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    Sorry, but your earlier post gave us nothing to agree or disagree with, just a pretentious and dare I say, juvenile, dismissal of the structure. Your latest post, however, is very interesting and actually tells us something. I have not seen the building up close, so I can really neither agree nor disagree with anything you have written. But I find your observations very interesting and informative and they make me want to see the structure even more than before. One question, you complain that the design is very busy for a Gothic style. I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that the Gothic style is a very busy style. Do I have my styles mixed up?
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    Whatever
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    The City of Houston still owns the property (the former Compaq Center) and Lakewood has a long-term lease. IIRC, it's something like a thirty-year lease with an option to renew for thirty additional years. KJB, do you have a source for your story about Lakewood trying to build where the downtown park is going to be? I'm highly skeptical. There was a connection between some of that land and the new Lakewood Church, but I think your source may have gotten the story confused. Here's the deal... Lakewood entered into the lease with the city to take over the Compaq Center. Crescent Real Estate objected to the lease. (Crescent owns the surrounding Greenway Plaza development, including, I believe, the parking garages.) Crescent also owned the land in front of the GRB downtown (they had held that land as part of the Houston Center development). The City had been wanting to acquire some of Crescent's land downtown. So as part of a global settlement among Lakewood, Crescent, and the City of Houston, Crescent agreed to allow Lakewood into the Compaq Center, Compaq and Lakewood agreed to terms regarding usage of parking facilities, and Crescent sold some of its downtown land to the City.
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    www.mosaichouston.com
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    Let's put an end to this silliness, once and for all. Yakuza was correct. BP's North American HQ is in Warrenville, Illinois North American headquarters 28100 Torch Parkway Warrenville, IL 60555-3938 United States Tel +1 630 420 5111 BP This is also somewhat of a remnant of its "Standard Oil days." BP first bought Standard Oil of Ohio, which was based in Cleveland. For a time, then, BP's North American HQ was indeed in Cleveland. But they later also bought Standard Oil of Indiana (aka Amoco), which was based in Chicago, downtown in the huge white skyscraper right on the lakefront known locally as "Big Stan". When the combined the former Standard of Ohio with the former Amoco, the North American HQ ended up in Chicago (or Chicagoland; I'm not sure when they abandoned the downtown skyscraper and moved to the suburbs.)
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    No, it wasn't that bad. It was essentially the same stuff we've been seeing in renderings on this board.
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    Christ Church's development of that block is also going to include a park. IIRC, the park will be about 1/2 of the block.
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    What is this Laquarda Low design you speak of? Have renderings been posted?
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    BP's North American headquarters is in Chicago or is it Cleveland...
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    BP's North American headquarters is in Chicago.
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    Here's link to the full plan
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    They are not taking over a hotel. As the article pasted above in this thread stated: "Hotel Indigo Houston will mark the brands first non-lodging commercial property conversion. " That means the building they are converting is not currently a lodging property. In other words it is not currently a hotel.
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    Not necessarily. At least in theory, these types of places generate their own business, "new" business, if you will, that would not otherwise be in Houston at all. This is very similar in concept to (but smaller than) the giant Gaylord Resort in Grapevine, Texas. It just opened a year or two ago. It does not seem to have hurt the D-FW hotel market, but I'd be interested in knowing...
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    I like that. Very well-said
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    No. the Prudential Tower is at 1100 Holcombe. This new building is behind a building at 1800 Holcombe.
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    Now, now. Don't get suicidal on us.
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    and it certainly wasn't a lack of attractive anchors that caused T&C's demise. They had: Dillard's JCPenney Neiman Marcus Marshall Field (replaced by Saks Fifth Avenue)
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    One cannot tell for sure which section of the park he's really talking about, which makes me smell some dishonesty on the writer's part. He does say that the westernmost block is not owned by the city and is clearly the worst-maintained. But then he never says which parts he does his "investigative" work in. Does he ever actually set foot in the portions that are owned by the city? He never tells us. From the totality of the article it really sounds like he's talking almost completely about the portion not owned by the city. It would have been helpful had he been more clear about this, but the Press prefers all negative, all screaming headlines, all the time. No nuance allowed.
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    Given that most of the pedestrian and retail market exists in the tunnels and not at street-level, I'm surprised they don't charge MORE for the tunnel-level space.
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    I get the impression from their website renderings that it will be open-air for the entire three blocks, with some bridges and canopy-type structures sprinkled in. It looks to be structured very similarly to the one in Denver, which also creates it's own pedestrian area isolated from the street.
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    5160 Hidalgo
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    I think you've been lied to. I'm pretty sure I've seen some gas cooktops in highrise buildings in Houston. The Mercer advertises gas cooktops in their units.
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    Chevron sold the "old" Chevron Building to Crescent, the owner of Houston Center. They have renamed it Fulbright Tower, in recognition of the primary tenant, the law firm of Fulbright and Jaworski.
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    That was one of two highly inaccurate and irresponsible headlines in the Chronicle JUST TODAY. I thought that paper was getting better, but it seems to be becoming more and more of a joke. and Nancy Sarnoff seems to have been infected a bit by the "all negative news all the time" malady of Ralph Bivins and much of the rest of the Chronicle. As others have noted, the second part of the headline: "loses biggest tenant" was NOT news.
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