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  1. swtsig
    for the prime spots i've heard in excess of $200/sf... insane numbers for houston.
  2. swtsig
    If it's the site adjacent to target then it looks like the same site as the proposed WA that ultimately died - most likely bc ritz overtook it.
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    Not on this site but very likely somewhere in the area. We all know they've been rumored all over uptown.
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    wouldn't be shocked to see that 50-story tower come to fruition if the first phases go well which i bet they do. Dallas' economy is flying high like Houston's was 18 months ago when we thought it would go on forever. biggest difference is that Dallas' economy is so much more diversified that a local "crash" is unlikely in anytime in the near future. of course they'll overbuild bc that's what every real estate boom does but good for them. and i agree that they generally get much stronger residential/hospitality architecture. for whatever reason over the past 25 years Houston has relegated itself to very cost-conscious and often banal aesthetics. how stucco ever got popular here is beyond me but it refuses to die.
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    went to the bonobos grand opening party last night - great turnout, nice store. really glad to have one in houston, they make some of the best khakis around.
  6. swtsig
    Le Meridien is my biological father!
  7. swtsig
    i feel like slick vic posting this: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2015/10/13/statoil-begins-houston-job-cuts.html
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    I don't think it will be particularly well received honestly... It's a good reuse of the existing structure and will include a market concept, grocer, lots of retail and even green roofs(!) but if I was a betting man I'd bet the design will leave most on here wanting more. They're working through some issues to really activate the bayou as well. My understanding is that the high rise is not part of the first phase so I'm not sure we can count on it at this point.
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    From native onion no less. Excitement should probably temper a bit though.
  10. swtsig
    Since this thread has already derailed and TC is no longer active w this project I might as well put this here: http://www.houston.org/pdf/research/quickview/Economy_at_a_Glance.pdf Pretty much echoes Triton's comments above. The economy is not great, it's gonna get worse and the numbers bear that out.
  11. swtsig
    Very uninspiring design to be sure. Hopefully not stucco. Whole foods is out btw. They could never agree to terms.
  12. swtsig
    Why is stating the truth taken as being "negative"? Most of what bobruss said is spot on - the market here is not all rainbows and unicorns. Most of the money has in fact left town and almost all the cranes you see up or going up are for projects that were approved in a substantially better market. Oil still dominates our economy, maybe not to the extent as before but it still drives this economy. And no one is "jealous" of all of our cranes besides architecture forum fan boys. Perhaps you shouldn't be so threatened by an economic downturn... It happens to all cities and all economies of all sizes. Relish in the fact that after this downturn the houston market will rebound as it always does. Maybe not next year or even 2017 but soon.
  13. swtsig
    bad mistake if you stopped going bc of the menu change - the revamped menu/format is awesome and the chef is the real deal. they're no longer open for lunch, though. they open at 4pm now.
  14. swtsig
    I'd much rather have a Patagonia store than any of those others HTX rattled off.
  15. swtsig
    Well at the time it was but I think folks will be pleasantly surprised...
  16. swtsig
    second half 2017 and especially 2018 and 19 will see a real gap in multifamily deliveries... if you're a developer that has access to capital and believes the market will turn around by then it's a solid strategy, particularly in this low interest rate environment.
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    Correct.
  18. swtsig
    Correct. Hines only has one other deal in the pipeline I'm aware of near 3400 Montrose.
  19. swtsig
    Hopdoddy is overrated. Ya the burgers are pretty good but they're definitely no better than bernies and definitely not better than lankford. Every time I see a line 100 people deep at the south congress location I'm reminded at how much austonians buy into their own BS.
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    Hines was working on some of the residential components awhile back - not sure if that's still the case though.
  21. swtsig
    tackier than a 50-story office building with a mayan temple as a crown?
  22. swtsig
    i tire of houstonians notion that every eye-catching thing dallas does is some outward sign of insecurity... this is cool. period. it's art and it's an interesting conversation piece. i'd love to see houston developers take that sort of pride in their projects that they actually want people to notice them.
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    i'll be dining at hakkasan in london this week so i'll have a pretty solid frame of reference on how tarakaan stacks up... not that i'd expect it to stack up favorably to a michelin-starred restaurant.
  24. swtsig
    that has the same initial wow factor that hotel alessandria had before they decided to houston the sh!t out of the final product.
  25. swtsig
    The name fooled you... LM is not a luxury hotel in the truest sense of the term. It's a nice brand but that's about it. Architecturally the one in San Francisco is similarly architecturally unremarkable.
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