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Another angle from this afternoon. Looks like they might be adding another section? 

They beat the wind and put the horizontal piece on. 

Thats as tall as she goes for now.

I will in an hour when I go to WF.

it's going up right now. 

1 hour ago, kennyc05 said:

Is there gonna be parking out front like the Whole Foods across the street?

It doesn't look like it on the render. The site is also super, super tiny. I'd be surprised if they had much of any space left over for more than a few outside of the building spots. 

I wonder if these will be Marlowe sized units as well? It's been a long time since someone has gone for the sub 1200 sq ft/$600K market in that area. 

Rug store has closed. Looks like the poker club is the only remaining tenant. 

I'm really failing to understand how the BRT is going to work. It looks like, at least northbound on Post Oak at the San Felipe intersection, the bus lane will be sharing the second left turning lane onto San Felipe with regular traffic. I thought the BRT was supposed to be completely separated with signal priority? There are also other points along the route that make it seem like the bus lane and the regular traffic lanes will merge. If so, this is going to be a total cluster

Love the white marble covering the 2nd/3rd floors. Looks really posh in person, and is such a striking change from all the typical concrete podiums. This is how to hide a parking garage.

Since AMC ruined Sundance downtown, there hasn't been anywhere good to see a movie, other than iPic. Both of the Edwards are very dated, dirty, and are in desperate need for an overhaul. I thought Edwards Greenway might turn it around a little when they started serving alcohol, but the their policies about it are terrible (ie. wristbands, drink limits, plastic cups). I don't know why it's so hard to turn a profit in the loop, and you can't tell specifically about the Houston location from the iPic financial statements, but the whole company is incredibly unprofitable. It seems like it's a tough business and high rents like in the loop make the projects DOA unless it's something niche. 

I walked by this today and they are making crazy fast progress. 

RIP to the views on the left 3/4s of the Cosmo. 

15 hours ago, gatway2k said:

Rich, what floor are you?  7 here...

2. I'm curious what the plan is for the parcel is now. Most everything in the strip plaza seems closed except the poker club and they still aren't doing any curb work. They must be planning on doing something soon. 

What a beautiful sight to see that mattressfirm finally come down. 

I wonder what the deal is with the lighting. I remember the first time I saw it 5 months ago it seemed like it was basically ready to go. I drive past every morning and night and I don't think I've ever seen it on since. 

There's sign next to the Arabella that indicates another freestanding building (8 floors) will be built in between the Arabella and Target (currently where the trailer is) and will be retail/office space. 

The outside of the building has some pretty cool lighting they're installing. Basically a LED line around every floor. 

Wonder where they're going to screen the movies? I don't think there's any roof space other than the top of the parking garage?

Given how adamant several owners of that building have been to any and all construction/improvement projects in Uptown, I won't feel too bad when they're staring in someone else's living room in a few years. 

Looks like I'll get a great view of the cars in the garage from my unit lol

Legit looks like a jail

On 6/9/2016 at 0:04 PM, Houston19514 said:

 

Yes there are bedrooms on the southern portion of the building's west wall, but as it happens, not nearly as many as on the northern portion; and there has also been some glass removed from the southern portions of the building, but as it happens, not as much... coincidence?.  But in any case, the theory that this may be in reaction to there not being as much market for all glass bedrooms as had been imagined is not suggesting that there is no market for all glass bedrooms.

These units, like the Cosmo, will almost all have remote blinds.

On 6/19/2008 at 10:44 AM, MyEvilTwin said:

I don't understand the hysteria over this. Do any of us really think Randall Davis is going to just leave this ugly blank wall on this tower, contrary to the renderings and, more importantly, while he's trying to market an even more upscale condo tower across the street? Come on. The final product may not be up to the standards of some of us (I'm not that big a fan of the Cosmo myself), but he's not going to do something that boneheaded. Cut him some slack until the building is finished and the ivy starts growing (or whatever the final product is)...

This was such a great comment looking back. Apparently he is that boneheaded.

The entire facade of the Astoria was done in pretty much the same manner. It's not going to last very long either and is going to be insanely expensive to fix. Never buy a RD property.