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  1. cloud713
    heres a little drive by past campus and around the stadium construction, along with the track & field stadium construction..
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    I'm not sure they are going to.. I thought the other skyhouses were exposed concrete like that?
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    "Only" 13.. Heh, that's like 1/3rd the whole tower
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    some of this sounds like it would be better suited in the Whats your ideal transit plan for Houston thread. i started to write a reply to some of those post but didnt want to derail this thread. somewhat on topic, i have always wondered why they dont have a bus or streetcar network connecting the corporations in the Energy Corridor to the local P&Rs, like kdog suggested.
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    Just like Astoria then.. Do they still ever put cranes through elevator shafts, or have they ever done that? Could of sworn I've seen pictures of that before, but don't recall anything being built like that in Houston..
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    weekly or weekday? if you meant weekday, no way that will happen. probably wouldnt even happen if the line was connected to Hobby. it should be higher than the North extention though i would think..
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    30-35% of total value? that would be a very large project ($330 million at 35%)..
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    idk where the 17,400 figure came from, but that doesnt sound nearly feasible unless they tear out quite a few houses/businesses along the north line to build dense mixed use developments, and develop the whole Hardy Yards site at Burnett Station.. id be surprised if the ridership numbers were 17,400 even in 10 years. there just isnt nearly enough development along the north line compared to the original Main St line, which runs through downtown, the museum district, the medical district, and Reliant Park.. 17,400 is almost half as many people that ride the original 8 mile stretch of track.
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    while searching for $115 million downtown Houston projects i found this from 2002, to give an idea of what we could expect for the money. granted there has been some inflation since then. 2002 5 Houston Center 1400 McKinney. New construction of a 27-story, 581,000-square-foot office building with an eight–level, 1,250-car parking garage. Developer: Crescent Real Estate Equities, Ltd. Estimated cost: $115+ million. http://downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2013-03-26/Downtown_Development.pdf
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    ^^ interesting fact.. i heard locals fought 610W expansion in the 90s and made them upgrade the highway with the promise they wouldnt add more lanes. odd..? that area badly needs more lanes, and it seems like they could add another lane or two each way. its need is inevitable, if not already here..
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    not going to lie, this article, and especially the picture in it of the underground station just outside of the terminal, makes me a bit jealous of DART. why cant Houston figure out a way to run rail down/along 45 and the branch south at Broadway straight to the front of Hobby, or follow the train tracks along Hardy Toll Road, and branch off on the spur to Bush. not light rail that stops every quarter mile, but express routes with minimal/no stops from the airport to downtown. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/20140206-outside-airports-doors-train-station-to-downtown-dallas-coming-along.ece
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    haha im not saying it SHOULD be.. im just saying theoretically it COULD be. there is 96 square miles of land inside the loop. your telling me we couldnt develop all of the 4-500 or so high-rises in the Houston area inside the loop?
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    Agreed, all of Houston's highrise development could fit inside the loop...
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    i wondered that too but i think the hotel is just really expensive for whatever reason hotels may be expensive. the massive 1.7 million square foot Chevron Tower (JP Morgan is "only" 1.9) was supposed to cost less than 400 million. so i dont think 115 million for a 20-30 story 500,000 sq ft highrise is out of the question. Edit: ****, i hope its not the Hilcorp tower...
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    you are either a good jokester or.. idk... im hoping that was a very sarcastic joke. a 10 story garage with neon lights? completely opposite of blending in with the park setting.
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    good question. either way id bet they are referring to a new highrise. probably one we already know about, but the "public" doesnt.. maybe we will be surprised with something new?
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    wow, the garage went up quick
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    lmfao.. too true. on the real though, Occidental has space in Greenway 3 and 5, and they just extended their lease in those buildings last year.. is it possible they could/would need an additional tower in Greenway?
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    115 million would seem like too much for renovations of one allen center? SkyHouse was built for around 60-70 million..
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    yeah i doubt it too. though they have already taken soil samples.. things have just been too quiet for something to pop up in the next month.. and i think i speculated that with you in this thread because ive wondered that too.. (btw International Tower is partially parking garage) but i think an office/hotel combination would be great in this location. or all hotel (maybe they could pull that Ritz since they were apparently scouting for a location in downtown?) IMO that area is probably good on residential towers between Hines 33 story and the 40 story on the west side.. but the location seems great for a hotel since its only a block from the light rail line, right in the heart of the historic/Market Square district, and less than 2 blocks from the theater district. and i dont think there are many other hotels in that area to compete with? the elevator banks for the office workers could be in the basement since its connected to the tunnel system (or would be), and the hotel could have the first floor for the front lobby entrance area to the hotel. or have half of the first floor be hotel lobby (most likely the side facing Market Square), and the other side could be the office/corporate entrance, which could be open to the tunnel level kind of like Capital Tower. idk, now im just rambling..
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    nice.. i wonder what distinguishes projects from getting one crane vs having multiple cranes for the build. i wouldnt think this is much bigger than SkyHouse but SkyHouse only had one crane..
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    so that was concrete/a crane pad in the bottom of the terraced hole.. interesting location for the crane. thanks for the update
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    agreed, but i assume those 4th and potentially 5th towers would come after they built tower 3. Exxon has invested over a billion in its campus in Spring, and was in the ground way before Chevron (who still isnt even in the ground as they are delaying many of their projects).. the Exxon employee consolidation in Houston will be completed over the next year, so thats why i see them being the ones likely to move first. but like i just said, i see both of them eventually relocating HQ here.
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    i say Exxon before Chevron, (supposably Exxon is moving their HQ into Hughes Landing if that one article is to be believed) but both should eventually end up here..
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    Occidental Petroleum Company is moving their HQ from LA to Houston.. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2014/02/14/occidental-petroleum-splintering-and-moving-its.html
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