UrbaNerd

Just a question: Just how many buildings can be packed into the TMC?

Just wait til they start building them over each other. (Like that building in Indonesia, or something)

Nice pics, BTW...

Someone posted this in another thread here

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4291118.html

"Atlanta is grappling with its biggest commercial real estate slump in 10 years, according to broker Cushman & Wakefield. The downtown area had a vacancy rate of 29 percent in the second quarter, the nation's highest. In the third quarter, the number improved to 27.2 percent. Only Dallas was worse off, with 28.1 percent vacancy.

Houston's downtown office vacancy rate is 15.7 percent, according to third-quarter figures from CB Richard Ellis."

www.youtube.com

en.wikipedia.org

Yes, it would be ironic, considering the Downtown Park has already begun construction and Houston Pavillions has secured financing and will break ground in 3 weeks.

Well, at least we DO know that for sure now! When I posted, we did not see the "official" groundbreaking date yet

Heh, it would be ironic if THIS was the lot that would kickstart DT development, and perhaps even the Pavilions project itself!

It's the wrong side of Downtown, as well. The Pavilions are closer to the Toyota Center/GRB area.

But, yeah, all of those surface lots, for future construction...(we hope)

Wells Fargo in GMAX, with plywood covering the broken windows (old model of mine, lol)

W00T! Represent!

Yes this was around 1996 fir $80,000. This guy was telling me that for $90,000 you could get a new house in Katy.

Yeah, just like how you could buy a large home(Newmark, Village, perry, etc) in any good subdivision for about 170,000 in 1996. Today, the same home goes for about 320,000.

Sheesh, that's about 1.6 million sq ft of retail space right there!

Hey plastic, When you get moved in plant some pear and apple tree's they grow good out there and bring your harvest to the next H.A.I.F. get together.

Yeah, and for the next HAIF get together, they're renting the Astrodome, and putting a big disco ball in it.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Houston burn all of its garbage? If that's true then with a contraption like this, Houston could make money taking in garbage from other cities and making it go away.

Just like Sim City.

And yes, in Sim City, you can download a Plasma Trash thingy, as well!

I'd expect a Bank, or a CVS, or something. I really hope not, though...

This is an interesting quote. Can anyone guess who would say this crap:

"Not only that, but immigrant workers renew and reinvigorate America. They remind us what it's like to give a job your all. We talk about old-fashioned family values; they live them. And those of us who cherish our faith and love our country can only rejoice at their devotion to both."

Legal, or illegal?

Even Sugar Land/First Colony has a small "Chinatown" of sorts, located on Highway Six, at the intersection of Austin Parkway/Dulles. The center is anchored by an asian supermarket (Wel Farm) and most of the other businesses in the center are asian ones (noodle houses, cafes, realty, specialty medicine, etc). It's great to have somewhere like that nearby.

Indeed.

And you DID get them from Simtropolis, right?

Trae: I see some of my babies in those pics

Nice. More dense Uptown infill!

Yep. Sim City 2k, 3k, and 4. I even make custom content for it.

The most recent new sstory I could find was from April of this year:

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto.../10/story8.html

Bayou Lawn Park?

Magnolia Lawn park?

And also in Sugar Land Town Square...

Looks like it is indeed a go!

According to this googled document:

"Camden City Centre

Houston, TX 379 54.0 17.4 17.4 3Q07 3Q08"

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/060807/cpt10-q.html

More articles:

http://finance.abc13.com/abc?ID=3327820&am...p;Page=NewsRead

16. Camden City Centre

301 Saint Joseph's Pkwy

Houston, TX 77002

(713) 354-2500

Opening Spring/Summer 2007

http://www.camdenliving.com/internet/html/...ear_houston.htm

I'm just waiting for the news of multiple events of people bringing real live snakes into the movie theatres...

I'll be fiddlin' with glee when this Rome burns...