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  1. Houston19514
    Not sure that having 70/300 apartments leased before the building even opens is a bad thing (if it's even true). I know apartment managers do not want all of their apartments (or even most) leased in one fell swoop.
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    I passed by late last night and the Savoy sign was still up on the south side of the building. I was hoping they would incorporate that into the name of the new hotel and keep/refurbish the signs.
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    You have it exactly right and Mr. Emmet has clearly said as much. (Except that it falls under the county budget, not the city budget.)
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    Relax, man. Of course this one hasn't made it as far as renderings. It is not yet to that stage. It was announced at the conceptual stage; nothing more. It will now proceed to the architects and we will get to the renderings stage and the other details (like the appropriate setting for the thermostat) all in due time.
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    You are assuming that (a) the alleged "brochure" actually exists, ( that, if it exists, it said what Wayne Dolcefino claims it said, © that, if it exists, it was anything more than a draft that was never published or distributed. Here is what we know: 1) We have zero evidence that the toll roads were sold to the public on the basis of eventually being free. If the tollroads were sold to the public on that basis, don't you think our crack investigative reporter would have been able to come up with some shred of evidence from before the vote was taken; you know, a reporter who can find random "brochures" in random downtown buildings; surely there would be evidence from before the vote in public records, newspaper and TV archives, etc etc)? 2) Wayne Dolcefino, a reporter known to have made reports that cast false light (to put it nicely), claimed in an otherwise fundamentally dishonest report that he found a "brochure" in a downtown building that was "from the early days of the Toll Road Authority". Wayne claimed that the brochure promises "When both roads combined have covered their costs, the roads will become free public highways." This is classic Dolcefino. He doesn't exactly say it is a Toll Road Authority brochure. He just lets his audience infer it (and this is assuming there really is a brochure; why does the website not show the "brochure?" It shows us a picture of a toll plaza; it could surely show us the premise of the whole report. Anyone familiar with Dolcefino's career should put very little weight on the words of this alleged brochure. Urban rumors don't come from nowhere? If you really believe that, you should spend a few minutes on Snopes.com or just read a few of Slick Vic's posts on this forum.
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    Interesting that the 2 services show such different results for Uptown Dallas. I wonder what's up with that?
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    Except that the alleged brochure (has anyone actually seen and read this alleged brochure?) was, by the "reporter's" own statement, printed after the bond vote was passed. That's a pretty odd way to pull off a scam. Another fundamentally dishonest, incompetent piece of trash journalism.
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    You are correct about the relative Class A vacancy rates, but do you have a source for the claim about Uptown Dallas rental rates compared to Downtown Dallas? According to Transwestern, the Class A Asking Rate for Uptown in 1st quarter 2014 was $26.60. Downtown Dallas: $25.61 (Uptown Dallas is only the 6th most expensive office submarket in the DFW region.)
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    It's becoming a Pappas Bros. Steakhouse
  10. Houston19514
    There is a difference between units expected to be delivered this year and units under construction/development.
  11. Houston19514
    As is so often the case, you misunderstand the situation (or are simply making it up). There was never a pledge or plan to make the Harris County toll roads toll-free. Ever. It should also be noted that the excess money the toll road authority receives from tolls has been used to fund other (non-toll) projects in Harris County.
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    Use the left lane only for passing. Use your signals when changing lanes. There's really nothing special about it if you follow those and other rules of the road.
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    Pretty sure this is the way all highrises are built in Houston. There is no bedrock on which to set piers.
  14. Houston19514
    That's just it. R&M can't stay up north, unless it is already up north. R&M is not up north, but is currently being relocated from Virginia to Houston.
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    Thanks. I was hoping Sunday morning was wrong because I will be out of town and I really wanted to go downtown to see it.
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    Sunday morning? Don't they usually do those overnight to avoid the heat?
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    Not sure what you mean by imagining that Exxon could split in much the same way ConocoPhillips and Occidental split. Those were two very different splits. ConocoPhillips was a vertical split, where they spun off the downsteam business and kept the upstream. Occidental was a horizontal split, where they spun off California E&P assets into a separate company. In any event, if Exxon were to do either kind of split, I'm not sure what "company" would remain in Irving, given that there are zero operations in Irving; only executives. If Exxon were to do a split, maybe one of the companies would maintain its headquarters in Irving, which would mean a down-sized headquarters. It seems more likely that Irving would get left behind altogether.
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    Kinda looks like the Tenneco/El Paso/Kinder Morgan Building right now.
  19. Houston19514
    The BisNow article appeared to be referring to the East side of downtown and to Class A space, whereas the Colliers number is both Class A and B and all of downtown.
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    Regarding Dallas, Ross Perot Jr. has made no proposal whatsoever for that property, let alone a supertall. Again, there are no supertalls proposed in Dallas. Mostly agree with your final two sentences. I'd love to see a mixed-use supertall in downtown (not so much uptown).
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    Even if one considers that to be a serious proposal (I do not), I don't believe there is any indication that it is a supertall.
  22. Houston19514
    Thanks Democide. It should be noted that the Seattle proposal seems pretty nebulous and its actual proposed height seems far from certain. For the record, there are no supertalls proposed in Dallas.
  23. Houston19514
    What supertalls are proposed in Miami, Seattle and Dallas?
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    http://www.naucenter.org/
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    At the most-recent growth rate (2012-2013) (2.2%), the Houston metro would pass 10 Million in 2035 and would hit 14.1 MIllion in 2050. Extrapolating D-FW's growth rate (1.6%) forward, it would pass 11 Million in 2044. DFW would not pass 10 Million until 2038 (3 years after Houston). Houston metro would pass the population of DFW metro in 2026. DFW's 2050 population would only be 12.25 Million. Using 2010-2013 growth rates (6.13% for Houston; 5.55% for DFW), the results are as follows: Houston would pass 10 Million in approximately 2037. DFW in approximately 2036. 2050 populations would be about 13.1 Million for Houston and about 13.2 Million for DFW. I'm curious what the study based its projections on. In order to achieve the projections in the article, Houston would have to increase its growth rate to 2.35% per year. DFW would have to increase their growth rate from its current 1.6% per year to 2.47%
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