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  1. The medical clinic tenant has dropped off the rader, is no longer a component of the project.
  2. The 65% is the retail/restaurant part of HP only. The office space so far has no leases signed. The official word is that they have proposals out for more space than they'll have (200,000 square feet), but that's typical of any new or existing building.
  3. They've announced a "Groundbreaking date:" February 7, 2008. Not sure when the bulldozers arrive.
  4. I looked at the St. Germain ~2001, didn't choose it because they were only rental. But I liked the interesting (but not over-interesting) floor plans, and especially being so close to a lot of things -- restaurants (Flying Saucer!), theater, clubs, rail, bus, freeway, sports -- but you're not right in the middle of the party. And the building has a great look from the outside.
  5. How cool is that?!! Great! Yes, it's illegal to bicycle on the sidewalk, even though the police do it, but I haven't heard of tickets being issued.
  6. I like having the security guard at Randall's. The other night I went to the Midtown CVS, and a guy was right outside their doors asking for $. I told the woman at the checkout counter, and she knew who I was talking about. She said she didn't know why "they" didn't take care of the situation. Then he came inside, hung around. Doesn't CVS do anything about this? Maybe it was just that one time. Randall's takes care of this issue.
  7. Thanks for the update. Do you know what the price per square foot was, and if anyone else is buying?
  8. It would help if the current owner, whoever that is, would come out/surface, give the public a little confidence that the place is going to work.
  9. The old building will come down, as what is the financial value of that building? The Y can't give the land away -- they need to sell the block to have $ to put into the new building. Someone could come in and buy the block, but the highest & best use is office space or office-related use. Would be great to use it for residential, but residential can't compete with office space -- especially in this market. You'd have to have a lot of people willing to pay big bucks to live there, in the middle of office towers. A lot of engineer-types there -- KBR, Chevron -- and they're not your typical high-dollar inner city residential demographic (hey, love those engineers, but they're just not the demographic). You'd have some view, but not like many other locations.
  10. The sign on the building still says: Kirby Lofts on Main 65 Units Now Leasing 713-752-0917
  11. Anyone know who the real owner is? Tracy no longer has it, it was for sale, but I don't know who really owns it. Important in buying: who is the owner of the property, parking. Probably 8 units occupied (leased) right now, if that many.
  12. It's a fairly new concept, but one that has been highlighted/written about in US mainstream business mags. Not sure how it'll start out, but if it can make it that long, it'll be a perfect fit with Houston Pavilions and Macy's.
  13. Would HAIFers prefer that the building top lights be on all the time, or that some of the buildings have them on all year, but have all the buildings turn them on for holidays and major events (like Superbowl)?
  14. I can't find the URL, but the Zone 10 Chronicle This Week section yesterday had an article: "Midtown - Residents have issues with new CVS store." Midtown Mgmt District and others tried, and it'll help people understand why we might want a few incentives and code changes.
  15. I was out there last night (7-11:30 pm), and it was quite lively, active.
  16. Anyone work for or know anyone at Hines? Since they own, manage and/or lease One Shell, 2 Shell, BOA, 1100 Louisiana, Chase Tower, Chase Center, Chase Bank and the old Bank One, they could make a big dent in the complaints here. Surely someone in this forum knows them -- or even someone within Hines who can tell us what the deal is.
  17. Hines had their topping out ceremony last Thursday, May 3. No tree on top, though.
  18. While residents within 1-2-3 miles are what retailers count, I've heard retail brokers say it'll take 20-25,000 people living within the elevated freeways. Right now there are about 4,000. Marvy's project, when fully occupied, should produce almost 500 more. And when the Old Texaco Building project is eventually converted, that'll add another 500 or so. We've got a way to go. Retail follows people -- residents, workers, visitors. We've got the workers. Can we really bring retail without enough residents and visitors?
  19. Ingress/egress on Travis is only for 30 parking spaces or so that are at street level -- the highest rent spaces. And it's on the left side of the street -- opposite of buses. Ingress/egress on McKinney is for the rest of the almost 300 parking spaces -- and it's on the left side of the street, too. All spaces are reserved. The top floor provides a fantastic view for a parking garage -- windows, locked-off balcony. So, the best spaces are at the top of the parking garage. And direct access to the building's elevators -- no need to transfer from garage to building. Garage has the very high-speed garage doors. Opened April 2. They've done a terrific job with the lobby and escalator to the tunnel. From the Tunnel it looks like the sun is shining in.
  20. Short-term closures this weekend for construction or maintenance - In the 1000-1200 blocks of Polk (Main to Caroline) and the 1100-1200 blocks of Fannin (Lamar to Polk) the Pavilions contractor will close all lanes to install a tower crane for a portion of the Pavilion's construction. The closures will begin Friday night at 8 PM and last until Monday morning 5 AM with one exception. source: Downtown District's weekly street closings e-mail
  21. The parking garage isn't finished -- I don't think they've topped out. It's a Hines garage being built for Sunbelt, the owner of Pennzoil and the parking lot in front of 1 Shell and 2 Shell. Hines never released renderings of the garage, but it was supposed to be sleek, and one of those garages that typically gets written up in Cite. Just like the Catholic Co-Cathedral, it has been value-engineered, and they're going in the direction of not including a skin -- just the metal cables going across, with maybe 3' of coverage on each floor. Ouch. Ugly buildings aren't illegal, unfortunately.
  22. It's Picazo. From an e-mail they sent out 3/27/07: breakfast, lunch, or dinner we cater and deliver. thanks anthony vowell marketing director 713-628-0219 cell picazo restaurant bar & grill 1421 preston @ labranch houston tx 77002 www.picazodowntown.com 713-236-1300
  23. They were putting up the crane for one Park place, and they were doing some serious lifting on top of one of the buildings. ********* One of the closures: They were putting transformers on top of 2 Shell. Crane was on the ground around 6pm Sat night, taking it down.
  24. An article regarding the problem: www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2002_3596352 I can't find one, however, that I think I remember reading that described what they were doing about the inmates who left Huntsville, came to Houston and were supposed to move on. They implemented a system whereby someone would be at the bus station waiting for the bus to arrive, and identifying former inmates and making sure they got on their next bus. This was supposed to help the problem at least somewhat.
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