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  1. Sunstar
    Thanks for doing the math!
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    I guess the downtown living initiative is still in effect. I would have thought they reached the 5000 unit target by now. Has it been extended?
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    Is phase 1 the one right next to Root square or the other block?
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    Happy Saturday morning!!!
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    This will be the more daunting, yet exciting phase of the Buffalo Bayou master plan. It will likely involve the transition of numerous abandoned industrial sites into parks and new ecosystems/habitats. Hopefully they haven't wasted any time acquiring properties along the Bayous East end. Still, this is probably a 20+ year endeavor.
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    My only issue with this project is creating a signature boulevard that in several places fronts a giant parking lot, unless there are plans to redevelop the strip centers into BLVD Place style developments.
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    MESS YOU UP!!!
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    Here's Ubrannizer's post from when they broke ground, over 2 1/2 years ago!!!
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    I personally think the retail will come downtown, but like the residential boom it's going to take incentives to retailers to make it economically feasible. Downtown is too under served in this regard for there not to be an uptick at some point, especially as new residential units come online.
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    I expect nothing less than an 80 story building for this site.
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    I can't tell if that curvilinear sheath (for lack of a better word) makes up the outer wall of the building or is a separate ornamental structure.
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    This is great news indeed, but how does this classify as retail?
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    I love our skyline, and I think we have great examples of Architecture from previous decades. That being said, 609 is a definite shift in style and more representative of 21st century architecture. I would hold future designs up to this one, as opposed to the BoA building, for example, which is a great building that embodies an older sensibility.
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    Interesting article. I tend to ignore initial BLS statistics until the publish their revisions, which makes you wonder why they didn't wait until they had a better grasp of the data in the first place. On the other hand, I'm not sure how to take an article written by Tyler Durden
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    From now on 609 Main will be the new standard for all future tower proposals. I think it brought our skyline back to relevance.
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    Can someone more knowledgeable explain to me why our economy was perceived to be in such bad shape at the end of the Obama administration compared to where it was when he started? I find this completely baffling,
  17. Sunstar
    Agreed, I think Biggio's will become a pre-game tradition.
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    John McClain had an article in the Chronicle in which he stated that if Houston wanted to host another Super Bowl, we needed to make upgrades to NRG. Surprisingly, the stadium is already 16 years old and a bunch of new stadiums have been built or are being built throughout the US since. He proposed using money slated for the Astrodome for refurbishing for this instead, although he didn't specify what upgrades were needed at this point.
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    Let me just bookmark that...
  20. Sunstar
    So had you not been downtown since 2004?
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    I can't wait to see the scaled back, accountant version of this project!
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    Wow, the fountains are actually working again and look better than ever!
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    Sorry, I might be having a senior moment here, but what is the Bird and Cloud sculpture? Are you talking about the Wings over Water fountain, or something else?
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    So was this part of the developers plan, or just the City saying "er, the Super Bowl is coming, can you make that less ugly?"
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    The sad part about this is that this was the only remaining Clayton building in Houston, at least that I'm aware of. The good news is you don't have to travel far to see some of his best works in Galveston, or Dallas or Austin (grrrr). I feel differently about this demolition than I did the Lancaster demolitions. This building was built for and has always belonged to Incarnate Word, so it's ultimately up to them. Their number 1 mission is to provide a high school education to girls and they require the necessary facilities to do so. In the case of the Lancaster, they bought the two historic buildings much later on, most likely with the initial intention of expansion or additional parking. They also have made a name for themselves as historic preservationists, which seems pretty hollow in the wake of demolishing the two neighboring century old buildings.
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