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  1. 609 Main broke ground yesterday for full construction - activity on site will soon be very noticeable.
    6 points
  2. I guess SkylineView must be out of town or busy so I will try to fill a little bit of that void
    4 points
  3. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2014/03/luxury-uptown-condos-sell-out-by-over-half-before.html
    3 points
  4. I would be happy with just 20 storey buildings filling up the gaps. The fact that we are getting 30 and 40 storey buildings is just gravy. I wouldn't care if we didn't get another 60+ for years if we keep on getting so many infill projects. I like supertalls but priority for me is: 1. Infill 2. Increased residential population 3. Increased entertainment options 4. Increased transit options 5. Increased dining options 6. Grocery options to suit the growth 7. Other retailers 8. Improved public spaces 9. A supertall or two 10. Better lighting. I think that would bee my list in order
    2 points
  5. From just now: Facilities for tidying up after a long day of demolition:
    2 points
  6. I got that last view driving home yesterday afternoon as well and it was really stunning in person. Not sure why they had a Astoria crane hanging over Post Oak though.
    2 points
  7. Market Square Development - Tower Galveston - East End Flats
    2 points
  8. Maybe it is just me, but noticing the Texas flag still waving on the Texas Tower as it slowly comes crumbling down is visually poetic and sad Great picture though.
    1 point
  9. b/c it has a pretty lighted curvature... duh!
    1 point
  10. The person who posted is enough proof for me.
    1 point
  11. In complete agreement, it would make no sense for the city to provide incentives for retail development until the residential base is in place. To your point, once that residential base is sufficient, low level retail will develop and that's a really good time to look at how to develop retail.
    1 point
  12. Any information on the Market Square proposal? Was that for the block south of the square where International Tower is now proposed?
    1 point
  13. There is a reason drycleaners, nail/hair salons, coffee shops, sandwich shops, donut places make it in suburban strip centers... they have relatively cheap leases. The trouble is getting these needed, though low operating cost (and low value) businesses to take a risk on more expensive leases in the core. They will also need enough foot traffic to survive. And while the demand is I'm sure high for a dry cleaner (for example), most Downtown workers who need dry cleaning probably just wait till they get home to use the local cleaners. There will be a time when enough residents live Downtown that they will demand that kind of retail and that they will get that kind of retail, but I do not think we've reached that level yet. With the build out of the proposed and now underconstruction residential properties in Downtown we will reach that peak where there are enough people living within a walking distance that these sort of stores will start to pop-up. That will help fuel more retail and further exploration into the Downtown market by private retail.
    1 point
  14. If I'm playing SimCity, I would skyconnect a re-re-renovated Greenstreet to a renovated Park Shoppes (Houston Center) via a Highline absolute knock-off, type steel stucture going over Fannin north from Dallas and turn east down Lamar to arrive at the Southwest corner of San Jac & Lamar (there's a tunnel entrance there too). Killer app: water features (and could also be a sidwalk below landscaping feature). I don't think the Dallas St. renovation that was envisioned earlier by the mgmt district really made much suggestions for addressing the parking garage street faces or the loading docks. It's best to try and minimize the racket and olfactory offenses, and those beeping, approaching car buzzers are the worst.
    1 point
  15. Yes, seriously. Either provide a pix or send me to the post page to refresh my memory. Sarcasm is wasteful. Thanks.
    1 point
  16. They're moving faster. Two floors last week instead of one. Should be gone by May at this pace.
    1 point
  17. The good news is that the person who was doing this wasn't killed - the officer shot him in the arm. Which I wonder how soundly said officer will sleep tonight wondering if he got lucky he shot him there, or that the assailant moved just the right way and the arm kept the bullet from hitting him in a more precarious location? Imagine what the guy must feel if he was aiming at say the perps head or chest? I often wonder how military members get help for their ptsd but police officers seldom do (at least its not widely discussed); but police must suffer many of these same issues (even just being in a car chase) there must be some long term issues these officers suffer from - perhaps unknowingly at that? I mean the officer who shot the guy at the HPD Starbucks is only on desk duty for 3 days. If I were in his shoes I would need more than that amount of time to clear my head and be able to react/think properly to a crisis situation - training or no training.
    1 point
  18. The Days Inn is quite something. I doubt that it will even make visually interesting urban decay as it rots away. It's freaking huge too in a sea of mostly empty lots. Maybe they'll eventually build tall buildings all around it and hide it from everyone.
    1 point
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