[caevans3]

[brijonmang]

That is a BIG building...what about that Faculty Center building...I havent seen anything floating around here about it that I can remember. It says completion in 2008, am I just overlooking something that has been discussed before?

[Trophy Property]

[Houston19514]

Trophy Property, on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 @ 1:50pm, said:

that is the first I have heard of this project. Looking at the rendering it looks like a suburban campus. I would say somewhere along 610 or BW8. It looks like a nice building. where is the local feild office located now. I never thought about it, but they must have a location here considering the size of our city.

I believe there was something in the paper about it when they broke ground a while back. I don't recally exactly where it is, but IIRC, I think it is somwhere to the northwest...

[GovernorAggie]

I believe it's at Pinemont and 290.

[Subdude]

I don't think they really want to publicize the location, so there's no signs on the building announcing they are there.




Or at least that what's I've heard.

[GovernorAggie]

Well you can't miss it from 290. It's the only significant structure under construction within eyesight of the freeway. If that's the case, they're not doing that good of a job.

[brijonmang]

GovernorAggie, on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 @ 3:33pm, said:

Well you can't miss it from 290. It's the only significant structure under construction within eyesight of the freeway. If that's the case, they're not doing that good of a job.

Are you talking about the building being built behind the wells fargo bank and next to the HOV exit? If so I think that is something else, but I dont remember what. That building is the only building under construction on 290 that I have seen, at least anything close to the magnitude of that FBI building. I do think the FBI building is much larger than what is being built where I am talking about.

[bcnet]

brijonmang, on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 @ 3:37pm, said:

Are you talking about the building being built behind the wells fargo bank and next to the HOV exit? If so I think that is something else, but I dont remember what. That building is the only building under construction on 290 that I have seen, at least anything close to the magnitude of that FBI building. I do think the FBI building is much larger than what is being built where I am talking about.

The one you speak of is defefinatly the new FBI building. I recenlty moved from a nearby subdivision off of Pinemont and it was well publicized to the local residents (for curiosity sake more than anything) that this was an FBI facility.

[GovernorAggie]

brijonmang, on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 @ 3:37pm, said:

Are you talking about the building being built behind the wells fargo bank and next to the HOV exit? If so I think that is something else, but I dont remember what. That building is the only building under construction on 290 that I have seen, at least anything close to the magnitude of that FBI building. I do think the FBI building is much larger than what is being built where I am talking about.

I agree with bcnet that it is in fact the FBI. It was in the Chronicle's "What's That??" part of the business section some time ago.

Also, if you drive on Pinemont, you can actually see how big the building is. It looks much bigger than it does from 290.

[brijonmang]

I see, I may have to drive down Pinemont to get a true look for myself then.

[KinkaidAlum]

Our gal Nancy covered the FBI building awhile ago. It is indeed up off of 290 near Pinemont.

The Faculty Center Tower is under construction right now in the Med Center. It's South of Holcombe directly behind the 13 story Faculty Center Tower and the 12 story Rotary House Int'l. It'll be 324 feet tall when done and will definitely leave a mark on the TMC skyline!

[brijonmang]

ssshhhhaaaawwweeettt

[mrfootball]

I've seen what looks like a 'nuclear-hardened' facility under construction off 290 (likely the one mentioned above).

[catjo47]

The new FBI / GSA building is just off the northeast corner of 43rd & 290.
A better view can be had from Pinemont, just west of the Park & Ride. It has
been a wonder to watch this building go up. I am just a lay person, a true
seeker of unigue building structures. I dare say this will be a very secure
building, Looks to me it just topped out this week. Dobt that it will be
occupied before the end of this year.

[strickn]

KinkaidAlum, on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 @ 5:43pm, said:

Our gal Nancy covered the FBI building awhile ago. It is indeed up off of 290 near Pinemont.

The Faculty Center Tower is under construction right now in the Med Center. It's South of Holcombe directly behind the 13 story Faculty Center Tower and the 12 story Rotary House Int'l. It'll be 324 feet tall when done and will definitely leave a mark on the TMC skyline!

If only that mark weren't banal and unyielding in all the ways that the building M.D. Anderson means it to "replace" - the Prudential Bldg, 1100 Holcombe - is gracious.



The FBI facade method in which the building is thermally and light-shaded by an outer skin is something we have been needing to see appended to some sort of regional vernacular building layout system and used frequently in local projects. Paying for that partial outer shell can make untold improvements in occupants' quality of life and lightness of A/C use.

[Montrose1100]

I remember talking about this building, its been underconstruction for some time.