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  1. shasta
    True...almost every other major school in Texas has fees for the athletic derpartment PLUS they make you pay for student tickets. UH stidents actually have it easy- check out the student tickets for Texas A&M and then tell me UH students are getting screwed.
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    Captain- the only one who was suckered was YOU for taking out student loans. Blame yourself and not the University of Houston athletic department.
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    Frost Town was located in East Downtown (near Minute Maid). I'm not sure how large Frost Town was before Houston annexed it though.
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    It really is the Broadway of Houston and is starting to look like it.
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    The Christmas tree has nothing to do with Christmas. they typically put a Christmas tree on top of the building once it has topped out. Since most of our new downtown buildings haven't even broke ground yet..there will be no way we'll see "topped out Christmas trees" this December. Maybe December 2015.
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    If we have too little of anything downtown...it is residences with balconies. So I say bring them on and the more the merrier...it will help to create a different type of synergy downtown.
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    It is clearly noted as HOUSTON...home of the Texans. They do an aerial over Reliant and our skyline then they break away to the character that plays the Texans GM. Plus Arian Foster is a prominent, although not frequent, character in the movie. If you have any interest in football at all.......you will find this to be a very entertaining movie (just don't take it too seriously).
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    Houston is featured in the movie, Draft Day. There is a nice aerial shot of Reliant Stadium with the Med Center and then downtown in the background. IMO, this is the most complete view of the Houston skyline because you get 2 of the 3 largest density clusters in one shot, an on axis. Uptown is more of a jumbled mess when compared to DT or MC and it is harder to relate that district back to the other 2.
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    So we've confirmed that the owners of ES do NOt own the parking lot near their hotel? If they are planning on throwing up a 30+ building on that small part of block 98 then they can definitely make something work next to ES
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    They are NEVER bringing the turbines back. They tried to do something a little different but the turbines proved to have a malfunction and presented a HUGE risk to the developer. The small reward, in aesthetics, is not worth the risk...especially if that risk turns out to be catastrophic (which it almost was). They are never coming back....that ship has sailed a long time ago.
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    NOOOOOO.....Upper Kirby should strive to be a Broadway ...not Uptown
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    The 2017 Super Bowl not only will drive thousands of football fans to Houston, it will put a hard deadline on projects from office and hotel construction to a light-rail extension, a local developer said Wednesday. Which light rail extensions are they talking about? The ones under construction now will be done way before the Feb. 2017 date. Uptown? University? Another line? Wishful thinking?
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    Almeda has so much potential...let's hope quality developments, like this, can spur some additional restaurants and bars to locate on that street.
  14. shasta
    Anyone have a plan of where exactly this hotel will go and what will be removed?
  15. shasta
    More moviemakers eyeing Houston http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/entertainment&id=9469387
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    Any word on the total construction cost for this one?
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    When are the renovations supposed to be completed?
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    Hines is a developer. While they do "develop" some of their own buildings they also make a living by performing "development services" for business or equity sources. I guessing, in this case, the company hired them to oversee the development stages of their building, or some arrangement where they will be the tenant. I don't the exact specifics of their involvement of this one but I do know it is not a speculative development.
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    I am 100% sure that the answer is that these lots tie into the existing tunnel system. That is the difference between a Class A building and a Class B. Most thought that Trammel Crowe were takling a HUGE risk building Discovery Tower off of the tunner system. The proximity to Discovery Green paid off and that is what makes it a Class A Building.
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    Yes but if you know anything about the history between the University of Houston and University of Texas you would definitely want it somewhere. Everything from where we got our Cougar paw hand symbol, to the orchestrated effort by UT to keep UH out of the Big 12 (proposed Big 16), to the way they have laws written in Austin to make sure less state funds actually go to the other public universities in the state, etc. UH had suceeeded in spite of what UT has done to keep the University of Houston down.......... and that statue is a testament to our David vs Goliath spirit. A spirit that created a Tier One University out of a grass roots program in a Houston area high school cafeteria.
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    and the Longhorn getting mauled by the Cougar. i haven't been back to see if they kept that one.
  22. shasta
    He is being serious and I tend to agree. This project, and the Hines Residential, will do MORE for downtown than 609 Main (or even BP Place) ever could. You can go ahead and print that and come back in 5-10 years A vibrant residential component will bring synergy to downtown....a pedestal office tower that empties out at 5PM and is closed on the weekend is limited on what it can bring to downtown. Of course a true downtown should have a mix of both but YES this project is definitely a game changer. it symbolizes downtown as a residential neighborhood...a title downtown started to lose in the 1920s/30s.
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    My first thought on this building was that, even though it is an interesting design, it would be a tougher building to get through the CD/Coordination phase. Each floor would be slightly different than the one below, in other words the floors don't directly stack, which would make it less efficient whcih would naturally increase the time it takes to get through the CD phase. This one was a little bit more ambitous. It might happen I just wanted to point out that that type of design could cause delays. It takes a long time for a building to go from a nice rendering to a full set of construction drawings. Look for them to streamline the design a little but.....that is just my prediction.
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    I agree 100%. This project (the scale, the design, and the infill potential) is EXACTLY what downtown needs. This project will add more "life" to downtown than any sparkiling office tower or even a super luxury residential project like One Park Place. We all know that place houses the wealthy or worse, is a second home, but not really an option for regular professional Houstonians. For years I've been wishing that we have something like West Avenue on Kirby iin downtown and now we will have something of that scale!
  25. shasta
    Let's think about this logic....if a person, who lives in a nearby house and plans to stay there for while wouldn't lower property values be a blessing?? The whole tax system in Texas is largely based on property taxes of your value of property. If your 1 million dollar home is now valued at $700k you will be paying LESS in taxes. In Texas you choose how much taxes you want to pay as per your residence selection. Like I said, if your plan is to stay and live in one of the most desirable places in the city then you are savings 10s if not 100s of thousands over a X year period by having this quality development near your resident (according to their argument) Of course, I actually think this project will raise their property values but just playing devil's advocate here.
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