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    Found on reddit today from /u/creation88, it looks like the original façade is largely intact under the cladding, at least on the second floor. Let's hope they are taking the cladding off to restore the original appearance, rather than to put it back up again:
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    From my LAS-HOU flight last week:
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    From last week:
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    From last week:
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    From last week:
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    Last week:
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    Considering they are still using it for offices, I think it would be imprudent to demolish it with people still in it.
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    One problem with that is the southbound freeway exit to Fannin from IH-69 is being eliminated as part of the freeway rebuild, so parking in this area becomes a lot less attractive for people driving in from the suburbs.
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    They're really chipping away at the roof, and have made room for some nice big windows. From last night:
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    The green fabric is really taking a beating, if you compare each of the photos. Now one large section is completely gone:
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    With the way Houstonians drive, putting them in the streets would just mean they would have to be replaced monthly as inattentive drivers crash into them and destroy them. That's probably why they have to be in parking lots or on sidewalks here.
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    You won't see homeless people in China, either. In both countries, they are taken care of by their families. Our culture is different, with much weaker family ties, so in the US they don't have the support network from their family that they would have in some other countries.
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    This is starting to look really good:
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    Looking almost complete. Sidewalk really isn't too narrow.
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    From /u/maegos on reddit:
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    I seem to recall reading here a year or two ago that one developer (Hines maybe?) said that with typical office floor plate sizes (presumably in the 25-28k square foot range), 45-50 stories or so (assuming that includes a parking podium of 10-12 stories with its own separate elevators) was the limit of a conventional 3-bank elevator system. If you want to go higher, you need to start doing more complicated elevator systems (such as skylobbies or dual-floor elevators), though maybe the new elevator systems where you select your floor when calling the elevator (for increased efficiency) could allow taller buildings with just 3 elevator banks. So I think their point was that making a building more than about 45-50 floors will make the price per square foot go up enough that it's harder to justify in Houston.
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    Maybe people are less likely to wear clothes that require dry cleaning than they used to.
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    From an email from Bravery:
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    To be fair, to meet the parking requirements they had to tear down an older (historic?) home a few doors west, to build another parking lot. But I can't blame them for the City's parking minimums.
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    Awnings completely gone from the Wheeler-facing side:
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    Figured I'd take some photos of the carnage inside, too, because everything so far has been from street level.
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    Crazy how they leave what I assume to be a perfectly good fire extinguisher and trash can in the building, soon to be rubble. I'd have salvaged some of that stuff...
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