State of Commercial Real Estate: Real estate experts look at the future of The Woodlands

When The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC) announced last year its plans to move the company’s headquarters from Dallas to The Woodlands, many local real estate professionals greeted the news with a collective, “Yeah, that makes sense.”

Why wouldn’t a top-tier real estate developer want to plant a flag its largest, and arguably most successful, master-planned community?

Since its founding in 1974, The Woodlands has grown into an economic powerhouse on the borders of the nation’s fourth…