Comment of the Day: ExxonMobil’s New Pine-Fresh Scent
“. . . And about those trees. Those are shit trees. I know because I grew up around them, they’re second growth pines that shed pine needles half the year, and disgorge nasty pollen for weeks. They’re...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Feeling the Energy All Around Houston
“I see nothing wrong with XOM making the move to the Woodlands area. It now creates a third energy corridor in the Houston metro area, and a different environment in which to recruit. CBD has Chevron,...
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ExxonMobil’s Humble Gift to the City?
What will happen to its well-shaded 44-story downtown headquarters building at 800 Bell St., once ExxonMobil decamps for the new campus the oil giant is building at Houston’s northern reaches? The...
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Rounding Up Virginia and Ohio Workers, Sending Them to North Houston
The official tally of ExxonMobil employees who’ll be working out of the company’s enormous new campus just south of The Woodlands is now up to 10,000, approximately 2,000 more than reported last year....
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Closest Hotel to ExxonMobil, from Scratch
Has it been your lifelong dream to develop a quaint little hotel in the town center of a brand-new 1,800-acre “eco-themed” community in the shadows of the formerly woodsy new suburban-style corporate...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Springwoods Village Was a Long Time Coming
“So Exxon’s development of Kingwood lacked the office space and subsequent development of Greenspoint lacked the neighborhood? Finally combining the two? Houston: Stamped out by Exxon, one experiment...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Heading for Points Greener
“Unless I’m missing something, the whole thing seems like an egregious example of waste. You build Greenspoint 30 years ago and then for various reasons it’s no longer ideal, so do you improve it?...
View ArticleComment of the Day: What Would Have Kept ExxonMobil Downtown?
“Exxon pulling up stakes for Springwoods is something that I think Mayor Parker and the Houston Partnership should have worked hard to prevent. Encouraging ExxonMobil to build a new tower or towers in...
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Swindled Out of Land in Spring
Doug Britton thought he had the deal of a lifetime: a contract to buy 101 acres of land (in red on the map) just south of the spot in Spring where — it was rumored at the time — ExxonMobil planned to...
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Where Houston’s Building Offices
Where’s all the new office space in Houston? Here, reports Metrostudy’s David Jarvis. The lemming-like red dots cramming together on the Beltway and Katy Fwy. out toward the Grand Parkway denote...
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Some Curvaceous Space To Office with a Fountain View in Spring
And something like this 3-story, 2-building office complex should start going up this spring in Spring, reports the Houston Business Journal’s Shaina Zucker. Planned to sit on 7 and a half acres at...
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ExxonMobil Looking for Buyers for Park-Adjacent Chemical Headquarters
Set back behind the trees along I-10 and Memorial Dr. and beside the trails of Terry Hershey Park, the ExxonMobil Chemical Company Headquarters have gone up for sale. Marketing firm HHF says that the...
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Is This Southwestern Energy’s New Springwoods Village Headquarters?
A poster on HAIF has leaked this rendering that might show what Southwestern Energy is planning to build to consolidate its employees in Springwoods Village. It was first reported to be a 10-story...
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The Next Office Park Planned for Spring
Count ‘em: That’s a 9-building office park proposed to go in near the Walmart and Splashtown in Spring, south of the ExxonMobil campus. Finial Group is developing — that is, clearing the trees away...
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No, the Renovated Bell St. ExxonMobil Building Is Not Gonna Look Like This
When Twitter’s landlord Shorenstein Properties out of San Francisco acquired in January the ExxonMobil Building, it made a fuss about wanting to sync the somewhat standoffish tower at 800 Bell St....
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An ExxonMobil Campus Playground: TopGolf Building New Facility in Spring
You’ve got to make some divots before you can start replacing them: Construction will begin this week in Spring on another TopGolf in Houston. This 65,000-sq.-ft. bar, event venue, and aim-required...
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Boy Scouts Sell Camp Strake in Conroe To Master-Planned Community Master...
Camp Strake, owned by the Houston arm of the Boy Scouts of America since the 1940s, is now under contract to Johnson Development, responsible for communities like Sienna Plantation in Missouri City...
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The Natural Spaces Being Built into the ExxonMobil Campus
Here are some new renderings of the spaces between the buildings on the ExxonMobil campus under construction in Springwoods Village. The Houston Business Journal’s Shaina Zucker reports that the 20 or...
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The Apartments That Want ExxonMobil Passage
THE APARTMENTS THAT WANT EXXONMOBIL PASSAGE Here's a rendering of the complex Alliance Residential has just started building north of the ExxonMobil campus. The 3-story, 341-unit building will be...
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Redo of Classic ExxonMobil Tower Downtown Will Eat Fins, Fatten Up
An entry posted over the weekend to the website of Ziegler Cooper Architects indicates that the local firm has won Shorenstein Properties’ invited competition to remake the soon-to-be-former...
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