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  1. wilcal
    Video looks good! Really gives scale for the different sections.
  2. wilcal
    Well, digging in this case would be a rather backwards proposition.
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    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/City-to-offer-big-subsidies-for-luxury-hotel-near-14978891.php
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    Opening November 1 https://www.mfah.org/about/campus-redevelopment/
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    I'm not that confident against your confidence, but again, I would be gobsmacked if it was UA that launches BOM. MDE is a no-brainer. Definitely can see that being launched when MAX planes come back.
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    "Spring 2023" From what I understand, that's as far back as they could push it and still keep it on as being planned. It's really going to be up to Abbie Kamin to push for this project and I don't know how strongly she feels about this.
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    There is one at Townsen/1960 in Humble that's a new build that has looked 48 hours away from opening for almost a month. I wonder if they'll open a la Kohl's with a bunch of locations at once. No 7/11 signage up, but that's basically the only thing that's missing.
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    Do you mean 150 flights/week or per day? 150/day would be an insane increase. 150/week is still an increase, but not a ton. I think part of it is additional planes coming online. Looking at summer now for MAX to come back. These new CRJ's with lots of biz are for EWR and ORD. I think there's a 0% chance UA launches Mumbai, but Air India certainly might. There's a much better chance of Lagos coming back.
  9. wilcal
    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Mixed-income-housing-project-breaks-ground-near-14973901.php Looks like another apartment called "The Exchange" will be starting soon.
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    I mean.... the only world I can think of to go Galveston instead of the med center is if you had a fat offer for your land.
  11. wilcal
    Gotta keep it 58 stories so you can see over all of the new 40 story buildings in Midtown to get those sweet downtown views, amirite?
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    Holy isssssshhhh I've been traveling and somehow missed the updates here. This is so insane! What a perfect spot for this. I was railing about this area on twitter back in August because there is so little housing here and it's a perfect spot. I was excited to see some parking lot infill a la something like this with the parking restrictions dropped and was imagining a bunch of those in the area near mongoose vs cobra. These are the cheapest available housing for sale in the area at the time and there is basically nothing within blocks: (Note, the star is MvC) Yes, there are apartments/rentals and that is what this project would be as well, but still, so much opportunity for housing development right here. Very exciting stuff!
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    Updated test facade:
  14. wilcal
    Kind of an asshole move with how they have the sidewalk blocked on both sides. Was walking to Tacos a Go Go the other night and came across this: Oh, I guess I'll have to cross the street. Cool. So you have to walk west a block and cross the Travis highway without a painted crosswalk or walk back up to Elgin and go around. Don't think crap like this flies in most cities.
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    After seeing those Houston economy slowdown articles this week, I have to feel like this may be the end of this boom
  16. wilcal
    Got an email that they have update the listing on their crowdsourcing with this:
  17. wilcal
    People buying trucks too big to fit in their townhome garages?
  18. wilcal
    Property owner having tax issues? Says judgement is from back in July http://taxsales.lgbs.com/detail/1012331877
  19. wilcal
    They were briefly added into the MetroNEXT plans and they were scrapped the next month when they said that they wouldn't have enough time to study the corridor to make it work. So yeah, not happening.
  20. wilcal
    Ahhh, I didn't realize that it would be shifting over. Just assumed it would be stretching wider. Thanks for the actual research.
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    I am fully aware of how completely unscientific this is, but based on that rendering of it stretching all of the way to the railroad tracks...
  22. wilcal
    I guess I assumed that it would be torn down. Do you know how they would use the existing buildings? In my mind, I really didn't consider that they would keep them like that.
  23. wilcal
    Yeah, ouch. Also, wow @ the highway expanding all of the way to the railroad tracks. That's like 3X wider than it is currently right there. Really gives some scale.
  24. wilcal
    Fantastic. *sigh*
  25. wilcal
    Totally fair question. I would also imagine that the funds help provide the concessions about "workforce or affordable" housing. I'm not sure how much tech companies prefer to have certain types of office space and how that compares to office space in the region. Not sure what portion of their expected tax bill they are having rebated represents, either. Isn't it like .65%? So, a significant chunk of the expected tax bill with the benefit that their receiving is $600k/year for 10 years. Isn't the six million coming in the form of tax rebates after it opens? I don't think you typically count future tax costs as part of the funding.
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