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  1. toxtethogrady
    They already have a Wal-Mart Supercenter going in next to the new Micro Center. That's overkill.
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    The augers are digging...11/22
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    11/22. A bit rainy on Main:
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    One of mine 11/22. Hard to keep track of them all:
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    Indeed they do. From the vicinity of BBVA 11/22 - multiple cranes:
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    Here are a couple I took from a few blocks away on 11/22: Texaco renovation plus Main cranes, from the 6 Houston Center site:
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    A nice big picture of nothing going on. One of mine 11/22:
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    One of mine. Viewed through the fence around the Catalyst lot. 11/22:
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    Since I was in town I managed to take a few pics before the rains hit. HH in foreground, cranes for the Marquis in background 11/22:
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    I was seriously hoping for a beanie with a propeller on top.
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    Houston's are square. The part of NY on a grid is rectangular, as are the blocks in Dallas (which are not many). I think Chicago is largely rectangular, as well. Square city blocks seem to be common in small towns that were laid out a long time ago, and Houston was fortunate it keept its grid.
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    Well, that's Number 3 in the state. There are rumors of something taller in Dallas in the coming years, but no big announcement yet.
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    So the first Port-a-Potty is, umm, a "catalyst" for a project to begin?
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    There are still a few neighborhoods where a mortgage would be cheaper than rent. Either the Feds can take some of the foreclosures and rent them out at the cost of acquisition (rather than letting them fall into the hands of the Blackstones of the world), or they can flip the foreclosures to prospective tenants, complete with fixed mortgages (since the adjustables are the contracts that blew up). If the urban planners are going to insist on multi-family developments, they should create numerous small blocks of housing rather than towers. They just have to make sure the properties don't fall into disrepair. The big problem is land that cheap enough to build on is getting further and further away from the central city.
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    I thought there was not much flat surface left in the vicinity that didn't have a high-rise wing on it already. TCH is already pretty dense.
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    So that thingie full of midrise boxes is only the connector. What's the research park going to look like?
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    Projects like that would create the density. As it is, a lot of inner Loop blocks are being filled with rowhouses on small lots, so density can't help but go up.
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    True...
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    Well, the ZaZa seems like the one that should be shaped like a highball glass - although I thought those were shorter.
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    They could build it like the Towers of London. Or like that place in St. Louis; in 20 years, they can have fun imploding it for a Life Magazine spread.
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    So you want projects priced at $2.00 a square foot instead of $2.80?
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    So are there any renders of the project or is it going to look an awful lot like Mark Wallace? And my second question is a pre-empt: is it going to have GFR?
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    Incidentally, if some of you are wondering why your favorite project isn't going up as fast or as soon as you hoped, Bloomberg might have an explanation... "...At Houston-based Camden Property Trust (CPT), one of the biggest U.S. apartment owners, half of 14 projects under construction or being leased for the first time are as much as six months behind schedule because “we don’t have enough workers,” Chief Executive Officer Ric Campo said. Competitors are so brazen that recruiters will venture onto Camden work sites, he said. “We have had situations where people have pulled up and said ‘Hey, I’ll pay you $100 cash right now if you come to my job,’” Campo said. He estimated that labor costs are helping boost building expense 5 percent to 15 percent. Signing BonusesJockeying for Houston workers goes beyond energy, according toRay Perryman, president of Waco, Texas-based economic consultant Perryman Group. Construction and even restaurant employees have received signing bonuses, he said by e-mail..." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-19/wages-poised-to-rise-as-signs-emerge-of-improved-u-s-job-market.html In other words, if you can swing a hammer (or master a nail gun or a cordless screwdriver), they need you.
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    Speaking of losses, did this project lose a floor in just the last fifteen minutes (or are my eyes deceiving me)?
  25. toxtethogrady
    So can we assume that some of those tenants on the east side of the building will get a view of the Astros blowing yet another late inning lead?
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