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    Wrong forum. This is near the Rice Village, not the West Loop. I already made a thread for this development here:
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    Well, I also was very, very disappointed by what Hines did to 811 Louisiana (former Two Shell). It used to be a somewhat architecturally interesting building, with an arch-like appearance to the windows on the second floor that gradually disappeared over the next several floors. But then they replaced almost all of it with black cladding, leaving just one floor (the fifth, I believe) with slight variations in window sizes, which now looks out of place. Once again, a modernization that did more harm than good. Though I will admit I like what they did to the interior.
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    "Dated" at one point becomes historical not long later. Calling it "dated" is the same kind of thinking that led to the modernization of the Carter building a couple blocks from here in the 1960s, thankfully undone (though in styrofoam) to restore the building for the JW Marriott. I for one am disappointed to see this example of architecture demolished. Sure, it looked old, but at least it was interesting with all the circles. Now the building will be a disjoint combination of distinctive 1970s architecture and generic 2010s architecture. My only complaint about the escalators at the Houston Center complex is that they are either always full of disrespectful people who would stand two-abreast, preventing anyone from getting around them, or they are so narrow that only one person can stand so there is no possibility of standing. I always wished they had a stairwell in the middle, because it's quicker to walk up stairs than to wait for the slow escalator ride when nobody lets you pass.
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    One thing I've noticed with the search is it ignores numbers. So, for example, if I search for 609 Main, it returns all results for Main, ignoring the 609. However, if I put the whole address in quotes as "609 Main" then it will work. Any way to fix this, or should we just know to quote the number together with another word when searching for numbers? Thanks for taking the time to maintain the site. It's working so much smoother than it did half a year ago.
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    Central Station Main to Museum District station on the Metrorail will take you about 14 minutes, almost triple the 5 you mention. And you won't get to the Kirby area from the middle of downtown in a 5 minute Uber. At least 15, and more like 25 if there's any traffic.
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    From the article:
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    Guess we're never going to get the old decorative parapet (which was removed during renovation) restored, then, since the rendering still shows the current plain façade at the top. Glad to see an empty building put to use, though.
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    Disappointing. Not liking that they are tearing down a recently-renovated high-rise to build another boring cookie-cutter midrise. The site plan definitely shows it replacing the Cabochon, but sparing the engineering building, even though the rendering shows it on a corner.
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    Today, looks like I was just a floor or two higher than @ekdrm2d1 (not chosen for the jury though!):
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    I thought there was already a thread about this, but I can't find one, so I will include all the information I know. At 2715 Bissonnet in West U, diagonally across the street from the old Coca Cola bottling plant, there is a two-story shopping center from the 1960s or 1970s, which is being torn down for redevelopment. Plans for redevelopment have been going on for a while; this flyer was posted in 2017 when a company called Edge was marketing it. More recently, BPI realty has been marketing it, with the following rendering common to both flyers, showing a one-story strip mall: And here is the site plan: In November, the city of West University Place had a hearing to replat it. The existing development is called The Upper Kirby Building, not to be confused with a building of the same name on Richmond, and other places have referred to it as the Shoppes at Upper Kirby and the Shops at West U, so I am uncertain of what the name of the final development will be. Swamplot reported on the imminent demolition of the existing buildings, including this pre-demolition photo: http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/upper-kirby.jpg Here are some photos I took of it today during demolition:
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    The plaza on its north end has been slowly under construction for probably 2 years. Every once in a while they might lay one more brick, add one nail to a form, or pour a wheelbarrow full of concrete, and then take a break, as there is continuous progress, but it's extremely slow.
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    Another photo update, this time from a moving bus. I noticed that the dozens of signs on the fence that used to say "Opening 2019" have had the "19" cut out, so presumably this is behind schedule and not opening until 2020.
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    Not sure if I'm allowed to copy-and-paste the article, but here is the executive summary of new news from this: Houston firm Resource Environmental Solutions named for doing ecological mitigation, from a press release dated today Project budget has apparently increased again, now at $18 billion Still hoping to begin construction this year and open by 2024
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    Many people don't want to live in a house and would rather live in a high-rise. And many people would rather not tie up so much capital in something as illiquid as a house, especially if they don't want to live in the same area for more than 5 years.
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    Has the construction begun, or is this work at 2 Houston Center an unrelated project?
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    The ground level is finally coming together, as the tree mural gradually vanishes, probably never to be revealed again for decades until a future renovation:
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    Looks like they would be adding a couple floors on top of that building, too, based on the first rendering. Glad to see the structure can support the extra weight.
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    They haven't said anything to investors since mid-December, but then they were planning a Winter opening, which to me implies sometime before late March.
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    Hard to say. There's a lot of competition. Downtown has so many good burger places, in the full range of prices, with Vic and Anthony's at the top end ($21ish with tax and tip), and then the new Craft Burger (in Finn Hall) and upcoming Shake Shack (next door), plus plenty of more affordable popular long-time favorites such as Hubcap Grill and Miller's Cafe.
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    From the plans that have been posted, it seems they will be reconfiguring Wheeler Station as a part of the freeway rebuild, so if it's not directly related to the IH-69 work, it's probably indirectly related for the station work. The Innovation Hub plans seem to go around Wheeler. But maybe the Wheeler rebuild will be done as part of the Innovation Hub work? Though in the end, it doesn't really matter; regardless of who does each component (Rice, TxDOT, or METRO), this whole area likely is going to be redone over the next few years.
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