More excellence from your Barrington Dragons!
Over the summer, the Barrington Dragons Karate Club was quite busy making us proud! First, the team began in Austin at the Texas North America Sport Karate Association event. (www.naska.com) Over 600 competed for cash and prizes including all Black Belt Divisions. Our Barrington Dragon Team was right in the middle of the action! Before the competition began, our champions Head Instructor Garett Lee and Professor Gary Lee were invited to play golf at The Lost Pines Hyatt Resort in Bastop, Texas. Legendary Bill "Superfoot" Wallace; movie Star, 23-0 World Champion in point and full-contact karate was the celebrity player! The legend now does seminars all over the world. What were the results of the competition?Professor Gary Lee
1st Place Black Belt Weapons
2008 NASKA Weapons Champion, Texas, USA
Garett Lee -
1st Place Black Belt Japanese Kata
2008 NASKA Traditional Kata, Texas, USA
Grand Champion $200.00
A few weeks after, the Houston Internationals AOK Five Star Karate tournament held in north Houston Kicked off with a bang. Barrington Place Dragon's leader Garett Lee added to his list of wins for 2008 with a first place victory in Japanese Kata and Fighting, also winning Continuous Fighting in the Black Belt division. Garret went for the Grand Championship by performing Sepai, an old Japanese Kata. He placed second by a scant one tenth of a point.
Garett Lee
1st Place Japanese Kata, Black Belt
1st Place Continuous Fighting, Black Belt
2nd Place Point Fighting, Black Belt
Professor Gary Lee
1st Place Master Division Weapons
2nd Place Master Division KataPlease stop by and see the Champions train every Wednesday at 5:30- 7:00 at the Clubhouse!
Barrington Place Dragons
Meet every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m for all kids classes and 6:30 for all adult classes.
Where: The Barrington Place Clubhouse
Cost: FREE if you are a resident of Barrington Place!
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County approves abatements for Sugar Land projects
By ZEN T.C. ZHENG Houston Chronicle
Two more Sugar Land office building projects will get 10-year tax breaks from Fort Bend County. In July, county officials signed a similar deal with Town Center Lakeside Ltd. for a $13 million two-building project in Sugar Land Town Square, awarding the developer an annual 75 percent tax abatement for a decade beginning in the 2010 tax year.County Commissioners Court on Sept. 2 decided to offer tax abatements to Prisma Properties, a Stafford developer and investor, and Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, a Houston software company that serves the heavy and highway construction industry, for their proposed new buildings.
Building projects
Heavy Construction, which operates in leased space in a 12-story building in southwest Houston, has proposed a single-story office building 40,000 square feet to 50,000 square feet in size on a 12-acre tract at the SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WEST AIRPORT BLVD AND ALSTON RD adjacent to Sugar Land Business Park.Construction of the software company’s building is expected to begin in December with operation slated for September 2009.The project is estimated to cost $9.3 million, including $2.4 million in land, $6.4 million in construction and $500,000 for furniture and equipment.Prisma is planning two office buildings totaling 270,000 square feet on 5.4 acres at the Lake Pointe Town Center northeast of the intersection of Texas 6 and U.S. 59.Construction of the first 150,000-square-foot building is slated by year-end and to be completed by April 2010 with the second 120,000-square-foot building begun in January 2011 and completed in April 2012.Construction costs are estimated at $40 million. The buildings each are projected to have a total value of $30 million, $10 million more than the contract-required assessed value of at least $20 million, according to the company.
Tax abatements
Under the agreements, Prisma will get an annual 75 percent tax break for its first building from 2010 through 2019 and another decade-long 75 percent reduction on the second building beginning 2012.The county also will slash Heavy Construction’s tax on its new building by half yearly from 2010 through 2019.The county’s agreements came on the heel of the city of Sugar Land’s tax break pacts with the companies.The city earlier this year created reinvestment zones for both building projects and subsequently OK’d tax breaks for the companies.Under an eight-year tax abatement agreement with the city, Prisma’s two buildings would be completely exempt from tax annually for the first seven years and during the eighth year receive a 50 percent tax break.The city awarded Heavy Construction the same 10-year tax abatement as the county.
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