[QUOTE=DFW;2974609]Houston has height restrictions downtown since the seventies Chase Tower was originally Texas Commere Bank and was proposed to be 80-stories but was reduced to 75-stories due to Hobby Airport, Hobby is being expanded as well today, it won’t happen there.
So maybe they should consider Dallas instead of Houston.
Dallas has no height restrictions on the western half of downtown.
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This is an urban myth. Houston actually had a couple of proposals to build even taller buildings than Chase back in the early '80's. One building, the Bank of the Southwest Tower, was supposed to be around 1400' tall but the real estate market collapsed only days before constuction was to begin.
There's actually a thread on the subject in the HAIF forum.