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You’ve got to make some divots before you can start replacing them: Construction will begin this week in Spring on another TopGolf in Houston. This 65,000-sq.-ft. bar, event venue, and aim-required golfing alley will be located on almost 11 acres at 560 Spring Park Blvd., across the freeway from the coming-along-now ExxonMobil campus. In December, TopGolf opened its first Houston location at 1030 Memorial Brook Blvd. You can see more renderings of what to expect after the jump.

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• Opening Spring 2014 [TopGolf Houston North]
• TopGolf announces plans for new facility located in Spring [Observer]
• ExxonMobil coverage

Renderings: TopGolf

We've all said it or thought it or joked about it or believed it at one point in our lives. That damn, we were in the middle of nowhere. But that corn field or dark stretch of the highway hardly qualifies as nowhere. True nowhere is actually in Idaho.

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Next week the giant monsters versus giant robots eyeball party that is Pacific Rim will be hitting theaters, and today we're getting our final look at the film before you have to go out and buy a movie ticket to see the rest.

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• In Houston, America’s Diverse Future Has Already Arrived [NPR]
• North Forest ISD Officially Closes, Will Merge with HISD [Click2Houston]
• Condo Owners Wary of Efforts to Expand Galveston Go Cart Center on Seawall Blvd. [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Yucatan Taco Stand Opening This Fall in ‘Cursed’ Stella Sola Space on Studewood [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Good Dog Food Truck Taking Over Former Big Mamou Space on Studewood [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Spray-Painted Message on Oak Forest Fence Says McMansions ‘Ruining’ Neighborhood [Prime Property]
• A Look Inside the Oldest Home in River Oaks [Houstonia Magazine]
• Oak Forest Neighborhood Library Receives National Architecture Award for ‘Respectful’ Additions, Renovation [AIA; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Oak Forest Neighborhood Library: Natalye Appel + Associates Architects

A former North-Vietnamese soldier is reunited with his arm after more than 40 years, when the US war doctor who amputated it returned the bones in person.

In a text message to the Columbus Dispatch , Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer has strongly denied turning in his old school for a recruiting violation. “It is absolutely not true that I turned in the University of Florida,” said Meyer, responding to a FoxSports.com story from earlier Wednesday. In that report, Clay Travis alleged the former Gators coach was responsible for turning in Florida assistant Brian White for a "bump" violation. White, who was hired by Meyer in 2009, was accused of having an improper interaction with a recruit during a non-contact period. The recruit in question is Curtis Samuel , a four-star Brooklyn running back that recently announced a top five that included Ohio State but not Florida. According to Travis' report, an investigation into the claim revealed no wrongdoing by the Gators coaching staff.

You probably turn to Yelp to look for single, stand-out restaurants and businesses. But there's a lot of data inside all those reviews, which can make for fascinating analysis—letting you spot trends across geographic locations.

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Right on schedule, Google's popular Reader site has gone offline. Visitors are now greeted with an apology message of sorts, along with a warning that data will be permanently deleted after 12PM PST on July 15th. In the meantime, you can use Google Takeout to download a copy of your subscription info, including lists you follow, starred items and notes. In fact, now might be an excellent time to snag data from other sites -- you never know when Mountain View will opt to "sunset" your other beloved services, too.

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Patriots quarterback Tim Tebow tried to prevent former New England tight end Aaron Hernandez from getting into a fight at a Gainesville bar in 2007, while they were teammates at the University of Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

'Imagine their surprise' says cycling plod

A Pennsylvania couple have been cuffed after apparently picking a very unfortunate moment to engage in an al fresco coupling. The luckless pair were arrested by not one, not two, but a whopping 25 bike coppers.…

When Twitter’s landlord Shorenstein Properties out of San Francisco acquired in January the ExxonMobil Building, it made a fuss about wanting to sync the somewhat standoffish tower at 800 Bell St. with the tunnel system that serves the rest of the Downtown fraternity of skyscrapers and extensively renovate what was, at the time it was completed, the tallest building west of the Mighty Mississip’. The rendering you see at the top from Kirksey Architecture shows one take on just such a renovation — except, says a rep from the firm, it ain’t gonna happen. Apparently, Kirksey wasn’t awarded the bid to get the building ready in 2015 for a new tenant once ExxonMobil packs up and moves north to the under-construction campus among the trees in Spring.

But the rendering comes from an action-packed presentation video that Kirksey put together and posted online less than a week ago — and removed this morning. And it’s too bad: The video opens with a magical installation of the shards of a glass curtain wall atop the shade-providing tiers that now hula-hoop their way up the 45-story building. It’s the kind of thing you’d see were Magneto a general contractor and not a comic-book evildoer. Fortunately, a HAIF user grabbed some stills from the video and posted them, giving us a good idea of what’s not going to be:

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• 800 Bell [Shorenstein Properties]
• ExxonMobil Building (800 Bell) Redevelopment [HAIF]
• San Francisco developer plans major re-do for Exxon Mobil tower with possible tunnel expansion [Culturemap]
• Developer of Twitter headquarters eyes purchase of Exxon Mobil tower for extreme makeover [Culturemap]
• ExxonMobil coverage [Swamplot]

Images: Kirksey via HAIF user Urbannizer