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HAIF paging Skanska; come in, do you read? vacant land. over.

It = Excel? it = Quickbooks? it = Wow24-7.io (the link in the post?)

The summary for Houston is that we are still introduced as a potential relocation destination, at least by some pro-Coyotes-arena people, since that debate is still going on

Well, the hockey leagues are probably about as expanded as they need to be for the fanbase that exists. If it became exciting to a whole new audience then maybe they could add more teams and games without adding empty seats. hindesky posted this recent Bisnow article from Phoenix in the Toyota Center thread but I'll just put the link here for reference: https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/construction-development/developer-could-call-off-46-acre-tempe-entertainment-district-in-exchange-for-23b-118448

The rendering was, if I understood correctly, not a rebuild at all, but a removal of the un-aesthetic 1970s pebble jacket from the brick building. It cannot happen now that the building is demolished.

It certainly looked from the demolition photos like the midcentury modern / late streamline moderne brick architecture of 1300 Texas was still standing underneath the pebble concrete slipcover. Not sure why you were sure it couldn't look like the above rendering and be aesthetically pleasant to the pedestrian

I don't really think you needed to use the confused reaction when there was nothing confusing about his point

It could really use a bunch of smaller infill buildings, pickleball joints, sidewalk cafés

Hoping a little delay makes this less of a samey theme and color scheme production (like Johnson Space Center, Memorial City redevelopment, or Dallas' Harwood District) and more of a neighborhood

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I don't doubt that an ophthalmic surgery chain owner may have enough money in their investment portfolio to self-finance it as a passion project in the city that they love, even if half of the multifamily rental floors were initially left as dried-in core and shell to be fully finished out and furnished later a few floors at a time. Still sunk cost, yes, but lower cost, and further phaseable. But passion projects' opportunity costs hit different when you have opportunities to leave that "investment" by the wayside and have the portfolio stay in higher return, lower risk projects elsewhere. Silver lining: Mann can, loving Houston, find all sorts of passion projects to invest in here that are both more transformative and better proved up (compared to a skyscraper) demandwise... just have him talk to Stephen Fox, or Mattress Mack, or George Foreman, or Angela Blanchard, or HAIF!

Just to be clear, I don't think it would be valid for a project to be prohibited a building permit or even Certificate of Occupancy on the basis of its land use. But once built, it isn't equivalent to HOA rules at all. The city can set per diem fines for code violation and then keep a spreadsheet of them, just as it can likewise levy its area hotel tax surcharges on STR stays, a matter in which STR listing tech companies have belatedly been forced to assist with compliance in many jurisdictions.

Yes, I see your point. More of this, please. But I'm not sure that city administration ever has to be as fast-moving as the bleeding edge of tech bro change, and if retroactivity is what you imply, the logical alternative would be to require city and county enforcement to keep abreast of every code violation and accept all accomplished violations unenforceable. Seems like the police logic "well, I pulled you over, not the other speeders ahead of you, but they are not your concern now, nor mine," applies. Since it's good for code to be slow moving and carefully exacting, officials don't have to justify or apologize for why a policy is in force now that has been in force the whole time while de facto not as consistently enforced as it would be now. If the thorough enforcement couldn't start somewhere small and grow equally widespread, then lawsuits could arise whenever tech tries to broadly challenge code enforcement for awhile. The deep bench of homestay listings as a side or main hustle, and their popular adoption as a business model inside of residential pockets, are both growing unprecedentedly widespread, necessitating the "all of a sudden" catching up to citing and fining them. Public policy thoroughness can happen without a legal precedent problem if the local law de jure neither changed nor ever allowed it. ...OTOH, the official local law is not the only way its legality can change; the Texas Supreme Court interpretations can apply, like you said. So a specific instance can fly in the face of a general perspective.

If the point of building them is to build his hospitality brand, The Sharpton, then he has to offer that brand's services to the public, and if he does, then he is selling transient accommodation, which qualifies this as a hotel building. They may not have preemptive power to deny him until he makes that product offering to the public, but as soon as he does, he is in violation of the citywide code.

you think Houston’s existing laws have not been Houstonian, and yet you like how it has been and don’t want to watch it get bland. Looks like a simple clear-cut case and not a niche enforcement.

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Houston Exec Airport (KTME) did get built privately and is in operation.

IM Pei could have done a lot worse with Texas Commerce Tower. I give him credit belatedly.

GYY already has a 9000' concrete runway, so it would be really inefficient to build a third airport in northeast Illinois, probably putting it even farther out from the Loop than GYY is, but Illinois leaders still talk about it.

I did want to also congratulate him on his subterranean extension of the Hardy Toll Road to his LV condo garage via Bastrop and Austin

It's a type of problem that is called a prisoner's dilemma. Suppose all Houston citizens and leaders, public and private, receive a passing grade of 70 if the current status quo civic growth continues for their next decade or two. We *all* make a 95 if we can cooperate together. And any of us can take an 80 and make the next guy get a 65 if we can look out for ourselves and leave him to his fate. Yet, if the next guy does the same thing that we did, then we all end up with a 50 (Houston losing its stride and hospitality in the future)... which is a lot worse than necessary. But because we can't keep the other guy from ditching us, citizens and leaders may figure it's better in the interest of risk management to cut our risk and just ditch him. Lower-risk in the short run, perhaps, but a risk of a worse outcome for all participants as that trust is broken. This is also why we generally don't want politicians who "move fast and break stuff," even if slow civic consensus carries its own risks of stifling our gifts.

The regional Bell System operator in Saint Louis and Dallas may have specified that brick a lot, including out in Lubbock https://rimarketplace.com/auction/751/former-at-t-building-143-250-sf. We also see it locally on their Jefferson Toll Building downtown at 1407 Jefferson, which while drab from a distance has a _beautiful_ street-level portal.

The existing building is a very common North Texas brick hue. Is it as common down here? Any architecture buffs here know what part of Texas it came from?