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  1. Houston19514
    I think November is the target for a decision.
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    1. You are assuming the current owner knew about it. If there is no knowledge, there is obviously no duty to disclose. 2. Even if the current owner knew about it, there is no duty to disclose a murder that took place in a building that formerly occupied a lot. In the case of a townhouse occupying 1/2 of a former bungalow lot, does anyone really even know that the murders took place on this particular townhouse's lot? 3. It will not have a material effect on the townhouse's value and even that minimal effect will diminish over time. To the extent there is any effect on the market value, it aleady has occurred, and your friend is benefiting from that reduced value. It sounds as if your friend might be looking for justification for not closing. You should advise your friend to man up and fulfill his/her contractual obligations. This is not a justification for terminating a real estate purchase contract. Failing to close will expose your friend to a suit for damages.
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    I wish/hope that they are looking at rehabbing the building rather than tearing it down. Looks to me like it could be converted into a nice apartment building, maybe? It's great that Skanska plans a new building, but it drives me crazy that they apparently plan to tear this decent, substantial building down for it, rather than fill in one of the still-far-too-numerous surface lots.
  4. Houston19514
    Awesome. Thanks for posting.
  5. Houston19514
    It was not a city park, but was privately owned by the owners of Houston Center, thus its name: Houston Center Gardens, or something like that.
  6. Houston19514
    There is a nonprofit called Trees for Houston that I am sure would welcome your help and contributions.
  7. Houston19514
    Post the loan extension document here. Or are you only interested in driving traffic to your own website?
  8. Houston19514
    What sunken plaza?
  9. Houston19514
    All of that is true, but not necessarily dispositive. You are probably right that Brookfield won't do anything soon; however, if they come across a strong anchor or anchors that want space in a new tower, they will not hesitate to build, regardless of the vacancies in their existing buildings. FWIW: Chevron just extended their lease in Continental Center 1 or whatever it is called now for 311,000 square feet, so presumably they are vacating or already have vacated 150,000 sq feet.
  10. Houston19514
    Just a little over 2 years.
  11. Houston19514
    I found this intriguing, so I did the calculations this afternoon. The result: the population growth in inner loop Houston is almost insignificant in the context of the overall metro growth. The total population growth inside the loop was only 13,028. Even if we loook only at the growing side of the inner loop (the west side -- west of the North Freeway, west of the South Freeway and including the CBD), the net growth was only 29,704. That is only 20% of the city's population growth and less than 2.5% of the total metro population growth. (For every additional person added to the west inner loop during the decade, we added 39 additional people elsewhere in the metro area.)
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    According to Wikipedia, the St. Lukes Tower in Tokyo is 47 stories -- 221 meters tall (and calling it "twin-towered" is a bit misleading... there are two towers, but they are at best fraternal twins, with one's growth having been severely stunted... a mere 146 meters tall). As Simbha also reported above, neither of the buildings are hospital buildings. The shorter is residential. The taller is commercial office space (and I don't mean medical offices).
  13. Houston19514
    Correct. Chevron had been leasing the entire 1400 Smith Building.
  14. Houston19514
    What is the price tag on the "vastly expanded HOV/HOT lane network?"
  15. Houston19514
    Direct quote from what/whom?
  16. Houston19514
    Ralph's report includes the most definitive statement we have seen to date regarding the HQ. Each of us can decide how much faith to put in Ralph's reporting.
  17. Houston19514
    What do we know about the size, scope, timing, who, or amenities that we did not know yesterday? (Size and scope we knew as much yesterday as we do today. Timing was fairly easy to estimate given that work has already started. We knew as much yesterday about "who" as we do today... some undefined group of employees currently scattered around Houston; others from outside Houston still to be determined. Specific design and look is new information; General design is not new. Amenities is fairly obvious for a corporate campus.)
  18. Houston19514
    The statement to the employees neither states nor implies anything about the world headquarters.
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    So... we know very little, if anything, more than we did yesterday. Among the things we still do not know with certainty: the future of the downtown tower; the future of the world headquarters; or even the future of the Virginia campus.
  20. Houston19514
    I'd put my money on Peter Marzio.
  21. Houston19514
    ... and Victory Park looks like a suburban office park.
  22. Houston19514

    United Airlines

    Houston19514 replied to brain's topic in Planes

    Just to be clear, the city is not spending any general revenue money on this project. All of the money going in to this project is generated by the airport.
  23. Houston19514
    LOL. How thoughtful you to provide us with a demonstration of a couple additional forms of intellectual dishonesty.
  24. Houston19514
    And. . . ??? That is just silly. It is not structured as a loan, so there is no "pay back". So what. The money will still be returned to the state via tolls and will be available for other projects. Not so if the money is spent on commuter rail. Intellectual dishonesty indeed.
  25. Houston19514
    Yeah, sort of like the intellectual dishonesty of pretending there is no difference between toll roads built with taxpayer money (that will be paid back by collecting tolls) and commuter rail also built with taxpayer money (but will almost certainly never collect enough fares to cover operating costs, let alone construction and capital investment).
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