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  1. toxtethogrady
    Hey, you could have the same thing in Fort Worth for $1900. Slight discount. http://www.trinitydistrictapts.com/
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    Scopes that creep always get value-engineered down. Perhaps that's what they're doing during the "pause".
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    The cost creep on this project is perhaps an example of what all developers were dealing with, as costs more than doubled, making a project that was almost fully funded fall woefully short. When it only cost $40 million, $33 million in funding seemed like "almost there", but with cost growth to $80 million...
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    The FAA may have no power to stop anything, but they do have influence. For one thing, they can make insuring the building difficult by declaring it a hazard to air navigation. For another, they could reroute the approaches to Hobby Airport, which the airlines would hate, leading to complaints to the City that the new tower is Bad For Business. The height restrictions are de facto.
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    The race is on between this and Ross Perot's tower in Dallas...
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    Quit thinking it will be built like Block 334! One coffee bean...two coffee beans...
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    Davis didn't figure the view under the skirts would be quite so exposed.
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    Sounds better than Putzmeister.
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    Midtown seems to be attracting single family. High end single family. This is where they cram six rowhouses into a block that had one bungalow on it before.
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    That's a lot of work to bury it.
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    Theoretically, they can 3D print the components and then snap the pieces together. That's one way they can construct these buildings in record time without having to prefabricate everything.
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    On the positive side, the rains should help green things up a little.
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    From the air, there still appear to be plenty of tall buildings. It would be the envy of most downtowns.
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    I think it would be quite an accomplishment to max out all the blocks inside the freeways. But that would lead to questions about which direction to expand next. As it is, Midtown may be all filled up with six-story wraps.
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    Not legally. 500 feet is the limit. The shot was taken from a Cessna.
  16. toxtethogrady
    Our man has an airplane and he's not afraid to use it.
  17. toxtethogrady
    Wait a few years.
  18. toxtethogrady
    Hella shot...
  19. toxtethogrady
    First international flight came into Hobby from Aruba over the weekend. There are rumors another airline is being courted to move in with Southwest to the new terminal.
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    The rains the last couple of days probably cut down on the brown appearance of the foliage a little.
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    If we did that, we might have to leave off things like Camden's project. That one's been on-again, off-again for a while...
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    Wow, they're fast with the crane base.
  23. toxtethogrady
    Final numbers on 2014 showed Houston with 2.994 million jobs in December - an upward revision of about 50,000 that was not nearly as spectacular as the upward revision for Dallas. Houston ended up gaining 107,000 jobs on the year. January showed a drop to 2.946 million, but that's probably seasonal.
  24. toxtethogrady
    Somebody in the Chronicle claimed to be shocked, SHOCKED that the lease terms were $25 million a year. I was shocked that it was less than the $35 million quoted initially. Cheapest solution I can imagine, and it doesn't add to the vacancy rate.
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    Especially since $900 million spread out over 30 years amortizes for a lot less than $1 billion invested up front. The only question would be how much lease space the city really needs for its judicial and police functions, as 800K is a lot of space to fill.
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