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fernz

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  1. It makes sense. Standard floor-to-floor for office construction is 13'-6". If you multiply that times 30 floors you get 405'. So it will pretty close to that.
  2. Ok, they do shop, but not enough for the stores to be profitable. So my overall point is still correct, office workers don't support retail.
  3. But they don't shop, it's been proven. Look at what happened to the shopping center at Houston Center, all their brand-name retailers left. And look at what happened to Foley's. And Houston pavillions couldn't get any retail other than restaurants and entertainment. Retail follows rooftops, it's an old adage, it's tried and true.
  4. Exactly. It wouldn't make sense for them to build their own building, when there a tower looking for a tenant about to be built in in Westcreek.
  5. They do contribute, that's why you have all the fast food restaurants in the tunnels. Beyond that, they don't support much more.
  6. I don't, I was just noticing when I was driving by the other day. The are using light tan and almost black brick, and tehy are doing some sort of fins running vertically; looks nice.
  7. The Hanover building is turning into one of those rare cases where the building looks better than the renderings. The building has some really nice brick work going on.
  8. You're missing the artwork inside the building - that's what makes the cost of the structure worth it. Like all the previous buildings in the campus, this is supposed to have a special filtering of natural light
  9. Most Novare projects have exposed concrete; it's kind of their thing.
  10. The crane is up. It seems really close to the edge of the street. Sorry I couldn't take a picture.
  11. That would be nice. Not in Houston though.
  12. The fountains were meant to be a splashy feature (pardon the pun) to be showcased during the Super Bowl. They served their purpose.
  13. McDonald's sold part of its land for this development. I wouldn't say they ruined anything, they enabled the development.
  14. you all seem to forget this is a Randall Davis project; it will most likely turn out looking cheap.
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