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    This would be awesome. It would be even better if they could do the same thing as the JW and take off the ~1960s façade to restore it to its original 1917 appearance!
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    Just toured the cistern. I highly recommend it; the tour was very interesting and the place is far bigger than photos make it seem! While the official photos above are better than most of mine turned out, here's a new view (took this photo with my phone):
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    A lot of progress has been made on the steel structure recently. Not sure if it's topped out but I doubt it will go much higher if it isn't. Also, I don't know if there's a thread for it, but you can see that the new People's Trust Federal Credit Union headquarters (the building in the background on the other side of 59) has made a lot of progress, too, since my last update, with the exterior now apparently complete:
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    A/C units are finally running again, and most of the structures are now in place on the roof. Even the guardrail has now been installed. Lots of activity as they try to finish this up.
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    Lots of steel has gone up now for the penthouse floors. The expansion of the church next door appears to be nearing completion of the exterior, too.
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    In the case of the last few Hines projects downtown (BG Group Place, 609 Main, Walker@Main garage and Calpine), the existing structures were torn down immediately before building the new structures. Technically in the case of 609 Main, the McDonald's came down quite a few years before construction began, but that was a minor building, and maybe that had nothing to do with Hines (the Texas Tower, the only building of consequence on that block, wasn't taken down until they were ready to build 609 Main). This is a different situation, with millions of vacant square footage downtown, including a new Hines tower that is only about a third pre-leased (and Hines' since-sold last tower, BG Group Place, will soon have over 40% vacancy), so maybe Hines will delay things a bit, but it seems their strategy is to deliver office space every 5 years or so (frequently when nobody else is building), so it really wouldn't surprise me if they start on a new building here within a couple years of 609 Main opening (the opening of which will more-or-less coincide with the Chronicle block being cleared).
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    The garage was heavily renovated and cleaned up about a year ago, so I doubt there are plans to take it down anytime soon.
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    They claim to have an elevator (there's a door in the middle of the stairwell labelled as an elevator), but I don't know if it's operational. Maybe this work will put that into operation.
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    Chris, While the photo updates are HUGELY appreciated, could you please post only lower-resolution versions in the threads with the ability to click to see the full ones? As it is now, each photo is around 5 MB, which means each of your posts is around 100 MB (twice the size of downloading the average music album!), making it impossible to even read these threads on a slower connection. If you could please embed maybe 500 KB images (1/10 the file size), it would make things a lot easier for many of us. Thank you! Just opening a few of these threads would use up a typical mobile user's entire monthly allocation of bandwidth, for example. Keep the photos coming, please, just please don't embed the original images.
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    EnwaveUSA. That building provides chilled water for air conditioning for 24 buildings, including Minute Maid Park. Here's a distribution map (PDF).
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    I've always thought a better name for that sculpture would be The Crankshaft and The Camshaft.
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    Made good progress today but still didn't get the crane all the way down yet:
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    Tower crane is coming down. Now with even more palm trees!
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    That's a great shot. And to give an idea of how much things have changed from this angle recently, below I have attempted to highlight everything that's new in the last 15 years:
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    It's a little hard to see in the webcam, but it looks like they've put in 3 palm trees:
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    Hopefully it won't be like 811 Main where they leased the entire Main Street facing area to a bank (Frost) with zero street presence.
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    The outline of Texas is slowly becoming more visible:
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    Homewood Suites sign is being installed too:
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    They've put a bunch of windows in now and are gradually putting "edges" on the floors, working from the top down:
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    More progress on the rooftop patio:
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    They are now building the construction elevator:
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    Lots more digging today, with a near-continuous line of dump trucks hauling out fill. They are making quite the racket, audible from 20 stories up and a few blocks away!
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    Haven't walked by lately to get a closeup, but they've been doing what looks like drilling for foundation piers for the last couple weeks, so construction is well under way:
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    They dug a lot today. Pulled out remains of an old foundation:
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