TowerSpotter

Here are the ones in gaming.

Where is the video?

On Bisnows youtube channel....

http://www.youtube.com/user/BisnowVideo?feature=watch

In case you don't know what a creepypasta is....Its scary/creepy story that is either made up or true, at least half of them are fake.

Here are the top 22 of them to starts things off.

http://youtu.be/retjBig3SNs

A little off topic

Here is a radar on the side of the street.

Swamplot mentions it will begin in a few week....This project didn't even make any headlines yet.

This would either be on weskcreek or just south of it?

Edit: Nevermind I see where it is now. 

Make fun of a member on their behalf.

Bisnow Joking around at the office.

Look up "organized crime in Galveston"  and you'll see.

Ah I see...

It was and could be again.

really, what was this casino called?

Looking at the map it seems that would be the only place to add something. Looks like they would extend the retail to the street too, doesn't it? Towerspotter, do you have a reference for that? It's not ringing a bell for me. Edit: that would be on the north east corner Towerspotter.

Sigh of relief.

Haha can't wait for the Updates.

That wooden coaster looks like it's gonna be a blast!  I wonder if they'll go ahead and shoot for the longest/tallest since they already have plans to be in the top 10 anyway.  As for the rest of the concept, I like what I see although the ever present question about parking will surely surface soon.

Yea that might be the one they are saying is going be in the top 10 biggest roller coasters in the US list.

Edit: They still haven't shown the waterpark and looking at the land the have acquired, looks like more will be added to the theme park

http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/three-months-four-developments/

 

Cassidy Turley was just named the leasing agent for the Allen Center, the first-time owner Brookfield has gone third-party in Houston (it's still leasing the rest of its 8M SF CBD portfolio). It's a 3.1M SF assignment across three buildings. Although Brookfield hasn't released details yet, we know a redevelopment of the iconic complex is in the works, and the firm has discussed breaking ground on a fourth Class-A tower at some point.

 

Thanks to Mab for finding these.

That lake and island is a feature Earthquest Adentures would have.

Does that mean they would demolish what's there? Simon Group had planned a 300 unit high rise in the corner of Sage and Alabama.

^ And that's fantastic!  Particularly for people in my line of work...

 

The more the merrier.  Although I still think we're 4-5 50 or so floor towers away from seeing something larger pop-up.

 

And honestly the best chance we have of seeing a major 300m + building is the Chevron campus.  They have the money and power to easily facilitate something like that.

Yea, so far it is a rumor Chevron will add another tower to it's campus.

The developer from Chicago is the guy behind hanover highrise in BLVD Place and also the one in charge of the 30 story highrise in montrose.

The soundtrack to Gravity makes the movie intense.

^ I doubt it.  San Fransico's Transbay will be 1,070 feet in an extremely overcrowded and EXPENSIVE market.  Houston - as we've seen during this current boom is far more content to build 20-30 floor towers with adjacent 1,000 space parking structure out on the periphery than to build multi-tennant highrises in downtown.  I believe we really need to see more density here before someone wants to pony-up the cash to build a 70+ floor tower (or even a 50 floor tower with an embellishment atop it).

As a developer stated from Chicago: Houston is where Chicago was 20 years ago.

Meaning Houston is densifying .

Architecture firm envisions retail under Houston highways

 

An intangible hurdle that many developers say they have a hard time jumping is the psychological barrier created by Houston's highways.

An example of this is shown in the elevated U.S. Highway 59, which surrounds a portion of downtown, clearly dividing not only certain types of development but also differences in rental rates and land value.

To combat that barrier, San Francisco-based Gensler’s Houston office developed a concept to use the space underneath Houston highways to help spread development spillover into less developed areas.

“Freeways segregate the city,” said Ted Rubenstein, who led the Houston office's Town Square Initiative team. “The psychological and physical barrier is very difficult to cross. Our concept was to create the retail opportunity to help the transition across the impassible."

The concept was part of Gensler’s companywide Town Square Initiative, a pro bono program intended to rethink some of the world’s most stagnant or vacant spaces in large cities.

“Our directive was to research our city and come up with ideas of what a town square means in a contemporary context,” he said.

Other concepts the team developed for Houston included the creation of “pop-up town squares” that use modular objects to create a micro-mixed-use block on unused parking lots in downtown.

 

Swamplot and Houston Bizjournals also report of the Tunnel Loop Square which will allow easy access to the tunnels.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/11/architecture-firm-envisions-retail.html

http://swamplot.com/a-park-size-tunnel-entrance-concept-for-downtown/2013-11-12/

BizJournals:

 

 

In addition, Gensler developed an idea to include a park entrance with 33,000 square feet of retail to Houston's tunnel system, called the Tunnel Loop Square. Estimated cost analysis of this concept would be close to $8 million but could stand to bring in about $1 million a year, according to Gensler data.

Swamplot:

 

 

HOW ABOUT A public park that also serves as a multi-storyentrance to Downtown’s extensive underground tunnel system? One that might even provide a little natural light or outdoor seating for below-the-deck diners? This pie-in-the-basement concept for the block-size surface parking lot between One and Two Shell Plaza made an appearance in the Chronicle‘s real estate blog last week — though the architecture firm Gensler had first posted it online this past spring. For the company’s own “Town Square Initiative,” designers were charged with envisioning a new type of town square for various cities around the globe. Tunnel Loop Square, for the block surrounded by Walker, McKinney, Louisiana, and Milam, was one of several proposals stemming from the firm’s Houston office.

Eventually we will add another supertall and reclaim the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Than that will surely piss off the people in LA.

These are some good movies:

Available on Netflix
 
Aftershock (2012)
 

Coming Soon - The Green Inferno (2013)

http://youtu.be/7y02dGs4V4Y

First Canandian Place in Toronto. The building was recladded, and has a more clean look to it now. Something like this for JP Morgan Chase Tower would be nice.

Before:

After:

Yea that was it and I would like something like that to be done to the JP Morgan Chase Tower too. It just looks so much better.

Someone on skyscraperpage gave a good example of a building in Chicago facade changing andthe result was much better than how it was previously.