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Sears relevance is based upon appliance and gardening tools, don't see where they would lack relevance in the 21st century. Maybe nobody needs a lawnmower in Midtown but a washer and dryer yes. I think if the sears were remodeled it would spark development around it. Overall after my weekly drive through various parts of the city, I am pleased with how nice Houston is becoming.

AWESOME! This is good news!

I'll just say this. I know we all want things to be as pedestrian friendly as possible, but even in NYC drivers don't obey cross walks and speed limits. So as pedestrian friendly as NYC is, people complain about cars almost running them over. Trust me I've got plenty of friends from NYC who all tell me the same things. And they don't get why we are so worked up about some of our crossings not being as pedestrian friendly as others. And I agree, mainly because this is the city, and a lot of times its about being a bit of an jerk and demanding your right of way.

Compare that to downtown and you will see that uptown is always going to be a giant office park.

Its more than being close to the street.

All the buildings engage their own plaza instead of the street. Sorry man I am not buying that widening the street is going to make a meaningful difference

While I do agree that every building in Uptown has its own plaza, to compare it to a giant office park is generalizing the entire district. If you want to generalize an area then go ahead and label the Westchase District. Now that's a giant office park! Uptown is very pedestrian friendly in my opinion, for what Houston offers, and the plazas for the buildings in Uptown are more open to the public to move around and for recreation. 

Not to be a downer, but when I see shovels in the ground for this and the Marriott, then Ill be happy, until then Im just hoping for the best.

FInally getting the city we always dreamed of, great planning by the city!

Hell yea, construction is going nuts!

This is going to be amazing... Houston is really taking the necessary steps to becoming an even greater world class city... And as for Texas in general, we are really separating ourselves among other cities such as San Antonio and Dallas

WOW! So this is the beginning of construction I assume after the demo?

Whats the completion time for this?

SWEEEEET! 

Hold on, so we have an idea of whats going here?

I agree KinkaidAlum such a beautiful building to add to our modern skyline... this building is very classy

The Astoria and four (five) oaks place.

Thanx brotha, and wow thats gonna be a nice dense area!

Im so lost, ok whats thesmall structure being built on the bottom left and then whats being built across the street with the yellow crane?

Yay! Any estimated start date?

Anyone have a for sure update on this? After reading about the Old Central Square building somehow not being renovated, I want to make sure this doesn't pop up in a Swamplot article as well in the next few weeks

Umm... that sounds dumb by Swamplot... Its clear a fence has gone up for renovation... why would they worry about vagrants and taggers? We didn't do this for the Old County Courthouse during renovation and that's a way more historic building than this one... I think its clear the developers are heading in a redevelopment direction, just not clear whether its residential or commercial

Holy $#!+ that looks sweet!

When does this start?

So this has already started?

Good article... The good thing is that the pressure is on now... Once the SE and East End lines open, I can see the pressure increase that much more to connect this city East to West

The news sucks but we still got a lot to look forward to DT

Good to see my old pad getting a redo

Any more recent pics?

If there is one building I hate the outside of its the Houston Post building, a nice solid color would be great