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    kona grill at 4 waterway has a liquor license app posted; construction ongoing. ferrarri satellite store charles schwab by hubbell & hudson is coming along rapidly (the ferrari satellite is near fiat). burgerfi and the cycle shop also on lake robbins, in the waterway parking garage, are taking shape as well. morton's grill is under construction on the other side of hubbell & hudson. not much retail space left in the waterway square district. yet, a fourth source mentioned that another tower is imminent in town center. no details of course. i wonder if the shortage of retail space in town center will bring new development?
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    i'm sure your right on most accounts, but can't i have my mental masturbation without a parent knocking on the door?
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    Duplicate topics merged.
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    Conroe is also a city unto itself with a Lake Community, a small airport, fairgrounds, energy sector jobs, a school system shared with The Woodlands, etc. Conroe's largest employers are the City of Conroe, CISD, and Montgomery County. Conroe is the County Seat of Montgomery serving The Woodlands. Conroe contains mostly government jobs, The Woodlands is mostly private sector jobs. Conroe was not built by developers to make a quick buck like the pop up developments around the city. Conroe has been sustained because of Lake Conroe, The Woodlands, the intersection of 105 and I-45,and an ever growing gut of government offices. The increase is relevent for The Woodlands because it is not a bedroom community that loses a large portion of its population during the day which was the intent from the inception.
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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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    as much as i appreciate this program, i always wonder if there are things that could be salvaged. i'm not volunteering.
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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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    it think i remember someone at the economic outlook conference say that layne christensen wanted to move in sooner rather than later......construction has been expedited.
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    pictures taken today..............
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    pictures taken today..................
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    happy birthday wayne!
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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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    What happened to the Montrose group intent on beautifying Montrose BLVD. It seems that between the Hermann Park and Alan Parkway, Montrose is a perfect boulevard for this type of contruction (higher density residential). The offices going in around Montrose at Richmond, now this or these buildings reinforce the need for an improved walkable Montrose BLVD. I need to find that old discussion. There is a nice little park right across the street from this location and more residential might spur more restaurants closer to the museum district.
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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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    yes! it's best when the owner is there....barbara? definitely worth finding if you're an authentic italian food fan. the owners came here from italy, worked in restaurants and saved enough money to open their own place. they hope to improve their digs as they build a following. wonderful american success story.
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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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