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They are not taking over a hotel. As the article pasted above in this thread stated: "Hotel Indigo Houston will mark the brands first non-lodging commercial property conversion. " That means the building they are converting is not currently a lodging property. In other words it is not currently a hotel.

The Pavilions project does not include a park. There just happens to be a park being developed several blocks away from where the Pavilions is being developed. Two totally separate and unrelated projects.

As has been alluded to by someon earlier in this thread, there is already an airport in Sugar Land. A few years back, they even had some commercial passenger service. It was something like Lone Star Airline. I think they flew from Sugar Land to Dallas and maybe Austin as well. I believe I also read recently that U.S. Customs and Immigration was establishing a presence there to handle international arrivals of corporate jets. Customs Here is a link with some interesting information about the airport. Sugar Land Airport

Yes, that is the old Post building

I think this might be an urban myth ;-) If there is truly a Prada store in Highland Park Village, someone should tell the management of Highland Park Village. They don't seem to be aware of it (at least it doesn't show up on their website.)

Not necessarily. At least in theory, these types of places generate their own business, "new" business, if you will, that would not otherwise be in Houston at all. This is very similar in concept to (but smaller than) the giant Gaylord Resort in Grapevine, Texas. It just opened a year or two ago. It does not seem to have hurt the D-FW hotel market, but I'd be interested in knowing...

The Chronicle bought the Post, so I'm sure the Chronicle has them.

No. Houston has a port that cruiseliners come in to also.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet... The woman already met with President Bush!!! And when she came out of the meeting she told a California reporter that the President had been very empathetic and made her feel a lot better. Somewhere along the way, her story changed. In addition to which, in my opinion, her actions and statements dishonor the memory of her son, who, as others have noted, VOLUNTEERED to serve in the United States Army.

I like that. Very well-said

Armand Bayou Nature Center

No. the Prudential Tower is at 1100 Holcombe. This new building is behind a building at 1800 Holcombe.

Now, now. Don't get suicidal on us.

I am fascinated by this tunnel concept. The arguments in favor of it almost seem a little too good to be true, but certainly worth exploring. But I have a question: why would engineering costs and construction management costs be lower for a tunnel than for a surface project? Seems counter-intuitive.

Feasible? It has already happened... downtown uptown Greenway Plaza Westchase Medical Center Greenspoint The Woodlands They have also been called "Edge Cities"

Wikipedia has its facts wrong. Pushmataha County did NOT vote 90% for Kerry. In fact, it voted for Bush, 60%-40%. I also think they got that bit about Wes Watkins joining the Democratic Party just for the election and then joining the GOP completely screwed up.

and it certainly wasn't a lack of attractive anchors that caused T&C's demise. They had: Dillard's JCPenney Neiman Marcus Marshall Field (replaced by Saks Fifth Avenue)

One cannot tell for sure which section of the park he's really talking about, which makes me smell some dishonesty on the writer's part. He does say that the westernmost block is not owned by the city and is clearly the worst-maintained. But then he never says which parts he does his "investigative" work in. Does he ever actually set foot in the portions that are owned by the city? He never tells us. From the totality of the article it really sounds like he's talking almost completely about the portion not owned by the city. It would have been helpful had he been more clear about this, but the Press prefers all negative, all screaming headlines, all the time. No nuance allowed.

Given that most of the pedestrian and retail market exists in the tunnels and not at street-level, I'm surprised they don't charge MORE for the tunnel-level space.

I get the impression from their website renderings that it will be open-air for the entire three blocks, with some bridges and canopy-type structures sprinkled in. It looks to be structured very similarly to the one in Denver, which also creates it's own pedestrian area isolated from the street.

That depends on how I'm dressed and whether I have an umbrella... Your post seems to suggest that "it's just as cold here" because it's not cold enough to snow (and, oh, by the way, we don't wear raincoats or carry umbrellas). You are mixing apples and oranges. By your own example, you are not comparing differences in comfort levels at the same temperature caused by relative humidity. The difference in comfort levels "guaranteed" in your example are a result of the different kinds of precipitation, not because of a difference in temperature. And your guaranteed answer to the question also seems to assume that one is dressed appropriately for 30 degrees and snow, but not so for 40 degrees and rain.

I think the idea that 40 degrees feels colder in Houston than it does in a place up north with less humidity is hokum. See the following from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Resources Laboratory: Humidity and human comfort As anyone who has spent a summer in the southeastern United States can attest, high humidity can aggravate the effects of high temperature on human comfort. People may complain that humid air feels "heavy", but in fact, the more moisture in the air, the lower the air density. That is because the molecular weight of water vapor is lower the average molecular weight of the constituents dry air. The discomfort associated with high humidity is somewhat analogous to the wind chill effect, where high winds make people feel colder. Various indices, comparable to the wind chill index, have been developed to quantify the humidity effect; these include the apparent temperature, heat stress index, "humiture", and "humidex". Some of these can be adjusted to take into account the effects on solar radiation, wind speed, and barometric pressure on human comfort. The U.S. National Weather Service currently employs the "heat index." As relative humidity increases, so does human discomfort. For example, at an air temperature of 90oF (32oC) and 50% relative humidity, the air "feels" as if it were 96oF (36oC). The reason is that the moister the air, the larger the resistance to moisture loss (and therefore to heat loss via evaporation) from the human body to the air, because the air is closer to saturation. The humidity effect on comfort operates at low temperatures as well: people are more comfortable in cold air when humidity is high than low. NOAA

5160 Hidalgo

You will be glad to know the old Humble building still stands and was recently converted into apartments, a Courtyard by Mariott Hotel, and a Residence Inn Hotel. They did a nice job on it.