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cloud713

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  1. From possibly 48 stories, down to 31.. at least it looks like they're still keeping the design. But Q1 2021 groundbreaking? Ouch.. not holding my breath.
  2. Good point.. I had wondered about all the people successfully working from home and hoped more companies might go to telecommuting where it makes sense. The traffic, or lack thereof during quarantine was amazing. Plus the environmental/monetary benefits of working from home.. And yeah, as we head into the biggest recession since the Great Depression (I guess they’re going to have to come up with a new name for the Great Recession), it’s likely this will be the last major tower we see for some time..
  3. So is it gfr/extending the ground floor out or did we figure out what they’re doing? Seems a little narrow for restaurant space, but I’m just sure what just inside the current walls, so maybe they could bump into there?
  4. I would have preferred rail, but the boulevard project revamp of post oak is night and day compared to the suburban atmosphere it had before..
  5. That’s the plan.. I think the design will really shine at night. Ugh, this makes me sad that day for night is no more.. best festival ever.
  6. That’s a bummer.. was really hoping to get new tallest for the TMC. It’s basically just another average height rectangle now. Maybe we’ll get lucky and the economy will collapse before this breaks ground, and they can go back to the drawing board or come back with the original design in a few years when things start picking up again?
  7. Which building is the soul sucking building by the fountain? The one in red that they’re renovating? Itll be interesting to see what new buildings they put in the art/music school parking lot.
  8. The upper left side looks nice/like a Hanover product. The garage and right side kind of look like a cheap hotel to me though? Overall it’s a decent addition, but I wouldn’t be disappointed if this never gets built, preserving the Marriotts western skyline view. A nice strip of retail, bars and restaurants, topped with some co-op/boutique office space that doesn’t go higher than the garage would be ideal IMO, or even some “more affordable” residential micro units, again topping out at the top of the garage. I may be in the minority though of wanting to preserve the Marriotts pool deck view.
  9. https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2020/03/24/oil-prices-could-plunge-to-10-a-barrel-swamp-storage-capacity-report-says/
  10. Oil is in the low $20s, and very likely headed to $14 at some point in the near future. This move, along with the stock market/economic recession has been in the charts since well before Covid19 was ever a thing. It just makes a convenient driver to push a move that’s been set up over the edge of a cliff. Longest bull run in history. The fed has been printing money so fast it’ll make your head spin.. they’re printing another $10 TRILLION through the end of the month. 50% of our current national debt. All of this has led to serious over inflation of pretty much every financial asset in the world, and we were due for a reset. The fed cutting interest rates so early on certainly won’t help anything now that they can’t use that to curtail the economic recession when we continue to fall. Sure if we get lucky we’ll get a bounce this summer and people will claim all is well, but we’ll be far from being out of the woods just because the virus is (hopefully) behind us, and you can thank economic policy for that.
  11. Yep.. oil is the real black swan for the next major recession, not the coronavirus. I wouldn't be surprised if any projects that aren't about to get out of the ground get put on hold/shelved. We had a good run..
  12. 1.5 million square feet of buildings in the TMC3, and a "major industry player" is taking up 1/3rd of it? Add in the university facilities, and I have to wonder where is the room left for all this co-op collaborative innovation work that the TMC3 is supposed to support? Kind of seems like they're not building this big enough..
  13. Yeah, Clarks. Ive only been once, but they had what we needed when doing some cabinet work trying to match the right wood/grain.
  14. And connect the amenity deck to the roof top park for direct access for the residents
  15. Agreed.. I know we've beat a dead horse over this boring design, but even if they just played off of the balcony of the office portion somewhere up the hotel, it would be better than a plain rectangle. Im in Barcelona right now, and the W hotel here on the coast is quite a stark difference from our design.
  16. Don't forget the free slurpees on 7/11 day..
  17. Bummer that they waited so long.. by the time this is ready to go we’ll be in a recession and it’ll be shelved.
  18. The layout/style of this reminds me a bit of The Pearl in San Antonio.
  19. Wow, that looks nice.. Hopefully this gets going within the next year.
  20. Guess I need to visit the Marriott/pool deck before this breaks ground. Hopefully we see something like this on the strip of land next to the embassy suites.
  21. Been a while since I’ve visited this thread.. glad to see a more competent owner took over the property, and development is finally underway on a pedestrian upgrade! (The original plans i was referring to when I posted about the potential redevelopment back in 2015 were by Page.)
  22. Thanks for the updates! Seeing the progress makes me so happy, after all the years of discussion.. this will be a nice place to take my son.
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