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I think he mentioned groundbreaking is next month. If true this week is going to be the closing and ground breaking announcement?

Any progress on this? Curious if anyone has photos. I know its too soon but it will be an interesting building nonetheless.

More details: Months of negotiations ended last week as Houston City Council and Mayor Bill White tweaked the rules to provide a tax break for a major downtown development. The action removed a roadblock to construction of Houston Pavilions, a $200 million mixed-use project planned by the team of Houston developer Geoff Jones and William Denton of California-based Entertainment Development Group................... ............ "It's very significant for downtown and the city in general," says the native Houstonian. "I don't recall anything of this magnitude coming to downtown with retail, commercial and residential."...... ............ Says Hagstette: "With every project that happens in the downtown area, there is a tendency to characterize it as the be-all, end-all to solve all our problems, and I don't want to give the idea that this project falls into that category. But this project is breaking new ground in a new market -- urban retail -- and in that sense it's going to be extraordinarily influential." ............ Full story: City retools TIRZ for project Project still moving along... I hope this urban retail brings in other retail especially on the east side of downtown.