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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 5:51 AM
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The Woodlands is starting to remind me of Tyson's Corner here in the DC area.

http://www.elkus-manfredi.com/project/the-woodlands/

I like seeing this. Is there a DT for The Woodlands?
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 6:41 AM
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Well it's wikipedias definition.

Care to provide your own numbers by your own definitions?
Not particularly, Double L. I just think that any definition of a skyscraper that includes a minimum of 400 feet is going to make the list of skyscrapers extremely small in most cities. It's too restrictive.

But anyhow, it doesn't really matter.

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Thankfully Urbanizer, for the most part, focuses on urban development that will have an impact on the core of the city. We don't need to know about every office park or garden style apartment complex that are a dime a dozen developing on the fringes.
This is the stuff that belongs in the General Development thread for Houston.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=209922
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 2:53 PM
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Wow, I never knew a 320+ foot building would look so small in Houston's skyline. Skyhouse looks really tiny in those pictures.
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Wow, I never knew a 320+ foot building would look so small in Houston's skyline. Skyhouse looks really tiny in those pictures.
I don't think it's that tall. The one in Austin is 264 feet and they're all more or less identical.
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 4:57 PM
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Bisnow is reporting two more hotels for the Woodlands - a Holiday Inn and a Staybridge Suites. Six and four floors, respectively.
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 4:59 PM
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The Woodlands is starting to remind me of Tyson's Corner here in the DC area.
Just much farther out.
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 5:13 PM
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I think that is more like Reston Town Center, VA near Dulles Airport.

http://www.sasaki.com/project/92/reston-town-center/

http://www.sasaki.com/media/files/01...n-center-2.jpg

Tysons Corner is similar to the Galleria Area in the millions and millions of square feet of office and retail.
Key words being "starting to remind me".

Anyhow, I was talking about the architectural style (new urbanist), the mass of office space being generated, the use of a mall as an anchor for shopping, etc.
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 5:25 PM
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Just much farther out.
I don't think of the Woodlands as anything more than a mere suburb but it's one of the few suburbs in the Houston region that's doing it's job and pulling it's weight (the others being Sugar Land and Katy). The jobs, office space, and the like are necessary, there should be a major job center in every corner of the Houston metro. It will keep things decentralized, will keep the housing prices in check (further from DT = lower housing prices for new construction in undeveloped areas), and most of all it will keep the chokehold that is known as traffic from entering the loop more ferociously than it has been in decades past.

TBH I don't know what Parker and her constituents at METRO were thinking by delaying the LRT expansions of the Post Oak and Richmond lines, I wonder how often she actually sits in the traffic known as 610 @ 59 to feel for the people of her city.
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This is the stuff that belongs in the General Development thread for Houston.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=209922
My understanding is the City Compilations forum is for everything which is development related.
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Old Posted Apr 28, 2014, 6:45 PM
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TBH I don't know what Parker and her constituents at METRO were thinking by delaying the LRT expansions of the Post Oak and Richmond lines, I wonder how often she actually sits in the traffic known as 610 @ 59 to feel for the people of her city.
There is a certain impediment named John Culberson, who is preventing the Red Line from getting out west along Richmond. Time for some traffic problems!
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I don't think of the Woodlands as anything more than a mere suburb but it's one of the few suburbs in the Houston region that's doing it's job and pulling it's weight (the others being Sugar Land and Katy). The jobs, office space, and the like are necessary, there should be a major job center in every corner of the Houston metro. It will keep things decentralized, will keep the housing prices in check (further from DT = lower housing prices for new construction in undeveloped areas), and most of all it will keep the chokehold that is known as traffic from entering the loop more ferociously than it has been in decades past.

TBH I don't know what Parker and her constituents at METRO were thinking by delaying the LRT expansions of the Post Oak and Richmond lines, I wonder how often she actually sits in the traffic known as 610 @ 59 to feel for the people of her city.
I think of The Woodlands now as a city with an impressive core, far different from a "mere suburb". I do think of places like Cypress and Pearland as mere suburbs. They're different as night and day from The Woodlands.
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The Woodlands is starting to remind me of Tyson's Corner here in the DC area.

http://www.elkus-manfredi.com/project/the-woodlands/

I like seeing this. Is there a DT for The Woodlands?
yes there is a "downtown" in The Woodlands. there are two 450' towers along with a number of other mid-high rises. not counting the buildings/development on Lake Woodlands like Hughes Landing and Research Forest Lakeside.



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I don't think it's that tall. The one in Austin is 264 feet and they're all more or less identical.
true but the one in Austin is a floor shorter and a different roof design. id guess the Houston one is around 280'. still, shorter than the 320' guestimate.

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TBH I don't know what Parker and her constituents at METRO were thinking by delaying the LRT expansions of the Post Oak and Richmond lines, I wonder how often she actually sits in the traffic known as 610 @ 59 to feel for the people of her city.
as someone else mentioned, it was Culberson who blocked the federal funding, and thus halted the university and uptown rail lines. fortunately uptown is moving ahead with a BRT line, with local TIRZ(?) money, for the time being that can be converted in the future to light rail.
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I think of The Woodlands now as a city with an impressive core, far different from a "mere suburb".
The Woodlands has its own urban core, but it has been incorporated into the Houston city limits (unless it seceded), so being a city in its own right is not possible.

And I now see the area is not yet annexed but not able to incorporate.
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Wonder if the Woodlands will incorporate now or later or not at all?

Any thoughts by anyone?
I think the 50-year standstill is supposed to prevent either incorporation or annexation, but I can't help but think the Woodlands is going to end up in Houston eventually, as will Springwoods. The locals may not like it but it will prevent the city from being noosed by independent suburbs (e.g., Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis).
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