Golyadkin

Looks like the garage went down a bit hard: 

Looking at it this morning, it's definitely a parking lot. The black panels they were putting in had a bunch of holes in them, and they had workers last night go out and put red buttons in the holes in the shape of parking spaces. I'm not going to be home until much later today, so no pictures, but it is definitely a temporary parking lot they are building. My guess would be that it's for the Uptown Lighting.

Here's a picture of the panels. I wasn't able to get any of the buttons they were putting in, but they looked like red versions of the yellow ones in the middle of the road:

This is the best I could manage:

They've been working for a few days, and it looks like they're putting down sand, and covering it in some black... stuff. They look like panels of some kind. They're thin, black, and have a lot of holes through them. Almost looks like they're doing some kind of temporary parking lot or something.

Looks like they are going to raise up the gurney with the crane and lower the guy down to the ground on it. I've never heard of any construction site ever doing that before.

Whatever happened to the talk that Apache might opt for selling the land back to Ed Wulfe and instead buy some land out on the Energy Corridor for their HQ instead?

They started taking down the crane at the Hanover tower yesterday. Sorry for the hazy picture, it was right after the rain had stopped.

 As someone who lives on the east side of Post Oak and who's view would be seriously blocked by one, I really hope it's a LONG time.

Isn't that where the 17 story Grand Hyatt is supposed to go?

No, that's going up at the corner of Sage and W. Alabama.

This opens up really soon, right? I thought I remember April or May.

It was supposed to, but I talked to my ex who works at the Whole Foods out on Wilcrest, and she said that the word is that they are opening the BLVD Place store in August.

Nice shots. I live in the lofts too. Hoping it takes a while for that old retail at Moes that Zadok bought last year to get developed so all our views don't get ruined. 

My thoughts exactly.

Also, Zadok bought that land?

I finally got a new phone with a good camera, so I can finally take pictures again. They aren't great - still learning how to use it and it's still a cell phone, after all. Threw in a panorama from my balcony which shows the cranes at the BHP Billiton and Astoria sites as well (never had a camera with a panorama function before, and was testing it out).

These were posted on the UH Football facebook page last night:

To get an idea of how fast this has gone up, here is a picture they took exactly 8 months before, back in June of last year:

They took out the longhorn statue.

I've been told it's in several pieces in boxes somewhere over in the ERP, waiting for someone to figure out what to do with it. It's not designed to be placed outside in the elements, so they need to figure out how to weather-proof the material or where to put it. My suggestion would be the trash. That thing was awful.

The story I've gotten is that this tower is delayed because Chevron is diverting a lot of money to upstream development (exploration, etc.) and the money for the tower isn't there because of it.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but The Counter has BLVD Place listed as a future location.

http://www.thecounterburger.com/comingsoon/

It lists 6 BLVD Place. That's the existing building, with RDG Bar Annie and whatnot in it. I wonder if it's the wrong address they put or if a current tenant is leaving.

View of the Astoria crane in front of 1200 Post Oak as seen from the LOPO garage.

Neighbor..?

The tower crane is being erected right now. It's blue. My camera fully died so I can't get pictures.

With the stadium coming along nicely and the new parking garages completed, any idea on what the next big project(s) will be?

Probably the proposed engineering building for where the old hanger used to be.

This tower is DEFINITELY happening. Why is this even being debated?

Source: my father is a Chevron VP.

The steel is done! They have the tree up. There are two red beams with a little tree on top and a few flags hanging beneath them. They are over the big entrance on the corner facing Cullen and Cougar Place.

The building just sold. Hopefully this is positive news for their other projects moving forward.

Sold? I was not aware Skanska was even trying to sell it.

well RD may be closing on another site very near Astoria so get used to it.

Which site would that be? That little apartment complex behind the Astoria on Garrettson?

Finally back from Asia and able to take pictures again. They have all of the scaffolding down, and (seen in the last picture) they have gotten going on paving the road that will become the hilariously named BLVD Place Dr.

From today:

Glass!  You shooting with a 200mm?

Not for that shot. I have a 55-200 lens, but I got that one with my 18-55.

This was shot with my 200mm:

Also, I'm almost certain those white covered things are escalators.

@Golyadkin: is that the core starting to separate itself from the parking garage on the Hanover tower?  Hard to tell on my computer but it looks like the core with a pump arm sticking up.

It is above the rest of the building, but it's always been about a story above the rest of the garage as it's been going up.

I FINALLY am able to upload photos again! Took these a few minutes ago: