Boris
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They're moving along. Now, this one wont be imploded right?
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Found this video on Youtube. It's a very good angle.
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That's a very cool timelaps Jax.
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Cool, what program do you use to stitch these shots together?
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Thx Jax, it was wild.
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The Crown Plaza Hotel in the Texas Medical Center was imploded today to make way for the Texas Childrens Hospital's expansion.
View when we first arrived at approximately 6:00 a.m. today.
The media was there:
This one guy set up his camera and tripod, I think it was KevinfromTexas:
Sun came up and the crowds increased:
The kid on the right was the person selected to push the button; he's the son of some big shot with Texas Childrens Hospital - Dude with cap on left:
Shots of the demolition crew, and set up of the trigger box:
Wait a minute, the kids supposed to push that:
Helicopter circling the area:
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Methodist plans hospital on west side
Completion of 192-bed facility expected in 2010
By LYNN COOK
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
The Methodist Hospital System will spend $300 million to build a 192-bed hospital in west Houston, hospital executives announced Friday.
The hospital, with an emergency room, open-heart surgery capability and cancer treatment areas, will be on the north side of the Katy Freeway just west of Barker Cypress, Methodist president and CEO Ron Girotto said in a statement.
Construction is scheduled to start early next year, with completion by 2010.
The Methodist hospital site is directly next door to a 55-acre tract where construction will begin on Texas Children's Hospital West in 2008. That $220 million pediatric project is expected to be complete in 2010 as well.
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Just a look around on Windows Live, looks like there's an empty field just to the west and a street level parking lot just south of that. I'm definately going to try to go and get a good position with a videocamera and camera.
Hope I can get some clear shots. If I do I'll post them as soon as possible afterwards.
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that's hilarious. Cool shot.
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I rarely make an appearance in this section, but I have to respond to the statements about San Fran. It's one of the most beautiful cities in the world, period.
Adios
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What?
Did we just get time warped back to page 1?
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It does look like the old Mervyn's location, but if you notice, the rendering looks like it still has the Mervyn's bld in it,
and it has been torn down for awhile now.
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This story in the HBJ states they will invest 130 Mil:
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...tml?jst=b_ln_hl
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Long-vacant downtown hotel to be renovated
DAVID KAPLAN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
A downtown building that's been vacant since 1988 will get a $100 million face lift and be turned into an Omni luxury hotel.
The 28-story Sheraton-Lincoln Plaza tower at 711 Polk and Louisiana was acquired for $15 million.by Songy Partnersin a joint venture with Omni Hotels
The redeveloped hotel will have about 450 suites, fine dining restaurants and more than 30,000 square feet of meeting space.It will also feature a 13,000-square-foot wellness/ fitness center with a spa and salon.
The lower levels of the building will be opened up with glass, to make it more accessible to pedestrians, said David Songy, CEO of Songy Partners. Gensler & Associates is the project architect.
The renovations are scheduled to begin in late 2007 and the hotel is expected to open by mid-2009.The Sheraton-Lincoln Plaza opened in 1962 as mixed-use hotel and office building.
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Saw this blurb on the TAMU website. Couldn't find an article in the Chron's website. Anyone have any other info on this project?
Developer to add buildings close to I-10 and Texas 6 - 9/4/2007(Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown: Office)
(Houston) - Citing strong job growth and shrinking property vacancies, Opus West Corp. is planning a two-building development in the west Houston area that would add 460,000 square feet of office space to this energy-dominated market. The Phoenix-based developer bought almost 17 acres near the southwest corner of Interstate 10 and Texas 6 for the project, to be called Energy Crossing I & II. The price was not disclosed. With or without a tenant, the company expects to start construction in the fourth quarter, with the first phase scheduled for completion a year later. Overall office vacancy in this area, known as the Energy Corridor, is less than 7 percent, and the Class A market has even less space available, according to a mid-year report by Transwestern. Class A rents are up 9 percent on an annualized basis from the end of last year through June. "Tracts of land with this size and location are in short supply in the Energy Corridor," said Cushman & Wakefield's Marshall Davidson, who was part of a team that brokered the land transaction. (Reprinted from 09/01/07)
[Houston Chronicle]
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Thx Sevfiv. So, we're going to lose this one as well? Too bad, I liked the red fire escape?
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If I'm not mistaken, this is the block that will be demolished?
On the bottom:
And to the right:
And this is what I found on Windows Live Local, the block in the middle:
If so, though I prefer older buildings than new glass skyscrapers, I think this new office tower will be an improvement here.
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You must not be aware of the location of the Town & County site. There's definately a lot of activity there.
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I'm also seeing alot of construction activity and I drive by there almost every day. One of the structures is already three stories.
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Lake Conroe resort renamed
Houston Business Journal - 4:06 PM CDT Thursday, August 2, 2007by Jennifer Dawson
The former Del Lago Golf Resort and Conference Center on Lake Conroe has been renamed LaCara Resort & Spa by the new owner.
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LaCara will have 445 all-suite guestrooms, a restaurant, 75,000 square feet of meeting and event space, a 30,000-square-foot spa/health complex, an updated golf course and an ice skating rink when it opens in summer 2008. The property will also offer a 3.5-acre swimming pool complex, lazy river, marina and a variety of water sports.
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...tml?jst=b_ln_hl
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Plans for former HISD headquarters site revealed
Houston Business Journal - 4:50 PM CDT Thursday, July 26, 2007
Three years after being selected by the Houston Independent School District to buy its Inner Loop headquarters site for redevelopment, Trammell Crow Co. and The Morgan Group Inc. have revealed plans for the 24-acre project.
Dallas-based Trammell Crow will break ground immediately on a retail center that will include a 164,000-square-foot Costco topped with a second-floor, 45,000-square-foot LA Fitness health club. Another 47,000 square feet of retail will be built as part of the project, located at the northeast corner of Weslayan Road and Richmond Avenue.
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In addition, Houston-based Morgan Group will begin construction in December on a high-end, mid-rise apartment community with 526 units.
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...ml?surround=lfn
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A little more info on this in todays chron:
Before the property reopens with a new name next summer, its guest rooms will be renovated with larger bathrooms, flat-screen TVs and other modern amenities. All 445 rooms will be suites.A sushi bar and gourmet restaurant are planned, along with 70,000 square feet of meeting facilities.
The swimming area will be expanded to include two adult pools, three children's pools, hot tubs and a "lazy river."
A 30,000-square-foot fitness center and spa will offer Turkish massages and therapeutic saltwater pools.
The goal is to upgrade the property into a contemporary resort similar to the Hyatt Hill Country or Hyatt Lost Pines, said hotel consultant John Keeling, who worked on the project
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French Quarter Plans $100M for Resort Redo
By Amy Wolff Sorter
600 Del Lago Blvd.LAKE CONROE, TX-A 174-acre vacant resort will have a second life with help from its new owner, Atlanta-based French Quarter Group. The buyer plans to invest more than $100 million into the Del Lago Resort & Conference Center, its first property in Texas.
Midtown Retail Development
in Midtown
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Should have told them you wanted to open a small franchise.