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On 10/10/2016 at 6:49 AM, UtterlyUrban said:

 

 

now, turn your eyes to Detroit.  Are you 25 right now or 55?.  If you are 25 you might live to see Detroit rebuilt into something fantastic.  55? You might live long enough to see the beginning of the change. 

Downtown Detroit is booming in redevelopment and renovations. My company (former in a few days) does a lot of work on projects in downtown detroit. 

yes, but My guess is those "fins"/"spires" are just an architectural component and not a part of of the primary 'building envelope' which would reduce water intrusion. 

manpower priority is probably on the inside of structure. Those last panels are definitely not on the critical path. 

This will be nice I hope. On main street too with good access to the light rail. Also, we've got a continuing merger of the med district/downtown skylines-- which in my mind is a positive. 

19 hours ago, Triton said:

You're really thinking this is going to cause new flood issues as opposed to the industrial concrete and steel warehouses that existed here before then?

 

I'd opine that the new development would probably be better for flood issues than the 20-70 year old industrial developments that predated it. 

I might be siding with Triton on this. The rendering looks like it has parking garages, Not that many surface parking lots, Its right on the heights bike trail. THe development is still fundamentally in the middle of a former industrial area and does appear to have some verticality. Give it a few years, if this is a hot successful retail area... your mid-rise apartments and condos will quickly follow. 


 

That rendering kind of reminds me of the embassy suites downtown. Might look good on paper, but im not convinced that building will be attractive after construction. This should help extend the skyline of the medical district a little farther south. The location is kind of surrounded by a sea of surface level parking lots that get occupied for football games and rodeo. 

1 hour ago, UtterlyUrban said:

  Can someone point me to an analysis showing that we are in a resi rental oversupply situation in downtown and midtown?  

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/06/02/houston-doesn-t-need-more-class-a-apartments.html

This doesnt discuss the downtown and midtown submarkets, and I'm not sure how credible the "Greater Houston Partnership" is in discussing apartment rentals. That being said, it would not surprise me if there is a glut right now on the market. 

On 9/9/2016 at 8:50 AM, rechlin said:

Definitely not vacant.  I remember when I went by it a week or so, it looked like one of the middle floors was occupied.  Can't remember what I saw, though (desks or other furniture or whatever, I don't remember).  But it is mostly vacant.

Yep, can confirm, I drove by it last night around 10 PM on the way to airport. looks like the 6th floor was occupied. All the lights were on as well. 

They're certainly being aggressive with expansion of the system. Probably need more cycling related infrastructure though. 

On the west side of Cottage grove, but not really walkable into it. Kind of hard to get to without a car or bike. 

its kind of over near the old and original christians tailgate. 

Did we ever find out what the plans were for the clock at the top of this structure?

Sorry Ive been out of the loop for a while. 

I'm not too hot on that rendering. It looks cheap to me. Still though, more density will be good for the area

/opinion

Great photo Houstonishome

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Workers-trapped-as-scaffolding-collapses-downtown-6574175.php#item-38488
 

"Coworkers told her they saw a black car clip the side of the scaffolding, causing the collapse, before driving off. Neither HFD nor HPD have confirmed that incident."

 

jeeeez
 

The local news reported that a witness saw a car hit the scaffold, but the fire department said there didnt appear to be any cars underneath the rubble. 

I'm looking through some pictures of the scaffolding people have posted here. The only thing i've seen wrong with the scaffolding is a lack of toe-boards.

Its a medium/light duty scaffolding though and at that height it should be anchored to the building for lateral stability. 

A lot of things cause scaffold collapses. Poor Construction, Poor engineering, poor connection details to the edifice, overloading, etc. there will an investigation, but at this point aside from hypothesis's we dont really know.  Recall that I called out this construction project site a few months ago for utilizing shoring posts the incorrect way. 

Lets hope no one died. According to the live feed, they've pulled out 3 people and one was moving. 

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2015/10/16/rescue-underway-after-scaffolding-collapse/74053066/

Scaffolding collapse downtown, not sure if its this structure. 

Live Feed

http://www.khou.com/videos/news/local/2015/07/24/12651418/

I could imagine the work crews for skyhouse and this structure mingling during lunch break...

Block 334 Crew: "Howd your shift go?"

"Oh we completed floor 18, yours?"

Block 334 Crew:"We got our saws on site to cut wood finally"

"skillsaws?"

Block 334 Crew: "No, manual ones"

The limiting factor on the height on most structures is cost, not so much geotechnical engineering. Could a 1400 foot skyscraper be built on a 300x300 block. Yes, provided you have the $$

Still not painted (as of yesterday afternoons commute) 

When will the turn it on!? The clock that is!?

That tower collapse is a pretty interesting case study on engineering ethics. I remember discussing it in my structures courses in school. 

Some more information on it with #'s

http://ethics.tamu.edu/Portals/3/Case%20Studies/TVAntennaCollapse.pdf

No skyhouses either. Cool rendering though

Bricks! hopefully they have a production rate for brick laying that will outpace their production rate for floors!