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Ok yeah, the video on link given by mab doesnt work anymore but the video in lockmats does. I'll be sure to screenshot everything.
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Is it just me or is the video gone?
Glad towerspotter grabbed some screen shots!
What else did the video show and say?
Property info: http://www.amreit.com/property/17/Courtyard-on-Post-Oak
The video worked fine for me, maybe try now?
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Loving the palm trees on the hotel but most importantly the new design.
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The project isn't listed on the website anymore.
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Im dreaming it were this...Who knows it could be better
From The Video
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Houston works to stay in forefront of spaceflight
"HOUSTON — With two corporations, SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, already delivering supplies to NASA’s International Space Station, a golden age may be at hand for private space firms.
Late this year, Virgin Galactic may launch its first suborbital flight, opening space to nonastronauts. And private companies are beginning to announce dates by which they’ll be ready to fly astronauts into orbit, a venture that until now has been solely the province of governments.
“We’re seeing a democratization of access to space,” Michael Lopez-Alegria, a four-time astronaut who now leads the industry group Commercial Spaceflight Federation, told the Houston Chronicle.
The rise of commercial space raises questions about the future of Houston as Space City, which for the entire history of U.S. spaceflight has been responsible for training and managing the flights of U.S. astronauts. Houston is racing to reinvent itself this decade as other parts of the country seek to chip away at its preeminence as the home of human spaceflight.
For now, Johnson Space Center will continue to be the home of NASA astronauts, but it’s not clear what role the center will have in working with astronauts who fly on privately built commercial vehicles to space.
NASA, for example, chose to establish its office overseeing the development of private spacecraft that will eventually carry U.S. astronauts to the space station at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, instead of at the Houston-based center.
The Houston region has not been oblivious to the rise of commercial space and its implications for the city’s traditional hegemony in human spaceflight.
“Houston is being very proactive,” said David Alexander, director of the Rice Space Institute.
Texas A&M recently held a commercial space workshop with Rice and industry partners to discuss a commercial space strategy for Houston and Texas. Universities, governments and industry partners will need to work together to ensure the vibrancy of Houston’s space presence, Alexander said.
The centerpiece of the region’s efforts is the development of a spaceport.
Last September, the Houston Airport System unveiled preliminary plans to develop a 450-acre spaceport at Ellington Airport. Houston aviation director Mario Diaz said he envisions a facility that would be home to space tourism as well as support aerospace hangars, manufacturing facilities, educational institutions and museums.
According to Darian Ward, a spokeswoman for the airport system, the city is about halfway through completing its application for an FAA license to operate the spaceport. The airport system expects to submit the license this summer and if all goes well could receive approval by the end of the year.
“The process is on time, and I believe that is significant,” Ward said.
Houston would be entering a competitive market. There are already more than a dozen government and private spaceports, with widely varying amounts of activity, in operation in the United States.
With a number of financial incentives, Spaceport America in New Mexico has secured a deal with Virgin Galactic to launch flights of SpaceShipTwo from there.
Despite a number of delays, the company’s founder, Richard Branson, has said commercial flights from the spaceport should begin as soon as the end of this year. The company has already presold more than 600 tickets at a cost of $200,000 each for flights to about 60 miles above the Earth, providing a spectacular view and a few minutes of weightlessness.
“Imagine doubling the number of people who have been in space in 50 years in a couple of years,” said Lopez-Alegria, the commercial spaceflight official. “That’s great, and I think that that will energize people.”
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the developer who made Richmond Landing is developing this? this one looks exponentially better.
My thoughts aswell, looking forward to this one.
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I see a nice cluster of cranes coming to Westcreek.
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Cranes look so beautiful.
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Ugh I hope it gets built..
Yeah such a bummer....I think there is still a bit of hope.
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Picture by CougerRed on skyscrapercity.
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Doesn't tell us anything new
It wasn't suppose to....Its just another rendering.
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looks like this area has so much potential in development.
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I like it. Is that another tower behind it?
Seen that too, maybe another project :-)
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I don't, I am just assuming.
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This could be 30+ floors or so.
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saw what coming?
wrong thread I meant to post under goodtobeme comment.
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I saw this coming.....
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I haven't really kept up with this project but are both the taller and shorter structures being renovated?
Yea the both of em and phase 2 is the highrise.
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Imagine how the plans would grow overtime.
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Update from TotoroKawai on Skyscrapercity
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Woah I hope all this development will spur a supertall at somepoint.
Aspire Post Oak: Multifamily High-Rise At 1616 Post Oak Blvd.
in Uptown and Galleria Area
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I guess we can expect to see another highrise there, maybe a supertall but I'm not holding my breathe. Houston has been very surprising lately.