H-Town Man Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Yes.Do you have a source? Sanford Criner with CBRE said today all the major office deals have happened... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Do you have a source? Sanford Criner with CBRE said today all the major office deals have happened...You beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Both Towers will make an impact on the skyline. I pass by the area on I-10 every morning, and will certainly add more density. They will compliment the Chase Tower's height nicely much like the Calpine Center has. Imagine this view when both are completed. I'm content with the design, aslong as it's not orange, yellow, or beige stucco. From that particular vantage point, One Pipe Wrench Plaza (aka BG Place) would be just about completely blocked from view, since the new building will be on the south half of the block containing the big honkin' parking garage dead front and center and is projected to be seven stories taller than Calpine. Immediately behind it from this angle will be 609 Main. So I guess it's good that we will have Two Pipe Wrench Plaza to contemplate. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Do you have a source? Sanford Criner with CBRE said today all the major office deals have happened...Of course he's going to say that, he's a tenant rep broker. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
democide Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Didn't they also say that one more downtown office tower will most likely happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Didn't they also say that one more downtown office tower will most likely happen?He did, but since he's a tenant rep broker, that could easily mean 5 or 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Triton Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 To the top liked comment on this website, you go!!! Absolutely fine work, Metro West! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 On second thought, we might not even see much of Two Pipe Wrench Plaza from that angle. Good work, MW (though I might put 609 Main just a skosh to the right from where you have it, and a bit shorter - as per Emporis it's 7m shorter than 700 Louisiana, and a bit further away than the Castle of Commerce from this perspective). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Great work metro. The impact of all these towers will add some great density to Downtown's skyline. It is almost a shame they could potentially block the gulf bank and esperson buildings from some views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I'm impressed and you seem to have all four positioned corectly and perspective is pretty close also. Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 HO-Lee-carp!That is wonderful photoshop work! Is it perfect? Who cares? That is really a great approximation! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 2014-07-19 12.53.09 by marclongoria, on Flickr 2014-07-19 12.53.29 by marclongoria, on Flickr 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Amazing that it took almost 30 years for the bulldozing of the historic buildings on that lot to be (almost) redeemed, but I'm glad it's finally happening. It's such a shame that after they were illegally turn down, it sat for so long as an empty lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chi-Char-Hou-Dal Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I know the link with the story exists but could anyone post the pic of buildings there before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Amazing that it took almost 30 years for the bulldozing of the historic buildings on that lot to be (almost) redeemed, but I'm glad it's finally happening. It's such a shame that after they were illegally turn down, it sat for so long as an empty lot.Hmmm... a port cochere that takes up half a block might not fully redeem the Civil War era storefronts that were there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Hmmm... a port cochere that takes up half a block might not fully redeem the Civil War era storefronts that were there.man you're a frequent beatdown. Edited July 21, 2014 by lockmat 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Jesus man you're a frequent beatdown.Hahahaha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Jesus man you're a frequent beatdown.You're kind of fixated on me, always answering my posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 You're kind of fixated on me, always answering my posts. You always pick on the ones you like 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Amazing that it took almost 30 years for the bulldozing of the historic buildings on that lot to be (almost) redeemed, but I'm glad it's finally happening. It's such a shame that after they were illegally turn down, it sat for so long as an empty lot.As, I recall, the old buildings that were there burned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 As, I recall, the old buildings that were there burned. At least some were torn down - there was a bar called Warren's where the owner held out for years in the 1980's trying to save his building, but a bank (I believe Guaranty Bank) was trying to buy out the block for an office tower. He wouldn't sell, and all sorts of pranks started happening - people would clog the bathroom plumbing, etc. Finally he went out of business and sold, they tore the building down, and then the bank promptly went under due to the oil recession. Subdude has a postcard of it somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Warren's never went out of business - it's still open on the other side of Market Square, and still owned by the (now) late Warren's sister. Its demolition was without benefit of a permit and started up at an ungodly hour so that nobody could get in the way to stop it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Warren's never went out of business - it's still open on the other side of Market Square, and still owned by the (now) late Warren's sister. Its demolition was without benefit of a permit and started up at an ungodly hour so that nobody could get in the way to stop it. Ok, so they just pressured him until he sold and moved locations? There was an article about it posted on some thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnmcbarnacle Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Warren's never went out of business - it's still open on the other side of Market Square, and still owned by the (now) late Warren's sister. Its demolition was without benefit of a permit and started up at an ungodly hour so that nobody could get in the way to stop it.This. Warren's was on the other side, on the empty block where the International Tower is supposed to go. The spot where this tower is going had an old Western wear place there and some other stuff. Not sure if they burned or not. There used to be a picture of it in the old Market Square park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 This.Warren's was on the other side, on the empty block where the International Tower is supposed to go. The spot where this tower is going had an old Western wear place there and some other stuff. Not sure if they burned or not. There used to be a picture of it in the old Market Square park.Nah, Warrens was on Milam, where the Kim Son parking garage is.But the demolition that causes the most pain today is probably that of Warren’s Inn (316 Milam) in 1988. Warren was Warren Trousdale, whose first downtown bar was called Ali Baba (823 Congress). According to his sister, Carolyn Wenglar, who now owns and manages both La Carafe and the current Warren’s Inn, Trousdale managed to buy the Bethje-Lang building (where Warren’s was located), after the Ali Baba building was demolished. As the owner, Trousdale was probably feeling safe operating the old building he loved so much. But as early as 1982, the Chronicle reported that a development company that wanted to build an office building and parking garage was attempting to buy the property. Trousdale is quoted as saying, “I told them they’d have to build over me because I won’t sell. We need some old buildings left, something for future generations to see besides steel and glass – something old and dear, like these buildings.” With its large statues representing the four seasons (left over from the previous occupant, Les Quatre Saisons) and its beautifully aged atmosphere, Warren’s Inn was a building that many Houstonians held close to their hearts. That’s why the news that Trousdale had finally sold the property to Guardian Savings came as an unwelcome surprise. Why had he sold? Those closest to him said that he had been the subject of a campaign of harassment. “Somebody – we don’t know who – was putting t-shirts in his toilets (to clog them). They even put cement in his sewer,” says his sister. She’s kept the current Warren’s Inn alive “in a little bit of tribute” to her brother, who was “quite a guy.” Ultimately deprived of a sewer connection, Trousdale sold the property and moved across Market Square. He died in 1988, not long after Guardian Savings demolished the building – without taking out the proper permits. Not long after, the oil bust caught up to Guardian Savings and it went bankrupt. “Maybe there was a little bit of karma there,” Wenglar says with a tiny note of triumph in her voice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 The old Warrens was in the "Les Quatre Saisons" (the four seasons) bldg, and the western wear place was "Bucks", right next door... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rechlin Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Thanks, Howard Huge. I now see the link (where your quote came from) that I was looking for on page 1 of this thread, with the story behind this block: http://www.downtownhouston.org/news/article/back-future/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Wow, so cool. I feel like i have been transported in time! What a very different, almost sleepy feel those buildings have (at the time of this picture). Now to be replaced with a 40 story tower. Wow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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