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  1. 700 block of Milam and the 700 block of Travis between Capitol and Rusk will be closed for the crane construction this weekend from 7pm Friday to 5am Monday according to Baker Concrete. This can only mean they are going ahead with the office portion of the build. Great news. I wonder what company made the decision to move into the new building?
    11 points
  2. This looks to be topping out. Finishing the 8th floor.
    7 points
  3. 7 points
  4. fullsizeoutput_1305 by George Zimzores, on Flickr
    7 points
  5. According to http://www.capitoltowerhouston.com/parking.asp, there are 10 planned floors for parking (2-11), ultimately covering the entire building footprint. We currently have the south half in place, IIRC at its full height (or danged close), serving Those Whose Parking Shall Not Be Disturbed. It doesn't look like they fill the joint. If they build out the full garage that will add to their parking revenue (as noted above). It'll also make it possible to finish out the tunnel and ground levels with their retail space, bringing back reasonable tunnel access for 600 / 601 Travis and 711 Texas in the process. Still, is that enough reason by itself? Flip side, unless Skanska's somehow recovered the lost Swedish art of levitation, they'll have to finish the garage (at least structurally) before they can build the tower, making the "we're doing the garage" comment accurate no matter what the ultimate scope is.
    6 points
  6. Keep in mind that the plan from the start was once construction on the tower was to commence, they would first finish the remaining portion of the garage. I find it hard to believe they would finish the garage, then once again deconstruct the crane. If they are putting the crane up, then this is moving forward and Bank of America or another large tenant inked a deal.
    5 points
  7. The city needs to do something about every block of downtown turning into parking garages. Cue Ross.
    5 points
  8. Initial plans for this block were scrapped after oil prices fell. Would have involved an office tower with a highly unconventional use of the ground floor. That's all I think my source would want me to reveal.
    4 points
  9. Maybe this can develop into downtown's Parking District North.
    4 points
  10. Sorry guys, my friend got the job as the crane op on this project. He says theyre just expanding the parking garage, making it even more massive. I think they just want to generate more parking revenue.
    4 points
  11. Feel free to PM me and tell me everything you know . You can't trust some folks on this board hehehe
    3 points
  12. OK - I will be that guy... Are you serious?
    3 points
  13. It's sort of funny how this pictures exists but if you turn 90 degrees on that balcony you'll see five empty lots.
    3 points
  14. I don't mean to further sidetrack this thread.. but those LEDs are color changeable, to keep with the downtown lighting theme. Note the other blue building lighting.. I'm right there with you on including the whole crown though. I'm not sure why they didn't carry the led lighting down the full sides of the fins, where the mechanical floors are. Ah well.. Aria is looking great. The more it comes along, the more I appreciate how it's style is respectful to the surrounding Market Sqaure neighborhood.
    2 points
  15. Parking revenue would be my guess. Also lower taxes and quicker start when the market turns.
    2 points
  16. 2 points
  17. Let's hope. It would be a subtle but welcome addition to the skyline...poking up next to Pennzoil
    2 points
  18. "New York-based McKinsey & Co., a global consulting firm, is relocating its Houston office to 609 Main, a company spokesperson confirmed to the Houston Business Journal. McKinsey will move into 36,000 square feet of space in 609 Main, per Colvill Office Properties’ Michael Anderson. Anderson, alongside Damon Thames, represents the building’s developer, Hines. McKinsey will relocate from 5 Houston Center, where it currently occupies 35,000 square feet, according to a McKinsey spokesperson and PMRG research." http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/03/15/exclusive-big-three-consulting-firm-to-relocate-to.html?ana=fbk
    2 points
  19. 1 point
  20. Just saw the for sale signs myself. This is all so exciting. Hopefully we can slowly connect downtown Heights to all the development along Shepherd.
    1 point
  21. So... There are for sale signs up for the areas currently occupied by the Chase drive-thru and associated 2-story building (essentially the entire block bounded by 19th, Lawrence, 20th and Nicholson, except for the two properties at 527 and 527 w 19th) as well as the Chase parking lot on the south side of 19th. There is also a for-sale sign up for the former Water Works tract, though NOT for the empty tract at the NW corner of Nicholson and 20th. My guess is that, rather than develop the two catty-corner sites they acquired at auction from CoH, Alliance will develop JUST the empty site, and try to sell the site with the water works buildings to be co-developed with the Chase site.
    1 point
  22. He is referring to the One Market Square lot, not this one.
    1 point
  23. Oil prices fell 2 years ago. If plans were scrapped then why follow through with demolition that cost millions if no plan exists for the site?
    1 point
  24. Don't you/didn't you have some connection to the people leasing this thing? Please PM if you can't reveal publicly...
    1 point
  25. That "whooshing" noise is the sound of this forums hopes and dreams flying away...
    1 point
  26. Skansa built a office building across from the Williams Tower with no tenant. It got get leased before it was finished. It has LEED Platinum status. Very exciting news!
    1 point
  27. Ugh I hate the LEDs on 609 Main, they could have included the whole crown and made the lights white not dark blue (sorry I know wrong thread)
    1 point
  28. lets hope so, I hope they add a few more floors to this so it'll be more noticable
    1 point
  29. You'll have the 10-story parking garage for One Market Square one block north of here to fill in the space.
    1 point
  30. I didn't realize how bad this demo was going to make this area look. Such a massive gap between the Chase tower to MSP!
    1 point
  31. IMG_9917 by George Zimzores, on Flickr IMG_9921 by George Zimzores, on Flickr
    1 point
  32. Tillman Tower has a better ring to it.................
    1 point
  33. Three downtown Dallas blocks eyed for mixed-use development
    1 point
  34. Public meeting on the development tonight. Some very quick details: Tract 2 (NW corner of Nicholson & 20th) will be an 8-story, 275-unit apartment building (80% 1BR, rest 2BR) East half of Tract 1 (SE corner of Nicholson & 20th) will be a 63-unit "boutique" apartment bldg (90% 2BR, rest 3BR) Harres Exezidis (Cottonwood, Lagrange, Liberty Station) is a partner in the development for the restaurant spaces Each of the existing buildings (4000 sf reservoir, 1700 sf and 4000 sf pumping buidlings) will be restaurant spaces, with additional patio space, as well as space for food trucks. Up to 5000 s.f. will be community garden. They want to commission a sculpture made from the salvaged, excavated pipework. Planned construction start, late summer 2017, for 2019 completion. (Harres expressed a hope that the restaurant spaces would open earlier than that.) All of this is preliminary, of course. Deal is not closed, and permits have not been issued. Some photos of the posters at the event are below.
    1 point
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