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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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    More soil samples going on, this time at Wheeler Station:
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    I wonder if they are still planning to do the second phase, with the condo tower on top of the garage, or if that is postponed indefinitely. Considering how quickly the other new condos downtown have sold (Marlowe), I wouldn't be surprised if there is a good market for it. Perhaps they will start on that once the restaurant buildout is complete?
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    I've been meaning to post this for a few weeks, but now the art on 901 Main is Sam Houston. It will be in place through April. More details here: https://www.downtownhouston.org/guidedetail/art-blocks/main-street-marquee-sam-houston-style/
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    I wonder what the long-term plan is for the "apron" part of the lot facing Kirby? It will have two buildings, the existing Beck's Prime (which I assume is at least presently under separate ownership), and the new small building going up as pictured above, which I think someone said was going to be a restaurant as well. I wonder if they will stay low-density like that, but perhaps be made into something higher-density in the future? Or maybe they are planning to keep it like this in order to protect the views of the residents? Also, it was weird looking at the beginning of this thread, seeing a bunch of unrelated posts from 2004 that talked about Christmas, especially since the renderings that replaced the first post were from probably 2014.
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    Seems they haven't fully rolled out that new imagery yet. Google Earth is still not allowing dates after 10/2017 to be chosen, and in Google Maps for me, when the "globe" mode is turned off, it still only shows the 10/2017 imagery. With "globe" mode on, Google Maps still shows the even older, undated (but apparently late 2014 from construction status) imagery. Can you post a screenshot of the new imagery? As you can see, for me it's still showing the 10/2017 imagery (Midtown shown here), which has been online since at least this spring:
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