Boris

Welcome to my drive into town:

Getting onto I-10 going East:

Beltway Interchange:

Saw this on the Houston Bus Journal site:

Medistar tests medical mall marketHouston Business Journal - by Jennifer Dawson Houston Business Journal

The prolific developer wants to create a high-rise medical mall that would cater to Houston's health care hub -- the Texas Medical Center.

Hourani, CEO of Houston-based Medistar Corp., has spent decades developing health care-related facilities. Now he wants to build something unique to Houston's medical community.

Medistar plans to spend between $175 million and $200 million to develop at least a 600,000-square-foot building that would be located just outside of Texas Medical Center boundaries, on Medistar-owned land.

The high-rise would house offices and showrooms for companies that sell equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals to Texas Medical Center institutions. Tenants could also include organizations working to develop new medical technologies and treatments.

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...1496400^1581793

http://www.globest.com/news/1082_1082/houston/167822-1.html

Legacy, CalPERS Starting $75M Residential Tower

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Legacy at Memorial

HOUSTON-Legacy Partners Residential Development Inc. and equity partner CalPERS have cleared the site and are preparing to break ground on their 330-unit Legacy at Memorial. The project, which will exceed $75 million of all-in costs, has 15% of the apartments dedicated for affordable housing.

The partnership acquired the 3.3 acres at Studemont Street and Memorial Drive in April 2007, with plans to break ground last September. "It took awhile to redesign the building and rework the plans," explains Spencer Stuart Jr., senior vice president and Texas partner for the Foster City, CA-based Legacy Partners tells GlobeSt.com. ....

The project, which will exceed $75 million of all-in costs, has 15% of the apartments dedicated for affordable housing. ...

Killer foggy shots.

Saw that this a.m. Thought it looked cool sitting there off the side of the Hwy with the old houses in the background. Wish I had my camera.

Let me guess, you were the guy on the right, correct Editor?

That's cool NH. I studied Google Earth for the best view. I thought I'd might have been able to get onto the parking garage at San Jacinto and Rusk, but it was closed off to everyone except the demolition guys. So I was stuck across the street.

When I saw you all on the other side (after the Montagu was blown away) on that other parking garage I couldn't believe I missed that vantage point. But, looks like you had a great view.

Thx for all the comments.

Froze my ass off to view this implosion. Hope you enjoy the photos and videos:

Spectators:

Post Implosion:

Spectators on an parking garage on the other side. Looks like they had a better view:

Thx for all the comments guys. That's why I post them, for all the positive strokes.

The Fingers Building:

As I'm not originally from Houston, and don't know the DT area too good, I got lost. Actually, the pathway out and west was blocked because of the marathon. I found myself in the neighborhoods just west of DT and came across this little area:

Finally made it to I-59 South:

Came up upon the runners at the intersection of I-59 and 610 Loop heading north:

On I-10 west drove by the new medical office building at Memorial City:

And finally made it to my exit, with the new BP and other office buildings going up off in the distance of the Energy Corridor.

Adios

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Meet up with the runners around the courthouse buildings:

Never been to a marathon so I decided to check this one out. It started at 7:00 a.m. this morning. I got to the DT just before 6:00 a.m. and had time to walk about before the sun came out:

Saw Mayor White with some dignitaries:

Looks like I was signed in as Issa when I posted above, which is the member name I use when I want to post more than 20 photos. Sorry for the confusion.

Thx for the link,

Love the tile work

Cool,

Have any more downtown shots?

And, what building is this?

Took the kids and family from Mexico to the Space Center. Here are some photos:

Saw Dan Rather there; that was weird. A lady who appeared to be his daughter snapped this photo for us:

What do you all think?

http://travel.independent.co.uk/news_and_a...icle3275945.ece

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/ar...the_261814a.xls

We heard about this particular house in Shadowlake subdivision. It's just north of the intersection of Kempwood Drive and Gessner. And specifically at Kempwood Forest Dr. and Quincannon Lane. It was unbelievable:

Feel free to add in any awesome christmas lights you might find.

And Merry Christmas to all.

Adios

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VISTA EQUITIES GROUP SELLS 27.4 ACRES FOR NEW HOSPITAL CAMPUS

KATY, TEXAS

Amen to that TJ, and ...

My bad. The photos were great

Whew, I thought I had posted some crappy boring shots there for a second.

I guess he doesn't like the photos. Oh well, I posted them to celebrate the Texans' win. If he doesn't like the pics, he didn't have to open the thread.

We went to today's game between the Texans and the buccaneers; and we KICKED AAASSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Thx Eastend, but one of the reasons why I post these type of pics of events is to incourage more people to go.

So, you should go next year, and if you have kids, take them for sure.

Thx Jax and Editor.