Houston's economic diversity Thread .. (Dallas, Austin: law, floor, marketplace)

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

With a $125 million investment supporting 400 jobs, Southwest Airlines is growing at Hobby Airport. , increasing the areas economic diversity.

Southwest Airlines’ largest maintenance facility is now open in Houston.


People tour Southwest Airlines $125 million maintenance facility at Hobby Airport Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, in Houston.
Photo: Steve Gonzales, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer

The $125 million, 240,000-square-foot facility opened Wednesday at Hobby Airport, boasting enough room to hold 14 Boeing 737 planes — six inside the hangar and eight more outside — as the airline looks for continued growth in Houston.

The maintenance facility has 140,000 square feet of hangar space and 100,000 square feet for offices, parts storage, paint booth and other support areas. Outside the hangar is 450,000 square feet of apron paving and two wash stations.

The facility’s nearly 400 employees will be capable of conducting a wide variety of activities, ranging from large scheduled maintenance reviews and scheduled projects that could include changing an engine to unscheduled maintenance issues such as an aircraft being struck by lightning, said Landon Nitschke, Southwest’s senior vice president of technical operations.
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Back in January Southwest Airlines opened a $125 million maintenance facility at Hobby Airport. Not to be outdone United has opened a nearly $200 million maintenance facility at Intercontinental, both creating jobs, travel opportunities and of course increasing Houston's economic diversity.

United Airlines opened a nearly $200 million maintenance facility Thursday at Bush Intercontinental Airport.

The Technical Operations Center is 375,000 square feet and includes a warehouse distribution center, a building for support personnel such as engineering teams and maintenance record teams and 260,000 square feet of aircraft hangar space.

The hangar is large enough to accommodate three wide-body aircraft, such as Boeing’s 787, 767 or 777.

United has roughly 2,000 employees who will work from the Technical Operations Center, which will house line maintenance where technicians perform quick, routine maintenance, such as inspecting an aircraft’s engine oil, wheels or brakes.
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[jfre81]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

That's because vertical universities are only common in NYC.

There are several of them in Chicago.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by jfre81

There are several of them in Chicago.

Yeah they have a few. But not any of the scale of A&M that I know of?

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Yeah they have a few. But not any of the scale of A&M that I know of?

Roosevelt University's Wabash Building is 32 floors. Second-tallest higher education building in the world. They also have some offices in the Gage Buildings where my work is.

Columbia College is scattered among several buildings on Michigan Avenue.

I'm not sure what makes this so unusual to you. TMC has been building vertical for a good while now.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Andrew Levy raised $125 for startup airline planned to be based in Houston called “Houston Air Holdings”.

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[Jack Lance]

Tilman Fertitta is at it again, consuming another Steak house brand, this one Hq'ed in Florida, and increasing Houston's economic diversity.

Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta plans to acquire The Palm steakhouse chain out of bankruptcy in a deal worth at least $50 million, further expanding his business empire.
Fertitta, who also owns the Houston Rockets, said on Friday he has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the iconic restaurant chain, whose Naples, Fla.-based licensing company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year. The deal, expected to close in mid-March, is pending final approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida.

New exterior entrance The Palm, Houston.Photo: Palm Restaurant

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The Palm, founded in New York by Italian immigrants in 1926, has 21 locations nationwide, including a steakhouse and lobster restaurant in Houston that opened in 1978.

“The Palm is one of the storied restaurant brands in America, and we are excited for this opportunity,” Fertitta said in a statement. “The Palm is a perfect complement to our portfolio of steakhouse concepts.”
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[Jack Lance]

HPE breaks ground on new campus keeping their Houston workforce local helping to keep the Greater Houston economy diversified.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise campus breaks ground in Springwoods Village

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will relocate to a new campus in CityPlace at Springwoods Village in spring 2022. Located at the southwest corner of East Mossy Oaks Road and Lake Plaza Drive, the development consists of two, 5-story buildings totaling approximately 440,000 square feet.
Photo: Patrinely Group

Construction has started on Hewlett Packard Enterprise's amenity rich campus in Springwoods Village with completion planned in spring 2022.

The project, consisting of approximately 440,000 square feet across a pair of five-story buildings connected by bridge at each level, is being built in the 60-acre CityPlace mixed-use urban district. The campus, at the southwest corner of East Mossy Oaks Road and Lake Plaza Drive, will have parking for [LEFT]The campus is a primary location for core research and development for Palo Alto, Calif.-based HPE. Its employees will relocate from its campus near Texas 249 and Louetta in northwest Houston. 2,055 cars.

The campus is a primary location for core research and development for Palo Alto, Calif.-based HPE. Its employees will relocate from its campus near Texas 249 and Louetta in northwest Houston.

The final plan for the campus is about 20 percent smaller than the 568,000 square feet originally announced in October 2018. It will support customer engagement, sales operations, supply chain and other global functions for the company, including finance, human resources and marketing.
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[ParaguaneroSwag]

Jack, why haven’t you spoken about Levy’s airline’s recent announcements?

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

The Middle America store could have gone to Dallas or Chicago. Chicago has the Mag Mile and Woodfield in Schaumburg (very close to O'Hare). Dallas has swankier demographics centered on the Park Cities (e.g. NorthPark) and the $30,000 Millionaires in the yuppie inner-city and Collin County/Southlake suburbanites.

Zadig & Voltair just opened their first Texas location in Houston. Hate bringing up old topics, but re-establishing my point that Houston has been the hottest middle America market as far as luxury shopping goes. All it took was getting the right places. When a project as impactful as the River Oaks District opens, it affects the entire city. The Galleria, Highland Village, Woodlands, etc had to step their game up. It’s like adding Lebron James to a team, he makes all the pieces around him better. Now that there are the locations, the true potential for Luxury shopping in Houston is showing. Since then, Houston has been the most attractive market for luxury shopping in “Middle America”.

As for how it relates to Houston’s economy diversifying, Houston establishing itself as the premier Texas destination for luxury shopping creates a lot of “retail tourism”. Houston is specifically highly toured by wealthy people of Mexico and Central America.

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Jack, why haven’t you spoken about Levy’s airline’s recent announcements?

Paraguanero you just posted about it, both in this thread and another. If I see something about it that you haven't mentioned yet I will.