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  1. Houston19514
    They not observation decks in the formal sense. They are sky lobbies where the elevators meet to get access to the uppermost floors. You'd likely get the same answer from all three of these buildings (Chase Tower, Wells Fargo Plaza and Heritage Plaza)
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    There's also a pretty cool observation floor in Heritage Plaza.
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    Sounds A LOT like the many many posts in the Discovery Green thread during its planning and construction.
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    Room service at a Springhill Suites Hotel? Get serious, man. Springhill Suites offers free breakfast. The rest of the day, downtown restaurants get the benefit. You cannot make a serious case that this conversion will be bad for downtown restaurants.
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    Travelers, even mid-range travelers are much more likely to explore and spend at restaurants 2-3 times a day than even the most intrepid downtown apartment resident. Apartments have kitchens in which some people cook meals (or at least thaw a frozen something brought home from the grocery store.) People staying in hotels, even if they have a kitchen in their rooms, most often eat out every meal of the day during their stay. Plus, the fact is, the hotel will almost certainly have more people residing in it than the apartments do.
  6. Houston19514
    Okay, but see my further response. There will most likely be more people "residing" in the hotel than currently reside in the apartments, even if the hotel has a relatively low occupancy rate.
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    Who cares? More to the point, why should anyone care? But even if the hotel only maintains 50% occupancy, it will have approximately as many people "residing" there on an average day as currently reside in the 100% occupied apartments.
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    ... especially when combined with the development of substantial new residential space.
  9. Houston19514
    You think 1,000 people live in those 82 apartments? In reality, probably fewer than 100 people reside there. I am sure the new owners have crunched the numbers thoroughly and they have better numbers available to crunch than anyone on this board. Clearly, they see a benefit and that's all that really matters. Yes, slightly disappointing to lose downtown residences but there are hundreds of new ones coming on the scene soon. At the same time, the loss of the residential space is offset by the plus of additional hotel space. It's amazing how this board turns every bit of news into bad news for Houston. (FWIW, the current downtown population, including prisoners is approximately 14,000.)
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    At the Feb. 13 Council meeting, they approved an amendment to the agreement with Continental/United regarding the Terminal B expansion, but it was just some technical adjustments required by the FAA.
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    The Terminal B expansion has always been planned to be done in phases, with only the Phase 1 (the south side) definitely scheduled and the others to be done as needed, to be determined by United Airlines. I don't think there is any word from United regarding the execution of Phases 2 and 3. By most accounts I've seen, United is still throwing its fit. (I think that article has its facts wrong. The Terminal B expansion was approved long before the Southwest international expansion.)
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    There was some legitimate talk a few years back of building a new central library and building it in midtown was one of the possibilities discussed. They decided to completely remodel the existing building instead.
  13. Houston19514
    Yeah, we discussed this idea on HAIF. I like the idea too. (Still prefer to keep the whole buiding and repurpose it, but if that is not possible, I love the idea of keeping the superstructure.)
  14. Houston19514
    For a point of reference, according to the Chron, the Foleys/Macys building has 791,000 square feet... 10 floors. So 300,000 square feet filling the block to the sidewalks would be about 4 stories.
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    Yes, there are Mandarins in the US. Only a half dozen or so, but they are here. Would be a great addition for Houston.
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    Hmmm...Yesterday hoothrewpoo told us that they had a team of architects working on a 750,000 square foot building (post #13). Less than 4 hours later he/she told us that "it's neither [450,000 or 750,000 sq ft]. Less than 450,000 for sure, probably closer to 300k." Are we looking at 300,000 square feet of office space and 450,000 square feet of mixed use (hotel, retail, condos) or is hoothrewpoo throwing poo? ;-) As an aside, even a 750k project seems awfully small for 2 full blocks in the middle of downtown Houston. Color me skeptical. I'm thinking (hoping) the 750k building is for just one of the blocks. Maybe something like that concept rendering showing a Macy's store that we originally thought was a proposed rehab of the existing building could still happen?
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    Not happening.
  18. Houston19514
    ?? The garage referred to is 1400 Louisiana, as it says in the article. (Bordered by Bell, Clay, and Louisiana, in the 600 block of Bell)
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    Shell seems VERY unlikely, given their current construction in the Energy Corridor and recent long-term renewal of their downtown leases.
  20. Houston19514
    Why would anyone devote two downtown blocks to the development of 300,000 square feet of office space, or even 1 block?
  21. Houston19514
    I don't think The Woodlands would be able to, even if they were a city. It's in Houston's ETJ. Oops. Sorry I jumped the gun before noticing the question had already been answered.
  22. Houston19514
    Covered in another thread 2 months ago: http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/27507-noble-energy-tower-20-stories-at-249-louetta/?hl=noble
  23. Houston19514
    I am not in favor of demolishing the astrodome, especially to just replace it with surface parking; but to your question: Shea Stadium comes to mind. I think Seattle Kingdome was also demolished and replaced with surface parking for their new foottball stadium. Also: Milwaukee County Stadium; Comiskey Park; Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta; Veterans Stadium in Philly; Arlington Stadium; Mile HIgh Stadium; Foxboro Stadium (demolished just to replace it with surface parking... later redeveloped); Giants Stadium at The Meadowlands; Texas Stadium (used for equipment storage and TxDOT staging area... little different from surface parking); Three Rivers Stadium; Also arenas were demolished just to be replaced with surface parking lots: McNichols Sports Arena in Denver; Market Square Arena in Indy; the Spectrum in Philly; Boston Garden; Chicago Stadium.
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    Far too many HAIFers only like to focus on the negative and pretend as though nothing of quality has been built here in the past 30 years.. (See, e.g., the whining currently going on about the Whiteco Tower.) The Asia Society building is beautiful.
  25. Houston19514
    Nonsense. Every new tower adds to the skyline.
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