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    Awesome news! Sorry for jumping the gun, I've just passed by the site 5 or 6 times since the ground breaking ceremony and couldn't tell that any real progress had been made! Good to hear things are preceding, just can't wait for the crane to go up and this thing to start going vertical.
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    I'm as excited as the next guy for this thing to get started so what's the deal? It looks like very little has happened since they announced ground breaking. I may just be impatient, but they keep yanking our chain!
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    Is it still going to have the rooftop pool depicted in this bisnow? The Texas lazy river is the best thing ever! http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/convention-district-makeover/
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    Exciting times. First Montrose, now Kirby looks like it has multiple opportunities to get some decent high rise development. While the described project sounds like 2 ~20-30 towers, a 50+ story tower along Kirby doesn't sound too outlandish. I mean this is Houston, expect anything. I can't wait to see how these areas evolve in the next 5-10 years! We're going to need metro to do more than just reimagine their bus routes with all this increased density though.
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    It's an interesting development but it doesn't seem to fit the specifications of the company and project in question.
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    Odd that they would name it Skyline if it were short. Sounds like something you'd name a nice 2 tower project. However Houston has shown names are meaningless by marketers calling the SkyHouse in Westcreek, "River Oaks", etc. So midrise that can look at the skyline(if they can see over the highway and parking garages(; ) sound about right. Anyway to find out who the developer is?
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    http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/748-put-down-those-butts/ I noticed it also. Things seem to be coming together.
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    And from what the HBJ reports this is supposed to break ground in April with the Marquis? They lump them together, but that is great news that they are getting things together so well! http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2014/01/30/houston-first-ghcvb-talking-about-best-strategy.html?page=all
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    Some very interesting information regarding the parking garage north of the convention center in the article, "On the block north of the convention center would be a 2,000-car parking garage and office space. Above it, a pad site would be built for a future hotel." While it will probably only be enough office space for Houston First Corp to house some of their operations, it is nice that the included it in the plan. Icing on the cake that they are going to build it to accommodate a hotel addition once the market dictates we need hotels completely encompassing GRB. Interesting that TC didn't do something similar with the 16 story parking garage they're currently constructing. Regardless, the Convention District is the most exciting part of downtown with new development popping up almost every week it seems!
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    Not that I'm a fan of 6 HC, they too look like they are going to slip into this next wave of office space. According to Central Houston, they have construction documents in completed, so presumably they can start work whenever they want. They also don't have to go through the lengthy process of demoing buildings on site, just ripping up a parking lot. What will be interesting will be to see is how downtown deals with all the "new"(including all the upcoming renovations" space over the next few years. They don't really seem to have any pull in the current tenant market, but maybe rising office rents and gridlock on the roads in the suburban employment centers makes it attractive once more? That or they push outside the Grand Parkway I guess.
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    I noticed yesterday that a truck was dropping off some heavy equipment, thought about asking about it but knew someone would pick up on it! Great investigating, so midrise apartments it is?
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    That is 2 Shell Plaza, not 1 Allen Center. I guess they are revamping it after Shell pulls out!
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    Well all the projects listed under current downtown development map add up to ~3200, but if the rumors of the 2nd Alliance residential on main, the 38 story phase 2 of the Texaco, the possible(but unlikely there just seems to be too little info) residential building behind Hess, and Block 100 behind the Marriott Marquis(sorry for bringing it up so much) we could be looking at 4000+ units which is very impressive. It's amazing how much residential development is possibly coming to downtown! In regards to this tower, it looks pretty slick but not anything real amazing from the other 20-35 story resi tower renderings floating around(most notably Hines). I think it's cool it got a little height bump even if it is one floor and I think it's not a bad thing it looks similar it just seems to be the architecture of this era.
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    When I passed by the site today there was a lot people and machinery moving rebar and digging up the parking lot. Good to see these Downtown projects get going!
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    What're the chances that Block 101(100?) that HFF was marketing is the block this is planned for? I may be grasping at straws, but it just seems like it fits what we've been hearing about this project and how the media(including Central Houston) have been pretty quiet about what entity acquired the site and what they want to do with it. It's close to the Ballpark, rail stops at its doorstep, is mixed-use like HFF was requesting in its RFP(and if one of the proposals was a 102 story tower who do you think they're going to pick), the hotel component would be in easy walking to the convention center, and plenty of room(guessing that the footprint would be fairly large but New York has some new examples to the contrary). Pure speculation and I could be completely off base, but it is interesting how something that was so well publicized and on the development map for so long just quietly disappears.
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    Yes Wilshire Grand is 1100' and Transbay is 1070'. Both have crowns or spires like this tower has. It's surprising this is only 996' to the roof but they threw that 125' spire on it and boom tallest building outside Chicago and NYC. If you look on SSP, they have models that actually show the roof line of the hotel is actually shorter then the other Comcast building that they completed like 5-6 years ago. I guess a rooftop restaurant will push it's roofline over the other. Maybe Chevron should slap on a spire haha
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    Is there really a chance this is taller than 35 stories? Would be pretty cool, although I'm interested in how all these towers might affect Market Square if they are all built.
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    It's also pretty close to the Chelsea Montrose tower too so it would be incredible to watch those 3 rise together. Good news is at least this and Chelsea seem to be pretty certain that they will move forward in the next few months. With all the projects around the city slated to break ground this Spring/Summer it seems like we're going to have a new tower crane going up every week starting in March! Can't wait to see these proposals going vertical! Have to agree that the Montrose facade looks like those white 1970's office buildings(i.e. Shell Plazas) that are all over the place. Kind of like a mix between 2 Shell Plaza and Houston House which is an interesting combination. It may look a little dated but I still like it some how.
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    Looks like a building on the lot is going down pretty soon. Hopefully construction begins promptly once they clean up the debris! http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-la-quinta-downtown/2014-01-13/ Edit: Beat by Urbannizer haha
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    Yea I had a feeling this was Déjà Vu. All I can do is hope with you that it's just a confusion of similar sounding companies, but if Chevron picks up shop and goes North that would be a death blow to Downtown's office market until at least the end of the decade. 2.5 mil sq ft from the Enron towers, 1.4 mil from the renovated Exxon building, and 1 mil(albeit state-of-the-art) sq ft from Hines and that sounds like a recipe for a very slow office pipeline downtown. and here I am holding out hope that Chevron will choose downtown, which might in turn induce more demand for space similar to how the Woodlands was affected by Exxon's campus. Pipe dreams just like the 102 story tower I guess haha
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    That might have been more of an opinion but they are positioning themselves to cater to executives and Noble and SWN are pretty close in addition to Exxon.http://www.chron.com/default/article/Hooks-airport-braces-for-business-4515739.php?forceWeb=1
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    Is Hines thinking of doing any office/multifamily(/hotel) mixed use towers rather than the primarily multifamily/retail or office/retail developements they have been doing. It is interesting to see Midway talk about how they like to have three components in a project but I can't recall Hines giving it a try. Not saying they should though, Hines seems to be doing perfectly fine how they currently operate. Just a little curious!
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    Will it actually be green?
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    Hooks is better positioned then Conroe to cater to executive travel and it will be just off the Grand Parkway.
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    Or you could be a real estate reporter like Houston19514 suggested the other day! I mean the last HBJ weekly article I got from was a cut and paste of GHP's 2014 regional job forecast presentation. I mean it's $100 a year and that's the best they can do! You could do a much better job Urbannizer. Swamplot seems to be the bottom of the barrel now just posting whatever will get the most knee jerk reactions, and Nancy never follows up on a project so they either die and no one knows about it or they are just miraculously done(unless it's Exxon then it's aerials for days). You're information is always a lot better, Urbannizer.
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