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    I think the thinking is that the ordinance will encourage more dense development (that is, after all, pretty much the point of the ordinance), which very likely means more parking garages. Further, when there is an ordinance being proposed for treatment of particular areas, that is the best opportunity to get some much-needed restrictions added. In Houston it can be difficult to get restrictions added for particular areas because of the whole no-zoning thing. The noise reference was not so much with reference to parking garages. I think it has more to do with the air-handling machinery etc that are required for high-rises. They can indeed be a little noisy.
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    Huh?
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    Very cool development. But those are going to be very small apartments. The article says it's 13,500 square feet on 3 floors. 4,500 per floor. First floor will be for retail. That leaves a total of 9,000 square feet on the apartment floors. If all 9,000 square feet could be used for apartments that would be 450 square feet per apartment. And they obviously cannot use all 9,000 square feet in the apartments; hallways, elevators, stairways, service areas will be required. That will take at the very least 1,000 square feet out, taking us down to 400 square feet per apartment.
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    I think one of the Museum District's biggest concerns is the failure to provide any requirements for screening of light and noise from parking garages etc. A very legitimate concern.
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    . That ship sailed quite some time ago. Is this an office tower?
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    They have permission from the FAA for the Tower Crane (530' tall). Work Schedule: 07/10/2020 to 12/30/2021 https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=430913867&row=2 They also received their determination from the FAA back in February for a 468' tall building. Work Schedule: 04/20/2020 to 10/21/2022. Oops. I see now this was already posted in February. Oh well. Here's a reminder. https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=430526526&row=4
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    Your argument is with Brookings (whose study you introduced to this conversation). They applied objective criteria to both cities and those are the results.
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    I used the downtown definitions used in the Brooking study. If we are going to use the Brookings definition for downtown Chicago, it only makes sense to compare it to the Brookings definition, using the same criteria, for downtown Houston. FWIW, I too noticed that Streeterville and the Gold Coast and part of North Michigan Ave were not included. I didn't dive deep into their methodology, but I presume there was good reason for that. I rather prefer the delineations used in the DefiningDowntown maps. Total for Chicago in this definition (which includes Streeterville, the Gold Coast and all of North Michigan Ave), is 144,000. Houston's is 58,500.
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    FWIW, the area designated as downtown by the linked Brookings study (roughly speaking, the CBD, Midtown, and Eado) had almost 41,000 people in the 2010 census. I would venture to guess we are over 50,000 by now. Well, they didn't exactly spend a whole day in downtown Chicago either. For example, you can't watch a baseball game in downtown Chicago.
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    Found it. Thanks. Historic tax credits, Opportunity Zone, and EB5. I thought you were talking about something more like sales tax rebates or property tax abatements.
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    You're doing a little cherry-picking of the history. Did the LaPorte Freeway get built inside the Loop? Did the original above-grade expansion plan for the inner Southwest Freeway get built? Did the West Loop get double-decked or expanded into more of Memorial Park as TXDOT once proposed?
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    What tax incentives is this thing getting?
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    i think you exaggerate the lack of residents in downtown Chicago in the 1980s. Watch the Bob Newhart Show. 😉
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    How is Texas A&M getting away with investing hundreds of millions of dollars in our city without provoking Cougar-town to man the ramparts? Is it going unnoticed because they aren't showing any soccer fields or tennis courts? 😉
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    From the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce: 10,000 + American Airlines Group AT&T Bank of America Baylor Scott & White JPMorgan Chase Kroger Lockheed Martin Medical City Healthcare Naval Air Station Parkland Hospital Southwest Airlines Texas Health Resources Texas Instruments UPS US Postal Service UT Southwestern Medical Center Walmart 5,000 - 9,999 Army & Air Force Exchange Service Children's Health CookChildren's Health Care System Dallas County Community College District FedEx Fidelity Investments Home Depot J.C. Penney L-3 Technologies Lowe's McAfee Methodist Health System Pepsico Raytheon State Farm Insurance Target Tom Thumb University of North Texas System Verizon Communications
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    From Greater Houston Partnership: Largest employers (excluding government employers (except hospitals, universities and research centers) and fast food chains). More than 20,000: H-E-B Houston Methodist Memorial Hermann Health System UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Walmart 10,000 - 19,999: ExxonMobil HCA Kroger National Oilwell Varco Schlumberger Shell Oil Co. Texas Children's Hospital United Airlines UT Medical Branch Health System 5,000 - 9,999 AT&T Baker Hughes Baylor College of Medicine BP America CenterPoint Energy Chevron CHI St Luke's Health Dow Chemical Co Halliburton Harris Health System Hewlett Packard Enterprise Home Depot Houston Community College JPMorgan Chase KBR Lone Star College Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center S&B Engineers and Constructors Target Corp. University of Houston UT Health Science Center Walgreens
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    The Moderne seems more an anomaly than a great example. There are at least a dozen condo building that were completed in the same time range as The Moderne. So far as I can tell, The Moderne is the only one of the bunch that has failed to make a sale.
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    New Fortune 500 list out today. Houston metro area has 22 on the list (21 in Houston, 1 in The Woodlands). 14 of the 22 are oil & gas industry, 2 chemical companies, 2 other energy companies (CenterPoint & Calpine) and 4 other (Sysco, Waste Management, Group 1 Automotive, and Crown Castle). In 2014, we had 23 companies in the Fortune 500 and 18 of them were in Oil & Gas. Phillips 66 Sysco ConocoPhillips Plains GP Holdings Enterprise Products Partners Baker Hughes Halliburton Occidental Petroleum EOG Resources Waste Management Kinder Morgan CenterPoint Energy Quanta Services Group 1 Automotive Calpine Cheniere Energy Targa Resources National Oilwell Varco Huntsman Westlake Chemical Apache Crown Castle We have an additional 19 in the Fortune 1000. 13 of the 19 are oil & gas industry. 6 other. KBR Par Pacific Holdings Marathon Oil Noble Energy Insperity American National Insurance MRC Global Service Corp. International Crestwood Equity Partners Southwestern Energy Tailored Brands NOW Kirby Comfort Systems USA Genesis Energy Patterson-UTI Energy Oasis Petroleum Cabot Oil & Gas Oceaneering International
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    Awesome picture. Do you know what year that is?
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    Has either of the businesses opened? Do we actually have any reason to think they are going to open without having the required parking?
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    Well, we have them all over town. Even those that are not designated as senior living facilities have a lot of residents who are seniors (predominantly so, in a lot of cases). Website?
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    Yeah, it's a little hard to imagine a better canopy type tree for shade than the Live Oak.
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    Pretty sure the only "vote" we had on the monorail plan was when we voted to remove Whitmire from office.
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    I'm sure you meant to type southWEST corner. Good find on the sale.
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    What numbers are being projected?
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