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  1. Purdueenginerd
    Thats good. Guess they have weekend and late night shifts working. Might explain why this building is going up so fast.
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    Little bit of infill sandwiched between dense residential buildings. Should be good.
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    I dont get it. Is it a naughty joke?
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    In my opinion, I'm not a huge fan of 9 floor of garage space within that footprint. I get the idea that whilst looking for parking the driver will get dizzy driving up to the top.
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    How I imagine the Change-order is written: Scope: Change first floor to retail Cost: half a million Schedule: 6 years, with weather days for rain chance over 10 percent.
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    This is unfortunate. I'm normally okay with demolition of a structure, so long as what replaces it is a economic, artistic, or public improvement over the previous structure. Should this go to a car-dealership, which no offense to car dealers, seems like a gross use of land in the midtown area. Especially since residents in this part of town are more likely to be walking, biking, and taking public transportation to their place of work.
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    Very Doubtful, I did some structural analysis on that garage a few years ago for a project. 1940's era garage in not the greatest condition. edit: n'mind. Confusing my garages, disregard my comment.
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    wow, a potential 600 footer for midtown.
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    Labor is generally a lot bigger portion size of total construction budget than materials. Allocating 3 shifts a day, 7 days a week will for sure lead to a good chunk of the workers get OT pay, which drives up labor costs a lot. As for whether thats offset by the sooner profitability of the land owner is dependent on their loan, what theyre making money on, and how many tenants they have in waiting.
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    The Post office that we see today was constructed in the 1960s, with the exception of the portion I pointed out. That was built circa 1936, and its original function was also a post office.
  11. Purdueenginerd
    It was a post office building in 1936 as well. The expansion, which reflects the majority of the property was expanded in the 1960s.
  12. Purdueenginerd
    There is a portion of the building towards the front that was designed and constructed in the 1930's. If you look at the curved drive-in ramp of the structure, you'll see the original 1930's portion of the structure. Ive attached a screen shot of the site from 1944 to 2017. You'll see the original 1930's building in both images.
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    Man, with the two camden apartments and this apartment underconstruction, thats about 1200-1300 units in a 3 block space. Add two more buildings there could be around 2000 people living in those 3 blocks. Thats a lot of people for retail spaces.
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    Screwston apparently has access to the revit model. Careful bud, dont get in trouble
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    Yeah, I reside not too far from this project. Drive by it daily on my way home. They've been doing a lot of work on it already. Manufactured Metal frame buildings like this are hard to modify, so its great they were able to get it done. I agree with the connection to cottage grove to the back side of this property. However, there are plans to eventually continue the white-oak bike trail along this rail spur and down to Memorial park. Perhaps it would connect with this.
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    Had a project here a few months ago, found this old model in one of the vacant spaces.
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    Side bar, I'm trying to figure out why they felt the need to render 3 different renderings of the Men's restroom.
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    The renderings from the North west make it look taller, but take a look at the renderings from Minute Maid Park, it appears shorter. I think that is a better comparison shot since the two buildings are relatively "straight on" from the ball park. Whereas from the North West, its a little more perspective insofar that the new building is "closer to the camera" All of this is arguing semantics since were not sure how closely the rendering is modeled with "realty" But my personal opinion is that this building will be relatively close in height to 609 Main. Edit: I could be wrong though, The view from Minute maid would also have 609 main "2 blocks closer" so the same perspective issue could apply.
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    This looks great. But I do have to ask, can the Houston office market absorb this? isnt downtown sitting at like 25 percent vacancy?
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    I'm all for historical preservation, and in fact I've worked on projects/repairs at the Esperson building. I have a nice set of the architectual drawings Ive been trying to restore. Anyway, I dont really find your national parks and city architecture metaphor to be equitable. Perhaps youre being intentionally hyperbolic, and thats fine. In my opinion, with cities I think theres a balance between preservation/restoration/and demolition/new construction. This balance allows a city to remain dynamic, competitive, and grow. To be fair, I'm speaking a little bit of ignorance here. I'm aware of the Kirby Mansion. However, I'm unfamiliar with the historical significance. My opinions on that specific building are neutral at best.
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    Honestly, it probably needs a good pressure wash and some street foliage.
  22. Purdueenginerd
    So that basically confirms the construction thats going on at the site right now is for another office building adjacent to it. Looks like this property is only taking up 1/3rd. The current construction is about 2/3rds. I'll try to head over there this weekend, looks like they had drilled piers constructed already.
  23. Purdueenginerd
    Theres already activity at this site. Looks like some foundation elements have been poured recently. Is this a different office building than the one under construction? This building might be closer to the corner than the one under construction.
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    This image shows no less than 4 people and a dog narrowly missed by the light rail. I think this canopy design is going to change since the light rail draws power from the electrical lines above it which arent shown in this image. Canopy is probably going to be quite a bit taller than shown. Eitherway, this is a fantastic development. Wow! hope this gets built as shown.
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    Make note, they have another system for certain items. So sometimes they will close the 311 issue pretty quick, but put into comments "Closed, refer to CR ##########", with a bunch of numbers. Thats basically the work order #. http://mycity.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=cb3c94a31dfa489f9a8872ffe04cda25 You can typically find the number here, wherein you'll be able to track the progress of your particular item. Theres typically comments, etc on it. I'm kind of a dork about reporting poor road conditions in my neighborhood, and 90 percent of my 311 reports get closed within a day, but are on the city map for 2-3 weeks before theyre addressed.
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