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  1. fernz
    Hey, everybody's entitled to their own opinion. Many people actually like those buildings, after all, they sold out pretty quickly.
  2. fernz
    Yes...actually, both to the North and South. They're Randall Davis' at its worse, in my opinion.
  3. fernz
    Can't look any worse than its next-door neighboors, right? Right?
  4. fernz
    Does this project really have a residential component as mentioned in the title?
  5. fernz
    Or maybe they shoudl just turn it into a surface parking lot.
  6. fernz
    BBVA Compass Plaza includes 3 lots - two lots with Post Oak frontage, and one lot between these two and the midrise apartments to the West. The BBVA Compass tower (south lot) was phase 1; phase 2 (north lot) was originally planned to be a hotel that would be built at the same time as the office tower- and phase 3 (west lot) was never defined, it would be whatever the market called for. Since phase 2 apparently includes hotel, and since phase 1 is still about 30% vacant, my guess is that phase 3 is still an undetermined future development. The only option I see for upcoming development is for a higher-end hotel (maybe Ritz Carlton) that would not directly compete with a lesser quality hotel in the mixed use phase 2.... Or phase 2 is only apartments, then phase 3 can be any hotel.
  7. fernz
    Christmas decorations.
  8. fernz
    I like the variety on the curtain wall
  9. fernz
    Vegas!
  10. fernz
    If the views are ruinned but no one is there to notice, are they really ruinned?
  11. fernz
    That site plan is definetely at BBVA Compass Plaza. it looks great, who is the architect?
  12. fernz
    Looks to me like something that belongs in the Memorial City complex. I can imagine it with blue lights at the top.
  13. fernz
    It must be for an overhead protection over the new sidewalk, very common for high rise construction.
  14. fernz
    Exactly! The view was ruined anyway when all those signs were added.
  15. fernz
    Did he say if the new buildings will be as beautiful as the ones they did across the freeway?
  16. fernz
    Not good
  17. fernz
    The large lease before selling was actually by the buyer.
  18. fernz
    So will be traffic on Post Oak
  19. fernz
    As important as the urban environment is, the main concern should be that the artwork in the building is properly displayed and conserved; which I would venture to say is one if the reasons Holl was selected. Along with Renzo Piano, he is one of the few architects who really understands and masters the use of natural lighting.
  20. fernz
    They are not. A few lines below calling it condominiums, the article says: "... with plans to convert it into 309 high-end rental units in a $95 million project."
  21. fernz
    There is a teaser form Transwestern in today's HBJ - see attached. Any ideas what it may be about?
  22. fernz
    Google Terry Hershey Park....
  23. fernz
    I bet that is just a sign that the architect's renderer put in to show there could be retail. That's an old rendering; tenants are never signed up at the time the architect does the design rendering.
  24. fernz
    The article says construction will add up to 41,000 sf....that is NOT a high rise.
  25. fernz
    Actually that means apartments. Condos are not for rent, they are for sale.
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