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  1. Houston19514
    FWIW, they appear to be taking restaurant reservations well into late October (I checked for October 20, to be specific).
  2. Houston19514
    The batter's eye paint is interesting, but I'm pretty sure the building permits referenced up-thread are not related to this new paint.
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    Yeah, and that article talked about as much about the other cities as it did about Houston. Interesting that the Chron article says the four cities are working together. The recent DMN article makes it sound like it's Houston vs AUS/DAL/SAT
  4. Houston19514
    And the overall ranking (public and private national universities), UH moved up 48 spots! (tied for #133)
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    ROFL Riiiiiggghhttt First you told us Live Nation "drilled this stuff into [your] head". Now it magically becomes Isaac Tigret who told you . . . Isaac Tigret has not been CEO of HoB since 1997 and he left HoB entirely in 1998, long before anyone from Live Nation (let alone Isaac Tigret himself) was telling stories to HoB Houston employees. (The Houston HoB opened in 2008.)
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    Someone may have told you that take, but that doesn’t make it true. The founder’s stated mission was the preservation of blues music and they opened as a restaurant and live music venue. Here’s a story about their grand opening. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1992/12/10/the-house-of-blues-pbmbonday-november/
  7. Houston19514
    But it’s not in River Oaks.
  8. Houston19514
    To be clear, the first House of Blues was a concert hall and restaurant.
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    FWIW, Metro is also engaged in a large bus-stop improvement project, including hundreds upon hundreds of new shelters. (And, per this Chronicle article, before these new shelters, about 63% of Metro bus stops were without shelters.) https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/metro-fan-bus-shelter-solar-power-18298783.php
  10. Houston19514
    Yeah, it's bigger than a downtown block.
  11. Houston19514
    I think it's still there. Zoom in and you can see what are probably the jets or inlets where the water comes in to the feature. The layout is pretty much as was shown in the renderings.
  12. Houston19514
    It is still the headquarters of Southwestern Energy. IF there was a building name-change (and I'm not at all sure there was a name-change), it probably occurred when Southwestern Energy down-sized their space usage and it became a multi-tenant building (in 2020).
  13. Houston19514
    I'm trying to locate this. Did you mean something other than Holcombe Blvd? I don't think Holcombe Blvd ever gets near the South Loop.
  14. Houston19514
    Sales appear to be going very well. Per a recent Chronicle article, there were only 20 units left (out of, I think, 115).
  15. Houston19514
    It’s been reported on airliners.net that “Terminal B North is closing January 7, 2024 for demolition” Terminal B North is closing January 7, 2024 for demolition
  16. Houston19514
    Not seeing how it would depress the value. They may indeed be required to charge their sister company a market rent. But by definition, charging market rent neither depresses nor elevates the value of the building. And more to the original point, renting to a sister company tells us nothing about the softness of the building. Again, if the lessee sister company is going to pay market rent for office space, why would they not pay it to their lessor sister company, rather than to a third party? It would be kinda odd to do otherwise.
  17. Houston19514
    Interesting, but I don't think it smacks of a soft building. Why wouldn't they want to pay rent to their sister company, rather than to someone else?
  18. Houston19514
    Why do you say that?
  19. Houston19514
    Or, kinda cool that, for like 40 years, Houston has been the only city in Texas with a supertall (and Houston has 2!)
  20. Houston19514
    So much for "innocent until proven guilty", eh? 😉
  21. Houston19514
    Yeah, I think it was completed ten or so years ago
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    After a quick perusal of your linked articles and a little Googling, I have not found any "incentives for big companies to persuade employees to use trains/ public transportation when traveling home/ offices!" They might be buried in there somewhere, but I couldn't find them. Interestingly, the StreetBlog article you linked tells us: "Worth noting: One major way to reduce single-occupancy vehicle trips is not having on-site parking, which the Connected Communities ordinance did not address for non-residential uses, allowing them to still have an unlimited amount of on-site car parking outside of the D zoning districts." A lot of what the Connected Communities ordinance does looks pretty similar to Houston's TOD Development ordinance.
  23. Houston19514
    I think what Chicago "offers" is merely the federal (IRS) allowing pre-tax payroll deductions of up to $300 per month to be used for transit. The same program is available in Houston.
  24. Houston19514
    Yes, it was automated, but there was still a driver/operator on board.
  25. Houston19514
    The listing of subways and other such transit systems that may or may not operate without drivers tells us pretty much nothing about the potential for fully autonomous vehicles operating on streets.
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