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King Owl

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  1. Ok, so it seems that this lot is now open for parking, so I parked on it today. I asked the attendant what they're going to build, and he said that it would be a parking garage and apartments. Huh? He may have been clueless, though, since he was a parking attendant and probably wasn't as well versed as those of us who browse this forum with any regularity.
  2. bigdig....you're such a tease! come on, give us internet geeks a hint of why you think it's a vast improvement... Do you like the height? Is the top still innovative like the previous rendering? Retail? Give us something to hold us poor schlepps over
  3. I like the height....looks to be significantly taller than 5 Houston Center. This tower is going to have a PRIME location right on the lake portion of the park. It could fetch some of the highest rental rates in Houston
  4. I'm really excited about this building. My Rice baseball season tickets look straight out at the Med Center skyline, and I counted 9 cranes visible last June. Now it may be even more. Many out of town visitors get a picturesque view of this skyline while attending Rice baseball and football games. Amazing amount of activity over there, and my guess is that it they will continue to build up as land runs short in that area. The med center is probably the 3rd best skyline in the state, now!
  5. Reading back through some of the press releases, it looks like Boymelgreen may be trying to sell part of the land they bought (specifically at Richmond and Post Oak). http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...ry2.html?page=1. Perhaps it's not Boymelgreen who is considering this big project. Also, referencing Houston Development's post around the McCue site, I'm guessing that's Faulkner's project which was rumored to be a 40 story condo tower... Houston Development, are you in a mood to share any info with us?
  6. Who said there would be three towers? Are you referring to the very first rendering that came out? -typical n00b
  7. My guess is that it would either be a Marriott or a Starwood (likely Westin or Sheraton). Downtown desperately needs a Starwood property - they are BY FAR where business folks prefer to stay. Their points program is head and shoulders above the rest.
  8. Yeah if I had to make a guess it would be the Boymelgreen development. It's in the right area as described by ENGcons and we know that Boymelgreen has the financial capacity to put something like this together. I thought I had read that initially they were going to do two 30 story condo towers on that Richmond/Post Oak property. Perhaps they're reconsidering. Here's the thread from when they bought the property... http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...lgreen&st=0
  9. An astute colleague of mine at work (and lurker on this site!) noticed that there were no cars parked today on the site of 6 Houston Center. I believe today is the first day that it hadn't been used as a surface parking lot. looks like they're up to something.....
  10. If memory serves, that's a pretty small plot of land, correct. 90% chance of townhomes would be my guess for its use.
  11. I thought about that one time, but if you notice the beacon's angle, it points upwards, so you'd need something a lot taller to get hit smack on by the beacon since the light is angled up.
  12. I'd love to see some kind of lighting element to it. Maybe a stripe as along the side where the curved part is or something towards the top (other than the Ritz Carlton is neon letters....) I like it, though. Definitely something different.
  13. Actually I think you're correct. Sorry if I was the source of the confusion. For some reason I had in my head where it was in the picture I took...
  14. Can't say I'm too overjoyed by the design, or the fact that this presentation shows the building at only 29 stories as opposed to the 31 we had heard earlier. However, I do like the fact that they appeared to make the new building something of a hybrid between 5 Houston Center and 3 Houston Center (now the Fulbright Tower, formerly the Chevron Tower). ....assuming this rendering is still what they intend on building.
  15. The four other buildings (aside from MainPlace) that Nancy Sarnoff referenced in her article were 1) Brookfield site near the Continental building 2) 6 Houston Center 3) Discovery Tower 4) Possible Hines tower site on Main (again, not MainPlace). This one is in the same location as the City Center that this thread discusses.
  16. Folks, go onto citysearch and read the reviews of a few of the well known midtown places. You can figure out who lets in who. baggy clothes, another form of ID, inappropriate shoes....you can always just make up some excuse to keep somebody out....and the police are right there and won't do a thing about it.
  17. Yeah I think anybody's personal morale code would say the same thing, but unfortunately that's not the law.
  18. That lawsuit would be unfounded, considering a private establishment can let anybody they please inside, and keep anybody they please outside. Like I said, there are places in midtown that have been doing this for years.
  19. That is actually the nice part of midtown. I don't think the place will see too much less traffic. They do great business and they're a known commodity through their other locations in other cities. I think what will end up happening is that Asians won't be allowed into bars in Midtown, something that has already been happening for years at several of the midtown bars/clubs. It's sad that the actions of a few end up hurting the larger group.
  20. This did occur at Howl at the Moon. It was a group of Asians that did the stabbing. ******* cowards
  21. Very cool. I actually park on that lot from time to time - it's got that hideous building with the faded Texas flag on it. Nice to see it torn down, hopefully.
  22. I'm actually very interested in purchasing a residence in this development. I emailed the office and they let me know that they will likely have more information in 6 months, but there will be two towers for residences: one a 300 unit building with residences for lease (probably the Hanover tower), and another tower that will have 175 units for sale - this tower will be connected to the 5 star hotel. They will be ready in 2010. Apologies if this was already public knowledge, but it's new to me so I thought it might be new to others. In terms of height, for comparison purposes, 7 Riverway (also Hanover) is 22 stories and has 175 units. The "lease tower" will have 300 residences, so that would translate to around 37 stories if each story had the same # of units per floor as 7 Riverway. The hotel/condo tower would have 225 hotel rooms (from website) and 175 condos - so for comparison, the W in Dallas is 439 feet high, and has 250 hotel rooms and 70 condos. We'd be looking at something much taller than that, given how many more condo units this tower would have. Maybe in the 600-700 foot range, perhaps? That's a nice sized tower.
  23. Does anybody notice the similarity between this building and the new Turnberry tower? Specifically the corner balconies and the "glass square" near the top? It may be a case that the Titan is trying to beat Turnberry to market. Plus....the Titan added that spire on top which I think makes it a more attractive building than Turnberry. I'm very impressed by the look of the last two Randall Davis properties (Cosmopolitan and now Titan)
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