Houston19514
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Have you ever driven on the West Loop? It doesn't take a traffic engineer to know that rerouting I-69/US59 over the West Loop is not a solution.
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Flying out today and currently slotted to depart from Gate C-1. Looking forward to seeing the new Terminal.
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It appears that the new Terminal C North may be in the "soft opening" phase with the full grand opening slated for next month. Maybe we'll get some news coverage then... One presumes United will not issue a press release until the grand opening time, and with Houston news media, if there's no press release, there's no news.
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I think the "top 5" ranking may have been achieved by counting the Smithsonian institutions as one.
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The John C. Freeman Weather Museum At 5104 Caroline St.
Houston19514 replied to Houston19514's topic in Historic Houston
It became a "virtual" museum. website only. -
I think the plan is to let bids for this portion in 2020.
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The United Club will be in the same place it has always been. But I think it is still closed for remodeling. Just got an update from United in the last 24 hours. The remodeled C North United Club is scheduled to open early this summer.
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I know that. Still, one would think there might be a mention of the news that it is now open.
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Wait... What? A new terminal opens at our airport and it receives no coverage in the local newspaper or TV stations? Also odd that the airport website doesn't mention it.
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Texas Tower: Office Skyscraper At 845 Texas Ave.
Houston19514 replied to democide's topic in Downtown
No one has suggested the picture is rosey right now. Please stop with the straw men. All I did was correct the misstatements and obvious exaggerations that were not "fairly well factual." (And no I don't work for the chamber of commerce or Houston First, but that doesn't stop me from identifying falsehoods when I see them.) -
Texas Tower: Office Skyscraper At 845 Texas Ave.
Houston19514 replied to democide's topic in Downtown
No, it is not almost as bad as the oiI bust years. Houston had a 32% office vacancy at one time; it may have gone higher than that at times. We're now sitting somewhere around 21%, according to one service. Other services have us closer to 16%. Downtown vacancy is around 15%. Other cities have seen much construction with similar vacancy rates (see, e.g., our neighbors in North Texas). That is not to say that anyone is going to start any spec buildings any time soon and of course you know I have not suggested such. But let's not get carried away with the doom and gloom. -
Texas Tower: Office Skyscraper At 845 Texas Ave.
Houston19514 replied to democide's topic in Downtown
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They've already unloaded a bunch of their real estate (more than 40% of their owned locations and an even higher percentage of their valuable owned locations); that's part of why even they have finally been forced to admit they have little to no future. And they don't have many unencumbered assets left to sell off or borrow against.
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2016 metro area population estimates were released today: July 1, 2016 population: 6,772,470 2015 population: 6,647,465 1-year increase: 125,005 Growth rate: 1.9% July 1, 2010 population: 5,948,174 6-year increase: 824,296 Percentage growth since July 1, 2010: 13.9%
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Texas Tower: Office Skyscraper At 845 Texas Ave.
Houston19514 replied to democide's topic in Downtown
Getting closer. All that really matters (if they plan an office building) is whether they can lease sufficient space in a new tower to make construction profitable. That can happen even if the existing stock is 25% vacant. -
I think it's kind of kitschy. Not a fan of Austin's Frost Bank tower either.
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This is the property for which there was a replat for a townhouse development. It is somewhere in another thread. I'll try to find it.
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^ Oh, see, now it reads just like a regular Chronicle article. ;-)
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Yes the original Foley's store was demolished, as was the original Lord & Taylor/Mervyn's. Lord & Taylor had two stints in the mall. The first structure was filled by Mervyn's and then demolished. The second one was filled by JC Penney when Penney relocated from Town & Country.' At one time (circa 2000) it was announced that Neiman Marcus was moving from Town & Country to Memorial City and that Nordstrom was going to build what would have been its first Houston store at Memorial City. I don't know what happened to those deals, but they obviously fell through.
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OMG Even more pathetic is that they never fixed it.
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I think a subway might be able to be routed to capture Greenway Plaza, most of the Westheimer corridor and intersect with the red line at Wheeler Station and continue on to UH/TSU (perhaps on the surface.) One of my fantasies for Houston is that during these years we've heard little about the University Line, they (Metro, city officials, etc.) have been secretly putting together a plan to put at least part of that line in a subway. ;-)
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One presumes a subway tunnel would go in below all of the existing sewers, gas lines and other infrastructure. Further, there is no reason to assume that building a subway would cause the same amount of construction headaches on the surface as building light rail at street level. In fact, quite the opposite. Modern subways typically are not built by digging an open trench. They are done by tunneling. The world has many subway tunnels that have been built below the water table, and in fact below water. Why do Houstonians continue to think this would be something new, unique or difficult?
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It should be noted that the article says the reforestation is "short-term"... "Long-term, removing [Timberloch tower] gives [Anadarko] more flexibility in the future to build something more efficiently."
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I think homestead exemption is based on whether you lived in the house on December 31. You can check on HCAD.org and see if you have the exemption.
