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    Discovery West: Mixed-Use Development Downtown By Skanska

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    On 6/10/2022 at 9:37 AM, Nate99 said:

    They built a new one in downtown Amarillo across from their minor league ball park, it's actually way nicer than what you would expect from what they built the brand up to be from the beginning. The worst ES has to be Charleston, WV. Like seemingly everything in that town, it hasn't been touched since construction was completed. 

    This one looks dumb, and way dumber than the rendering we got at the outset, but all's well as it's exterior is going away for all practical purposes. 

    Since Covid, Embassy Suites seems to have taken some of the cheese off the pizza. Among other things, the omelet bar is limited to certain days of the week and the business centers have been removed. And like a lot of other hotel chains, they will only do the rooms if you request it. At least they have breakfast...

    The Allen: Mixed-Use Development At Allen Parkway & Gillette St.

    in Going Up!

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    8 hours ago, arche_757 said:

    Great pictures as always, @cityliving

    This is such an “only in Houston” shot. To the left federally subsidized housing; to the right a fortress of a bank vault.  And in the middle a high-end residential, commercial and hospitality development.

    I like this project, I just don’t like the location.  Imagine the synergy if this were closer to the developments further west?  I don’t see either of the federal properties on either side going away for years/decades.

    I don't think it would have been as stand-out farther west. No bayou for a backdrop, no downtown buildings as framing and too many other competing buildings...

    And the public housing doesn't look all that shabby...

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    Levit Green: Life Science Mixed-Use District By Hines

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    On 5/23/2022 at 12:23 PM, strickn said:

    Two years on, I still think it will be impossible for us to rival those regions without the financial industry legacy tailwind that made it advantageous for them to develop as clusters to begin with.  And with no more backing than our area has, it might be better spent developing a cluster that is suited to our regional culture, rather than the most superheated (competitive but overpriced, where you rise the least in the rankings for the greatest table stakes) industry in the nation's economy.  But when I have to eat crow, then, to quote H Town Man, it will taste just fine.  And if our value play attracts a lot more people from around the world, provides careers that develop local talent without having to move away, and of course beats Dallas, then it will be hard to argue that our timing was wrong.  

    This, I believe, is the problem. Not only does Houston not seem to have enough venture capital, but any that comes along goes to the oil and gas industry. With all the products being invented out of the TMC, there should have been several start-ups that would have gotten themselves established in the last decade. There certainly is plenty of know-how...

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    Midtown Retail Development

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    7 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

    Census Bureau this morning released 2021 population estimates for cities.

    New York City:  8,467,513, a net loss of  305,465 (3.48%) in one year. 

     

    I went through all the top cities on the list. If I am to believe the estimates, Houston and Dallas lost population, as did many other cities, while San Antonio and Fort Worth had gains of 10,000. Almost every other large American city appears to have lost population. I would not be surprised if the 2022 estimates show these people miraculously reappearing...

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    Midtown Retail Development

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    On 7/2/2021 at 11:43 AM, H-Town Man said:

    It was for a long time but then it became a victim of its own success and fell into serious mismanagement. But regardless of what any poll says, the proof is in the pudding. People still pay 3 times more to live in SF than they do to live in Houston. If the cost of real estate there starts going down, then I'll believe that people are really fleeing. Until then, they're not fleeing.

     

    New York always seems to have been a place that people said they were fleeing, but every decade, the Census shows more people moved in than moved out. As people depart for other parts of the US, immigrants replace them. It has been like that for over a century. New York City has more people now than it's ever had.

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