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Circle 8 is installing the tower cranes this weekend.

Let's see... a 77019 zip code. PLUS Easy access to downtown. PLUS Easy access to Buffalo Bayou Park. PLUS Easy access to River Oaks (empty nesters). PLUS Easy access to ROD and Galleria. PLUS Easy access to Montrose foodie haven. PLUS Easy access to TMC. PLUS Easy access to Museums. PLUS Hotel amenities and service. PLUS Room service at home. PLUS Whole Foods adjacent. PLUS Art Car Parade Route. PLUS 4th of July Fireworks views. PLUS Cool hotel when visitors come. PLUS I've long considered this area the best place in Houston for high rise residential. It truly is the "center" of it all. The views will either be of a green belt and downtown, a green belt and the sunset to the west over Memorial Park, or urban views of downtown. TMC, Montrose, Greenway, Uptown. The only thing missing is transit. This is why I will continue to beg for a street car down West Dallas from the Allen Center to Shepherd. It's a no brainer. Heck, make a fake one with no tracks... just a trolley on wheels that runs loops all day. There are thousands of units within a couple of blocks of Dallas now. Do it.

Steel going up

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/02/17/photos-take-a-tour-of-this-downtown-private.html?ana=twt ^^^ not so bad at all. i am really proud of this most wonderful downtown college preparatory institution.....

From yesterday Aris at Market Square by Marc longoria, on Flickr

We <3 Houston by David Luna

"Giant steak (400g)". What is that, about 14 ounces?......... that's an appetizer to many a "cowboy" in Texas.

I saw this little gem in the touristy area of Berlin. We tried what they called a margarita (it wasn't.. lol), but weren't about to try the food... lol

My thing is; While the new restaurants are cool and all, what ever happened to the supposed retail district they were talking about a few years back. Are those plans DOA now?

I totally agree with this. Area's like the Convention center are for the tourists and so will have more chain restaurants. Thats pretty typical even for most cities. For example in Berlin, If you go to Berlin Mitte (the center of the city) you will see more chain restaurants and touristy places offering "authentic german food" and its expensive because its for tourists, but if you really want to eat what the locals eat then you go to those neighborhoods that are for locals and have local foods...and of course the prices will be cheaper. In Houston's case all you have to do is take a trip down to midtown, montrose, and washington ave or The Heights to eat more local stuff.

As did I back in 98-99.

The lifestyle center will front BBP and bears a striking resemblance to BP's (no relation) ultra modern data center on their campus. The Thompson is definitely approaching 40 stories and, as currently designed, shares a similar aesthetic to Hanovers 2nd BLVD place tower but with a more modern bent. Designs are still being finalized but they want the Thompson to be an architectural landmark and I think they are achieving it thus far. Presales of the condo units are needed prior to groundbreaking.

What about a restaurant-filled observation tower shaped like the Oilers logo with a driving range all on top of the convention center? (Oh...and the observation tower has a skywalk from a new Ritz-Carlton on the site of a newly-razed Embassy Suites)

It makes absolute sense to have these type of eateries in the convention area. Tourist hot spots cater to the stereotypical tourist. Why pay twice as much for an Olive Garden meal in Times Square or waste your time in a Ripley's? I cannot answer that, but people like it, and good for them. If there's going to be a place for that, might as well be Downtown, and might as well be by the GRB. If someone wants "better" options or where us locals will go, they will turn to the internet and find it. Unless they know someone whom lives here. But for the love of all that is holy stop chanting for an Observation Tower.

https://houston-texas-us.blogspot.com/2017/02/riverfront-blight-kbr-redevelopment.html

I think until the tower is under construction to replace the current parking garage podium, the title should stay as it is. The site hasn't given us a replacement for the Houston club yet, just an ugly garage with a pretty picture on one side

Ugh... that needs to come back to me and get off the ground. I love it so much I want to take it behind the middle school gym and get it pregnant.

Are you new to Houston, LTAWACS? Nothing gets built here without the parking garage first. The rest of the building will come around it.