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That's bad ass! Too bad it'll be hidden by the trees and won't be seen from the freeway. However, the dozen or more cranes sticking up over the trees is pretty tight.

I travel to Dallas fairly regularly. I have a lot of friends there from college as well as family. One thing that I like best about the place is that they have Grandy's. I love that place. There is nothing there that is bad. For some reason, they closed every single Houston location. Now when I go to Dallas, it has become ritual that I eat there for lunch---at least twice. Does anybody know what happened to them here and if there are plans to reopen any locations? I've been craving the place for weeks!!!

And The Woodlands starts ANOTHER 9-story building. 3 Waterway construction imminent. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2011/10/26/nexeo-solutions-moves-to-woodlands.html

New 600,000 sq. ft facility in the Med Center? Ran across this in an email this morning: HOUSTON — The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has completed its largest fundraising campaign ever. Thanks to the generosity of supporters across the globe, Making Cancer History®: The Campaign to Transform Cancer Care has raised $1.215 billion for: research initiatives in cancer prevention and risk assessment, basic science, cancer care excellence, personalized cancer therapies, early detection and targeted treatments an endowment to educate and train the next generation of cancer research specialists a new 600,000-square-foot research facility to support personalized cancer care and accelerate the pace of pancreatic cancer research support of other key areas within the institution.

Here's a map of where the building would go. Looks like it is going to sit behind the first tower--at the corner of Woodloch Forest Dr. and Lake Robins Dr. I remember seeing a rending of the building a few years back. It looked to be about 20 stories tall with the same color glass as the first tower and was a block instead of a rounded type building like the main tower. However I that was 2 or 3 years ago. With that said, I *think* it has always been the plan to build another Anadarko building on the property. http://www.thewoodlands-commercial.com/pdf/UrbanDesignPlan.pdf

Looks like Anadarko may erect a twin tower in The Woodlands! http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2011/10/another-office-tower-in-the-woodlands/

LOL! Ooops. Yeah, PC, that's what I meant.

Oh please, you read to much into what I was saying. How about I strongly dislike soccer. Being PR will be the death of America---what's left of it. People's feelings too easily hurt. I think soccer is boring and stupid and I'm entitled to feel that way.

Pardon my ignorance, but is this going to be a 23-story tower on TOP of a 5 story garage making it 28 stories or is it an 18-story apartment tower on 5 floors of garage?

Love sports, hate soccer. I guess that's what makes me American. LOL

This is probably my very least favorite project. I couldn't care less if this is built or not. Am I bad for feeling that way? lol

Love this tower. Question: why this spot? I was looking at the location on google maps and for some reason all this time, i thought this was to be built right on the SW FRWY....maybe close to where the Museum Tower is now. I did not realize, even with the squabble in the surrounding neighborhood just how out of place this is. I mean it is NOT a convenient location to get to and there are a lot of small side streets utilized to get to 1717 Bissonnet. My question is, why here? This thing probably could have long been built if they had just tweeked the location. I can see they are probably catering to the Med Center but I'm sure this is not the ONLY location to build a tower. Just seems like a really random out-of-place spot. Just my opinion.

From today's Chronicle: http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2011/09/tower-to-rise-on-former-confederate-house-site/ Is there any way we can change the title to 35 stories instead of 27?

My geography professor at Texas A&M University said that if each person were stacked front to back, shoulder to shoulder, the entire worlds' population could fit in an average sized COUNTY. The example he used is that the world's population could fit inside Brazos County---again, if were standing shoulder to shoulder front to back. There are 43,560 sq. ft in an acre and 640 acres in a sq. mile...so there would be 27,878,400 sq. ft. in one sq. mile. So let's assume that each person takes up 2 sq. ft. That means that 13,939,200 people could fit in one sq. mile. The example my professor used was Brazos County. Brazos County is 590 sq. miles. So 13,939,200 x 590 = 8,224,128,000!!!! So at this point in the game, you could fit the entire world's population into a single county and STILL have room to spare. Now if you were to put everybody inside Harris County, you might even have enough room to raise your arm and pick your nose!

The people suck ass. Just my opinion. Can't stand the people there.

I'm surprised this hasn't splashed onto the scene yet: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/print-edition/2011/09/16/developer-plans-wyndham-hotel-downtown.html What would a 250-room full service hotel stack up to be? Anybody have comparisons?

Simbha, tallest cities as in has the most number of buildings above a certain threshold---for example 400 ft and up. That's just an example. Considering that Miami only has 3 buildings in the entire metro Miami area that reach 700' or more (which no building in Florida rises to 800') then Houston has Miami beat by over a dozen buildings or more.

So in the Miami thread on Skyscraperpage, somebody had posted that Miami is on the verge of eclipsing Houston with height. This poster said Houston had two 1,000 ft, one 900 ft and seven 700+ft buildings. I realize that Houston has one 1,000 footer and two 900 ft buildings, but that's neither here nor there. The point of this post is the poster said that Miami, with it's three 700+ ft buildings will soon pass Houston in height due to all the planned residential highrises. Is that possible? Even in a booming market, building five or six highrises to the likes of 700+ feet would be an exercise in futility, waste and flooding a market that already has multiple buildings sitting vacant. Thoughts? BTW, outside of New York City and Chicago, we ARE the tallest city in America aren't we?

That mural sums up all my above posts.....classic. Breaking: You guys will be happy to know that I have opened my mind just enough to attend the festivities at Discovery Green tonight. I figured with it being a family oriented atmosphere, it shouldn't be too outlandish. If any of you are going, I'll be the "straight" guy you see walking around with a military crew cut---or close to it.

Wow, I feel kinda special that so much interest has been taken in my comments I want you guys to know that I don't take offense to any comments made. I stand by my beliefs that a Pride parade does not advocate for equal rights but rather reinforces negative stereotypes levied against our community. I am a guy. I love college football, outdoor sports, working out and eating pizza until I hurl. I like to drink beer and expel methane. Okay, that's graphic and disgusting but I digress. I like the fact that men get credit for a great bbq when in reality it was a woman (the wife or girlfriend) that prepared the table, veggies and seasoned the meat that we bbq. My point is that is, in many ways, what makes me a guy---aside from my penis. That's important. Being male is great. And all the above comes naturally to me, my dad, uncle, grandfather and countless college buddies--both *** and straight. However, waxing your body down, putting on a pair of panties with you sack hanging out one side is seen as a spectical to a lot of people---including the very people we are begging to get rights from. The above is my old point. Here is my new point. Why not lead by example? Why not show the world that we are human beings that deserve to have the same privileges as straight married couples. The GLBT community continuously fights over things that will not advance the cause. For example, the word "marriage." The GLBT community demands to have the right to marry. Well some states have allowed 'civil unions.' It offers the exact same hospital visitation rights, the sharing of benefits amongst one another and allows us to adopt and many other things---just like a married couple. Why do we fight over the nomenclature? Some g-a-y people are still mad that it's not called 'marriage.' My dad used to tell me that there is a way to tell somebody to go to hell without telling them to go to hell. Why not take the same logic and settle for the name change in order to have the same rights? Why do guys prance around in panties---which even as a g-a-y guy---I find disturbing. It's not fair to me....somebody who goes to work every day, pays taxes, dresses normally, speaks normally and just wants to go home to a guy who loves me unconditionally---same as any heterosexual couple. But no, my spokesperson represents everything I am not---like a drag queen. Does that just not go against nature??? I really try not to hate. I promise. But I have been silent on the issue for a long time and I feel as though I am speaking amongst a mature group here who is open minded to my thoughts. I think at the end of the day, I believe everybody should share in the same equalities as everybody else. However I am guilty of something that MLK spoke about: "for it is not the words of our enemies that we remember but the silence of our friends in the face of opposition." I know I have not been supportive of the g-a-y cause but until I see a community that can have a monogamous relationships, longevity in those relationships and a change in attitude amongst the community, I can't partake in such events. I know in my heart that the day when we can hold hands with our loved one in public without being chastised is approaching---just like white and black couples can now do. Mark Twain said that the challenges in life make it interesting. It's overcoming them that makes it meaningful. I am cautiously optimistic that the ideals in my community, that I am apart of by force---not choice, will realize that pushing or forcing something not fully understood, ie religion, politics or sexual orientation, is a sure way to create far more foes than friends.

I can relate to your point of view. Perhaps I do have internal homophobia---which is the most hypocritical thing ever. However, being a jock/frat type, you'd never be able to point me out in a crowd as being *** and being seen in an area where people are of free spirit makes me uncomfortable and quite frankly a bit frustrated that i've never been able to get to that point. To the outside world, I am a 'breeder' as you comically put it and so are my friends. While all my friends know and accept me for who I really am, they seem to be more frustrated than me about living a double life. Funny how that works out.

THIS IS JUST MY OPINION WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE ACCURATE: I don't see how Pride help's advance the idea of equal rights amongst our peers who are ignorant to the fact that we are normal people who think, feel emotion, bleed, sweat, smile and cry like everybody else. People hate what they do not understand. The Irish faced bigotry at the turn of the last century. Signs in store fronts read 'Irish, need not apply.' Then it was the civil rights movement. Then it was immigration and a socio-economic status of a lot of hispanics that seemed to threaten our ideals and way of life here in America. Now it's gays and the threat of diluting what the true meaning of marriage is and so on. The point is I don't see how guys prancing around in skimpy underwear with legs shaved and dressing like woman advances the cause. I think many are disgusted by it and subjects me to a stereotype that is a total misrepresentation as to who I am. While I don't judge or condemn those that go, I choose not to partake in it because it represents everything I am not. If we as a community want acceptance, we have to show the world that we can love, MONOGAMOUSLY, and treat others with respect (have you been to a *** bar where everybody feels up on everybody) that not only is expected by others but I expect for myself. AGAIN, THIS IS MY OPINION THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE ACCURATE.

As a homosexual, I think Pride parades do more harm than good. Just my two cents. Never been to one and don't plan to start this year.

Well I am 25 yo, educated, homosexual (since it bleeps out the g word) and am active in sports, exercise and leasure. I work on the southwest side of Houston---not far from Missouri City and yet I live off Rayford Rd. in Spring. My demographic would probably much rather be inside the loop. However, I enjoy The Woodlands. I enjoy the trees, quality of life and people's way of living. I'm not an eclectic person---a free spirit with a blase attitude. I'm conservative and I appreciate and respect the ideals around me. I love to go to ball games and events in Houston---Discovery Green, Reliant, Galleria, ect..but i would not want to live there. There's nothing wrong with that. To say that every 20 something yo would much rather live in the city versus the burbs is a misrepresentation of the entire demographic. I like it out here. It's not far from Houston, contrary to popular belief, and if it were me working for Exxon, this campus would be God sent. IMO, I don't think Exxon really give a rat's behind what it's employees think of it's new location. They probably see it as they don't have a choice but to relocate if they (the employee) want to continue to work for Exxon. Plus, if they end up moving people here from Virginia and other states, I'm sure the burbs are more appealing to those moving here---less traffic, good place to raise children, ect.

This has been an on-going discussion for a long time now. See the 'Going Up' thread.