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  1. Houston19514
    LOL funny, but not true. :-)
  2. Houston19514
    Perhaps a bit more accurate in that Chicago did once have a large livestock industry, whereas Houston has never had a "cowboy" industry to speak of. ;-) In your list of "Chicago's largest public companies", Neither Caterpillar, ADM, nor John Deere are headquartered in or near Chicago.
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    Is Cypress an incorporated town? I thought not.
  4. Houston19514
    I was in their store in Georgetown (Washington DC, not Texas) about 1 1/2 years ago. Very cool stuff. Modern. I remember the prices being pretty moderate. (At least they were reasonable enough that I accepted their offer of a catalog to take home with me.)
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    I'm not certain, but I think it may already be in Houston city limits.
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    Not so fast there, Jason ;-) I believe Houston gained on DFW in the 2005-2006 period, by about 75,000.
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    LOL Good one, dbig
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    DFW just barely broke through the 6,000,000 mark, so they are a little less than 1/2 million larger than Houston. Philly I don't have numbers for, but I would guess they are a little under 6,000,000, maybe 5.9 million. Houston will likely pass Philly by the 2010 census I suspect.
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    They notified the state back in January that they expected at least 500 "layoffs" between January and May, mostly as a result of asset sales. It is possible that some of the "layoffs" are actually people who have gone to new employers with the asset sales. Also, not all of those are in the Houston area. Has there not been any more word about this 1,000 person layoff? Was it just a rumor?
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    According to this article, Anadarko apparently had layoffs in 2003.
  11. Houston19514
    Lighten up just a bit... It was just an email. I agree. The balconies are one of the building's and the apartments' best features.
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    That's odd. CNN's list does not agree with the Census Bureau's list; Census Bureau says these are the top 10 numeric growth counties: 1. Maricopa, AZ 2. Harris, TX 3. Riverside, CA 4. Los Angeles, CA 5. Clark, NV 6. San Bernadino, CA 7. Tarrant, TX 8. Collin, TX 9. Gwinnet, GA 10. Will, IL Fastest growing by percentage: 1. Flagler, FL 2. Kendall, IL 3. Rockwall, TX 4. Loudon, VA 5. Forsyth, GA 6. Pinal, AZ 7. Douglas, CO 8. Henry, GA 9. Paulding, GA 10. Lyon, NV Edit: I just figured it out. CNN was showing the fastest-growing counties for the year 2005-2006. The Census Bureau's list is the fastest-growing for the 6 years 2000-2006
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    The Census Bureau today published the estimates of county populations for 2006. Harris County is up to 3,886,207. By my calculations, the Houston metro area is now estimated at 5,539,949 !! The CSA population (Houston Baytown Huntsville) is estimated at 5,641,077.
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    What is the Allen Center Project you refer to?
  15. Houston19514
    I think his point was that current fuel taxes are insufficient to properly maintain current roads, much less to build new roads, not that they are supplementing the fuel taxes with other funds.
  16. Houston19514
    According to the HBJ, Construction has started on Houston Premium Outlets off Hwy 290 between Mason Road and Fairfield Drive. Houston Premium Outlets
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    Here's some info from the PWC research that sheds a little light on the results. At least it accounts for PART of the reason that Atlanta is shown with a larger GDP, even though it's a smaller city/metro: The study analyzed something called "urban agglomerations" from the United Nations "World Urbanization Prospects". I could not find any more detail about exactly what is included in the various "urban agglomerations", but they do show that under this definition, Houston and Atlanta are almost exactly the same size (4.3 million), so I presume they have left out Galveston etc. DFW is shown with 4.65 million population. (These are the 2005 numbers)
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    Well, here's what I could find for Dallas. I cannot guarantee it is absolutely complete, but I think it's pretty thorough, and I've included everything I could find 10 floors and above, even those in relatively suburban areas, and even those under construction (both of which categories I did NOT include in my listing for Houston in post # 213 above), and even with all that, I still only came up with 28 buildings, compared to my listing of 39 buildings in Houston without counting suburban area buildings or buildings under construction, which would add easily a half dozen more buildings to the Houston listing. Besides the lower quantity, it appears that on the whole the Dallas buildings are substantially shorter than the Houston buildings. Looks like Dallas has a lot more catching-up to do in the area of high-rise condominium living: The Vendome 21 floors The Mansion Residences 10 floors ? The Claridge 18 floors ? The Warrington 24 floors ? La Tour 22 floors ? 3525 Turtle Creek 22 floors ? The Goldcrest 12 floors ? The Mayfair 22 floors ? Park Towers 20 floors ? 3701 Turtle Creek 12 floors ? Residences at Ritz Carlton 23 floors "21" 23 floors ? The Renaissance 22 floors ? The Plaza II on Turtle Creek 15 floors ? W Dallas Crestpark in Highland Park 11 floors ? The Travis 15 floors? 1505 Elm 18 floors ? The Bonaventure (North Dallas) 15 floors ? Preston Tower (North Dallas) 28 floors ? The Athena (North Dallas) 21 floors ? Azure 31 floors (Under construction? first condo taller than 30 floors?) The House by Starck and Yoo 28 floors (under construction) One Arts Plaza ? (Under construction) The Stoneleigh 21 floors (Under construction) The Metropolitan 25 floors (Under construction) Centrum Tower 19 floors Lake Cliff Tower 12 floors Feel free to propose additions and corrections.
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    Could be, although, other than the infamous and unreliable "common knowledge," nobody has shown that to actually be true. Seems like it might be, but I really don't know... In any event why do you insist on focusing only on the buildings built in the past 5-10 years? It seems likely that, if it's even true that Dallas and Atlanta have added more in the past 5-10 years, they are only now starting to catch up to the level Houston has had for quite some time. (And by the way, Houston wasn't the only city overbuilt in the 80s. Dallas was too, and they still haven't absorbed all of the overbuilt office space downtown.)
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    Yea, I thought it read like something written by a Chronicle reporter. I actually stopped midway through to double check that it had not been written by Sarnoff or one of the other Chron folks.
  21. Houston19514
    Wow, do you think Hard Rock's finances are so tight that they don't have the cash to go forward with a $100/$200 million project until they sell their little building on McKinney? Seems unlikely. By doing so, they are delaying the day of getting any profits out of Dallas or returns on the rest of the money that will be invested in their new project. Sounds like a strange way of doing business, but who knows?
  22. Houston19514
    Caught me before I completed my post. (Accidentally hit the enter button before I was done with the list.) Please see edited post #213 above. :-)
  23. Houston19514
    Bayou Bend Towers 1981 22 floors 1400 Hermann converted 1977 17 floors 2016 Main converted 1979 26 floors Park Square 1982 22 floors 3525 Sage 1975 17 floors Warwick Towers 1983 30 floors Houstonian Estates 1982 28 floors Parklane 1983 35 floors The Spires 1983 40 floors The Willowick converted 1978 15 floors The Huntingdon 1984 34 floors 5000 Montrose 1981 22 floors The St. Clair 1982 13 floors The Woodway 1974 19 floors Four Leaf Towers East 1982 40 floors Four Leaf Towers West 1982 40 floors Inwood Manor converted 1978 16 floors The Oxford 1981 20 floors Regency House converted 1980 13 floors The St. James 1975 25 floors The Greenway I 1979 30 floors The Greenway II 1979 30 floors The Lamar Tower converted 1979 23 floors The Parc IV converted 1978 12 floors The Parc V converted 1978 12 floors The River Oaks 1962 16 floors The Tealstone 1984 15 floors Woodway Place II 1982 20 floors Executive House The Campton at Post Oak Added in the last decade or so: Villa d'Este The Rise The Robinhood The Mercer The Royalton at River Oaks Montebello The Mark Commerce Towers Residences at the Four Seasons (Removing these guys from my list of Houston high-rise condominiums because they are less than 10 floors tall.): St. Germain Bayou Lofts Keystone Lofts Franklin Lofts I haven't even gone to Galveston or other suburban areas or listed any that are currently under construction. It seems just possible that these other cities, e.g. Dallas and Atlanta are at long last attempting to catch up with Houston in high-rise condominium living. All you defenders of Nancy are ignoring what it is she wrote. As I quoted above, she wrote that Houston has been slow to develop high-rise condominiums Period. She didn't say that development has been slow in recent years. The list above (which does not even cover the entire metro area) shows how wrong that statement is. (And considering the second list above showing recently-added high-rises, and even then not even showing the currently under construction, I'm not sure it's even accurate to say that Houston has been particularly slow in recent years. Maybe compared to Miami, sure....) I'd be very curious to see comparable lists for Dallas and Atlanta. So we could see just how slow Houston has been to develop high-rise condominiums.
  24. Houston19514
    Well, for the record, here are her exact words: "While luxury high-rise condominiums are commonplace in big cities - where land is scarce, forcing developers to build up instead of out - they've been slow to develop in Houston, where most folks prefer single-family homes." Quoted from her June 19, 2005 "report" about 2727 Kirby. Does that sound like someone who is aware of the dozens of high-rise condominium buildings that have existed in Houston for decades? If she is aware, she is apparently intent on casting a negative light on Houston (which does seem to be the case of most Chronicle reporters). Not sure which is worse, ignorance (of that level) or dishonesty.
  25. Houston19514
    Yes, they have several buildings around town. No, their hq is not in east Houston. The HQ is downtown in 5 Houston Center, as Bach said.
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