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    The oil and gas exploration and production company signed a new lease this month for 132,000 square feet, which was rolled into a lease renewal for its existing 365,000 square feet, bringing its total square footage to 497,000 at the Post Oak Central office complex. Houston-based Apache (NYSE: APA) had been considering its real estate options, including possibly pre-leasing space in a proposed office building that would not be built without a commitment from a lead tenant. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2012/01/31/apache-expands-office-at-post-oak.html Good news that Apache is using up more office space, however I do wonder which office building they were looking into.
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    I think it's close, it's on the older side of new (if that makes any sense). There is also that Plantations place on Sage and the Carriage Square Apartments on McCue, the Maquee West or whatever they are calling it looks too cheap but who knows. 3000 Sage and Montecito will be out of the price range you are looking for.
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    Have you checked out that Gables on South Rice? That is pretty close to where you are living now.
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    Anyone have experiences with Tanglewood Middle School at 5215 San Felipe Street. Thanks!
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    I liked it for you, as I was inadvertently part of the problem. Anyone ever been to the Yao happy hour? If I recall from walking by they gave some pretty good discounts, how is it there?
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    haha yea yea, but you have to be to post on the thread so it's nearly relevant?
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    The reason I call you out is typically your wording and tone and especially your need to take things I have said out of content or put words in my mouth, whenever you put in useful pieces of information I have never responded as though I was attacked even if you disagreed with me.
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    I am sorry you feel my posts are shallow but as far as Houston sucking I would like to point out to you that in my encouraging tourism thread where I said I love the city, because I do, this is my home. I also made that thread and the ones about the overpasses all of which you dismissed as useless because I do not want to sit just making a wish list I would like to see if we can get anything in place that would help. Like I said before maybe we can maybe we can't but it can't hurt to try.
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    How do you feel about Tal's Hill?
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    Redscare, I have made enough posts about downtown, the trains and whom I would like them to serve, funding for them and pedestrian improvements and where I would like tax dollars to be spent at this point that I hope my stances on them are already clear. I really feel as though you comb through my comments looking for ways to attack me if it makes sense with everything I have ever said or not. Also please read my comment above again as I can tell you are not getting at my point. "or maybe because most of the market is only presented with options that are cars first pedestrians second as samagon was noting even in downtown. In my view it is the city's responsibility to make pedestrian travel safe and enjoyable and I really feel we could be doing a better job of it."
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    For the amount of condescending content on this site I am surprised I am getting the amount of flack I am. Is it better to participate in non-environmentally friendly behavior and not know about or is it better to know about it and not care?
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    Right but it is not the status quo I am looking to talk about it is the continual improvement of areas and where we spend money in the future. Again, not looking to compare uptown and downtown, just looking to make a positive point of how I can see improvements being made outside my window.
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    Wasn't meant to be a potshot, I edited it to just aren't thinking about it, I am not yet a politician but maybe could be one day in the distant future from the lessons learned from this site. I am not sure if I would say I am very young (people can disagree) but no I would not remember 30 years ago. The main point of that was agreeing with samagon's observation that it was difficult to walk even in an area of downtown, something I believe is true for most of the city and I would like to emphasize the need for improvements. I almost made a comment about how I can see first hand how uptown (the area that i am most familiar with as I do live there) is making huge improvements but I figured I might upset people using that reference.
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    I agree with you, we even won the pennant in 2005, that was not that long ago. Trying to think in that mentality it might be because there are groups of people who believe if you don't win a championship you don't have a winning team. I wouldn't go as far as say it's only Houstonians that do that but I do think we lack the community team support when compared with areas like Boston or Chicago, who didn't win world series from 1918 to 2004 or are still waiting for a third for almost twice as long as the Astros have even been around, respectively. I'm really hoping Crane can get people in the stands and we can start building momentum and community around the team. Baseball is not the same in front of the TV you really need to be there with a bunch of friends.
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    Interesting, I'll take a look tonight (can't youtube at work). Any highlights you can summarize? I think it will be most effective to use one point of contact and since I already made contact with them on this subject I can take care of the note when we are ready.
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    So, Jim Crane got everyone talking about the Astros just long enough that there were real emotions felt for the team and for the first time in a while the conversations were not associated with "could this be the worst season for an mlb team ever". He has now put an end to it before people start hating him from the get go. Maybe there is hope for the Astros under him just yet.
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    The whole of Harris county is going to smell of cars and industry if we let. Go check out the "Harris County among Worst Polluters" thread started by Subdude in Houston and the environment. Yes that is what the market seems to want but maybe that's because they just aren't thinking about it or maybe because most of the market is only presented with options that are cars first pedestrians second as samagon was noting even in downtown. In my view it is the city's responsibility to make pedestrian travel safe and enjoyable and I really feel we could be doing a better job of it.
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    I have been gone for a few days or I would have brought this up sooner, but again you have be able to put what are pretty close to my exact thoughts out in a clear and concise manner. This is a great post. As for the neon, I just don't like it, but it would not stop me from going someplace. If it could potentially get more people in the door (or better yet out front on a patio), why not.
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    Lockmat, did you forward these comments? I have been too busy for haif for the last several days but I want to make sure we continue to follow up.
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    Couldn't agree with you more.
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    I bet #1 gets picked, they put out a ton of renderings but then run into money problems so it is delayed. We then talk about it for 2 to 3 years and eventually they decide #2 is the only option banks will fund because it has lower initial cost. It get's put into place, it does not take off because people just forget it's there as nothing stands out about it, and it might just blend in with aging dumpsters. The news gets hold of how it was once supposed to be a big deal but how under used it is and all the train naysayers claim the rail is a huge waste of money.
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    Haha, that last bit made me laugh loud enough for people to look over. Maybe that can be Houston's version of forward progressive thinking. Hurricane and flood damage from day one so you don't need to fix anything after they come through. It will make all the crooked power lines look like they are supposed to be like that.
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    Which one of us was this directed to?
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    I'll give you the spider column support being interesting, but those muti-colored tiles? I've seen other cities try to put that sort of look up, never looks good in my opinion.
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    Seriously, this is this kind of thing that has been driving me crazy. I understand Houston is a driving city and that developers need to plan for that, I also understand that someone being able to see a free space out front might just be the last bit of motivation needed to entice them to stop and shop. However, do the developers truly believe their properties will fail if there are no parking spaces right out front? Posk Oak is becoming very developed and once you add the train line in there the traffic is probably going to get pretty ridiculous, which combined with the number of apartments and condos going up will cause more people to walk (crosses fingers). How do we get someone to plan specifically for that? We can do away with the sports authority strip center or the one across the street from BLVD place.
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