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I've seen job listing posted for this project so it may get going soon.

Every time I see an update to this thread I get excited and hope it's an update to the Ritz proposal. Then I open it and I'm disappointed it's some restaurant or store opening...

Campo was interviewed on Bloombery today outside of Camden Travis Street. Stated that Camden expected all apartment units to be absorbed late 2018, early 2019, but that Harvey moved it up by a year. He also spoke about how Camden relaxed typical market rent and required minimum lease terms for people affected by Harvey. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/harvey-delivers-windfall-to-lucky-few-who-built-on-high-ground

Above grade.

^^^ i have to concur with this very sentiment.....

Well, it would require the entire street to be dug up so the drainage system could be relocated. Also, it would require variances to a number of the requirements in Chapter 42 with respect to development along major thoroughfares, including building setbacks (zero feet instead of 25), right-of-way width (40 ft instead of 100), curve radius (major thoroughfares require a curve radius of 2000-ft, with 100 ft between reverse curves. Center roadway infill might be more (physically) practical on low-traffic residential streets, especially ones that have open drainage ditches. For example, here's a street in the Heights with 90+ ft from façade to façade, and maybe gets an average of a car or two per minute, if that. The block face is almost continuous on both sides, with minimal lateral setbacks. Take the 20 feet closest to the facades on either side and make two one-way woonerf-style streets. Maybe eliminate on-street parking, because people in the Heights hate on-street parking of cars that aren't theirs. That gives you space to lay out townhouses down the center of the RoW, say, 25x50, oriented parallel with the street, in 4-packs so the garages don't take access from the street. Each TH has two external walls, one of which faces a pedestrian-scaled street, and two off-street parking spaces. That's twenty new 3000-sf townhouses: something like $12M of new tax base. On one block. On space that's pretty much going un-used. All you have to do is convince people that front yards are stupid and a waste of space and not really worth having in the first place.

I know we need some balancing

Maybe our first look at City Place 4

With four floors to go it's going to be striking on the southwest corner. When I said it would loom over the med center I was told this wouldn't be close, but it sure looks pretty tall and dominant. The O'Quinn towers height includes the spires and they're not as large a mass as the Latitude, so even though it won't be as tall as the top of the spires its mass at the top is very close to the top of the O'Quinn towers. Also it looks like its going to be very close to the height of Texas Childrens. At least from the angle of this image The view from south and southwest makes it dominate and really change the scale of the skyline from that angle.

Hopefully it's just temporary till Hines build the iconic supertall we all are wishing for.

They are letting people going to the Astros game park in their garage. I guess they need some revenue.

When Rice Stadium built, not only was there no NFL team but UH had only been playing football for 2 seasons. Also, Rice was good. In the 1940s, Rice won a Cotton Bowl and an Orange Bowl. Rice not only was in the SWC but they also played LSU every year and beat teams like Clemson, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and LSU.

Rice used to regularly play UT, A&M, LSU, and Arkansas as part of the SWC, so it would regularly fill up. This is also due to there not being pro football in Houston when the stadium was built. It also hosted the Super Bowl in the 60's. So now it doesn't make sense, but it was logical at the time. Fun fact, all Rice alumni living or dead couldn't fill the stadium..or at least they told us that at orientation.

Life During Hurricane Harvey Houston, Texas 2017 by George Zimzores, on Flickr Life During Hurricane Harvey Houston, Texas 2017 by George Zimzores, on Flickr

Houston skys by Adolfo Perez Design, on Flickr

Looks like they are getting ready to lay the asphalt soon.