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    I know nothing about grocery store economics but . . . take 8k people multiply by some market share multiply by some number of visits per week multiply by some spending per trip 8,000 x 75% x 2 x $50 $600,000 potential revenue per week? plus what from downtown office workers? Doesn't seem like a lot of revenue potential at this point, even with what are probably very optimistic assumptions, but I have no idea how much a typical store brings in per week. And Google helps here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/197905/2010-sales-per-store-of-supermarkets-in-the-us/ $65.9m on average for HEB, the highest in the U.S. The numbers above work out to $31.2 million, and, as stated above, I bet they're highly optimistic.
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    Doesn't it have more to do with the structural requirements or even the elevator banks creating uneconomical floor plates?
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    Ugh . . . not that it hasn't been said before but it's going to look so awkward that close to Hanover.
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    I suspect it has something to do with an economic "sweet spot," but that's just a guess.
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    John Travolta?
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    Listed for sale, with conceptual renderings http://swamplot.com/downtown-houstons-foremost-abandoned-building-now-listed-for-sale/2018-04-25/
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    It’s not that different from the original rendering of the Dolce Midtown, which hasn’t turned out anything like the rendering. It’s also still under construction after what? Four years?
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    Thanks!
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    What does VFR have to do with a control tower? What does VFR have to with proximity to HOU? IFR doesn’t make a difference when it comes to avoiding traffic. If I had to guess 99% of operations at EFD are VFR as it is.
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    What’s the story of the Enron-like pedestrian skywalk? Which one came first?
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    Trust me, the EFD control tower has absolutely nothing to do with the Spaceport. It was spun that way, but I can assure you it doesn’t.
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    Control towers in general are becoming obsolete. http://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/air-traffic-control-towers-removed-from-airports But their advantage is really to monitor ground traffic. It's not like there will be a lot of spacecraft taking off, landing, and taxiing at any given time. The control tower was more of a vanity project.
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    What is tied in?
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    There’s really nothing to report. Those renderings were conceptual marketing drawings ... those buildings were never going to be built as such. Its only real chances for success is to attract companies to locate on EFD property, but even that’s a longshot. Not saying it’s a bad a concept but anyone who interpreted that as something “real” had their head in the stars. HAS was doing things at IAH and HOU ... it was EFD’s turn. Definitely EFD’s best long-term hope but it really is a marketing gambit. The idea that spacecraft need a control tower ...
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    That map is from San Antonio.
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    Is The Rustic going up on the future expansion area for the GRB? I suppose that's not on the horizon for the foreseeable future?
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    Thanks Ellen and Bob
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    It's different, that's for sure.
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    I'm sure this is somewhere up in the thread . . . but can someone clarify what the intended uses of the two different structures will be? The hotel and residences in the taller building and a medical office building in the shorter one?
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    Someone get that man an Astros hat.
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    Lorino's image 33 in the Chronicle today https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Old-timey-Houston-grocery-stores-Did-you-shop-12716238.php#photo-15148228
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    That was always the logical plan. Not sure if saving that option went into the recent Broadway redesign.
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    Hmmmmm then I definitely agree with Samagon.
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    It originally came from their website right? And it's been taken down from their website? Or did it come from somewhere else?
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    If it's intellectual property produced in connection with a legal agreement between two parties with attendant restrictions, fair use doesn't come into play. Consider the work as "not published" in this instance. (Or "improperly published in contravention of a legal agreement" in this case.)
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