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You'd better, IAH is UA's latin America Gateway, UA could be waiting for WN to announce the routes they are gonna fly out of HOU to Latin America, for all we know.

If UA intended to compete for Houston travelers they shouldn't have made those routes from Houston the most expensive in the country post merger.

Or United will compete with them.

Right. I'll believe that when I see it.

Yes visibility is bad there. But if we're going to attack that problem in Houston we only have about 45,000 other structures to get working on.

I want to see more on the revenue side.  What is the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, OTC, other conventions, etc. expected to contribute in revenue.  Otherwise all I see is one expensive renovation with higher property taxes.

I also understand the galleria area has the benefit of a budget by way of a tirz and 59 has to rely on a regional txdot office with most likely a small maintenance budget

I usually take 59 South home, and the greenary is very welcome. However, I'm kind of torn about how wild it has gotten. It kind of represents our natural vegitation and how some of our bayous look like Vietnam. But I've noticed after the sun sets a couple of the lights have been out, and are starting to orange fog over. I'd imagine with some of the plants growing almost over the bulb that it would be hard to change them.

To be clear I like vegetation but the out of control look drives me crazy. It's my personality. Some people like the wild look but I like the clean cut look.

I'd prefer they put something they will maintain. The galleria 610 is beautiful and this stretch looks bad to me. It's my opinion, I didn't say it was right but I'm entitled to it

Of a very poor quality. (And, however you did your smiley emoticon thing)

I maintain it looks atrocious. The vegetation is half dead and completely neglected.

I like

When does TXDOT give up on the stupid vegetation on 59 and start over?  It looks atrocious driving through there.  There are trees growing out of what should be crawlers up the freeway. 

Anyone who knows the Exxon culture would find this story hard to believe, even at a much lower transplant cost. Exxon is run like a military organization, complete with ultra-redundency in their systems, and ultra-conservatism in their policies and actions. They refuse to put their name on sports arenas because they believe it is a waste of money. It is extremely unlikely that a $1 million tree transplant would be approved at this company...at least for the reason stated in the story. Exxon is not Enron. Never was. Never will be.

I have hard time believing they would approve the tree transplant to begin with.  But as someone who deals with Exxon a lot, if they do decide to go forward on a project, it will most definitely cost five times as much as a smaller/leaner organization could do it.  They are known for redundancy (over engineering) and gold-plating projects.  They are very large, and projects reflect that.

Nice sidewalks... NOT, yet

There you go

When heritage plaza made a tunnel connection to the garage they open trenched it. I drove over big iron plate for a long time

I did it once. The flight was cheaper from HOU-IAH-CLE instead of direct IAH-CLE. It took about twenty minutes. This was about fifteen years ago. When I asked why they had the flight I was told something about logging hours but I'm not sure if that was right.

I know an XOM engineer being moved to ...Tyler and its a good career move. I know another that recently moved to Brussels. I suspect some will leave the company but I don't think XOM is worried if that's what you're implying.

Would just like to point out to the poster who thinks Chevron would have gotten more buzz by building a large campus like Exxon... This thread already has more responses than the Exxon Campus Thread despite the Exxon thread having existed since 2010.

Oh, and the Exxon Campus is currently under construction but that thread has fallen off the front page. Nobody cares. I am willing to bet that when a 50 story tower starts going up in downtown, that thread will never fall off the front page.

Chevron is making a WISE choice. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.

Don't use this forum as your window to the world. The Exxon campus is literally the big thing around town everyone is talking about. It's going to change Houston (populations) for better or worse.

If I recall it will be taken down floor by floor similar to 1200 Louisiana.

huh? There's a city in the background?

actually, the model is a good friend and favorite bartender, Veronica Gomez...

I need to hang out with you

So this thing isn't even going to break ground for almost another yeat at least. What's the usual timeline for a building this big to go from surface lot removal to occupancy? 2 years?

For what it's worth it looked like they had fencing on site today on my commute home

I really have to wonder when the post office property gets a look. In typical US government fashion they will probably watch the most robust real estate market pass them by and not capitalize.

There's also vacant retail in one park place. I like GFR too, but only if it makes sense. A ton of empty store fronts would be way worse

This MCcDs has ground floor retail!!!!

They have a retail movie rental biz in a red square!!!!

Actually this one is ROTO

Retail on the outside

God I hope they don't build in the woodlands instead of DT. I'll never buy their gas again.

That has no impact on their financials. Only some poor franchisee who owns the store

"We" don't live in a communist country. We respect and protect individual property rights which is why we live in the most prosperous country in human history