to get home (a mile away). I tried calling the police department to commend the officer for being so friendly, but since it's Saturday, no one answered. I don't know his name, but if more officers were like the one who pulled me over, there would be a lot less negativity towards police. He was a very friendly guy and I wish him all the best.

Welcome to Texas City, which is located in Galveston County. It is the location of the Port of…read moreTexas City which is one of the largest petroleium transshipment ports in the United States. A huge numbeer of refineries are here and you'll get to drive past them (and smell them) along State Road 197. Tanks and towers and chemicals floating into the air. Just driving through here can't possibly be healthy. But there are other parts to this city that aren't chemicals. The Texas City Dike is lovely. There's a Buc-ee's here. And it's wonderful to just watch the big ships go past. [Review 867 of 2024 - 622 in Texas - 21897 overall]

I thought I would write a short ditty Bout a place where the…read moreair is so sh**ty Petrochemical Plants And cheap outlet mall pants Oh they have it all in Texas City This is a really interesting wrong-turn corner of Texas with a lot of scary industry on both sides of the highway (I-45) on the way down to Galveston. It's pretty much your last stop as you're crossing the swampy lands heading out to Galveston itself. Just a few miles before you get into Galveston, just before crossing the long bridge/causeway, you're in Texas City. Last stop on dry land, if you will. Texas City has had a nightmarish history, including the worst US disaster when a fertilizer ship exploded and destroyed half the town in the 40s, killing nearly 600 and injuring 5000, blowing the ship anchor 3 miles away and making Galveston residents fall over 14 miles away. Later, BP had its own explosion killing 15, and there were several other tragedies. The BP refinery here is the nation's 3rd largest. Texas City is famous for these enormous petrochemicals factories of course, but it's also famous for outlet shopping if that's your thing, and that's most people saying these days isn't it? The outlets down here are actually the best in all of Texas. The reason they are the best in all of Texas is because hardly anybody comes all the way down almost to Galveston for outlet shopping. So what you end up having is a Tanger Outlets which, unlike most others in the country, has hardly anyone shopping here even at busy times. I don't really know how they make any money to be honest because it's a terrible location. The only possible people that could be down here are either people who live on this side of Houston already, or summer vacationers, or people who drive way out of their way down towards Galveston for shopping. It's certainly not a major thoroughfare for the country or anything like that. But they do have a lot of great deals and they're hardly ever out of anything because it is so not very busy. Every store seems like a ghost town every day. Anyway it's a cool little area but lots of factories like I said. Scary.

Oh what a tangled Webster we weave…read more Webster is Suburban Paradise which has temperatures like a tropical swampland, which is a little hard to bear, especially in the summer. Not very diverse - but it does happen to have one of the best Boba shops in the universe here, and some pretty good Vietnamese food as well. Go to Cha Boba, while here - and try the Okinawa and the Hawaii Butterfly. Also, there's Spring Roll Express, which has off the charts spring rolls and banh mi.