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    Quit being nosey!

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    Food!

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    Bravo! Hope that this starts to move forward. With the power and weight of the TMC there is little reason why Houston can't be a world leader in medical/biomedical/nanomedical technologies and research moving into the remainder of the 21st century. My hope that they think big! Be bold!
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    I looked at it last week, and I spent several months earlier in the year looking up/researching flights from Houston to San Francisco (on any airline possible) - as my wife and I were planning a vacation to either Tahoe or Napa/Sonoma - I looked at prices to SFO, OAK, RNO, SJC and everywhere else in between. Suffice to say the prices were almost always cheaper from those locations to HOU or IAH. Maybe that was earlier in the year? And maybe I picked the one single week when I was looking last week for price comparisons that SFO was cheaper? Don't know? Now, I did look for February dates for Southwest, I did find that the prices were similar for SFO to HOU or HOU to SFO - except - the flights from SFO to HOU typically had more times available with the lower fees. Which to me = lower fares across the board. Maybe that's changed since I looked last week? I'm curious... do you ever post without sounding condescending?
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    I searched for February prices last week. This close to Thanksgiving, and this close to today's date the results will be expensive no matter where you search. Maybe the prices are always in the same range, but last time I flew it was from HOU to SFO, and the fares if reversed (SFO-HOU) were cheaper! This was also March/April... not November before the 2nd largest holiday of the year.
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    That first sentence is sufficient to explain why Houston is so expensive.
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    You missed the point. Houston was more expensive back when it was the busier airport than SFO. My point was - Houston is expensive to fly out of. Yet Houston is more expensive than just about every other airport in the country. Look it up.
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    ^And Southwest! United and Southwest have a monopoly at each airport. Guess what, tickets FROM SFO to HOU are cheaper than from HOU to SFO! Don't believe me, look it up!!! United is no different. I hope Spirit ignites a price war out of IAH, and that HOU follow suit. Man, it would be fantastic to buy some tickets at the prices that people in LA or NYC do. Houston is expensive to fly out of!
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    The name... conjures up an image of a sleezy detective carelessly puffing away on a cigarette. Smoke thick in the air, blinds tilted revealing only that its dark and raining outside...and then there's a neon light from the diner across the street casting a red glow across the room
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    We can all admit if Amegy had a flaming spire (or spires) as an architectural embellishment! Well it'd be a game changer! I'd buy swtsig a six-pack of low-carb beer or similar in celebration. Just because.
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    I was just messing around! I posted a page or two back about how we're waiting to see anything about this tower - and how I'm betting it won't be as grand as some say... hence the silly Lego Tower.
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    The Mercer sure is a lovely little elevator shaft - isn't it.
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    Unfortunately I don't have one. Maybe someone more involved with the project (I'm actually not involved at all) can get one?
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    So... I "snuck" into the offices of the design firm responsible for this tower, and guess what!? They had a scale model of the building! Here's a fuzy photo of one of the models they had in the office! Personally I find the transition from the parking deck to the tower portion seemless and also timeless, I think its my favorite detail of this design! Instant classic!
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    Point being - Dillard's probably (assuming they own that lot) wouldn't sell except for a lot of money.
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    I'll bet Dillards owns that lot (but not the Zone d'erotica) and will gladly sell it for a cool $100 Million, otherwise I'm sure we would have seen a redevelopment there many years ago. Otherwise they aren't leaving. They're not "attached" to the Galleria, but they are essentially a part of that complex and they would be a fool to leave the biggest, best performing mall in this whole region of the US.
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    Well, there is a traffic circle on Washington Avenue... why not there? As for a large 4 block traffic circle - its too late to redesign Downtown for something like that - but Eastern/Northern Downtown and Main might be able to have something that size or scale?
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    I'm talking about something like this: http://www.teamusa.org/About-the-USOC/Training-Centers-and-Sites/Colorado-Springs But all under "one roof" so to speak. Again, this is not going to happen. I just think that this is the sort of thing that should* have been pursued from the get-go.
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    ^Lets not get another thread closed.
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    We have a lot of athletes that train year-in and year-out for the Olympics. The idea of having a permanent training facility (we have one in Colorado Springs) isn't a bad idea. Anyone involved in an Olympic sport (which is a lot of sports) would be able to use it. Any one training for the Olympics through the US Olympic Committee would use it. I'd imagine it would be a huge training complex that could be indoor/outdoor and have trainers/dorms/weight rooms/medical stuff along with mess facilities etc. It wouldn't just be a big running track. But like I said its beyond doubtful something like that would ever happen. Though it would make sense. Who would pay for it is the tougher question.
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    ^I like that you remembered our metric friends and included a 50m designation. I like the idea of a multi-use Olympic training venue...but realize that's out'a the question.
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    You can actually post a new topic with a poll yourself. Or would that be a pole? Or a Pol? Or both?!
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    In number of floors... building heights can be deciving. Petronas Towers "passed" the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in total height, but certainly not in the number of floors, or even highest floor level. I was going to say a 52 floor tower with 40 floors of residential was looking to be quite ambitious.
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    Yeah. That is pretty much it. I'm lazy and don't feel like clicking through 3-4 pages and 20 posts trying to find a summery of your reasons for not building an indoor ski-slope... Clearly the Astrodome is a hot topic in this town, and clearly its deserving of some sort of re-use. Aside from my Alpine bio-dome idea (which is probably way too expensive - though I see a future in that sort of thing in 20-30 years), I've long felt the best re-use is a sports re-use. We missed the boat with the US Mens National soccer team training facility, why not repurpose it for an Olympic training facility? That could include trainers rooms, medical rooms, weights, aerobic training center, dormitories, non track and field spaces (for gymnasts etc.). Sure that would be a hefty re-fit/renovation, but we're talking about a fairly extensive renovation to begin with. It seems that the county people have completley taken this reasonable (you can phase it as deemed necessary) off the boards. Why? Why not re-use a stadium for sports related purposes? Seems odd.
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    Sounds like a 52 floor building including the parking deck. ?
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