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    Conejo Malo At 112 Travis St.

    in Downtown

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    Renovations are underway, and have been for the past week or so.  This is posted on Travis:

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    They have completely removed the rear exterior facade and wall of the building - it is completely exposed to the elements:

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    According to a worker on-site, they will extend the lower patio out to about where the building is on the left side of the photo. They will also add an upper patio be a mezzanine that will extend from the building.  It will be a night-club.

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    The Jones On Main: 708 / 712 Main Renovations

    in Downtown

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    A new food hall is coming to downtown Houston complete with a dozen food outlets, a craft beer and wine bar, and an art deco cocktail lounge.

    The Food Hall at Main and Rusk is set to open in early 2018 at The Jones on Main in the JPMorgan Chase building at 712 Main – the former Gulf Oil Building that is undergoing a major renovation by Houston developer Midway. The 37-story tower's owner, Lionstone Investments, in partnership with Midway, has tapped Austin-based Oz Rey, LLC, to develop and operate the food hall.

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    The food hall, which will offer breakfast, lunch and dinner options, is designed to be a culinary destination with a "curated group of celebrated local and global chefs." The dining and drinking concepts will be located in the grand lobby of the building.

     

    While no local chefs or concepts have been identified for the project, the food hall is described as a 20,000-square-foot project that will feature "chef-driven food outlets, a craft beer and curated wine bar, and art deco cocktail lounge and unique private spaces."

     

     

     

    http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/restaurants-bars/article/New-food-hall-set-for-downtown-Houston-11141556.php

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    Texas Tower: 47-Story Office Tower At 845 Texas Ave.

    in Downtown

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    HOT TAKE ALERT.

     

    I would like to point out that it's 8:14 PM and there are still crews out demolishing the building at this very moment in backhoes. Do you really do two shifts (presumably with hazard pay) if you don't have a deadline?  And, as a contractor, if you didn't have a deadline with your developer (Hines), wouldn't you have put in your bid that you could spend less to tear the building down if you took more time doing it?  Like "Say Hines, if you got more time, we can tear this down for cheaper which lets us put our second-shift team on another job which lets us make more money during the same stretch of time, and it costs you less, chill?"  And wouldn't Hines have said "Great idea.  We have no plans for this but to immediately turn it into a surface parking lot, sales on which we would pay tax on this a heckuva lot more than if we had a condemned building just hanging out.  I mean, look at the guys who own the Days Inn Building - they figured it out. MAD TAX SKILLS."

     

    Am I crazy? 

     

    UPDATE:  It is now 12:07 AM and they are still working on this.

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