How Atlanta Does Urban

[IronTiger]

It might be, and was presented to the local media as what Century Square might look like.

 

EDIT: Yes it is. Never mind.

[cloud713]

Oh ok, that makes sense.. I was confused because I've been to CC a few times. Century Square will be a fantastic development for College Station if it comes out like CityCentre.

[citykid09]

It might be, and was presented to the local media as what Century Square might look like.

 

EDIT: Yes it is. Never mind.

 

I wish that they would put the buildings up to the street (university Drive) at Century instead of having the parking in the front. There will be enough foot traffic with the students alone.

[Slick Vik]

Let's be honest houston has one real walkable neighborhood, midtown.

[cloud713]

Hey citykid...

i realize this is over 6 months old but i searched the forums and couldnt find a mention of this anywhere.. its interesting to read about their experiences/opinions of our city. Atlanta was arguably the city of the 90s.. one could say Houston is the city of the future. its cool that people are coming here to learn from our success.

i especially like the part about the Atlanta delegates driving by the Exxon site counting all the cranes and then turning their heads the other way.. heh.

http://saportareport.com/blog/2013/05/atlanta-link-delegation-headed-to-houston-for-economic-success-tips/

http://saportareport.com/blog/2013/05/houston-mayor-annise-parker-tells-atlanta-link-group-that-her-city-makes-the-impossible-happen/

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/05/24/atlanta-leaders-find-houston-to-be.html?page=all

And while the 10-county metro Atlanta region decisively defeated a regional one-percent transportation sales tax in 2012, Houston voters went to the polls in November and resoundingly decided to invest in their region’s future. They approved $410 million in bond initiatives that will go toward libraries, health and safety facilities, parks, bayous, recreation centers as well as 150 miles of connected trails and linear parks along the Bayou Greenway Initiative.

Atlanta-based Site Selection Magazine recently said Houston was the “Top Metro” in the United States for 2012 corporate relocations and expansions.

Although Atlanta likes to claim that it is one of the nation’s top centers for corporate headquarters, Houston has more than twice as many of the nation’s Fortune 500 companies based in its region — 25 compared with Atlanta’s 12.

And Houston fared far better during the recession than the Atlanta region, enjoying 2.6 percent job growth last year alone. Between 2007 and 2012, Houston gained nearly 175,000 new jobs while Atlanta lost 178,000 jobs during the same period.

On a bus ride from the Woodlands to downtown Houston, the Atlanta LINK delegation passed the Exxon construction site. A group of Atlanta developers on the bus started counting nearly 20 cranes working on the 385-acre campus. After seeing all those cranes, all the Atlanta leaders could do was look the other way.