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  1. Sky-guy
    2 or 3 stories. Mabey 4.
  2. Sky-guy
    ^^^And Blue.
  3. Sky-guy
    Here's what's going up instead If Apache's tower: http://blvdplace.com/news/Houston%20Chronicle-37%20Story%20Building%20to%20Soar.pdf
  4. Sky-guy
    Anything new, or is it dead?
  5. Sky-guy
    "When demolition and reconstruction of what is now the Galleria III is complete, scheduled for fall 2015, an expanded Saks flagship will open in the space now occupied by the Macy's facing Sage and other shops." http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Galleria-project-aims-to-up-glam-factor-4788137.php
  6. Sky-guy
    That's adding an average 130,000 per year/1.3 million per decade (Adding 4 mil. in 31 years). I would consider that "boom", not "bust". That's just about the amount we've been adding in the past 13/14 years.
  7. Sky-guy
    Landmark Tower will probably be built there.
  8. Sky-guy
    Heres one of the pictures. The other picture of the full page was to big...
  9. Sky-guy
    I was Just reading through this month's issue of Houstonia. "Secrets if the Galleria". I thought it was an amazing issue until I turned to page 54 (Galleria by the Numbers) where I saw that 2014 would be the year that the Galleria would be torn down. I took some pictures of the page on my iPhone, but I won't be able to post them till I get home in about half an hour. Anyone else know anything about this?
  10. Sky-guy
    Who are you asking?
  11. Sky-guy
    Forgive me, I meant Union Square
  12. Sky-guy
    HoustonIsHome, I partially agree with you. A town square would not be ideal in Uptown. At least not today in Houston. I was in SF this past summer and I spent about 5 hours in Market Sqare. The traffic was horrendous (Thank God I was walking) and it probably is many days. Especially during the rush hour parts of the day in a city w/ 4+ million people. What I'm trying to say, is that a square would not fail if placed in an area with very little, if any, pedestrian activity. A square is what will, in fact, help bring the pedestrian activity. If the city of Houston were to make a town square today, it would be in downtown, probably market square. I think that in 7-10 years from, the best place to put a town square, that would be extremely successful, is at the Post Oak/San Felipe intersection either where the Calufornua Pizza kitchen is currently, or across the street, almost next door to the Astoria. Here's why: -BLVD Place: defineatly going to add at least some pedestrians to the area. /Residential nearby: (the Astoria, Hannover, etc.) will provide more need for a square for the nearby residents. -Almost everyone I know who has come to visit Houston, has stayed in Uptown, I mean where else would you stay? Downtown, mabey. But it doesn't give that welcoming urban feel like other cities. No one will stay in the med. center unless they're here for something medical related. Not Greenway. The only place that is nice to stay when visiting houston, is Uptown. It has Good food/entertainment/shopping in the area. It would work really well to have a square on uptown, at that location, especially that by then the area will also look great with the gables tower going up and the dense feel the area is going to have in 7/10 years. if it became something like union square in SF, with retail/hotel/Resi, that would be perfect. I can imagine a "BLVD Square" in uptown in a few years. the only problem I can think of is the lack of public transit.
  13. Sky-guy
    ^^^Link?
  14. Sky-guy
    Urbannizer, how on the face of plant Earth do you find these types if things?
  15. Sky-guy
    It seems nearly toped out. http://oxblue.com/open/SkyHouseApartments
  16. Sky-guy
    That's already been posted in the thread about greenstreet. http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/28274-so-is-the-greenstreet-redo-happening-or-what/page-3#entry440902
  17. Sky-guy
    I didn't really like the design of that one, don't really know why though.
  18. Sky-guy
    What's taking so long with this?
  19. Sky-guy
    Don't think it's going to happen: http://www.odell.com/portfolio/category/on-the-boards-2/ It's no longer on their "on the boards" list.
  20. Sky-guy
    What's been going on with this lately? Has anything progressed?
  21. Sky-guy
    I drive by here pretty often and construction has already begun on new covered parking (the tower is going where the existing parking is.
  22. Sky-guy
    I drove past the tower this morning, and it looks like the south crane got a raise.
  23. Sky-guy
    Link?
  24. Sky-guy
    Don't complain.
  25. Sky-guy
    cloud713, the closest I could find to what your talking about is this: But that's part of the uptown park development, so it isn't near the bbva tower...
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