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These are some pictures of several downtown apartment buildings. If you've got more, please post! Humble Tower St. Germain Rooftop view from Capitol Lofts

go to www.photobucket.com. you can upload them to that site, then copy the address below the picture that says IMG and post it here.

By the way, anybody here gotta dolla? -Internet Bum

Anybody have more information on this project? I know most of it is complete, but does anybody have any photos?

Post does have a lot of good urban designs. The exterior architects are great, but the interiors are surprisingly bad (for the rent).

Any photos / renderings? Actually, since its near the court, you'll probably get a lot of out of town lawyers staying there.

You're tellin' me that you don't think Target is high fashion? They got one of them in the Galleria area too. It's where I take all my chillins to get their clothin'.

The Bob Casey Courthouse is one ugly structure. I cannot stand that place. It doesn't really inspire a sense of justice in me. http://www.txs.uscourts.gov/jury/images/park016.jpg

The Chronicle should hire some real reporters first. The whole rag is embarrasing for the fourth largest city in America.

I know an old lady that drove from San Antonio to Dallas on I-35 COMPLETELY ON THE SHOULDER. The cops stopped her outside Dallas. Evidently there were 10+ squadcars. She said it was pavement, and it wasn't taken up, so she drove on it. Sounds completely logical to me. But only a little old lady can get away with it.

They didn't ask this girl. They just knocked and said they were coming in.

They showed me occupied units too. A tenant came home while we were there. It would have freaked me out if I was her. I moved elsewhere.

The inner loop does have character. I'm not a fan of suburbs.

TMC is already huge. I couldn't imagine it being twice that size. I thought doctors and hospitals were losing their shirts because of the evil trial lawyers.

That's a beautiful old hotel I knew nothing about.

It is too bad that folks roughed it up. Did you "hear" or see anything wierd while you were there?

It is surprising how poorly Post properties are built. But they still get away with charging astronomical rent!

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Camden puts planned deals back on front burner Jennifer Dawson Houston Business Journal Camden Property Trust is poised to move ahead with several apartment developments that were put on hold last year because of a glut of multifamily units in the Houston market. Ric Campo, Camden's chairman and CEO, expects much of the local rental units to be absorbed in 2005, creating a decent rental market in 2006 and 2007. "You've had supply starting to abate, and job growth starting to pick up," says Campo. "We believe that 2005 will have twice as much absorption as completions." Campo projects 14,600 apartment units will be completed this year in Houston, with 11,800 absorptions. He expects only 9,400 units will be completed in 2005, while 18,000 units will be in demand. To be ready for that anticipated demand, the Houston-based real estate investment trust is planning to break ground on at least three apartment complexes next year, some of which have been in the works for years. Camden will likely break ground in mid- to late 2005 on the superblock project in Midtown. The mixed-use development is in position to move forward after Camden recently purchased the last two acres it needed of the five-acre site. The Midtown Redevelopment Authority and Camden each own part of the site, which is bounded by Main, Anita, McGowen and Travis. F. Charles Le Blanc, executive director of the Midtown Redevelopment Authority, says it took seven years to acquire all of the superblock land, so this last purchase is significant. "All the pieces are now together," he says. Design work is in motion on a high-density, urban development on the site. Campo envisions the superblock having 400 to 500 apartments in a six- to eight-story midrise. The ground floor will likely have retail space or space where an artist could live and work, he says. In another deal that took three years to piece together, Campo says Camden will probably break ground in early to mid-2005 on a multifamily complex in the Fourth Ward. The 9.1-acre site that encompasses seven blocks is roughly bounded by Valentine to the west, Ruthven to the north, the Interstate 45 feeder road to the east and St. Joseph Parkway and Baldwin to the south. Click here for the rest of the story