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    I'm admittedly no demographer, but that's the first I've seen numbers presented that way. What is the difference between the 10,964 population and a household population of 9,033? Homeless?!
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    FYI, phase I is infrastructure + a 50,000 sf building only. From the article: The Houston Airport System will celebrate the groundbreaking of phase 1 — an $18.8 million project — with a ceremony at Ellington Airport at 13150 Space Center Blvd. The scope of the project’s first phase includes streets, water, wastewater, electrical power and distribution, fiber optics and communications facilities, according to a June 26 media advisory from HAS. The first phase will also include the construction of 53,000 square feet of lab and office space, according to the HAS website. Some 154 acres of land are set aside for phase 1.
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    Are the floor plates just not attractive to large tenants?
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    Yes online shopping is here to stay but it seems to me in a place where you have 125,000 people concentrated every day—many of them looking for an excuse to get out of the office at lunch and other times—retail should be able to work just fine (with the obvious “if done right” qualifier. In many ways it’s just as, if not more, convenient.
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    Their tacos are pretty good.
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    I’ve read on here in multiple threads about the “City Target” concept ... I always thought people were referring to the type of store close to the Staples Center in LA (i.e., simply a Target located downtown). I think I might have just seen my first “City Target” in Chapel Hill, NC. Looks like a footprint not that much larger than a typical Walgreen’s or CVS (it does have the CVS Pharmacy) ... it’s 22,000 square feet (evidently typically CVS is 15,000 square feet). There’s a market and dry goods section. All self-checkout but there is (ironically) a manned desk for online order pickup that also monitors the self-checkouts and I guess also works as the “service desk.” Seemed like a much better and way more useful use of space than a CVS or Walgreen’s, especially if in walkable neighborhoods. Guess for it to be attractive they’d need a distribution center in Houston (I don’t think they have one) with multiple deliveries throughout the day to the brick-and-mortar store. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2017/07/11/target-chapel-hill-franklin-st-carolina-square.amp.html
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    I’ll take “edgy/snarky” with a nod to history over “self-important/pedantic/condescending/humorless/inflexible/veiled snarky/utterly un-self-aware” any day of the week. Coronas, well, that just makes the contest that much easier.
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    CrockpotandGravel I must say sometimes I want to call you CrackpotandGrovel, but I very much appreciate everything you bring to the forum. The amount of time you invest and the diligence with every post, it’s just amazing! Thanks for putting all of the above information into an easily digestible format for people like me who wouldn’t see it otherwise.
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    Thanks 👍 Can anyone explain why the State is involved in this project?
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    TC Energy I have not heard of (I don't work in the industry) . . . TransCanada, however, I have. Impressive! It's certainly a signature trophy tower if you ask me, at least visually. Only problem is it looks right only from a couple of directions! Why not name it Keystone XL Tower?! Well I'll take more foot traffic downtown, even if it's protesters 🤣🤣
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    Should've gotten that firm to design the interiors of the C Baldwin.
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    That. @Urbannizer @bobruss, you could also take a deep breath and have a good chuckle. The world won’t end.
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    Just be sure to avoid the minibar https://m.chron.com/news/article/2-more-people-reportedly-die-after-drinking-at-13969870.php
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    Atlanta has 3 (Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead) and (I think) used to have 4. New Orleans used to have 2, now only has 1. Several have closed in NYC and have been rebranded. I have no dog in this hunt . . . I know plenty of people like W Hotels, but it doesn't seem to me to be a growth brand anymore, at least domestically. I guess Philly and Nashville are getting one.
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    I heard United breaks guitars.
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    Yes there is an exemption from the signage ordinance for hotels. I'm not sure if there are other limits. HRHs aren't bad. I've been in a couple. But location is indeed weird. Whoever said by the ballpark and Convention Center is right. Ws have not aged well. (Not that the rooms were all that great to begin with, at least not the ones I have stayed at in the French Quarter, NYC, and Mexico City.)
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    As long as it wasn't because it was part of a string that included "flooding" . . .
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    Back to the "world cities" discussion . . . Houston moved up 6 spaces to 35 in ATKearney's ranking of global cities. https://www.atkearney.com/global-cities/2019
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    When do the credits expire? End of the year? Anyone know how many approved projects have not yet proceeded?
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    Friday the crown was showing rotating rainbow lines ... quite beautiful. Wish I had photos. It really did turn out well for what I thought from the renderings was sure to be blah.
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    Well this seems like big news. MD Anderson relocating Smithville (Bastrop County) research park to Houston https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/health/article/MD-Anderson-relocating-Smithville-research-park-13961408.php?utm_source=desktop&utm_medium=collection&utm_campaign=hcpromomod
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    Net domestic migration of -40k during a period of national economic expansion cannot be written off as an “ebb and flow.” Those numbers are truly shocking, at least to me.
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    As much as I love feeder roads, Texan Veterans should have a museum in a prominent place. Preferably Downtown. I would also hope that Texan Veterans would unite in making sure that Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and other absolutely worthless elected officials who have never served but don’t waste an opportunity to fetishize the military aren’t invited to the grand opening.
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    Back to the whole population question, this article from the Kinder Institute should put into perspective that Houston surpassing Chicago is not a given by any means. Not that that necessarily is a bad thing ... but I’m sure much of the article may come as a surprise to many, in particular the net domestic migration. I’m sure the stats for LA and Miami look similar in terms of components of population change, even omitting the large drops in domestic migration in 2016 and 2017. Are there any demographers out there? That out-migration is pretty spectacular ... I wonder if there are any historical parallels for a single year. https://kinder.rice.edu/2018/04/10/houston-suburbs-are-booming-harris-county-not
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    Has their Rosemont project broken ground yet?
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