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  1. swtsig
    I wouldn't call max's a game changer... Thats a pretty happening area w boheme, cuchara, fairview, gratifi and the various gayborhood spots.
  2. swtsig
    well their san ramos HQ still house about 3k people, give or take...
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    anadarko has land and plans for another tower, that much i know. shell building a 35-40 story tower out that way is news to me and would seem strange considering they are already building 800k+ on their woodcreek campus in the Energy Corridor. there were rumors of a different large o&g-related firm building a 20+ story tower on waterway but haven't heard anything on it in several months. i'll believe the shell rumors when i see something substantial. that said, the shale/o&g revolution we are experiencing is going to keep this facilities arms race going for quite some time... recruitment is a HUGE driver for these companies and with such a limited pool of qualified recruits these firms will continue to use new/state of the art facilities as a tool to lure the best and brightest. another major out west is rumored to be taking down 1M+ sf of new construction on the EC...
  4. swtsig
    Not a single tenant project but they obviously already have a lead tenant (Hilcorp) which is why they can move forward. i really don't know the entire scope of the project but i've heard the office building will be around 450K sf.
  5. swtsig
    well of course Chevron is more sure... they are going to own and occupy the building.
  6. swtsig
    for the price paid it would be a very costly land hold, imo. they would have to have a VERY optimistic outlook but who knows.
  7. swtsig
    i heard a rumor a couple of months ago that a portion of the KBR land may be flipped to a home developer.
  8. swtsig
    neat? i suppose. but it wasn't particularly attractive.
  9. swtsig
    Pretty sure it's a small office bldg, or so I've been told. There's another ssmall project planned right down the street as well.
  10. swtsig
    actually inside the loop they aren't bad... i routinely take trails from montrose to rice/med center onto braies bayou thru 3rd ward and into downtown. and from there you can easily connect to the heights (w trails up to oak forest) or hit buffalo bayou back to montrose or memorial park and even into uptown w little headache. and from braes if you go the opposite direction it goes straight into bellaire and west u.
  11. swtsig
    hoothrewpoo's info matches what i've heard and then some... i guess they'll be trying to create a real campus like feel on the street level which should be interesting. can't wait to see a rendering. knowing some of the players behind the scenes i'd guess pickard is the architect but that's just an estimated guess.
  12. swtsig
    htownproud is correct. i can assure you chevron is not 1/4 empty at either tower.
  13. swtsig
    only if the space would be available to the market which in chevron's case it def would not.
  14. swtsig
    the frost news has been out for awhile... believe they took down 50k sf, give or take.
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    whenever someone decides to post it
  16. swtsig
    i would think they would but the renderings don't make it look like there will be. the building was initially 48 floors so perhaps they originally had the slanted area as usable space and have scaled back for now... don't know. the linbeck building on market square has a similar concept in that there's a curved roofline but they do have smaller "penthouse" floor plates going all the way up. that said they recently knocked it down from 50 stories to 41 or 42 i believe.
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    but you didn't tell us anything... you're information was 100% innaccurate. BHP never bought the site nor did they ever move anyone out of their Galleria office into downtown (it's been the opposite actually). In addition it's been known for years that BHP was ultimately going to have TIAA-CREF build them a new office.
  18. swtsig
    Would love to see a rendering of this thing.
  19. swtsig
    don't doubt that's what he said but i question the accuracy of his statement... 25+ stories is a very large project to fly under the radar. i've heard very substantiated rumors of some very large deals further west though...
  20. swtsig
    i'm praying that they finally decide to move the retail to the OUTSIDE as opposed to treating 3 blocks of downtown rail-fronting blocks into a damn mini mall. that was the single biggest travesty of the entire project, imo, and one that led to it being a complete failure. a project like HP needs to be able to interact with the surrounding streetscape, not block it off.
  21. swtsig
    the roads in the montrose area are an absolute joke. it becomes infuriating at times. what is the city doing? and what happened to the westheimer repairs between buffalo speedway and shepherd? weren't those supposed to begin in January? don't get me started on the shepherd/allen parkway southbound exchange... that might as well be a dirt road at this point. crazy to think that in such a dense and upscale area that the roads can go so neglected.
  22. swtsig
    to further squash the notion that o&g firms are looking to move out of Houston, it was publicized late last week that two of Hess' largest sharelholders (both large PE groups) have hammered the companys board for substandard performance and openly questioned why the company's HQ are in Manhattan and not Houston.
  23. swtsig
    on a nice day memorial park is typically slammed... yesterday for instance. downtown, however, rarely sees much pedestrian activity regardless of the weather. that said on nice days discovery green gets very crowded with a lot of pedestrian activity as does hermann. both are probably a more apt comparisons of an "urban park" than memorial truth be told.
  24. swtsig
    today's HBJ mentioned a projected May groundbreaking.
  25. swtsig
    people who use the "it gets too hot in houston during the summer to walk" excuse are just flat out lazy. it gets damn hot in NYC during the summer AND they're winters are atrocious, something houstonians do not have to worry about at all. grow a pair.
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