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  1. Houston19514
    ^ The transplanted tree story (even without the ridiculous $1 Million price tag) sounds like a typical corporate rumor. For the record, a tree at a building site with a fence around has not necessarily been transplanted. It is very easy to imagine someone seeing a fenced-in tree assuming it was transplanted and off the rumor mill goes, eventually leading to the unlikely story posted above about $1 Million having been spent to transplant a tree because an executive had spent time with his son under that tree. Perhaps one or more significant trees were even transplanted, spurring the rumor mill even more strongly. There is indeed at least one tree on the construction site with a fence around it. That's what you do with trees on construction sites that you want to save.
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    Are all of those NYC skinnies residential? I would not think skinny would be very marketable for an office building. What are the buildings #3 and #4 above?
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    As stated in the documents, it's a 50-year master plan.
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    Keep in mind that it was the CultureMap headline writer, and not Hines, who called it "Texas sizing".
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    What would be really odd is planning a 60-story building with elevators going to 60 and then riding back down to 50 (which is the logical result of the story about the 60th floor sky lobby being the result of a relatively last-minute expansion of the building from 60 to 75 floors.) FYI, that arrangement is not at all unusual. For example, to get to the 41st floor of Williams Tower, one takes the elevator to the sky lobby on 51 and then down to 41. I think the same sort of arrangement exists at Heritage and Wells Fargo too.
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    That's a new one. Isn't it just because that's where the elevator banks transfer? (Just as with the sky lobbies in Wells Fargo and Transco/Wiliams Tower, and Heritage Plaza are located where the elevator banks meet and have nothing to do with late additions to the height of the buildings.)
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    With respect, if you don't want to be challenged, don't post things that are ridiculous on their face. ;-) FWIW, the Million Dollar cost was rather central to your initial post. Does getting a permanent ID/Badge like you did get you a confirmation that "one of the 'higher-ups' at E/M used to spend time with his son in the area of construction [and that] there was a tree that marked the area they frequented [and that] this very large tree was transplanted to the middle of the E/M campus at a cost of over 1 mill. by the somewhat famous company out of Tomball"? If not, I won't bother obtaining the Badge; but I'll be very impressed with the fact that you have one. ;-)
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    Yea, the existence of sidewalks is really pretty obvious from those pictures.
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    Yes, for some time, Continental had service from HOU to IAH. They also had Ellington-IAH service at one time. At Tory said, it was for the purpose of serving customers from the southern part of the metro/competing with Southwest. I took the IAH-HOU flight once or twice. It was fun! It went around to the west and of course never climbed very high, so it was a cool airplane tour of Houston.
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    Wow. Speaking of self-loathing...
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    Seriously? I don't hear anyone talking about the Exxon campus. In fact, I'm surprised at how many people I encounter who know nothing about it. (Similar to my surprise at the number of people who know nothing or almost nothign about the under-construction rail lines.)
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    Cool! I'll have to do that some time.
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    Pray. (Is it closing again this weekend?)
  14. Houston19514
    Ahhh... the rules evolve. ;-) FWIW, the idea that a "cafeteria" was required to be Class AA was my primary quibble. Suffice to say, the definition is not nearly as precise as you pretend. Class AA (even more than the other building classes) is a marketing term and really not much more than that. There are no specific rules, other than it has to be Class A+. It is not uncommon to see it used in Houston and even more so elsewhere in Texas (Dallas especially) to market buildings that lack the amenities you say are required for the designation.
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    So, there are approximately zero Class AA multi-tenant office buildings in Houston currently? Approximately zero in all of Texas? But, fwiw, I'd really still like to know what Class A amenities BBVA Compass Plaza is missing.
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    Interesting. Seems like a pretty economical price tag.
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    Okay, now you've told us what it lacks to be Class AA. (FWIW, I'm not buying that Class AA requires an in-building cafeteria and fitness center.) I ask again, what Class A amenities does it lack? FWIW, here is the definition of Class A according to the Building Ownwers and Managers Association: According to BOMA, Class A office buildings have the "most prestigious buildings competing for premier office users with rents above average for the area." BOMA states that Class A facilities have "high quality standard finishes, state of the art systems, exceptional accessibility and a definite market presence."
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    Clearly Apache. Where did you get the idea that Pickard Chilton is the architect?
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    What Class A amenities is BBVA Compaass Plaza lacking?
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    I think office building floor heights have generally gotten quite a bit taller since Fountain Place was built. See also, the new Devon tower in Oklahoma City -- 50 floors and 850 feet tall.
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    Developers close on land for New Caney theme park
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    Neither are a lot of our existing buildings, but we still routinely hear that Houston has nothing but flat-top boxes. For example, one has to go down to the 9th tallest building downtown before one encounters a plain box. (And even that (One Shell) is not really just a plain box.)
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    They will begin when they have one or more substantial tenants signed up. I suspect you are misinterpreting what the mayor said, but even if she said that, it will have zero impact on Hines' construction schedule.
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    There is zero reason to think that number would be just rentable office space. That is almost certainly the total square footage. JP Morgan Chase Tower has 1.98 million square feet. Wells Fargo Plaza is over 1.8 million
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    NICE!!
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