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toxtethogrady

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  1. Your wish is my command. It will be more surface parking.
  2. I started looking through the numbers more carefully. It's possible the $25 billion reflects contracts for petrochemical plants. As it is, the permit number for September is stunning - $1.2 billion in one month, which if carried forward would increase the $7 billion annual rate for construction permits to an eye-popping $14 billion (eye-popping, considering $7 billion is itself a record). The only damper is the price of oil, which dropped below $80 a barrel for WTI. It could imply a slowdown in that 4.3% annual increase in number of jobs. I compared that to the rest of the country (using the BLS numbers), and the percentage increase is one of the highest in the country, even compared to small towns. Tomorrow, there may be problems, but right now, it's a party.
  3. New York has several supertalls underway. They'll be hard to top. Dallas is playing catch-up with Houston.
  4. I think the SHRO's is onsite. I'm not sure about Downtown, but the photo record on Skyscraperpage would show it.
  5. That sure looks like some kind of silt fencing, although it appears that the sand is getting some blacktop. Parking?
  6. NY has had its share of proposals that never got to fruition (just check SkyscraperPage). Even the WTC got into financial trouble. What seems to get projects built is developers who have their money lined up and don't have to worry about presales or financing. That's why the Skanska project is likely to get built, whereas outfits like Peloton get stopped before they start. For whatever reason, Manhattan is proving fertile ground for residential 1,000-footers. Houston is now getting quite a few projects that are 40 stories of residential. An economy that generates 100,000 jobs a year will support that. I'm still not seeing how Dallas can find tenants for two supertalls, but Ross Perot, Jr. is behind one of them, so it could get built (the other one is probably not going to get out of the starting gate).
  7. Edens is swooping in from out of town (just like Regency was going to do). Uptown is probably not the only property they own or are developing, and their priorities may be different from those of AmREIT. That alone means the full $1.2 billion project may be more of an investment than they would want to commit to. So I see revisions coming and at the least a re-timing of the developments. On the positive side, I think Edens offers deeper pockets to support whatever AmREIT had planned to build.
  8. I can remember when that Dillard's was a Joske's. If there were a way to connect to the Galleria, that would make a whole lot of sense. As for how Zone D'Erotica got that corner, I would imagine it must be making all kinds of money; otherwise the landlord would have raised the rent to something prohibitive and tried to redevelop those pad sites.
  9. Correct. They started digging the hole earlier in the Summer.
  10. They're still listing the start period as Q1 2015. I'm guessing demand is strong enough that they'll have a name for this project by the end of the year.
  11. The W in Dallas is set back some distance from any of the nearby freeways. I think it's in Victory Park.
  12. This town can't build apartments fast enough to meet demand. I still have to bet that there's room for the 38-story tower to go up sooner rather than later. The Marquette (er, Catalyst) starts out of the ground next week.
  13. The trees along the West Loop appear to be gaining height and starting to provide some screening of the neighborhoods. They've just planted trees along I-10 from downtown out to 610, and it already looks nice. Where they've done this it's been a good thing.
  14. For Houston, yes. It just depends on how strong demand is. Right now, the city is good for 24,000 apartment units a year.
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