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    Perhaps AIG, Amegy, Crown Castle, BHP, Aliant Group, Brookdale Senior Living, Bechtel, Pros, Nitya Capital, 95% of all high rise Hotels, and countless others fit within a certain realm of an exception. The only thing they all have in common is they're not Downtown. Can't find the articles but I recall exceptions made to the Hilton Americas & Marriott Marquis Downtown as the city owns the buildings.
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    The Wilson Tower (1035ft), which was supposed to be the new tallest, had it's height cut. The Waterline (1,022ft), is still under construction, which will be the new tallest. So as of now, JP Morgan Chase Tower will be #2.
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    Each time I pass it seems to have diminished in popularity - as well as tents/food trucks.
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    My Mom took us to Marco's in Spring, close to the previous Dairy Queen - same strip center as the ex-Klein Bank. This was back in the mid 90s. Was a staple in our restaurant rotation, along with Chef Chan's further south, Pappadeaux, and Bennigan's on FM 1960. All of which are no more. Remember being held hostage in Marco's as my mom and grandma would talk for hours, long after we finished our meals. Can't recall how good it was being such a picky eater at that age. Even if in pristine condition today, likely wouldn't hold up to the options we have now. Shame that Kuykendahl/Louetta area really looks run down.
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    If you want more soylent green, then yes. St Luke's Tower still jarring without the spires.
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    First Person view on Cities Skylines Console graphics.
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    6 Houston Center renderings/leasing info are still posted on their lot, so a sign doesn't mean anything.
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    Houston is doing what it needs to do, densifying. Austin has a limited area for high-rises which drives up slim towers with more floors. We have the entirety of land between the Brazos & Trinity to build. Would have been cool to have a 700ft tower here, yes. Based on the current outcome of the medical building, very happy they're not creating more garbage.
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    How could they do Shanghai River dirty like that.
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    Spot on. The MetroNationalization of the Museum District.
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    Hope they'll fix the mess that is 45/Hardy @ 610 North. Taking Hardy to 59 works wonderfully since the onramp puts you directly on the 59 exit.
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    This building is a unit.
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    Light Pollution isn't that cool.
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    Crossing either direction on the Shepherd bridge yields amazing views of density.
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    I said this a few pages back. It's not that public housing doesn't belong here, it's that garden style apartments don't belong here.
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    28 Floors Total, slightly shorter looking than One Park Place. Based on the renderings the southern most "shoulder", is only 1-2 stories shorter than the next, then the same for the tallest after that. The façade also appears to be a bit taller than the floor on each section. So, not much more if that corner piece is topped out.
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    They're fun and cute. The Post food hall, however, is like staring at the sun.
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    Thanks for that. Could have sworn it was gone when I passed by it, but the outdate google info fooled me.
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    Drunken Pho is excellent. Serious competition with S&T on Main.
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    Changed it. Please use the report function instead of tagging us, thanks.
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    Just tear down the pierce elevated FFS. The views from it aren't even that great.
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    "Finally the all-important caveat: the GaWC method of measuring the world city network produces theoretically informed, empirically robust assessments of cities in globalization. But it measures just one process in city development: the servicing of global capital. As shown, London and New York are the supreme archetypal cities in this regard. But, as we have also seen, the failure of Berlin has shown that the world city network can never be a collection of mini-Londons and little New Yorks. All world cities will have mixtures of cutting edge economic functions but these need not just be advanced producer services. The key is to find economic niches but without being vulnerable to economic specialization (Turok 2009). Milan and its design portfolio, Singapore and its logistics portfolio, Los Angeles and its entertainment portfolio and, outside the alpha cities, Houston and its energy portfolio, are each important examples of world cities despite their contrasting positions in the world city network (Taylor 2005). However, whatever the niches, cities WILL need to have a sufficiency of advanced producer services so as not to make it too overtly dependent on London, New York and their rare ilk. Thus within the world city network as conceptualised by GaWC, there will be ‘global cities' in the original sense of Sassen (1991) focusing on advanced producer services, as well as numerous other cities with varying sufficiency in advanced producer services. GaWC network connectivities and the resulting levels of integration into the world city network represent just one process, albeit especially global in scope, among many that constitute contemporary cities in globalization."
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    Green Cities DLC for Cities Skylines.
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    It's been so many years that W Hotels don't even have the same hype anymore. Plus the renderings were a boring glass box, of which our skyline desperately needs.
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