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  • Plan to redevelop Buffalo Bayou to be unveiled (Hold Onto Your Wallets Houston!!!)

    09/22/2002 9:00:53 PM PDT · by weegee · 36 replies · 629+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 21, 2002, 10:51PM | By MIKE SNYDER
    Disturbed by the sound of the approaching boat, a heron stirs from its perch and takes flight, its broad wings flapping just inches above the water's glassy surface. Mullet jump in the bird's path. A warm September breeze sighs through the trees lining the banks of Buffalo Bayou. As the boat rounds a bend, this image of sylvan wilderness gives way to a glaring industrial landscape. Cranes belching smoke lurch around a scrap metal yard, and farther east the vats and pipes of a huge sewage treatment plant stretch along the northern shore. Achieving a better balance between nature and...