toxtethogrady

If this gets built, it would guarantee that 5 Allen does not. Which honestly is the best case senario. 5 Allen would be an ideal spot for a super tall - 100 story mixed use tower!

I don't think we can say for sure without a reading on the absorption numbers over the next few quarters. Currently, there appears to be a shortage that the next couple of buildings in the pipeline will fill. Since I think the absorption patterns will continue, I would say this one's probably going to be postponed a year or two rather than cancelled outright.

But no 100-plus tower is coming. Not unless it's mixed use.

We might see them yet.

I notice that the Euro-design that started with BP computing center has now extended to other buildings in Houston. They look like tacos.

it seems like a horrible place for an apartment complex with elevated freeway on two sides.  will it be affordable housing maybe?  i certainly wouldn't plop down market rates for that locale.  soundproofing seems like a necessity.

I seem to have recalled the permit for the place hit the HBJ. I think it is a wrap.

Another Axis apartments?

I see; they're going to erect the tallest wooden structure in the world. Just to watch it burn.

I think those kinds of amenities are de rigeur for any new office building these days. Or any new highrise condo, for that matter.

Boy, talk about bringing a rumor to a boil.

Swamplot has dropped this interesting little tidbit:

http://swamplot.com/has-everyone-cleared-out-of-the-winhall-condos-too/2014-09-10/ 

Ate lunch at Treebeards today and I parked by this project. Was funny to watch two construction workers fight... one worker got a little too close to another one with a street sweeper and the other one took it really personally. Pushed him off the sweeper too! 

I sure hope this is not demonstrative of the talent available in the labor pool. It's bad enough that I once went up in a tower under construction with a worker who was just arriving at the jobsite fresh from a DUI hearing.

That will be quite a sight the next time I'm in town.

...especially if that double-posting means two towers are in the works.

From what I understand, MST supposed to have 22,000 square feet of retail including shop restaurants and a grocery store so I would imagine that corner would be pretty lively.

If you're lucky, maybe they'll get a Balducci's or a Dean and DeLuca on the first floor.

The brick looks nice in person

 

IMAG0138 by Not.Larry.Dierker, on Flickr

Colorful.

But then they'll probably cover up the yellow insulating material. Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted.

Tell it to 609 Main.

609 has the potential to be our "Shard". Interesting shape, if a little flat on top.

The crane on the Astoria needs to get jacked up a little.

Very Chinese.

Somebody at the Downtown forum hosted by BisNow claimed there are only three blocks remaining for office towers within the CBD. I'm not sure how much basis in fact there is for this assessment or even what is considered to be the Central Business District, but it surprised me.

Rained a bit...

Nice stadium. Do you think the team will bother to at least show up for their next game there?

Any reason why that backhoe is sitting in a pond?

???

 

Oh, dear. That name is persona non grata in this town...

I'm also a little skeptical of any sort of "crash". 2014 was supposed to be the year the Houston economy hit the "pause" button, but hiring in the oil and gas sector added 5,000 jobs to the economy in the last two months, and there will be a lot of design engineers working on a lot of chemical plants over the next three years, so the party may continue for a while.

That is, until this town gets too expensive to live in.

Why Dallas? wouldn't Houston's economy be more vulnerable considering its economy is mainly based on one industry? 

One would think. But Dallas' economy is highly sensitive to dot-com busts and sheds a lot of jobs at the drop of a hat. I think they are more construction-leveraged than Houston. We saw that in 2001 and again in 2008. Oil, by contrast, has been holding up real well.

That's why I just call it:

 

Tah-Deck-koo stadium.

We will all be calling it the Turducken before long.   Especially if UH continues to suck fumes against UTSA.

Only Louisiana is sinking. They kinda screwed the pooch when it came to the Mississippi Delta.

If it has, that's a lofty plateau. The proposed units are less than a year's demand.