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2. Edward A. Thomas Building - Wikipedia

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   The Edward A. Thomas Building, [2] or 1200 Travis, is a 28-story building in Downtown Houston, Texas that is currently occupied by the Houston Police Department as its current headquarters. At one time it was known as the Houston Natural Gas Building. [3] The building houses HPD's administrative and investigative offices. [4]

3. Great Southwest Building - Wikipedia

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   The project was slated to receive a 15,000 tax credit per unit from the Houston Downtown Living Initiative, a program designed to encourage residential development in the city center. [5] However, in 2016, the building was sold to Choice Hotels International . [ 4 ]

4. Houston Center - Wikipedia

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   Houston Center was one of the largest private development projects ever, however only a small portion of the plan was realized, leaving a large swath of downtown Houston covered in parking lots and vacant land. [6] Panhandle Eastern Corporation acquired Houston Center when Texas Eastern was sold to Panhandle for $2.5 billion in stock in June 1989.

5. Memorial Drive (Houston) - Wikipedia

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   Memorial Drive is an arterial road in the western half of Houston, Texas, United States. It runs from Interstate 45 west to State Highway 6 , a distance of approximately 20 miles (32 km). A 1-mile (1.6 km) section goes through several predominantly higher-income residential neighborhoods in the cities of Houston , Bunker Hill Village , Piney ...

6. Calpine Center - Wikipedia

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   The Houston office of HOK designed the building, and Turner Construction acted as the general contractor. [3] It is connected to the downtown tunnel system . Mark Russell of Studley, a real estate firm, said that the Calpine Center is more efficient than many of the tall office buildings built in Houston in the early 1980s.

7. Magnolia Hotel (Houston) - Wikipedia

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   The Magnolia Hotel Houston is a hotel located at 1100 Texas Avenue, in downtown Houston, Texas. It was the tallest building in Houston from 1926 to 1927. The building once served as headquarters for the Shell Oil Company, and later home to The Houston Post-Dispatch.

8. Total Plaza - Wikipedia

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   The Petroleum Club of Houston occupies the building's 35th floor. [21] The club was forced to move from the ExxonMobil Building due to the building's impending sale and renovation. The club's ExxonMobil space was scheduled to close after January 10, 2015, and its new quarters in the Total Plaza were scheduled to open two weeks later.

9. JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston) - Wikipedia

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   Originally completed in 1981 as Texas Commerce Tower and commissioned by Texas Commerce Bancshares, the skyscraper attains a height of 1002 feet with 75 floors. Overlooking United Energy Plaza located on Capitol Avenue and Milam Street, it features the Joan Miro sculpture, Personage and Birds. A terrace on the plaza includes a water garden. [4]