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    George Mitchell envisioned a community with as many jobs as it had people. The "plan" was to create a satellite city that, although dependent on Houston, would reduce commuters, preserve greenspace, and create a new model for city planning. An ideal scenario would have been to have many "The Woodlands" spread out around Houston. A recent Census Bureau interactive commuter map posted on the Houston Chronicle website shows that The Woodlands master plan has succeeded in reducing commuters from within the development. Place name: The Woodlands CDP State name: Texas Total resident population: 92,064 Total workers working in place: 45,102 (more jobs than there are workers) Total workers living in place: 40,913 Estimated daytime population: 96,253 Daytime population change due to commuting: 4,189 Percent daytime population change due to commuting: 4.6 (that's an increase/NOT just a bedroom community) Compare it to Pearland, Cinco Ranch, Atascocita (almost 37% commute), League City. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Interactive-Work-day-brings-major-population-4592192.php?cmpid=hcael Home town bragging aside, I wonder if "city center/town center concepts will turn the tide of ever expanding city limits? Sugarland appears to keep a large portion of it's work force at home too. The Woodlands has been fortunate in that there has been much affordable housing mixed in with the expensive housing (although that may be coming to an end). If city center/town center master plans remain playgrounds for the "have's" only, the "have-not's" will still have to commute in order to work for the have's....and maybe that's a given.
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    i wonder whose back yards the tenants will get to spy on? i would not be a happy camper if it were behind, beside or in front of me.............cool building though.
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    i want those tiles on the side of the building................
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    The 8 story tower for Repsol, next door to this building, is under construction and there is a retail component to the development at Research Forest. http://researchforestlakeside.com/brochures/RFL%20RETAIL%20BROCHURE.pdf
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    pictures taken today..............
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    .............that's just wrong
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    i think the finished product will be attractive, at least on the waterway side. it has a notch towards the top that we do not see in the construction yet. it does look thinner than some of the renderings appear, but i think that makes it look sleek. the woodlands needs a tall tower closer to lake woodlands as a bookend to the forming downtown area. of course, nothing 30 stories or so are planned, that we know of, on that side of town center. i heard that a second type of water taxis are in the works to connect hughes landing on the north end of the lake with the waterway. because the waterway with the current water taxis is at a higher level, the new "thing" will have to be completely separate from the existing waterway taxis. hughes landing is about to break ground on tower number two. kona grill is going in on the first floor of 4 waterway square, right across the street from anadarko II. the hotel at waterway square is supposed to break ground this year and as soon as a tenant is signed for 10 waterway ave, that's going up too. there's so much going and many people are being "mum" on coming announcements. i see a lot of zipped lips and half smiles lately when new things "that aren't ready for publc consumption" are mentioned. i hope that the developers do not get over-confident and continue to use restraint as the woodlands has managed to do in the past. i digress.......anadarko II, i think, will be a better finished product than it appears at this time.
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    Excellent pictures!!! I hate to follow those, but I snapped a couple for wxman today too. ......the last one is from the new nordstrom's construction site. you can see a remaining wall from sears on the lower left.
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    it looks like the only possible retail space is at the waterway level, or at street level above facing the waterway. the parking garage doesn't appear to have any retail space on woodloch forest or waterway avenue, like the parking garages do at 24 waterway, 1501 lake robbins, the marriott garage. is it possible that the land is too valuable or the need for office space too urgent to save space for retail?
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    thanks for sharing lockmat! it looks a little too much like the bbva building in the galleria. add to that swtsig's comment, and i'm not too excited.
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    sears is totally gone. they are getting ready to start building the new nordstrom's.
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    there is a new rendering floating around for 10 waterway. apparently, it's been in houston business journal. i haven't come across a digital copy. i saw it at the economic outlook conference last month. has anyone seen this new rendering or have a copy?
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    http://www.graniteprop.com/wp-content/themes/granite/images/property/pdf_files/news/DBJ%2012_4_12.PDF
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    yep. plano is huge. almost 300,000 people. i found a 150,000,000 office building with hotel about to be built......way out of the woodlands' league (for now ) there are two other locations near anadarko on the south side of the waterway that do not appear to be owned by the woodlands development company. office building are planned to go their, but i do not know who owns them. it would not be a surprise to find that anadarko does.
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    after a quick check: ft. worth's CBD contains 9.9 million square feet of office space; the woodlands development contains 7.9 million square feet of office space. although not an apples to apples comparison, the whole of the woodlands' office space will come close to the size of downtown ft. worth in the near future.
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    i'm imagining a twenty story tower to the right of anadarko II (10 waterway) and a 40ish story tower (rumored to be on the east super block) in between anadarko I & II from this perspective. not to get off topic, but with that view i thought it worth mentioning.
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    i was taking a picture of the sears demo (yay nordie's). anadarko I & II are in the background. this was taken earlier this week.
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    maybe the building is going to open the tunnels to street level in a way we have not seen before? two level retail that opens street level and at the tunnel level would be perfect.
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    hahahaha! smiling is fun. it's my favorite. any retail on street level will be nice. who knows.
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    there is a downloadable brochure at the link above. i like the building much better now that i can see the other angles. ten stories taller please!
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    excellent!!
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    i get it now. texas is to the far left and runs between the rice and the new structure. the building opens up to main street and the building directly across the street (the empty flat spot in the foreground) would have blocked this view and is; therefore, removed for the view point. eastern views of downtown just keep getting better.
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    the location in the rendering makes the on the same side of the street as the rice; whereas, block 69 is across the street from the rice. am i wrong?
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