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    Good visual answer.
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    Any chance of a wrecking ball put to use?
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    Guess there's a first time for everything.
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    Drove through Dallas yesterday. What are those highrises going up along US 75/ I-45? Everything looks impressive
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    Too bad can't use a wrecking ball. Those things were fun to watch when knocking down something atrocious like this garage. Oh well.
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    As bad as the rainfall in Kingwood was, look up Kickapoo Creek , near Lake Livingston, October 1994. An area there received 25 to 36 inches in a 6 hr period. This area of the country can get incredible rainfalls. Though some flooding is unavoidable, it is the epitome of folly to knowingly ignore steps to reduce this risk.
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    There is a population ranking for world "urban agglomeration" which does that. I believe it is from Germany. There numbers are different from the OBM. Obviously this is not an exact science.
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    Now that you mention it, I am curious as to whether residential is included in square footage or is it only business. Currently I believe the TMC is larger than downtown in terms of square footage. The Uptown area is certainly huge, but is designated as having approximately half the square footage ad the Med Center. My eyes do not see it that way.
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    Thanks for the information but I was thinking of the Gondolas. Though come to think about it, people kayak the bayou and haven't heard of anyone getting chomped.
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    This is choice real estate. Proximity to the Bayou, the Theater District, Restaurants, Park, Other high rise apartments, and walking distance to the rail and Minute Maid Park.
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    We have gators in Lake Houston. I've seen one from my backyard. They don't seem to bother people, dogs may be problematic. They tend to stay away from populated areas. Is there a gator situation along the bayou?
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    If midtown keeps with the high rise development, the Med center and downtown will achieve a semblance of connectivity.
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    Perhaps this has been mentioned before. Are there plans for the downtown connector bus, I believe is called greenlink, to have a route to this area?
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    Got these numbers from the Census Bureau ( except 2011 data). Think they are fairly accurate though even the Bureau alters their numbers somewhat. Anyway it show a very healthy growth of over 1 million in eight years or 134,000 per year. Houston Year Total Change MSA MSA Population Population 2010 5920416 2011 6057412 136996 2012 6175466 118054 2013 6313809 138343 2014 6497864 184055 2015 6647465 149601 2016 6798010 150545 2017 6905695 107685 2018 6997384 91689 Change 1076968 Per year 134621
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    Someone must really hate Houston and River Oaks to want to put toilet plunger towers up.
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    The National Library of France in Paris certainly falls into skyscraper library category. Quite beautiful also.
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    Good points. I would add that Houston MSA has grown by over 1,000,000 in the last 8 years. Either first or second in population growth for the nation. We are currently over 7 million. Freeways and toll roads are the way most of us will cross our enormous metropolitan area.
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    Your MSA is number 1 in population growth in the U.S. from 2017 to 2108, according to the Census Bureau, over 130,000 people! Congratulations.
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    Population numbers for the Houston MSA in from the Census Bureau. July 1, 2018 6,997,384. Rounding this is either an increase of 105,000 if you take the previous 2017 numbers of 6,892,000 or 92,000 if you take the revised 2017 numbers of 6,905,695. Nevertheless at a growth rate of over 1700 people per week we are clearly over 7 million. I will stop obsessing about this topic now.
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    Population numbers for the Houston MSA in from the Census Bureau. July 2018 6,997,384. Rounding this is either an increase of 105,000 if you take the previous 2017 numbers of 6,892,000 or 92,000 if you take the revised 2017 numbers of 6,905,695. A pattern in the census bureau data is Houston MSA is revised upward by 10,000 to 15,000 after the initial release.
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    ????? Can you explain what you mean?
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    Didn't Chevron receive some money from the city several years back? Was it for them to stay or for the proposed skyscraper?
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    It is a beautiful project indeed. But if they put something in that will increase flooding one scintilla I predict there will be a lawsuit that will tie this up for years. The folks in Kingwood, Atascocita, and other lakeside communities aren't going to sit still and put up with a developer raking in money and then leaving us to pay the consequences of their ill thought out design. Hope it doesn't come to that.
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    The Port of Houston will be large for a very long time. This sounds crazy but Houston is the furthest west and north large ocean going vessels can go. They can go fairly far north along the Mississippi river but not much more westward. I think the locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway limit the size of vessels.
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    I walk over five miles from my workplace to the Kingwood Library several times a week. Sometimes I'll run a little just to speed things up. I have had five people in two months pull over and ask me if I needed a ride. Nice folks, but I tell them thanks but I want to walk. I think they think I'm nuts. Oh well.
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