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    Don't both Villa d'Este and Montebello have underground parking capped with a parklike setting?
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    Rode them several times last week going back and forth from my office to the GRB. Nice buses. Great service.
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    There is a large dumpster on the sidewalk. Looks like some serious interior demolition work going on. Hopefully, they have finally gotten back to work on the conversion to a hotel.
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    This is one case where it may actually be useful to read the comments. The last comment, posted at 11:26 AM: I reached out to Daniel Krueger (City of Houston Director of Public Works) asking him about the status of the project. Below is a copy/paste of his e-mail response to my inquiry. Thank you for writing with your concern. Unfortunately, the anonymously offered blog entry is highly inaccurate. The Public Works and Engineering Dept has recently addressed project issues to the entity responsible for the project, the Midtown Redevelopment Authority in conjunction with TIRZ 2, regarding the conformance of the already constructed and proposed improvements with the City’s Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan. These issues can be readily addressed by the project’s sponsor with minor revisions to the project. With such revisions the project can conform with the Plan and yet provide for vehicular mobility, pedestrian mobility, and use of street space for parking, overall still fulfilling the project purpose. Such revisions need not be cause for delay, reconstruction, or significant additional expenditures. We appreciate your interest in these public improvements.
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    My guess is you misunderstood the report. They quoted the Menil spokesman, who happened to be in Germany at the time. The people doing the restoration were in Houston.
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    The Menil did the restoration in their own conservation lab. In Houston, Texas. The painting did NOT go to Germany. "Most of the damage, virtually all has been taken care of,” he said. “But you have to wait and see.”
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    But that is NOT the end of the story. Voters also approved diverting part of the 1 cent tax to the cities for general mobility project.
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    Great news! Don't they know that, come 2015, there will no longer be adequate traffic at Bush to sustain such expansions of international service?
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    I had gotten the impression that the Apache property would still be part of the Blvd Place development, and that, while obviously requiring a substantial redesign, there might still be a continuous flow of retail from end to end of the development. Is that not the case?
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    Exactly. 2018 is not as far away as it sounds.
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    LOL Post of the day.
  12. Houston19514
    All very interesting. And yet more evidence that Southwest's international service will help grow the international O&D market. You are quite correct that Houston historically has had pretty low O&D numbers. I don't know why. But I recall years ago reading that is one of the reasons Continental saw so much potential to grow their hub here... because the O&D market had huge room for growth. And as Tory mentioned above, if it is loss of connecting traffic that is going to kill our routes, the effect on United (and therefore, on Houston) would have been identical whether Southwest's flights are operated out of Hobby, Austin, or even had they been operated out of Bush (which United very dishonestly pretended to welcome with open arms). Any thoughts on why Houston's O&D traffic is relatively low? That has always struck me as odd. (Currently, it is no doubt at least partially attributable to the monopolistic pricing imposed by United... but not sure that explains the historical pattern.)
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    Beautiful! Thanks for posting.
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    The most obvious problem with that analysis, is that United, and especially its Houston hub, will have to compete with Southwest for connecting traffic to Latin America/Caribbean destinations and would have had to do so no matter what decision was made by the Houston city council. Southwest will fly to those destinations. If not from Houston, then from Austin, San Antonio, Atlanta, New Orleans. Maybe even Oklahoma City. In any case, connecting passengers don't give a hoot which of those they connect through and would have provided the same competition to Houston's connecting traffic as it will by coming through Hobby. Was Miami's international traffic hurt be the establishment of low-fare international service from Fort Lauderdale Airport? No.
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    This is an awesome development, with amazing architecture and will be beautiful when completed. The relocations from Virginia and elsewhere are obviously great news for Houston (and I still think the corporate HQ will end up on this campus as well). But, still, every time I read about it I get a little sick to my stomach thinking about they could have done on the vacant blocks surrounding their current downtown tower. Building structures containing about 2.5 million square feet of space added to the existing approx. 1 million square feet of space in the current tower... Could have added 2 or 3 major skyscrapers to our downtown. :-(
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    Thanks. Link?
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    I'm pretty sure the interchange was not completely rebuilt the last time around (the West Loop project that was completed circa 2007). As is often the case, the interchange is a major choke point for both the Southwest Freeway and the Loop. What is surprising about this plan is that it does not appear to address the major backups on the 59 Southbound to Loop Northbound ramp.
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    Not saying you're wrong, but how do you know how many trees they will plant along Yale?
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    You can click on the warning points to see details.
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    Awesome! Way to go, Mom!
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    OLD NEWS. This information was posted April 27, 2012 in a thread titled "Generation Park"
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    Leave it to Houston reporters to miss half the story.
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    Exactly right. And there is nothing remotely complicated about it.
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    Subterfuge, my friend. In other words, "we are incapable of competing and don't even have the creativity to come with a plan to attempt to do so"; If you are a smart stockholder, you'll bail out now while we still have SOME value. If they can't compete against Southwest here, how will they compete against them in Denver, Austin, San Antonio, Los Angeles, etc. etc. etc.? Wouldn't a rational, aggressive, intelligent business use the intervening 3 years to develop their network and service so they will be able to withstand the coming competition? Truly pathetic.
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    Nothing on the Blvd Place website about this so far. I just went back to review Apache's expanded lease at Post Oak Central. They lease almost 1/2 million square feet. And they only signed up through 2018. That probably gives them a couple years before they need to start construction, but also tells us it would be a pretty substantial building.
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