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Nate99

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  1. All very interesting. I grabbed this rendering from the link in the link. A downtown without surface lots. Crayzay!
  2. Thanks for the tip. One can never have too many good burger options.
  3. They're going to town now. Walked over there at lunch (Hubcap Grill burgers are entirely decent) and took this pic:
  4. I've seen workers coming and going from the building for a couple of months now. There is a big hole cut in one of the upper floors where it was boarded up previously.
  5. I walked by the other day, and it occurred to me how close HP was to the Park Shops (Shops at Houston Center, if you prefer). Seems to me that a failed mall two blocks away might have stopped someone from developing a mall in the first place. That said, the stuff that is open is nice enough, I suppose, so long as the rest of it doesn't rot away in 10 or 20 years. Shopping in downtown is severely limiting. Nearly anyone can get to the Galleria just as easily, park for free and not sweat in between stores. For those that can't get to the Galleria easily, well, they really shouldn't be shopping there anyway.
  6. Indeed. I found it fascinating enough to stand out in 100* temps and take pics. It also looks like the surface lot across Polk from the Sheraton site is getting at least repaved, if not some other construction going on.
  7. The Deluxe Diner on University and Wellborn was a staple my freshman year. I ate there every Sunday night in the fall so I could watch the NFL game on ESPN. The nice Greek lady that ran the place would keep bringing me vanilla Cokes. They had great breakfast too. Not sure when they closed up, but I know that they were open in '06 or '07. I don't think they had changed a thing the entire time.
  8. If they do knock it down, that would cut the Chase Tower (and others) off from the tunnels unless they got really creative. .
  9. I think you're right, it's a block up from the Houston Club.
  10. Brown Bag Deli does steady business every day, hopefully they would open up a shop somewhere close by. Wasn't this the building that had a fire earlier in the year (or late 2010)?
  11. Me too. HP was a neat idea, hopefully they'll get more tenants eventually.
  12. While $100 ($0.02 x 5000) doesn't sound like much, I think that is what Books-a-Million is paying in rent this year.
  13. The swamplot link in the first post said that it was vacant for 24 years.
  14. This in particular is going to be landscaped on the surface, as I understand it. The parking is underneath the former hotel and has been utilized consistently up until the demo started. That will be used again after they complete the tear down. This was an empty shell of a building for the better part of 20 years that is most vividly remembered by those who had to be near it for the strongest urine stench in all of downtown. Sometimes, it's just an old building.
  15. I used to work in 5 Houston Center. The orientation with the park and the Fulbright tower is messed up. It may be a mirror image.
  16. I'm curious if the building that sits on the corner of that lot would come down or be built around ala the Stowers building. It looks like it has been empty for a long time.
  17. Down to a floor and a half above the concrete part.
  18. By my count, that's 7 floors gone in less than a month.
  19. I'm guessing that the entire league probably had an exclusive deal with some beverage company.
  20. I didn't see anyone working on the exterior, but I didn't look to closely for signs of anyone coming in/out of the lobby. I was across the street when I walked by.
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