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  1. Houston19514
    That rendering does not include the third building (presumably the hotel building)...
  2. Houston19514
    All true, except, from Page 2 of this thread:
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    Or 42,000+ ? ;-) While the name is originally derived from the CTA "L" loop, which takes in a smaller area, the boundaries described by LoopChicago are the pretty standard usage.
  4. Houston19514
    LoopChicago says the population inside Chicago's Loop is 42,000+
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    I haven't been in there recently, but there always have been multiple elevators. At least one on each end and one or more in between. I think even more than one set in the middle. A quick call to the management suggesting better directions be displayed might be in order. A forum rant, let alone a call to the Governor, not so much. Judging by the signage you photographed, it looks like they are trying, but as with any large renovation project, things change from day to day and the signage may not have kept up.
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    Yeah, I imagine they will direct you to one of the other elevators.
  7. Houston19514
    Kroger has stores in Dallas. What they are doing is expanding in to Oklahoma City with delivery-only. They built a warehouse/fulfillment center in OKC. No stores.
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    Metro has a bunch of electric buses on order for delivery later this year, IIRC. They also recently approved the purchase of a fast-charger to be installed at the TMC Transit Center, which is apparently where this batch of electric buses will be concentrated.
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    The 30,000 goal is from the 2017 PlanDowntown and it was stated as being the goal "over the next 20 years". "Build 12,000 additional residential units within Downtown to support population growth from 7,500 to 30,000 over the next 20 years." So... 2037. Also, in the podcast, he stated that downtown passed 10,000 in 2021. There are currently more than 1,500 units under construction (or very recently completed - Brava).
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    Houstonians (and especially HAIFers) tend to exaggerate the ways in which Houston supposedly doesn't measure up to other cities. For example, while true that Dallas has several hotel flags Houston does not have; the reverse is also true. Yes, Dallas has more higher-end hotels than we, but the difference is often exaggerated. Dallas has no St. Regis. As of the end of this year, Dallas will have no Four Seasons. We also have The Post Oak, The Houstonian, and Hotel Granduca, which each fly only their own flag, AFAIK. Similarly, we have in fact not always taken a back seat to Dallas when it comes to high-end shopping locations (one would get that idea if one relied on the Chronicle (and Dallas Morning News) for their information, but it isn't reality.) We've actually been pretty even over the years at being the first/only Texas location. As a slight aside, the DMN is very boosterish about Dallas and will report store openings as being the first or only in Texas, even when it's not true; (in fact, they just did it today). The Chron, on the other hand, is more likely to either leave that fact out, even when true, or incorrectly report that Dallas is ahead of us.
  11. Houston19514
    That is the city court and police complex. Has nothing to do with the county courthouse and jail complex being discussed here.
  12. Houston19514
    Tom Ford space is no longer vacant. Not sure where Akris was and I don't recall a furniture store at all, let alone its location. FWIW, it's odd, but their website is not up to date. There are some new stores open that are not shown on their website and there are more currently under construction that are also not on their website.
  13. Houston19514
    MPG for trains is a pretty useless number and not often used. A locomotive running down the tracks by itself will obviously get a lot higher mpg than one pulling a fully-loaded train. FWIW, I think a fully-loaded train will get something on the order of 0.1 mpg. The useful number that is used by railroads is ton-miles per gallon.
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    Yes, don’t you just LOVE Dallas’s two Mandarin Orientals, the Four Seasons, the St.Regis, the hotel at Highland Park Village . . . Oh, and that new hotel in the former Morning News building . . . 😉. (For the curious, all of the hotels I listed have been planned in central Dallas in recent years. None of them have started construction. And I’m sure I’ve missed some.)
  15. Houston19514
    Take a look at the Buckhead Village map. They have at least as many empty spaces as ROD.
  16. Houston19514
    The turnover at ROD is probably not particularly unusual, especially for a pretty new center such as this in times of a pandemic.
  17. Houston19514
    Yeah, Forty Five Ten is not coming back. They'll be doing well just to survive. But the good news for Forty Five Ten fans is that Brian Bolke (the co-founder of Forty Five Ten), is coming back to River Oaks District with his new store The Conservatory.
  18. Houston19514
    What was their complaint?
  19. Houston19514
    To be fair, when the Federal Reserve was built that location was not really a very "urban" location. FWIW the Portland Branch doesn't even have a building, or as far as I can tell, an office. It seems to only exist virtually, if at all. Here is the Seattle branch:
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    I cannot find the quoted language in the link you provided. Can you help me locate it?
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    I am not finding the quoted language at the link you provided. Can you help me dig it out? Interestingly, other cities seem to have adopted these same requirements, which also seem to be in accordance with the National Flood Insurance Program. Austin did so in 2019: Austin's new regulations, "which were approved unanimously by council, also will require structures in flood zones to be built at least 2 feet above the floodplain, instead of the previous 1-foot requirement, to further mitigate flood risk."
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    According to the Houston Permitting Center, "The City has addressed property protection by requiring new construction in the high flood risk areas be constructed 1.0 foot above the 1% annual chance floodplain, or Base Flood Elevation (BFE.)"
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    Actually not weird at all, since most of their buildings, especially with regard to Federal Reserve Branches (which Houston's is one of) are not high-rises. Except for a few that have been reduced to small leased space in commercial office buildings and thus are housed in high-rises, the Branches are all very much low rise buildings. Presumably it has to do with the functions of the Branches as compared to with the functions of the 11 Federal Reserve Banks.
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    I didn't think Harris County regulations applied within city limits. In any event, can you point me to the Harris County regulation you reference? Everything I am finding says 24 inches above the 500-year floodplain, not four feet.
  25. Houston19514
    And Cru and Eddie V’s
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