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The noise will likely be closer to their other "home", that of 1060 West Addison.

I don't know why that says it's appraised at $5.5m. Old data? HCAD puts the block at about $19m, but for some reason it's two separate records (one for lots 1-10 and 12 at $17,253,700 and one for lot 11 at $1,879,922):

http://www.hcad.org/records/details.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%84%8D%80zlg%8El%87tXtaW%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8A%81%86%C0%AB%A8%AD%86%5E&bld=1&tab=2

http://www.hcad.org/records/details.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%84%8D%80zlg%8El%87tXuXW%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8A%81%86%C0%AB%A8%AD%86%5E&bld=1&tab=2

It even shows Theater Square as the owner of the block since 11/16/1999, so there's nothing new there.

Looks like there was an accident here this morning. I hope the worker recovers!

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Worker-hurt-in-fall-from-crane-6551039.php

A pity they are replacing the stone cornice with a plain painted styrofoam wall, but something obviously had to be done, and I guess the budget doesn't allow for it to be done right. Oh well; at least they are leaving open the possibility of restoring it properly in the future.

Seen on reddit:

After checking out the street view, the ugly parking garage is only half the block facing this development. The other is a nice older building. No doubt that garage will be redeveloped one day.

That ugly garage is the Houston Chronicle garage, which Hines just bought along with the Chronicle building with the intention of redevelopment, so hopefully!

Yes, they were testing it a few weeks ago on about 2/3 of the building. Was hoping to get a photo when it was all up but I haven't seen it on in a while now. It looked very cool.

I can tell you having been in the industry, lots of property managers STILL think putting a boulder at the corner of a driveway is the best way to discourage trucks from hopping the curb on their way in/out.

Seriously? All that means is your boulder keeps ending up in the street when the truck hits it and you have to pay your landscaping guy to put it back in place again. I've never understood why places keep doing this.

Unless they are doing 14'6" floor spacing like BG Group Place, this would have to be about 50 stories tall for this view to be right. It's right in line with the 40th or so story of BG Group Place here.

It's incredible just how close these apartments are to the freeway (photo is from yesterday; progress is being made!):

September 18.

http://hinesarchitecturalforum.com/

I looked through this thread and wasn't able to find an image of the original turquioise facade.  Does anyone have a link or an image of this?  I'm feeling left out and it's giving me the sadz :-(

There's a photo on page 29 of the PDF linked above.

FYI, Urbannizer, you linked directly to the current image so it will change every time this page is loaded. If you wanted to link to an image from a particular time, save it to something like imgur and link to that to ensure it never changes. Glad to see someone else is watching my camera!

The top two floors are now gutted:

Great find! Here's a slightly better variation on link. I was confused by the last link because it skipped to the last slide and wasn't showing anything. This will start from the beginning:

https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/hotel/sneak-peek-into-aloft-downtown-conversion-48812?single-page

They claimed they were 50% in January but I had a hard time believing that, too.

I walked by it on Friday and saw they had made a lot of progress in getting the studs in for the walls on the lower floors, but that still leaves a lot to finish. I see absolutely no way they will complete this on schedule.

The county building has been under renovation for at least 2 years now, with no visible progress. Hopefully it will eventually finish. I was inside it a few months ago to renew my registration and it didn't appear they had renovated anything in the lobby yet, either.

This is almost as big of a project as the JW Marriott (255 rooms vs 270 rooms, and 206,000 square feet vs 221,000 square feet). The only advantage is the exterior doesn't need as much work. We're 18 months from the Super Bowl, so while it's possible it will be done in time, it seems that they are cutting it tight. Remember that the JW Marriott wasn't even done when it opened; they took a couple more months to build out the top few floors.

They definitely need to do some exterior work. They've removed some of the black panels covering the original turquoise panels below them, but neither seem to be in very good shape. I wonder if they will keep the exposed fire escape (like they did with the Great Southwest building) or if they will completely enclose it (like they did with the Club Quarters and the JW Marriott) or if they do something in between (like they seem to be doing with the Central Square building). Also, I'm sure the windows will end up getting replaced, too, as those are surely quite old and inefficient.

It will be interesting to see what it ends up looking like when it's done.