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  1. Twinsanity02
    Great photo. The downtown min-loop looks like skyscraper city. What an improvement from years back when it was lopsided with most of the high rises west of Main St.
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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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    Let NYC do what NYC wants to do. We are not some puppy who has to follow every example of NYC or LA. We can set our own tune. Continue with the skyscrapers! Love them.
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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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    Now comes the rebuilding. Would not want to be the people inspecting the inside due to its instability. Hope the walls hold up. Going to be interesting to watch how quickly this is restored. French bureaucracy has a historical reputation for being stifling. Perhaps they have improved the bureaucracy since the Ancien regime. Hope so.
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    My family has been involved with Paris for at least three centuries. It was where my wife I went for our honeymoon. It sickened my heart to see this. But it will be rebuilt. Paris is a beauty and a shining star among the world's cities and Notre Dame is an important part of the heritage and beauty of this splendid city.
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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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    I tell my children to not call our floors " the ground" . This is taking the term ground to another level. Happy to see this underway.
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    Very happy with the Preston going up and the awful garage going down. I hope these OZ's includes the south- southeast portion of the downtown. The Hamilton looks lonely out there by itself.
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    Can't wait for this project to start. The market square area has turned into a real jewel for Houston.
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    One of the things I love about Houston is how dated even recent photos are due to the non-stop construction. For example, Midtown construction. As the saying goes: if you haven't been to Houston in the last five years, you haven't been to Houston.
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    My land which along a waterway of Lake Houston, has a Charleston, New Orleans , near tropical look with some tropicals ( Pindo, Chinese Fan,Mexican Fan, and Queen Palms, some plumerias, a few bananas), lots of Swamp palmettos, spanish moss everywhere, and hundreds of pines. The pines and sweet gums were here and my wife and I kept the vast majority of them. Have a few flowering plants. Love the look. Very shady and relaxing. Lots of work though.
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    You can be thankful I am not an architect, otherwise I would have stopped at 71 floors whereas the elevator would have gone the full 75 floors. A potentially messy situation.
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    For what ever its worth. Read an interview done by the Houston Chronicle from February 2014 with Mr. P.V Banavalkar of Vertika Structural . He stated that the JP Morgan tower ( 71 stories, 1002 feet) has a foundation base of 4 basements whereas the BP Group tower ( 46 stories, 632 feet) has a foundation base of 2 basements. I suppose this refers to how deep the foundation hole was. Anyone know what it is for the Hines Texas Tower?
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