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The renderings are up on the LMC Lennar website. They are calling it "Bowen River Oaks".

Tower crane on Main St is coming down right now. https://www.mfah.org/about/campus-redevelopment/

Looks better every time I see it.

Today's work involved clearing off the trees, fences, and a good chunk of the land. I'll post again next time there is some major step forward, but let me know if y'all want more pics sooner/throughout.

Demo pics from today.

HBJ announced that Mendocino Farms will be opening its second downtown location in the redeveloped Two Allen Center. That's great news.

Not to come off as a too tree huggery, but that tree is one of my favorite things in the neighborhood. It's absolutely gorgeous. It's definitely staying for now...the workers have been taking breaks under it. I hope they find a way to keep it.

A few photos I took today.

Love this one.

Response to Jeff Speck's anti-45N expansion op-ed http://houstonstrategies.blogspot.com/2019/09/response-to-jeff-specks-anti-45n.html

So excited to see what this building will become! This pocket of Midtown is going to be unrecognizable in a few years.

River Oaks is evidently the most massive neighborhood in the country

From today. The two Katy Freeway tower cranes together. Does Arch-Con usually put their logo on tower cranes?

Demolition is well under way. A large chunk of the east side of the building is gone already.

I totally forgot this was a thing. Thanks for the post.

I can’t wait to see this sucker lit up. It’s going to look great!

Took this over Labor Day weekend. I haven't seen many shots from this angle.

https://www4.mdanderson.org/procurement/bids/index.cfm?pagename=viewBid&id=6298&name=Request for Qualification&historic=yes MD Anderson; A pre-submittal conference will be held at 11/12/18, 1:00 pm, local time, at Jesse H. Jones Rotary House, Conference Room RHI 1.202 abc, 1600 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030. Owner seeks Design-Build services to expand the MD Anderson Rotary House International Hotel and complete a skybridge to cross S. Braeswood Blvd. This project includes the design, construction and activation of a new hotel tower immediately adjacent to and connected to the existing and occupied Rotary House International (RHI) hotel, located at the corner of Holcombe Boulevard and South Braeswood Boulevard.

http://www.chron.com/business/real-estate/article/Moody-National-buys-prime-Memorial-tract-for-7506279.php

At most of the neighborhood meetings, this park is always spoken about as being “ already have100%money needed” “ready” “green lighted” etc just need to approve contractor contract by COH—- weeks and months of this talk, no one could figure out the hold up..... but then I heard a few neighbors grumbling and now I might have a bit of insight into the delay. TheMayors office sets the agenda. Somehow theMayor is very busy and caught up in campaigning, suddenly it’s difficult to get new items on the agenda. This seems plausible but it’s hard to believe it would actually be true. If true, I’m sad.

The courts are not fine where they are. They will move them... that’s public record. Whether they move in down Washington ave or completely downtown is still to be decided.

This is going to look great. It will really stand out in the immediate area. It's across from The RO development. Hopefully in 2 years when this ends, The RO will start.

Site as of today. I like how you can read the parking levels. Fencing was removed. Gazebo won't last long. Surface lot is slowly being torn up.

View from the train. If they actually turn this around it will be amazingly pleasing to the eyes.

From Griff's patio.

As a downtown resident, I would lose my mind over this. Honestly a smaller, more urban HEB could work as it would service Downtown, Midtown, Eado, East End, and some Near Northside residents. It's unlikely, but there are a lot of multi-family projects proposed and under construction in these neighborhoods, so the density in the next several years may make sense.

Going to have incredible views of all the nearby parking garages. Kidding aside, whoever lives here will have great access to all the amenities in downtown, especially Discovery Green.

Excavation only at the moment.

I was skinny and had long hair in the '70s too. What the Hell happened?

This kind of reminds me of back in the early-mid 1830's, the nightlife crowd was great around Harrisburg, you could get all the whisky you wanted for half a cent a shot and just try not to wander into the bayou. Then Santa Ana came through and burned the place, and the crowd moved off to Houston which was then all the rage. They even put some wooden blocks to get through the mud and that really sent it through the roof. But then they moved the capital to Austin and that laid Houston low for awhile and some of the old regulars came back to Harrisburg. It was quite a diverse crowd back then. You'd get Yankees, Brits, some Germans, even some Scots and Irish. People were just having fun, they didn't care. One night I drank some water out of the wrong barrel and had dysentery for a week. But that happened to everyone. Good times.

Some early concept drawings https://archpaper.com/2018/05/west-8-reveals-plans-houstons-first-botanic-garden/

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2018/04/16/houston-botanic-garden-starts-transformation-of.html