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  1. Houston19514
    I'm still hoping Federated will wake up and realize they need to have at least one Bloomingdale's in this market and will convert the Macy's building into a Bloomingdale's (or the Foley's building, I don't care...)
  2. Houston19514
    Here's confirmation on one of the rumors. EPCO (Enterprise) is buying 1100 Louisiana and moving their offices downtown, filling the building, which is now 75% occupied. Doesn't sound like 600,000 square feet, but still sweet. http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...tml?jst=b_ln_hl
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    According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 539.6 km
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    I think I read once that it actually will be free.
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    It was in the paper a while back, when they broke ground. 290 at 43rd area.
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    Besides which, it was developed by and is owned by some guys from Oklahoma City.
  7. Houston19514
    Well, I'll be... When did that happen? ;-)
  8. Houston19514
    Cool your jets, Jason. There is also something called the Combined Statistical Area. In Houston's case, it's called the Houston-Baytown-Huntsville combined statistical area. When speaking of metropolitan areas, it is just as legitimate to speak of the Houston-Baytown-Huntsville CSA as it is to speak of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan statistical area. Personally, I think the Census Bureau is causing further confusion with these new definitions. And in the case of San Francisco and DC, there still exist the DC-Baltimore Combined Statistical Area as well as the San Francisco-San Jose Combined Statistical Area (hence the confusion I mentioned above), both of which remain in the 7 million range. Also, I'm not sure it's correct to say that Fort Worth meets the "government criteria for a suburb." Some metropolitan areas are apparently not quite as cohesive and interrelated as others, and so are divided by the Census Bureau into "Divisions." Dallas Fort Worth is one of such areas. The D-FW Metropolitan Area is comprised of the Dallas-Plano-Irving Metropolitcan Division and the Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Division. I rather doubt that Ft. Worth would be in a separate division from Dallas if it met the government criteria for a suburb of Dallas. BTW, Jason, what are your "other sources" for the 2004 Metropolitan Area populations, if I may ask?
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    The old Enron Building is not owned by the same people as Allen Center, so that parking building is not avaliable to Enron Building tenants. And Subdude, I don't think it's quite correct to say they (Hines) are merely "incenting" (to use your made-up verb) people to just move from one garage to another. What they are "incenting" people to do is to lease office space in the Pennzoil Towers. Having dedicated parking available will make that easier. Thus, this can help downtown by helping Hines to fill more office space, bringing more workers downtown, who will eat at the downtown restaurants and shop in the downtown retail (including the retail included in this building.) While I too would love to see someone (like Hines) announce a new 40-story residential tower, the construction of this building is NOT a bad thing. And as has been mentioned ad nauseum on this thread, there are PLENTY more surface lots available on which those much-desired high-residential structures can be placed. It's not like the construction of another parking garage makes impossible or even slightly-less likely the construction of a residential tower.
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    I'm thinking your first clue should have been this statement: "be sandwiched canal side between the INFOMART and the WORLD TRADE CENTER." Or is there actually a canal somewhere near the infomart?
  11. Houston19514
    Calpine does not own the building. They are just a tenant.
  12. Houston19514
    Now that I've stopped laughing.... You offer up an interesting and, shall we say, unique history of the Gothic style. Oh, and, by the way... I am the King of Siam. ;-)
  13. Houston19514
    Little Saigon is Vietnamese, not Chinese (note the connection between the Vietnamese city of Saigon and the name Little Saigon).
  14. Houston19514
    Oh, I guess you mean the D&G store. Not exactly the same as a Dolce & Gabbana store.
  15. Houston19514
    Where in Dallas is the Dolce & Gabbana store?
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    Source?
  17. Houston19514
    The plan includes underground parking, underneath the park. and of course the new Toyota Center parking building adds additional parking available to convention center attendees.
  18. Houston19514
    I'm pretty sure you have your history confused. Perhaps the credit union at one time had an office in the HISD Building, but the building was built by the school district and has always been the HISD Administration headquarters.
  19. Houston19514
    No. As the article said, "the apartments are located just south of Sage Road and Hidalgo Road, near the Nordstrom wing of The Galleria"
  20. Houston19514
    I think it will not count as a Fortune 500 headquarters because this is just the US headquarters. They overall HQ is still in Europe. Just like Shell is not listed among Houston Fortune 500 companies.
  21. Houston19514
    EXCELLENT WORK!! That very thought had crossed my mind, but I had not taken the initiative to put the numbers together. My problem with the whole roof open order is the weasely way the commish did it. He did it to Arizona, what three, four years ago. Why didn't he make it a formal rule after that? He knew the whole time leading to the end of the season that the Astros were leaving the roof closed even in good weather, why didn't he announce a general policy then? He SURELY saw the Astros keeping the roof closed for the playoff games against both Atlanta and St. Louis. Why was it not important then? And THEN, when the Astros won the playoffs against STL, he knew they had kept the roof closed, but kept silent about it, until after the World Series had started and then waited some more until after we'd played a game in Chicago and then waited some more until after we'd played another game in Chicago, and then waited some more until the day between Chicago and Houston and even then couldn't "announce" his order until THE DAY OF THE FREAKIN' GAME, Game 3 of the FREAKIN' World Series. What, he didn't know it was coming? The World Series suddenly snuck up on him? Did someone just step in his office Monday afternoon, and say, hey Commish, did you know the Astros have a ROOF on their stadium? What a freakin' idiot!
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    ROFLMAO
  23. Houston19514
    That's another thing on which Houstonians (including, or rather, especially, the media) seem to think they have cornered the market. In my experience, Houston's mosquito "problem" is no worse than other places, and a good deal better than some.
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    I second that! He was the highlight of the World Series
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    I tend to agree with you. However, I'm afraid that ridership on that line will never reach its potential if it does not go through the core of Uptown. As I understand the plan, if one wants to go from downtown to somewhere in Uptown, one will have to take the Red Line south, change trains on to the University Line west, then change to BRT to go up Post Oak. That's insane.
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