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Crane jump day. Five sections.

http://houston-texas-us.blogspot.com/2016/04/glass-sheet-hanging-at-hines-tower.html

There is a window sign on Main Street that has a large detailed rendering that is better than I remember seeing. Tried to get closer shots of both decks. I thought that the lower pool was going to be raised to the second level. Wrong. This pool is only a little bit cool.

Block 334 by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Block 334 by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Block 334 by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Block 334 by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

Had taken photos of the front but came out a little too blurry... Catalyst by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Catalyst by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

Very Gloomy Day... Alessandra by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

Marriott Marquis by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Marriott Marquis by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Marriott Marquis by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Marriott Marquis by Chris Rojas, on Flickr MM by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

Starting the 43th floor (Soor was incorrect): 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr For those that want to see floor count, click on the picture and zoom in on it in Flickr, the numbers are shown quite clearly. (Numbers start at 23) 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

Up close shots of the building: Aria @ Market Square by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Aria @ Market Square by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Aria @ Market Square by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Aria @ Market Square by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Aria @ Market Square by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Aria @ Market Square by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Aria @ Market Square by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

I'm sitting in a chair. I had coffee a while ago. Thinking about getting a snack.

They pouring the next floor now. It is at 41, 7 more to go but the crown will be beautiful. I can see the concrete trucks. Hines wants LEED Platinum. Very excited!

I could have sworn I uploaded these earlier...

Three cranes. Makes me very, very, very happy.

Sky house Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Sky house Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

GRB by Chris Rojas, on Flickr GRB by Chris Rojas, on Flickr GRB by Chris Rojas, on Flickr GRB by Chris Rojas, on Flickr GRB by Chris Rojas, on Flickr GRB by Chris Rojas, on Flickr MM by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

MST by Chris Rojas, on Flickr MST by Chris Rojas, on Flickr Pool Deck: MST by Chris Rojas, on Flickr MST by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

^^^ well done urbannizer! i cannot wait to see just what type of retail that hines may have in store for this remarkable tower.... should be very special indeed....

Perhaps something like the Shanghai maglev... it takes less than 10 minutes to make the 19 miles from the airport to its connection with the rest of the grid. Here, we could stack it over rights of way that already exist for freeways, light rail, or what have you to save property acquisition costs. Or maybe it's more of a Shelbyville idea.

For those interested, Google Earth is now updated to March 2016! - Tower updates! - Grand Parkway is now complete to the points where it is complete!! - 290 construction!!! Well, I doubt some of you would be interested in that last part. It's not nearly as interesting as the Katy Freeway expansion, though still stinks.

For what it's worth, I thought about adding light rail in the median of the Hardy Toll Road, but they triple-tracked it and there's not enough room now unless the light rail was stacked or buried. Anyway, light rail probably is worse for Intercontinental as even with higher speeds if they don't have to stop at lights and make sharp curves, as the distance for Hobby is far less than the distance to IAH. Measuring "as the crow flies" and not ground distance, the end of the Purple Line and the Hobby terminal is 4 miles. The distance from the end of the Red Line to the IAH terminals? 11. Even if we take to the airport zone at Greens and JFK outside the borders, that's still twice as far. Heavy rail to IAH is impractical if you expect transfers before downtown, though a "I-45 line" that connects The Woodlands, IAH, Red Line North, Downtown, and points south to Galveston almost might work.

And????

from the first post

http://www.streetwiseretail.com/_files/Y-Shops-%40-OST-%26-Scottcrest-Property-Flyer.pdf the Scottcrest site will have: -shell -Wendys -Dairy Queen

Most Dallas residents currently drive to either store in Plano. From the article:

From WillieStark1: Park District 1920 McKinney Ave:

EXCLUSIVE: Zales' parent Signet confirms building new office campus at Cypress Waters Candace Carlisle April 15, 2016 Full Article

They'll probably have the Amegy Bank logo with LEDs

Do you have a British accent? Because now I'm reading all your posts with an accent.

This is going to make such a impact on the area, once Hines builds something on the Chron property this area will be amazing

I was just about to comment on this. Makes me sick. That house is irreplaceable. F@&k them.

So I used to live in the duplex 5 houses south of 1308 and left in October 2014 when the owners told me they were selling to Sunrise soon. So I always check the demo report for an update on it. Anyway, today's has the house right next door to 1308 being demoed (1317 Marconi), which of course HCAD has as owned by Sunrise. Maybe this thing's a-brewin?

Out of curiosity, is there or has there ever been a sign at GRB stating what event or events are taking place?

Courtesy of Bobruss:

From yesterday, really tried to see the floor count but couldn't... 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr 609 Main by Chris Rojas, on Flickr

They should relocate the lighted George R Brown Convention Center sign from the side of GRB to the side of the garage. It would break up the boringness of the garage and make the sign visible again

Parking district looks great from this angle

Is it normal to leave job material like that completely unattended for the day? I even saw some homeless people taking some bricks, not sure what they plan on doing with them but looks pretty unprofessional.

Came across this old model of the master plan. http://www.gensleron.com/work/2016/1/18/an-outlook-on-the-future-of-visualization-a-qa-with-scott-de.html