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  1. Houston19514
    Thanks for the info. I would probably mostly be looking at completed ("used") houses anyway, so THAT's a relief. Good to hear you think they are well-built. Your experience and others like yours is one reason I'd lean towards a used product. Dealing with people like that would drive me over the edge. I hope you can get it all worked out; You have my sympathy. Sorry, everyone, for kind of taking us off-topic. Now, we return to our regular programming.
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    It only makes sense there would be long turn lanes/extra capacity at a major intersection like Hwy 6.
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    I and the article were referring to the financing of the building of condo developments, not the financing of the purchase of individual condos.
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    Notice the past tense. There WAS a federal regulation. It seems possible that federal regulations might have been changed in the intervening 50 years or so... From the Hobby Airport website: To honor Hughes, the name of the airport was changed in July 1938 to "Howard Hughes Airport." But upon discovering that no federal airport improvement funds would be granted to an airport named after a "living" person, Houston City Council reluctantly changed the name back to Houston Municipal Airport later that year. http://hou.houstonairportsystem.org/about#...HOBBY%20AIRPORT
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    I'd be interestd in hearing more about your experience with Lovett Homes. I hope to be shopping for a home in Houston fairly soon and had gotten the impression they were a pretty good builder. Is that impression wrong?
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    It's pretty standard to have additional (turning) lanes at intersections. That is not the same as having a "four-lane feeder road
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    FWIW, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week to the effect that lenders are pulling back from lending money on condo projects all over the country, and requiring the developers to have a lot more "skin in the game" .
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    I recall reading that there was actually a federal regulation against naming an airport after a living person. (Not that it was against the law per se, but, if you violate the regulation, no federal funds for you...)
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    Calm down. The Hobby terminal remodeling/reconstruction project is not done. It is an ongoing project scheduled for completion in 2008.
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    The Katy Freeway website shows the frontage roads all being 3 lanes, not 4. Have they changed the design?
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    Remarkable. If you "don't need to make digs about the war" then why did you? You had to cook up a rather preposterous scenario (that if the war in Iraq were not going on the money could be re-allocated in equal portions to the 20 largest cities (and only the 20 largest cities)) in order that you could make your facetious claim that your question is relevant to the news. You can't seem to understand even though I have stated it clearly and repeatedly, that I DO NOT WANT TO DEBATE THE WAR at least not here on an architecture/development board. There is a reason this board has an off-topic category. And apparently, since you made your little point and then begged people not to debate it with you, you don't really want to debate the war either. You seem more interested in just lobbing in a verbal hand-grenade and then standing back saying "Who, me?"
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    That might be one of the less-questionable categories. But even here, there are lots of questions raised. E.g., In cities such as Houston, where there are both county and city library system branches, did they count both systems or just the city library? Why did they apparently count media personnel in the schools but not numbers of volumes held in school libraries? I must say they covered this category better than the bookseller category. In libraries they counted both the number of branches and the size and volume of "business" conducted by those libabries. In the bookseller category they just counted the number of booksellers, paying no attention whatsoever to the size or volume of business of those booksellers. So a corner bookstore that sells 5 books a day counts the same as a Bookstop on Alabama which no doubt sells hundreds or thousands per day. Very curoius way to measure.
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    Another of the seemingly endless stream of tireless and meaningless "studies" based on questionable premises that get WAY too much attention from the media, especially when they portray Houston in a negative light... In "studies" such as this, Houston is hurt by having a large central city relative to the size of the metro area. As is so often the case, the "study" is worthless, because it compares apples to oranges, and in the end does not show what it purports to show.
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    Again I ask... Did the 2727 Kirby people tell you they had to have 400-500 per square foot to break even? If not, on what information are you basing that statement?
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    I don't want to talk about the war, at least not here on an architectural/development message board. My point (which apparently went right past you) was to object to your sly approach of trying to have it both ways... i.e., you get your "dig" in about the cost of the war while imploring others not to respond in kind. I'm quite familiar with the approach.
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    Here's a thought... If you don't want to talk about the war, and don't want others talking about the war, then don't start a thread TALKING ABOUT THE WAR. What does this thread offer beyond the other recent thread "what would you do with 15 Billion Dollars?
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    Did they tell you that? Are you basing that on their list prices? What are their prices? I can't find any on their website. While there certainly have been condos sold in that price range (400-500 per square foot) and above, I would think it would be quite a challenge to sell out an entire building averaging in that price range.
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    I remember that incident. But I don't remember that the homeowner shot through the door. That could be the difference.
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    What is your evidence for this proposition?
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    Downtown Dallas' office market was in a funk long before the telecom industry implosion. Its problems stem from the oil & gas and Savings & Loan implosions of the mid-80s. The downtown office market has never recovered.
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    Uptown has been moving toward a more pedestrian friendly environment for some years now. The street arches and landscaped sidewalks and crosswalks were huge improvements. The next step is probably pedestrian-friendly development of the commercial properties. That, of course will take a lot of time, but the Uptown Pavilions (or whatever it's official name is) is hopefully the first of many steps to come.
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    There are fifteen units at The Riparian currently listed on HAR, so it apparently has not been scrapped. (The prices range from $447,900 to $3,549,900.)
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    Don't be ridiculous. Houston is doing "something like that." Houston as a TIF district, it has tax incentives for condominiums, it has incentives for retail development. The article says that about 2,400 apartments have been created. Houston has over 3,000. Apparently, downtown Dallas now has a population of about 4,500. I believe downtown Houston's estimated population is very nearly identical to that. Dallas has a goal of 10,000 residents (I don't believe the time-frame is mentioned). Houston has a goal of 20,000 (by 2025). Elsewhere I've seen projections of 10,000 in downtown Houston in 2010.
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    Are Hooter's and Dick's in the Victory development?
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    Huh? Are you referring to the "area on South Main near the Shamrock" as "Uptown"? If so, why? Or are you saying that the "area on South Main near the Shamrock" is between downtown and Uptown? Hardly.
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