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    I haven't seen any reason to think that
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    http://weingartenrealty.propertycapsule.com/properties/property/riveroaksshoppingcenter/id:1560/sitemap_id:6660/#plans
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    Other than La Madelleine, which was replaced by Shake Shack, What businesses have closed/are closing?
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    Harwood Center parking garage update:
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    Because their apparent goal is to be the worst major-city newspaper on the planet. Actually, I think they may be aiming higher (or lower, as the case may be). Having achieved their original goal of being the worst major-city newspaper on the planet, they are going for the grand champion title: Worst Newspaper on the Planet.
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    It looks to me like most of the ground floor on the southern side is glass, and completely interactive with the surroundings.
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    Yes. Many times. It's really not particularly innovative or unique.
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    Is that a thing? I mean, is there a proposal for this?
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    Never been to Dallas?
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    To be fair, there is a lot more foundation for j_cuevas713's claim than there is for the claim that the rail lines caused or increased the homeless problem downtown.
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    Metro-wide, I think yes. But it doesn't seem to have affected the downtown numbers much. Absorption has remained pretty steady pre- and post-Harvey.
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    As of 4th quarter, 2017, downtown residential has a 67.1% occupancy rate. A net 281 units were absorbed (up from 266 absorbed in the 3rd Q), while 886 new units were delivered. Net absorption for the year to date was 1,093 units. Downtown is maintaining a good steady pace of absorption. (Assuming 1.4 people per occupied apartment, downtown continues to add more than 125 people per month.) The metro-wide occupancy rate is 88.6% The "Central Houston" market (downtown, Montrose/Museum/Midtown, Heights/Wash Ave., HIghland Village/Upper Kirby/West U, and Med Center/Braes Bayou) had an 85.4% occupancy rate (up from 78.3% in the first quarter 2017). 1,355 new units delivered during the quarter, with 1,788 units net absorption. Net absorption year to date: 6,029. Using the same apartment residency assumption as above, during the 4th quarter, Central Houston added more than 830 people per month, just in rental residential. Averaged over the year as a whole, we added more than 700 people per month in Central Houston.
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    Relax. There is no need to be so literal about the use of the word corridor (although in reality there is no reason a corridor cannot take a 90 degree turn.) Look at a map of the Energy Corridor. What "links" the Energy Corridor? Energy business. What links the University Line corridor (if there is such a thing?)? Universities. What links the proposed Innovation Corridor? The plan/desire/intent to encourage the location and development of innovation companies, entities, institutes, people, etc.
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    What are they developing on Main at Brays Bayou?
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    Glasstire is the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. It covers Texas arts. I believe they are currently located in another Boxer property on the Northwest Freeway. It looks like they are moving in to 2000 Crawford. Good news!
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    It's a legitimate tool many cities use to help maintain pleasant residential neighborhoods.
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    Very cool place and it sounds like the owners have some exciting plans for adjoining parcels.
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    Raising prices as a reaction to not being busy anymore does not strike me as a sound business practice and I doubt that (even if it's true) has anything to do with it.
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    Seems more likely that participation was very strong and they realized they may not need to give that much of a discount to drive business on Monday nights. It was almost to good to be true. It has been very busy every time I've been there for Montfose Monday.
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    Here's the quote, which I provided some years back in another thread (the Chron archive link is no longer good): Houston was not considered for Exxon's new corporate headquarters because executives decided it should not be in the same location as one of the company's major operating divisions, said John Walsh, president of Friendswood Development Co., the Exxon subsidiary in Houston that handled the site search. Exxon officials believed the presence of the corporate headquarters could erode the autonomy and independence of the division headquarters if it were located right next door,Walsh said. "They made the decision early on they did not want to locate near one of their operating groups," he said. http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/ar...id=1989_659330
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    It's not an urban legend. I specifically recall reading an interview of the guy who handled their HQ search. He was at Friendswood Development, then itself a division of Exxon headquartered in Houston. He was very disappointed to have to do a headquarters search that excluded his own city.
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    Might be true of "most" corporations, but the idea of having HQ separated from multiple divisions of companies is not unique to Exxon. When Boeing moved its HQ to Chicago, they specifically excluded from considerations all cities where they had substantial operations.
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    At the time, they wanted the HQ to be in a city where they had no significant operations. That excluded Houston. (At the time, that made some sense because they had different divisions headquartered in different places; now, not so much.)
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    And, Exxon specifically did not even consider any cities in which they had substantial operations. So Houston was never considered.
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    You have the off-site requirements wrong. The entire parking requirement can be provided off-site, if it's within 500 feet. In certain cases, some portion can be provided more than 500 feet away. The parking facility does not have to be for your exclusive use, but they don't allow double counting. (You can't use the same parking spaces to meet the parking requirements for 2 businesses.) Further, two or more use classifications can share parking spaces to meet their requirements. The standard for "clogged" is that residents and their visitors cannot park on the street in their own neighborhood. Maybe we shouldn't endeavor to provide free street parking for residents and their visitors, but if so, let's be honest about it. As I said in the other thread, the idea behind parking requirements is to make businesses bear their own costs and keep them from free-loading on their neighbors.
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