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  1. cloud713
    Out of the 4 penthouses in Market Square Tower, only the westward facing penthouse is still available, at a cost of $18,715 a month.
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    Any word on the CVS planned for market square tower? It was announced last year and I'm not sure i've seen or heard more about it besides the signs in the windows of the parking garage? There is another CVS on Main Street near Main Street Square.. maybe we'll get a Walgreens in downtown?
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    There is no Sarofim Building. I assume you're talking about the new 20th/21st century museum expansion that recently broke ground, which is the Kinder Building. The entirety of the museum complex is named the "Sarofim Campus" though.
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    39,000 pounds..? Geez
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    Seriously! And I love how most of our dense urban areas are right next to vast green spaces. It makes for great contrast.
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    Lets hope not.. convert the fins to balconies with glass railings for a residential conversion if they must, but don't turn it into another boring tower with a bland facade.
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    Geez.. i like to dabble in photography and explore, but I can't say I've done much urban exploration, or know anyone into urbex to go with me to check this building out.. im not stupid enough to go alone, so I haven't ever been, but this has always seemed like it would be an amazing place to check out. Though after reading these posts about being held hostage and the place being deemed "dangerous", the allure of exploring this has worn off a bit.. Haha. And yeah.. the owners development plans being close to "finalized", with no sign of financial backing is pretty comical.
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    They don't have a project manager that they use for all of their projects..?
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    Galleria 6..? I thought the last expansion was Galleria 4?
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    Looks like theyre testing out the strip of LEDs, at least on the podium section..
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    So the pedestrian bridge across Allen Parkway won't be part of phase one? Oh, and I count 38 stories on top of the podium..? Surely that podium is taller than 4 average height floors.. (in response to the height comparisons from back in May)
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    What happened today..? Police are blocking the intersections all around here and there's police tape in front of the tower.
  13. cloud713
    Uhhh... I'm not sure what to make of this. Those are filings for actual buildings, not cell towers, and they were just submitted 2 days ago. Construction timeline puts both towers as being built simultaneously over the course of 4 years and 10 months time..
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    I still wish they would have gone with the original design for this building, but this design isn't turning out bad at all..
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    Ugh.. I'm jealous of all you members of the museum. I have a feeling it's going to be packed tomorrow. Yeah its awesome that both of the Pipilotti Rist installations are now part of the permanent collection. They will go great with the Kusama infinity room, that the museum bought before the exhibit last summer, over in the new Kinder building.
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    Haha. Sadly, that's not even exclusively to the suburbs in Houston. Unfortunately the walled off/fenced nonsense is as close in as Midtown.. "Let's build a bunch of townhouses in the inner city.. while we're at it, let's throw a fence around the whole site!" edited to say I totally understand why Hines is doing that. This would be a great nook for homeless to set up camp. Until the city gets more serious about the homeless issue in Houston, expect to keep seeing this in high end residential projects.
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    I don't see why they would go through the effort of constructing the cinderblock walls if they didn't plan on putting a gate there. Maybe Amashgo can chime in, but I would say they're going to fill in the gap with a keypad gate type set up. Otherwise, the wall is just one more place for homeless people to make shelter behind, and would unnecessarily confine the already small space.
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    Its a small space with cinderblock walls (bricked over) along Main Street with 3 openings that I presume will house metalwork fencing and a gate. Unfortunately with the homeless problem downtown, they probably had to do this to keep the riff raff out.
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    I agree that the "welcome" could have been worded better. You'll have to forgive us. We tend to put Gerald up on a pedestal (as we should) for all of his great contributions to the development of our city. Admittedly, that claim does come off as a pretty silly, given that like I mentioned previously, while Hines was developing the Galleria in Uptown, they were also developing their first skyscraper in downtown. The Trasnco era would make even less sense for that claim. It could very well have been the Greenway Plaza guy though.. Yes, on the 50th/51st floors if I'm not mistaken. Been a few years since I've been in their office. But their southwest regional HQ is in 609 Main (they moved over from BG Group Place). At any rate, I'm not sure where the HQ is located really matters given the huge investments Hines has made in both downtown and uptown. To tie this discussion in with this thread topic, here is a picture I took the other day looking across the Chronicle site. *Something of note - Every building in this picture, with the exception of Jones Hall at the bottom, was developed by Hines.
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    1-3 tenants in/about to be in the market... looking to relocate from other downtown buildings?
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    Dont you say that! Haha.. admittedly that mixed use development seemed really ambitious, but it seems like the developers behind the project were serious about it, given their submission of the plat, trying to work with the neighborhood association to address any issues, requesting abandonment with the city, and what not.
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    I was just wondering about that development yesterday.. Has the Museum District Neighborhood Association(?) said anything further on plans for the development/abandoning Palm Street? fullsizeoutput_74a by Justin Anderson, on Flickr
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    Ah. I thought it had already happened when I stumbled across the set up yesterday. The new garage below the Glassell.
  24. cloud713
    "Wrapped into The Huntington development fold"? So the owners of the Huntington bought this and plan to develop this into an additional component to go with their residential tower?
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    I would be curious to see where Gerald said that.. Hines was building the 50 story One Shell Plaza in downtown at the same time as the Galleria.
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