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  1. Houston19514
    There is simply NO WAY that will happen. LOL Hadn't noticed the mini big tex. That's a seriously bad idea and needs to be eliminated.
  2. Houston19514
    ^ Very exciting. Knew this was coming. Exciting to see some preliminary renderings.
  3. Houston19514
    Yes, it will.
  4. Houston19514
    I did not ignore the study you put up. The study you put up did not even directly make the claim you are making. All they really said was that $X of investment have been made near the rail stations. The idea that all of that investment was accretive and would not otherwise have been made in the Dallas area was your inference. The possibility there are some investors who specifically invest in TODs proves nothing. Without the rail, the demand for apartments, retail, and office space would still have existed and that demand would have been addressed by non-TOD investors. DART caused some of that investment to be redirected into TODs. There is simply no reason to imagine that the Dallas area would have had less overall demand for apartments, retail or office space (or that investors would not have met that demand) in the absence of DART (and again, the study you put up does not state that to be the case).
  5. Houston19514
    No argument there. As I said above, rail transit can do many good things. Redirecting investments to particular areas can be a good thing. Increasing density can be a good thing. Increasing overall investment in a city/metro area is just not one of the things we should realistically expect a rail transit system to do.
  6. Houston19514
    No. There is zero evidence that it is extra investment. The investment along Main Street might not be taking place along Main Street without Metro rail, but it would be taking place in Houston. The overall market demand for multi-family, retail, restaurant, office space, and hotels is what it is and the existence of rail transit has vanishingly little effect on that overall demand. X number of apartments will be built in Houston over a period of time. Without rail, perhaps none of those would have been built along Main Street. But they would all have been built. Summary of Transit Impacts on Urban Form and Land UseThirty years of case studies and historical research have documented the role that transit has played in the growth and development of cities and metropolitan areas since the late 1800s.. . . Urban rail transit investmentsrarely "create" new growth, but moretypically redistribute growth that wouldhave taken place without theinvestment.
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    Yes. Do you seriously contend that DART has generated additional demand for multi-family housing or retail or office space in the Dallas area? And, FWIW, nothing I said in any way turns DART into a negative. Rail mass transit can provide a lot of positives. Even redirecting investments to certain areas can, at least theoretically, be a positive. But it is quite unlikely to generate significant accretive investment to the community as a whole.
  8. Houston19514
    Investments that, in the absence of DART, would still have been made, but just wouldn't have been made around rail stations. As with most government economic development strategies, investment in rail produces very little accretive economic activity, it merely redirects the activity.
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    It all seems quite odd. They plan a large campus for the purpose of consolidating their employees in one location; and then don't consolidate all their employees there, saying "we don't like to put all our eggs in one basket." Bizarre. Their campus costs are exponentially higher than leasing office space? Seems unlikely. Especially if you consider what the marginal cost would be to add 1 or 2 additional buildings for the employees who are now being shuffled off to The Woodlands. ExxonMobil already owns the land and has built the campus infrastructure. Can they seriously not find a way to add 480,000 square feet of buildings for a cost that is not exponentially more expensive than leasing space at Hughes Landing? If they can't, they maybe shouldn't be building and owning the campus to begin with.
  10. Houston19514
    Nice info. Thanks. Any clue on why they are putting a bunch of people in The Woodlands instead of on tge new campus?
  11. Houston19514
    Sweet!
  12. Houston19514
    No. They are neither seeking funds for, nor planning, Richmond BRT. (But maybe they could/should??)
  13. Houston19514
    No. Camp Strake is not outside the Houston metro area. I think he (swtsig) was referring to the actual Shell campus in the Energy Corridor, not the imaginary one up north.
  14. Houston19514
    They should go Richmond to Shepherd, then turn north to Westheimer and west to Uptown on Westheimer.
  15. Houston19514
    Yeah, pretty hard to imagine that they wouldn't.
  16. Houston19514
    So sorry. I guess even the ever-so-slight honing in on a particular section of downtown that could be discerned from my suggested division of downtown was exaggerated. Thank you for helping to demonstrate the silliness of treblelino's complaint about developers honing in on a particular section of downtown.
  17. Houston19514
    We already know (and the change of the name of the building re-confirms) that Shell is essentially gone from this building. But that's pretty funny on the architect's part.
  18. Houston19514
    The article and press release seem to be silent about the restaurant that currently occupies that corner... I hope this doesn't result in the loss of ground floor retail.
  19. Houston19514
    Presume you are referring to 5 Post Oak Park at 4400 Post Oak Parkway? That building is 28 stories... 389 feet tall. So, probably a little taller than Sky House will be.
  20. Houston19514
    Oh yes, of course. I'd almost forgotten about that gem.
  21. Houston19514
    Yes. Posts #398, 402, 403 and 406 in this thread. And of course post #618.
  22. Houston19514
    Wow. I like the way these guys work!
  23. Houston19514
    Here are the current high-rise developments according to the Downtown Houston development map, dividing downtown at Main Street Square: Southeast: 3 highrise residential (Plus the possible high rise hotel addition to GreenStreet) Southwest: 3 highrise office towers under development 2 highrise office towers under redevelopment 1 highrise hotel under redevelopment Northwest: 2 highrise office towers under development 2 highrise residential under development 1 highrise hotel under redevelopment 1 highrise office building under redevelopment Northeast: 2 highrise office buildings under development 3 highrise hotels under development 1 highrise residential under development 1 highrise residential under redevelopment
  24. Houston19514
    Actually, there has also been posted and discussed on this forum a rumor regarding Chevron building a campus out north, similarly-substantiated (that is to say not at all).
  25. Houston19514
    What in the name of Sam Houston are you talking about? There are projects in development in every section of downtown Houston, including Southeast downtown.
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