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    We don't have to go as far as Chicago to see a market that builds office buildings in spite of high vacancy rates. Downtown Dallas hasn't seen vacancy rates below 20% in more than 30 years, and yet they've built new office buildings. Granted, nothing nearly as large as the proposed One Market Square, but the point remains. No miracle is required, just a significant tenant or two.
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    This RH project has been talked about for years. Is it finally going to happen? It's quite surprising that Dallas doesn't yet have an RH Gallery.
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    The Downtown Retail Initiative was on the agenda for the Downtown Redevelopment Authority's June meeting. Unfortunately, the next meeting is not until August, so we probably won't be able to see the minutes for quite a well (and of course the likelihood of any journalist having covered the meeting, understood the actions, and reported on it is very close to zero).
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    ^ Following up on this, at the May meeting the Downtown Redevelopment Authority voted to approve a resolution authorizing the performance "of due diligence for the development, lease, or purchase of real property interests for parks, recreational, open space and uses . . . "
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    FWIW, there are also apartments next to the Beltway in City Centre. Not only do we not know for certain this will mean the end of mixed use, we don't know for certain it will mean the end of well-integrated mixed use. We really don't know anything other than that the property is being marketed. It could end up being just about anything, including, well-integrated mixed use.
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    Because you can't have a full scale multi-use development near a freeway??? Reality suggests otherwise.
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    Almost the definition of redundant. ;-)
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    Cspwal, I have some more to add to your awesome list of the many places to eat in downtown Houston on weekends. From the prior list of additions I posted, I think we need to delete Wok & Roll and Great American Cookie Co, as it appears they are not open on weekends after all. New additions: 806 Lounge 1820 Lounge Buffalo Bayou Coffee Café Bene Chick-Fi-A Houston Center Cueva House of Blues Restaurant & Bar Lobby Bar Hilton Americas MKT Bar MOKU Bar OKRA Charity Saloon Part & Parcel Potbelly 1000 main Potbelly Mckinney Russo's NY Pizzeria Starbucks UH-D Subway 1600 Smith Subway 2314 Bagby Thai Basil Texas T Wokker @ Craft Beer Cellar So it appears we have approximately 273 restaurants, cafés, etc where one can get food in downtown Houston. Approximately 124 of those are M-F only (and the vast majority of those 124 M-F establishments are in the tunnels).
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    So one can get a meal there. Good to know. Thanks for verifying.
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    I think they refer to the area where Lord & Taylor used to be as "Galleria 5".
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    For the record, the AMC Dine-In is NOT just another AMC as to its food selection. But I'm sure most people here already knew that.
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    How so?
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    Great work cspwal. I hope you'll be willing to make additions and updates to that fantastic resource: 1600 Bar & Grill AMC Dine-In Houston 8 (formerly Sundance Cinema) Arte Pizzeria Ballpark Cafe at the Westin Downtown Aquarium Einstein Bros Bagels El Burro and the Bull Foundation Room at the House of Blues Great American Cookie Co Last Concert Cafe Lucky Strike Mars Bakery Melange Creperie Phoenicia Salata GreenStreet Shula's American Steakhouse Starbucks 1600 Lamar Starbucks 1200 McKinney Humble Cafe @ The Courtyard by Marriott The Isles Eatery and Rhum Bar The Pearl The Wine Cellar Trofi Wok & Roll 1200 McKinney
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    So, if one walks down one particular stretch of one particular street on a certain day of the week, and ignores anything in a hotel, and does not glance down any side streets, one can avoid encountering an open restaurant. Sort of proved UU's point for him.
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    After reading a recent thread on this forum, one could be excused for coming away with the idea that it might be hard to find a bite to eat in downtown Houston on the weekends. Always eager to find the facts, I did some digging around and came up with a list of 110 restaurants, cafes, etc, where one can eat on Saturday and Sundays. An additional 41, for a total of 151, are open on Saturdays. And more are on the way!
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    George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport will be the first airports in the world with the turn-by-turn wayfinding technology that doesn’t require downloading a separate app to smart devices
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    The Rustic is coming-- Summer 2018
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    And, CBRE has been doing these consolidations in cities with multiple offices for several years. FWIW, It's unclear from CBRE's press release what is to become of the Memorial City office. They give contradictory information in one sentence: "Professionals from CBRE’s downtown Houston and 2700 Post Oak Boulevard offices will relocate to Williams Tower, consolidating CBRE’s Houston operations under one roof."
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    If that was their strategy, CBRE should have moved their Houston operations to 609 Main, where Hines has its regional offices from which they manage their Houston properties and developments.
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    CBRE consolidating into Williams Tower offices.
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    World renowned jeweler Fabergé will open a boutique, its first in Texas
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    Sounds like the Main Street pocket park space is indeed going to be patio seating for the ground floor restaurant tenant.
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    Were there every really that many oil wells drilled inside the Loop? (Realistically, to the extent there is any chance of ever building subways in Houston they will almost certainly be predominantly inside the Loop.) Regardless, I would imagine any abandoned oil wells could be dealt with fairly easily in the context of a subway construction project.
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    https://www.dallasnews.com/business/exxon-mobil/2017/06/16/xto-moving-1600-jobs-fort-worth-exxon-mobil-campus-near-houston The Dallas Morning News reports that Exxon Mobil is moving their XTO subsidiary to the Houston campus. 1600 jobs will be relocated from Ft Worth to Houston. Shhhhh. Don't tell the Chronicle... Let's see how long it takes them to report this news.
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    Let me Google that for you.
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