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  1. Houston19514
    I remain skeptical of this plan. I feel like a semi-creative architect could incorporate the lower levels of building 3 in to a City Centre-type development, converting the upper floors into hotel and/residential. A City Centre-type development will require some hotel/residential space anyway.
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    Nope. The Episcopal Health Foundation building is at Prairie and Fannin. No meals are served there, but they let the sidewalks be a campground at night. The Beacon is two blocks further east. The Episcopal Health Foundation is kinda like a big middle finger to the downtown community, IMO. (Part of the reason I no longer go to church there)
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    And another 699,000 square feet of available office space is scheduled to be completed this quarter. That will take Austin's downtown down to 69.9% occupied.
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    Yikes. Subtract another 6/10th percent from downtown Austin's office occupancy rate -- per Transwestern, that would take them down to 72.8% occupied, with a huge amount of space scheduled to be added to the market over the next several years.
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    Wow. Not too surprising and overdue. Anyone who has toured much of China has seen multiple HUGE high-rise projects that were never completed. It was CRAZY!
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    We had absolutely totally recovered from our 80s building spree. Not all that long ago, the office market in Houston was very tight and landlord -friendly. We just happen to be in another down-cycle.
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    Yeah, I think it must be just 1550 on the Green.
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    Here's some additional context: Austin, with its office market already 24.2% vacant, has another 7.2 Million square feet under construction (according to reports, mostly not pre-leased, and some that was pre-leased is available for sublease). The under-construction space will add 8.24 percent more supply. Downtown Austin is even worse: 2.4 million square feet under construction will add 14.13 percent more space to a market that is already 26.6% vacant. The entire Houston market only has 742,017 square feet of office space under construction; an addition to the market of a mere 3/10ths of 1 %. Downtown Houston has only 386,383 square feet under construction, an addition to the market of only 9/10ths of 1%.
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    ^^^ would LOVE to see Austin acquire something this magnificent...
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    Houston Chronicle Continues its Campaign to Prove "Math is Hard" Today's Chronicle treats us to the headline: "More renters and homeowners moved to Austin and Dallas than Houston since 2019, study finds". If one bothers to read the article, one finds that (1), the "study" did not even purport to examine or demonstrate how many people moved to Austin, Dallas or Houston (2) the "study" did not show larger numbers for Austin than for Houston. What the study examined was the percentage (and by extrapolation, the number) of homeowners and renters who moved into their current homes since 2019. It tells us nothing whatsoever about how many people moved to the respective cities from elsewhere. The numbers reported by the study (that the Chronicle can't grasp): Austin has 955,207 occupied housing units; "about 39%" of them (372,531) are occupied by people who moved into them since 2019. Dallas has 2.8 million occupied housing units; "almost 35% (910,000) are occupied by people who moved into them since 2019. Houston has 2.6 million occupied housing unit; "34%" (884,000) are occupied by people who moved in to them since 2019. Again, this was falsely reported by the Chronicle as showing that more people moved to Austin since 2019 than moved to Houston. What it actually shows is that more people in Houston moved in to their current residence since 2019 than did so in Austin. (And even more did so in Dallas.) This one is especially maddening because they took the story directly from Lending Tree, which reported it correctly! I guess they are also demonstrating to us that English is hard.
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    Great news! This seems like it might be a good deal bigger than the customer service hub awarded to Dallas
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    Oh…. When you said current, I presumed you meant current. The newest of your listed stadiums is the 15th newest in the league. But even among the ones you listed, most are hardly “urban” and are surrounded more by parking than by mixed use development.
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    Is there a current trend of urban football stadiums?
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    I'm not confused about the project. I'm confused about what you meant by your post: "As if". And I'm confused about your follow-up post. Per Dallasmetropolis "they" (presuming "they" are the developers of the proposed Four Seasons) are not up to anything other than trying to line up financing.
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    But it does go through his district...
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    We could tell it was just complainers doing what they do. The tell was in the "headline" claims. (1) Most of the trees being removed are spindly, unhealthy and have been butchered to keep them out of the electric lines (2) the dishonest "headline" that the trees are being removed to widen the sidewalks, when even the complainers surely know this is much more than just widening sidewalks (3) and of course no mention of the new boulevard that will have new trees or (4) the fact that there will be many more trees planted than are removed. One guesses that a lot of people signed that petition based on misinformation (to put it as nicely as I can). This reminds me of a question: does anyone know if they will be burying the electric lines as part of this project?
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    Yes, it does. We were discussing the north end, but thank you.
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    Houston continues to hold on to (and in fact slightly widen relative to DFW) its lead in international air traffic among Texas cities. 2023 YTD through August: Bush Intercontinental: 7,817,323 Hobby International: 703,467 Houston Total: 8,520,790 DFW: 7,505,999 San Antonio: 401,088
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    Not already "long closed". And everything did not go in one day. As others noted over the weekend. It was 60% off Sunday afternoon and already pretty cleaned out. Per Houston Public Media, the sale started Saturday @ 50% off. Sunday was 60%. Monday was 70%. "By Monday afternoon, employees put up “70 percent off” signs for what was left in the store: some vitamins and sparkling waters, glass vases and a handful of granola bars. The “60 percent off” wine aisle was still heavily stocked with Chardonnay and Rosé." It sounds like it may have closed Monday afternoon.
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    A pedestrian bridge across the bayou might be good (or it might be better to add better pedestrian accommodations on the existing Fannin, Braeswood and Berliner bridges), to get from Helix Park to the main campus of TMC. But if the goal is to get to the TMC TC, it would be better to just make sure we have good sidewalk infrastructure along S Braeswood and Fannin, the shortest, most direct rout to the TMC TC. (Sidewalks currently exist, but they could use improvement, especially on the Fannin St bridge.) FWIW, that conceptual rendering does not show a pedestrian bridge to the UT School of Public Health. It appears to suggest a pedestrian bridge over the bayou and then between two large sets of cooling towers (is that even feasible? I would guess not - it looks like there's only maybe 15 feet between them), and then perhaps connecting to MD Anderson's skywalk, which does not connect to the UT School of Public Health and would be a round-about way to get to the TMC TC.
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    The word from Airliners.net is that United is starting preliminary moves this week on their Terminal B project (such as closing Gates B25-30).
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    A pedestrian bridge from Helix Park to the UT School of Public Health on Pressler St? Why? How?
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    Did Buffalo Bayou ever run through a pine forest?
  24. Houston19514
    Per the article, they've apparently always had ribbon lighting; they are adding additional ribbons
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    The Lloyd Bentsen Highway moniker only applies to the Southwest Freeway portion of I69/US59 (starting at the intersection with I-45, and actually extending all the way to the intersection of US59 with IH35 at Laredo.) As you said, no one calls it that. It's Southwest Freeway in the Houston metro. 225 is the LaPorte Freeway. 288 is the South Freeway; not sure where that name drops off. It is the Nolan Ryan Expressway only from the Brazoria County Line to Freeport. 290 is also the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway. I think from Beltway 8 to the Waller County Line. Various sections of 249 are also known as Tomball Parkway, Tomball Tollway and Aggie Expressway. Also, US90 is the Crosby Freeway.
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