Talk:Downtown Houston

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anybody have pictures of the new development?

Major additions:

Made the Hotel and accommodations section to better list the hotels and updated the list of hotels. Added section for the court system and listed courts. added section in transportation section for Taxi's.

added small section about Houston Pavillions and Discovery Green since it now had a name.

Some buildings need to be renamed and links cleaned up, will do later this week. --Hourick 18:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Downtown office space

Seems that we're having a slight disagreement concerning office space. The source I gave (>40 million sq. ft.) from downtownhouston.com (CoStar Group, Inc.) [1] as well as CB Richard Ellis [2] and Stream Realty [3] all report over 40 million sq. ft. in the CBD. Another editor reduced this to >37 million sq. ft using Colliers as a source. Why would there be such a discrepancy between these sources and Colliers? Which number/source to use? Thanks, Postoak 07:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

It may depend on which numbers they're using. Could it possible they're only using CLASS A office space (high Rises) or are they including ALL office space? Another factor could be are they also including FUTURE office space that is currently under construction, while another could be using the ones that haven't broke ground yet. There is also depending on when the studies were done. It's maddening because I've been trying to get a straight answer on this as well on this and other bits of information.

--Hourick 12:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

It might have to do with reporting area and how many buildings are included --

CoStar Group: (40,764,512)

CB Richard Ellis: (42,300,628)

Stream Realty: 40,637,124)

Colliers: (37,161,160)

I have three sources that indicate greater than >40 vs. the Colliers number/source, so I will use the source from The Houston Downtown Management District [4]. Postoak 15:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Also CB Richard Ellis is the #1 commercial real estate company [5] and uses CoStar for data collection and reporting. Postoak 16:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

See? You answered your own question and a wise selection, I think. Now if I can only get the various entities to answer my email....--Hourick 01:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

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Broken Links

All of the footnotes linking to www.houstondowntown.com/something... now redirect to the main page of www.downtownhouston.org, which seems to be completely redesigned and doesn't contain the same fact sheets etc. as the old site. e.g. footnote 7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.217.250 (talk) 21:59, 18 June 2010 (UTC) I was going to edit the math in "Downtown Houston is a 1,178-acre, 108-square-mile area" to say "Downtown Houston is a 1,178-acre, 1.8-square-mile area", but I wanted to check facts first. Unfortunately I can't find the fact sheet that is in the footnote because of the broken link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.217.250 (talk) 22:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Retail

Re: This is the only freestanding middle-market department store in a central business district in the Southern United States.[citation needed]

This statement is incorrect since Miami also has a freestanding middle market department store in their downtown areas. Therefore I removed that statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kcardozo (talk • contribs) 09:03, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Sources about hotels

I found this source about convention center-area hotels:

• Sarnoff, Nancy. "Value-priced hotels planned for Houston convention district." Houston Chronicle. June 21, 2013.

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Somebody go to the original page and get the names of the second Esperson Building corrected to Mellie, NOT Millie. They were always referred to as the Niles and Mellie Esperson Buildings. No Millies needed. Fixed Postoak 09:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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County block book maps

Those related to the county government:

• Harris County Central Plant, in Downtown Houston: http://books.tax.hctx.net/BlockBooksPDF/v119/AE1997_119-1_0082.pdf and http://books.tax.hctx.net/v119/AE1997_119-1_0082.jpg - Next to a county courthouse

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I removed "more citations needed" templates

I added citations where they were tagged as needed, but I think this could be a record - an article with 217 references still having more citations needed tags. Newystats (talk) 12:19, 23 May 2024 (UTC)