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I just stumbled upon this forum and figured I'd contribute. I work for Hess (building adjacent) to this site so here are some pictures from the 7th floor. I can provided updated photos throughout the build from different elevations inside Hess Tower. Sorry for the glare & reflection on the photos.

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/real-estate/09-08-14-houstons-new-park-place-seven-story-condo-building-to-rise-over-buffalo-bayou-park-with-views-and-recreation-guaranteed/?utm_source=sf_facebook

Here is an update on the contruction progress or more acurately pit digging. They have a new tracked drill looking thing on site. I don't know what it does but it looks interesting at least.

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I just spoke with a manager at Skyhouse 1, who confirmed that Skyhouse 2 downtown is in the works. In fact, she mentioned that they received permitting last week, and it is projected to break ground mid-2015 and be completed sometime in 2016. Lets keep our fingers crossed. I just spoke with a manager at Skyhouse 1, who confirmed that Skyhouse 2 downtown is in the works. In fact, she mentioned that they received permitting last week, and it is projected to break ground mid-2015 and be completed sometime in 2016. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

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I can confirm. Here is a pic I took an hour ago.

I saw this go up. The reduction of a Hollyhurst building line may support the hotel thesis on the back of the property. Anyone else heard updates on this property (south of Landry's HQ)?

Still, it could be worse...

Sheesh. Commercial and residential construction workers safety culture is stunning to me sometimes... Plasma torching without a faceshield. Shortsleeves. Saw cutting without a respirator Improperly wearing a fall arrest harness.

I was using my lap top earlier and didn't have any pictures on it. I have found the picture, hope you enjoy it. It also has a big Rettig's ice cream sign on it too. Looking close at the picture it appears that an A & P store was next to the drug store. The photo is from the Sloane collection so we will give him credit for the pic. I have posted two pictures one from when It was built and the other as it looks now.

Cherry Demolition is on site and the whole area is fenced off, I can only guess this building will happen.

Sky-1/4-House

The implosion date is set for next month.

Can anyone else confirm? I'm still in doubt it has been there since Saturday around noon. /s

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Bigge is in the process of erecting the first tower crane boom when I went by Sunday morning.

Upcoming projects to reduce congestion on northbound I-45 at US59 http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Project-aims-to-untie-I-45-northbound-traffic-knot-5736953.php?cmpid=twitter-premium&t=6220c6aed20519a485

This project here is listed as "Gray + Houston". I don't have enough to know if it's for Houston or not. GDA is a Dallas-based architect, behind the design for Chelsea-Montrose and Crest at Fondren. http://gda-architects.com/gda-gray---houston.html

So that just takes me to the home page and I have no idea what I'm looking at..

Sounds interesting. If you remember what the name is, please post it here, thanks.

Been looking for it for years now. I read it one summer along with Songs of Distant Earth when I spent a spring break in Galveston, circa 1987. Don't even remember specific details, but it was set in HTown in the future, had a cyborg, super intelligent monkey, and NASA was the end all be all in TX. Would love to find it and read it again.

I don't know about this. Urbannizer is amongst the most reliable & highly regarded sources on this board but that link has some outdated information, coupled with an old rendering from the old Amarican Apparel renovation that didn't happen. (No offense, Urbannizer, I hope you're right on this too) I hope some big retailer makes this design happen. Not just 1 floor, the whole building. Do the edifice justice. We lost Macy's but we could still regain that throwback Downtown Department store Macy's was (with a better design) if Sakowitz is done right. If a Dallas St Shopping District is to happen, it's starts with Sakowitz.

You jerk lol

No, that's when my earlier suggestion about the parking garage will be a terrible one.

wha??? There are plenty of 4plex and 8plex apartments over here, lots of bungalows, and a metric ton of garage apartments. At least once you're out of the 'eado' section of the east end. eado is basically turning into (or has already turned into) midtown v2.0, keep going east down Leeland, Harrisburg, Canal, or Navigation, turn into a neighborhood street (any of them) and you start seeing these types of things.

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2014/09/downtown-high-rise-to-be-demolished-next-month/#12726101=2&21137103=0

OK, I remember the Fulton from my teenage years, but I didn't know it later became the Colonial. Thanks. I have another memory of my nights at the McClendon Triple and it began in the 50s when i was in high school in Pasadena. Like most Pasadena kids I spent a lot of time at the Capitan Theater, and like most young and horny teenagers I always hoped to meet a girl and do some making out on the back row or in the balcony. One night in 1960 a girl and I got caught making out - heavily - and one of the ushers escorted us to the lobby where he reported us to the manager, a guy named Bill Scott. He kicked us out and told me I was banned for life. Fast forward to 1971. I was married with two kids, working in the radio business and moonlighting at the Mac Triple for the extra money. One night the manager took me to the projection booth to show me their new projectors and introduce me to the projectionist. Guess who it was. Bill Scott, the old Capitan Manager, and even 11 years later he remembered me. We had a good laugh over running into each other again so many years later, and he expressed amazement that I appeared to be making something of myself as a radio broadcaster. Only half joking, he said I had no business working two jobs, and I needed to get a better day job. He was right, and I did. That was more than 40 years ago and I remember it like it was last night.

Child's play and fun too. I am an agressive driver so it's no big deal to me but I can imagine it might scare the bejeebers out of someone who's not used to crossing lanes of traffic at speed and sudden merges.

^ Agreed! This makes crane number 9 up downtown and we still have at least one more for this and 2 more for 609 Main. That's not including all the cranes about to go up for the multifamily highrises about to start!

Bravo good sir, and welcome to HAIF! EDIT: I'm seriously losing count on cranes in downtown now lol. Not to mention there will probably be a crane for the site near 59, one for 609, another one will be set up on main, the new crane at alley, possibly another two at market square. Craziness!

Great news! I'm excited for another residential high rise in downtown. Now if we could just get a condo tower.

It will be nice if the TMC can develop a stronger biotech industry in Houston. I understand encouraging greater private development is one of the TMC's goals at the moment.

Looks like a nice little event I'll have to drop by to see!

Altuve may be most exciting Astro ever. Now if only they could get rid of Luhnow and get a real GM.

That would be a great way to expand the shopping experience

Astros break the 100 losses in a season skid. Here is to improvement this season!

No one site seems thorough. Sky guy listed a good one. Also http://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-entertainment/on-the-town http://houston.culturemap.com/events/ Joining the email lists from the venues, parks, etc. can be good sources too.

http://www.visithoustontexas.com/travel-tools/events/

I can't drive by the Reddy Ice (formerly Sparkle Ice) plant without my gaze instinctively alighting on the most visible remnant of the old drive-in: the concrete base that the Reddy Ice sign is mounted in. It's the same one that the theater's marquee used to be mounted in. https://www.google.com/maps/@29.8524199,-95.4121105,3a,35y,80.12h,90.54t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sfX6Q9pRdAAcAeHHnT7UwOw!2e0 http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/30580/photos/97249

Holy Moses, you've got the McLendon Triple in there. That's awesome, Amsterdam. Thanks for thinking of the old Garden Oaks on Shepherd, back in the 80s. Back in the 80s, G.O. returned to English titles, abandoning the peliculas Mexicanas they had been showing for several years, and my wife (gf at the time) and I went to see Police Academy 2 there. She had never been to G.O. before, so I wanted to take her. I mean, after all, if you've ever been inside the theater you know she is one beautiful old girl. Anyway, about 45 minutes into the movie, two guys begin to bicker down front. Suddenly, they both stand up and start throwing punches. The smaller guy pulls out a knife, stabs the bigger dude, and needless to say the theater empties. Haven't set foot in G.O. since. I've been tempted to attend a service of the Grace Church that occupies the theater and pharmacy next door currently, just to see what it looks like now, after all these years. Sure wish you'd have gotten the old Airline and Shepherd Drive-Ins back when that video was produced. The bullseye neons that were on the old Airline were stunningly beautiful and the first thing you saw going northbound on 45 back then. Shepherd had the huge palm tree on its screen, facing Shepherd. I had a buddy that lived on Stuebner Airline, right behind it, and we snuck under that fence to see a show on a "few" occasions back in the early 80s, before it was closed and became Reddy Ice. Great job, bud. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

I felt like the Matrix was on a continuous loop.

Yeah, there are all sorts of treasures out there! It is now gone so I assume the apartments go around and clean things up once in a while. On a good day there are a few people fishing and some even on boats. Here are a few more views:

It has started. I have started to send material to the job.

...someone said this is not an attractive tower? i do not think it's bad. of course, we all know a rendering can end up being more attractive than reality. fingers crossed. i want this one to look better than the rendering (which i like... i just want it to look better than good)

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From The Onion: Seriously, though -- A child's name is something they have to deal with for the rest of their lives. It's not a way for parents to show how cool or interesting or original they are. Your child is a human being, not a brand, and not a way to show off your creativity. Speaking as someone who endured decades of bullying as a child because of the name my parents chose to call me, don't do anything that would get your child a wedgie. They'll never forgive you for it. And speaking as someone who was at one time involved in hiring decisions at a very large company -- If there are two reasonably qualified applicants and one is named Michael and the other is named Prince Dyylin, Michael gets the job. It's not fair, but life's not fair. Do what's best for your child, not your ego.

In my childhood, the Alabama center had (south to north, or left to right, as you faced it) a Walgreen's with a soda fountain, an A&P Supermarket, the Alabama Theater, Suzanne's Cafeteria, Wacker's Variety Store, and Western Auto. In the mid 80s a high end Mexican restaurant--Fonda San Miguel--went up where the cafeteria had been, but didn't last long. Whole Foods was where Petsmart is now--where the dimestore Wacker's used to be.

For the lazies..

2014 03 14: Is this anything? Immediately behind is Astoria's laydown. I'ts immediately south of the Bentley dealership, and about 100 feet in from the west loop frontage road (outside the loop).