Hughes Landing: Mixed-Use In The Woodlands

[Juanitos Superior]

expect a few more major hughes landing announcements in the not too distant future.

Like Exxon taking 500,000 SF in a single building? Seriously, heard that was happening.

[ltlftc]

CB&I is constructing a 6-story, 150,000 sf building on the East side of Lake Woodlands, just south of Research Forest Drive.  Here is an article:

 

http://impactnews.com/houston-metro/the-woodlands/woodlands-township-approves-abatement-for-$35-million-cb%26i-expansion/

 

A crane has been erected on the site and construction has begun.

 

With this addition, there are currently 5 buildings under construction on the north end of the lake. 

 

6-story CB&I 

8-story Research Forest Lakeside Office Building

8-story Hughes Landing I

8-story Hughes Landing II

8-story Hughes Landing Residential

 

[swtsig]

Like Exxon taking 500,000 SF in a single building? Seriously, heard that was happening.

 

add more SF and an additional building plus another mid-sized deal for a different company in another building.

[Juanitos Superior]

Like Exxon taking 500,000 SF in a single building? Seriously, heard that was happening.

add more SF and an additional building plus another mid-sized deal for a different company in another building.

Yep, 600,000 SF in two buildings. Who's the different company for the mid size deal?

[kdog08]

add more SF and an additional building plus another mid-sized deal for a different company in another building.

 

 

Yep, 600,000 SF in two buildings. Who's the different company for the mid size deal?

 

Jebus, more Exxon? 

[LTAWACS]

M:e:h

Looks ok...

[wxman]

im confused. why would exxon build a new corporate campus with 20 buildings (assuming they over built to accomodate future growth) only to split their employees up again in seperate buildings a few miles away? I call bs.

[Fortune]

im confused. why would exxon build a new corporate campus with 20 buildings (assuming they over built to accomodate future growth) only to split their employees up again in seperate buildings a few miles away? I call bs.

I'm confused as well.

[Juanitos Superior]

They want some flexible lease space. It's definitely Exxon

[elett01]

ExxonMobil is going to be taking over all of one 12-story Hughes Landing building and 1/2 of another to house IT, Real Estate, etc.

 

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/exxonmobil-to-bring-hundreds-of-jobs-to-the-woodlands/article_913e3c8d-a266-5153-ae44-59ecf81fd3cd.html

 

[elett01]

Yep, ExxonMobil moving into two of the Hughes Landing building in addition to the Springwoods campus:

 

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/exxonmobil-to-bring-hundreds-of-jobs-to-the-woodlands/article_913e3c8d-a266-5153-ae44-59ecf81fd3cd.html

[Urbannizer]

Existing thread:

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/26836-hughes-landing-in-the-woodlands/page-3#entry442660

[swtsig]

im confused. why would exxon build a new corporate campus with 20 buildings (assuming they over built to accomodate future growth) only to split their employees up again in seperate buildings a few miles away? I call bs.

 

exxon wanted a separate location for their back office employees - administrative and the like. they were initially going to keep them at greenspoint but believed it created too great a divide between their employees to have the operations side in a class A++++ facility and the back office side in the slums of greenspoint. thought it would create a class warfare type environment.

 

this is not an uncommon strategy for large corporate users.

[Triton]

*puts down pitchforks* He was right!

[bachanon]

The HBJ article mentions a 12 story building on top of an 11 story garage? Did I read that right?

[ltlftc]

I haven't seen the rendering; but, based on the location, I expect the garage to be adjacent to the building rather than stacked.  All of the other buildings around the lake, including the first two Hughes Landing buildings are designed this way.

[Houston19514]

exxon wanted a separate location for their back office employees - administrative and the like. they were initially going to keep them at greenspoint but believed it created too great a divide between their employees to have the operations side in a class A++++ facility and the back office side in the slums of greenspoint. thought it would create a class warfare type environment.

 

this is not an uncommon strategy for large corporate users.

 

I wonder why they want a separate location for their "back-office" employees.  Any idea of the thinking behind this?

[Urbannizer]

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2013/12/exxon-mobil-to-expand-in-the-woodlands/#18880101=1

['Stonian]

I wonder why they want a separate location for their "back-office" employees.  Any idea of the thinking behind this?

 

Read the writing on the wall folks.., this location will be for 'front office' staff (C-suite). Since when did 'back office' staff average $125,000 annually?

 

"Sadler asked what employees would be at Hughes Landing location, but Alexander said the company still is sorting that out. It will be professional people, IT … some real estate department will be there …” he said. “We tend to move people around. We are excited.”

 

Also from a company press release in 2012...,

 

"Exxon Mobil corporate headquarters in Irving and XTO [Energy Inc., an Exxon Mobil subsidiary] in Fort Worth will not be relocated to the new campus,” said Kimberly Brasington, a company spokeswoman.

 

As structured and calculated, as they tend to be, if Exxon is still sorting this out, then my name is Billy D. Williams. Staying mum is a clever strategy that keeps the Irving folks at bay for now but soon the company will be referred to as "The Woodlands, Texas based ExxonMobil Corp."

 

With only around 400 employees at its corporate headquarters in Irving, where could the 1,400 employees relocating to Hughes Landing all of a sudden be coming from?  Well, it just so happens there's around 1,000 located at Fort Worth's XTO offices. 

 

Shhhhh...., I'm excited as well!   

[ltlftc]

If your hypothesis is correct, they will secure the lease of the remainder of the second building.  For security reasons, no way they allow that space to be occupied by others.

[King Owl]

I don't have any inside information, but that logic from Houstonian in ATL is quite a stretch.  Have you ever seen their complex in Las Colinas?  it's impenetrable and isolated.  Hughes Landing is not. 

[TBooze]

Read the writing on the wall folks.., this location will be for 'front office' staff (C-suite). Since when did 'back office' staff average $125,000 annually?

 

"Sadler asked what employees would be at Hughes Landing location, but Alexander said the company still is sorting that out. It will be professional people, IT … some real estate department will be there …” he said. “We tend to move people around. We are excited.”

 

Also from a company press release in 2012...,

 

"Exxon Mobil corporate headquarters in Irving and XTO [Energy Inc., an Exxon Mobil subsidiary] in Fort Worth will not be relocated to the new campus,” said Kimberly Brasington, a company spokeswoman.

 

As structured and calculated, as they tend to be, if Exxon is still sorting this out, then my name is Billy D. Williams. Staying mum is a clever strategy that keeps the Irving folks at bay for now but soon the company will be referred to as "The Woodlands, Texas based ExxonMobil Corp."

 

With only around 400 employees at its corporate headquarters in Irving, where could the 1,400 employees relocating to Hughes Landing all of a sudden be coming from?  Well, it just so happens there's around 1,000 located at Fort Worth's XTO offices. 

 

Shhhhh...., I'm excited as well!   

 

Houstonian, my first response to your post is that the theory you put forward is way off, since we've been told that Headquarters will "remain in Irving". I work for ExxonMobil and that's what has been communicated to us. However, I am not certain that things won't change, so I won't be hasty to discredit what you've theorized. On the other hand I can tell you that $125,000 is not far above the average salary at ExxonMobil across all positions. If the top executive's salaries were to be included in these number's, that $179 million in salaries would be much higher, almost double to venture a guess.

[swtsig]

They will take the rest of the second building. Although I haven't heard anything definitive regarding a HQ relocation it has been rumored and the pieces do seem to fit together.

[Sellanious Caesar]

I'd rather get Chevron's headquarters from the Bay Area than Exxon from Dallas.

I'd feel great about poaching from an out-of-state rather than our little sisters up north.

[Houston19514]

Read the writing on the wall folks.., this location will be for 'front office' staff (C-suite). Since when did 'back office' staff average $125,000 annually?

 

"Sadler asked what employees would be at Hughes Landing location, but Alexander said the company still is sorting that out. It will be professional people, IT … some real estate department will be there …” he said. “We tend to move people around. We are excited.”

 

Also from a company press release in 2012...,

 

"Exxon Mobil corporate headquarters in Irving and XTO [Energy Inc., an Exxon Mobil subsidiary] in Fort Worth will not be relocated to the new campus,” said Kimberly Brasington, a company spokeswoman.

 

As structured and calculated, as they tend to be, if Exxon is still sorting this out, then my name is Billy D. Williams. Staying mum is a clever strategy that keeps the Irving folks at bay for now but soon the company will be referred to as "The Woodlands, Texas based ExxonMobil Corp."

 

With only around 400 employees at its corporate headquarters in Irving, where could the 1,400 employees relocating to Hughes Landing all of a sudden be coming from?  Well, it just so happens there's around 1,000 located at Fort Worth's XTO offices. 

 

Shhhhh...., I'm excited as well!   

 

Yeah, when I read about the $125,000 average salary this morning, I too thought this is probably not just a "back-office" facility.

 

 

[SkylineView]

$125k likely includes benefits, which (as I work in the industry) I can say are 30% (this would include health benefits, pension, wellness, 401k, etc...).  That leaves you with a base salary of $95k on average.  This is not C-suite.  

[cloud713]

I'd rather get Chevron's headquarters from the Bay Area than Exxon from Dallas.

I'd feel great about poaching from an out-of-state rather than our little sisters up north.

Haha, true. Wouldn't it be great if we eventually got both HQs?

['Stonian]

Why do I feel Nancy's article here is a direct response to our speculation? http://www.chron.com/ Ok, it could be just a coincidence.

 

Until ExxonMobil gives a good reason why they are choosing to move different groups off campus to The Woodlands proper, I'll stick by my statement..., somethings brewing!

 

With no confirmation from the Exxon spokesman regarding the XTO folks in Fort Worth, maybe its just that group making a move.

[cloud713]

There wasn't a direct link to the article. Maybe I missed it on the home page because I'm on my phone.

Hopefully Nancy knows something we don't. If all of these significant investments of new major campuses and employee consolidation are anything to go by, it's only a matter of time before both Exxon and Chevron move HQ to the Houston area. I give it about 5 years. Shall we place bets? Heh

[swtsig]

i don't know what makes you think exxon owes anyone any explanation to anybody whatsoever. you can speculate all you want but their keeping mum means nothing at all.

 

edit: and i assure you nancy knows less than many posters on this site.