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  1. Houston19514
    Overwhelming sense of hopelessness? My goodness, the drama. Look around and observe how much improvement has been made and continues to be made right here in Houston. Houston has installed/is installing an amazing amount of safe bicycling infrastructure and continues with traffic calming, street diets and pedestrian enhancements all over the place . . .
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    What would you want this building to do with the pedestrian realm that it does not plan to do?
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    Colorado ski towns always have Texans in town. Personally, I've never noticed any of the Colorado ski-town roundabouts being a mess, whether Texan-induced or otherwise.
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    I'm surprised they didn't install the flashing lights embedded in the roadbed. (FWIW, you are being far too kind when you refer to drivers blowing through the red light as "frustrated".)
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    Federal Reserve Bank reports 2022 job growth in Texas metros: Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land: +3.7% Added 117,400 jobs Dallas-Plano-Irving: +3.4% Added 95,500 jobs Fort Worth-Arlington: +3.4% Added 37,900 jobs Austin-Round Rock: + 4.2% Added 50,800 jobs San Antonio-New Braunfels: +2.9% Added 31,300 jobs
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    Yeah, that B South complex opened in 2013. 😉 I don't know that there any significant limiting factors, at least not that will limit the airport in any of our lifetimes. They have plenty of land for both runways and terminals that may be needed in any reasonably imaginable future. (And there's really no reason to expect any busing to planes, unless we have a sudden, unexpected jump in the number of flights)
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    My goodness that was a long video with very little content.
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    There are big plans for A as well. (see this other thread: https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/47175-houston-airports-domestic-redevelopment-program/ ) Don't spend too much time studying the master plan. Very little of that will happen as shown. There were several "remote" terminal concepts discussed in the Master Plan documents; they settled on one, South of Will Clayton Blvd. But that is beyond the planning horizon (after IAH exceeds 70 million passengers/year). I think he was referring to a far-in-the-future conceptual plan for another "East" terminal, which would be south of Will Clayton Parkway. Not worth anyone's time to think about. (1) Way far in the future (2) They aren't even following the more near-term parts of the master plan and there will be new master plans long before the East Terminal is built.
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    Another hit and run journalism piece. It would have been useful, wouldn't it, if they had given a more specific location for this art piece? If we can assume (and it would clearly be an assumption, not a presumption) that what they wrote is accurate, then the sculpture is not on airport property. Of course one of the problems with assuming accuracy (besides it being a Chronicle article) is that it says both that the sculpture will be "near the airport's southern entrance" and "in East Aldine". (In any event, it looks like it will not be on airport property. Per the maps on its website, East Aldine does not go north of Beltway 8 at JFK Blvd. You have to go all the way down to Aldine Meadows before it even include the JFK roadway. So, if it is actually in East Aldine, the furthest north it can be is at Aldine Bender - 1.5 miles from the entrance to the airport. In the context of the article, I wouldn't call that "near" the airport entrance - one wonders why the airport is even mentioned in the article. EDIT: Found it. The JFK sculpture is indeed at JFK and Aldine Bender, not particularly close to, and having nothing whatsoever to do with, George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Thanks again Chronicle for making a mess of it. https://aldinedistrict.org/2023/01/update-jfk-arrives-on-jfk-boulevard/
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    Is it coming completely down? I walked by it a few days ago and it had been completely gutted; had the appearance that perhaps the structure was remaining. It could make for a nice restaurant/retail structure.
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    See the Forbes ratings (which are more meaningful than the Google ratings). Then what is the source of the star ratings posted on Google?
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    The plan is to do all sections at the same time. Sadly, however, I think your best guess of construction being several years away is pretty accurate.
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    Let's take a look at AAA. AAA 5 and 4-diamond hotels: Boston: 6 5-diamond hotels/25 4-diamond Chicago: 2 5-diamond/39 4-diamond Houston: 1 5-diamond/36 4-diamond DFW: Zero 5-diamond/35 4-diamond Philadelphia: 1 5-diamond/12 4-diamond Seattle: Zero 5-diamond/25 4-diamond Atlanta: 2 5-diamond/23 4-diamond Denver: 2 5-diamond/18 4-diamond Austin: Zero 5-diamond/26 4-diamond San Antonio: 1 5-diamond/17 4-diamond
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    Further to this topic, I personally wouldn't give much credence to Google Maps star ratings. Forbes Travel Guide and other such publications are better sources. Forbes shows two 5-star hotels in the entire state of Texas. 1 in Houston (The Post Oak) and 1 in Dallas (The Ritz-Carlton). Forbes 5-star and 4-star hotels: Boston: 5 5-star and 5 4-star Chicago: 3 5-star and 3 4-star (all in Mag Mile area) Houston: 1 5-star and 4 4-star DFW: 1 5-star and 2 4-star Philadelphia: 1 5-star and 1 4-star Seattle: 1 5-star and 1 4-star Atlanta: Zero 5-star; 3 4-star Denver: Zero 5-star; 2 4-star Austin: Zero 5-star; 5 4-star San Antonio: Zero 5-star; 1 4-star Again, it looks like we're not as far behind as we routinely tell ourselves we are.
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    Thank you. In general, I don't disagree that we are a bit behind other cities with regard to luxury hotels, and would love to see more in and near our CBD, but we've been gaining ground and I don't think we're as far behind other similar cities as Haifers (and Houstonians in general) like to think. Using the Google map search as the gauge, I did a little comparison: Houston. 5 5-star hotels. One downtown. One near downtown. Austin. Way ahead of us, considering the size differential. Four 5-star hotels, all downtown. Dallas. 3 5-star hotels, none downtown (two near downtown). San Antonio. 3 5-star hotels, all downtown. Atlanta. 6 5-star hotels. One downtown. One near downtown. Denver. 2 5-star hotels. Both downtown. Chicago. 9 5-star hotels. None inside the loop. All nine are near the Loop (in the North Michigan Avenue/Magnificent Mile area). Philadelphia. 4 5-star hotels. All downtown. Minneapolis. 1 5-star hotel. Downtown. Seattle. 1 5-star hotel. Downtown. Boston. 8 5-star hotels. 7 are in or near downtown. I'd like to see us get up to the Chicago numbers. Hopefully, the Thompson will achieve 5-star status.
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    Just curious - whose star ratings are you looking at?
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    It goes back to a comment I made a while back: generally, Houstonians seem to be uniquely unknowledgeable about their city. In part, I blame our utterly incompetent media.
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    The project that was discussed (and possibly approved) at City Council was from Ennis to Scott. University Line runs on Blodgett only from Almeda to Ennis, in the current plans.
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    Found it. It was last week's Council Meeting. I don't know if they voted to approve or not.
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    Well, yes, of course it does. And again, it's hard to imagine anyone thinking spending $500 M to $1 Billion to move the TECO facilities would be a good investment. Especially when you consider, they can't be moved miles away; so the dirt they would move them to would not be hugely less expensive dirt than that on which they are now sitting.
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    Yeah, TECO is owned by the Texas Medical Center and some of its member institutions. If the Medical Center wanted TECO to move its facilities, TECO would move them.
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    If it would seriously cost, anywhere near the $500 M - $1 B range to move these, it's hard to imagine that being a good investment.
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    Then I guess it's a good thing there are no plans to sink the spur. 😉
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    I've edited the list to add locations and hours and to do some updating/correcting. Also reorganized them so those open seven days a week are at the top of the list. It turns out there are quite a few choices available even on the weekends. I count 17 places where one can get Sunday night dinner. One would be hard pressed to find a hospital anywhere with more dining choices within a short walking distance than Texas Childrens.
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    The freeway is still below grade when it passes next to the new 6-story storage building. But, yes, instead of rising from that point as it goes east, it will continue below grade.
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