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Construction, however, won't start on the building until about half of it is spoken for by future tenants.

Unfortunately, I fear this is a euphemism for "probably isn't going to happen".  Last I heard, there were no future tenants for 609 Main, and nobody has announced moving into the soon-to-be-complete Central Square building, either, so things don't look good for yet another office building.

I'd love to see this one go up, but I don't put its chances any higher than 6 Houston Center (which I'd already put behind Capitol Tower).

I lived right across the street from Memorial Hermann in the TMC for several years.  Eventually you get used to the helicopters; it's really not that bad.

Yes, they closed their downtown location a couple months ago.

They already fixed number 11 (and fixed incorrect text in one of the boxes), plus changed some dates, on the amended one posted in the other thread (notice the _1 in the URL):

http://downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2015-07-17/150717_Development_Map__Renders_11X17_1.pdf

I've noticed it in Europe and Asia for quite a few years. Maybe it's just new here? But then again, until recently there just hasn't been as much development here to notice whether they did it or not.

Pay for Global Entry and you can avoid that line.  Last time I was on an international flight into IAH (about a month ago), the regular customs line at the baggage claim was very long, but the Global Entry line had nobody in it.  Although it took forever for me to get my bag in the first place (I swear, my bag was one of the last to come off the A380), once I had my bag I was out of the airport within a couple minutes.

There were a whole bunch of fire trucks completely blocking Westheimer, Larchmont, and part of the church parking lot.  A couple ladder trucks were providing access to the building (click for a bigger view):

The fact that it already has tunnel access is probably worth something.  Also, maybe the owners of the surface lots that seem better are asking unreasonable amounts of money.

Actually a Brownsville spaceport makes a lot more than one at Ellington Field.

To take maximum advantage of Earth's rotation, you want a spaceport to be as close to the equator as possible, and you want the rocket to go east.  Also, you want nothing but sea (or empty desert or something that won't have any people or property to harm) over the route it will initially go.

This means you want to be as far south as possible, and you want the ocean to the east.  Not only do you have a populated area just east of Ellington, but directly east would take you over southern Louisiana.  This means launches would have to be angled to the south a bit.

I can see this being used for suborbital flights, but anything to go into orbit or out into space would probably make more sense to launch from Brownsville (or Cape Canaveral), unless they need the particular orbit that Ellington would be ideal for.

In case you wanted to see higher-resolution photos of the yarn bombing, click either of these. It looks really nice up close!

cloud713,

Near the zoo across Cambridge from Memorial Hermann Hospital is the Way Station at Palmer Church.  They feed the homeless every weekday morning.

Right-click, View Image works for me on FireFox.

Bzzz...the webcam is being attacked by bees:

Looks like they finally finished redoing all the windows on the back of the State National building, too.  At least it will look good for the residents who will be looking at it from their apartments!

The Shinkansen has never had a fatal collision in the more than half a century that it has been running, so assuming they implement it in Texas the same way they implemented it in Japan, we have nothing to worry about safety.

Mayor Parker reiterated again at her Bike to Work Day announcement today that they are working on it, but she didn't give any details so I guess it's not ready for public comment yet.

She did say that they are eliminating the peak-hour restrictions on bikes on the METRORail, though, so now you can bring your bike on the trains any time.

Bayou Place isn't even 20 years old.  Isn't it a bit wasteful to be considering tearing it down already?  Or is it really too low-density for the area now?  As others have said, the Houston Chronicle block seems like a better place to redevelop in the immediate future.

I got a video of the end of it:

That rendering doesn't seem current, because it shows a couple floors added to the 1959 building that it appears aren't going to happen after all, based on what they are doing on the roof now.  But hopefully I will be proven wrong!

I really hope this isn't representative of how they will be installing the windows.

Today this article was linked from Swamplot: http://urbanland.uli.org/industry-sectors/bayou-city-reclaiming-houstons-signature-waterways/

It was published yesterday, yet it has the following:

 

The 18-story Park Place at Buffalo Bayou office building, developed by Houston-based Pinto Realty Partners, is under construction, designed to contain 250,000 square feet (23,000 sq m) of high-end office space while offering a fitness center and locker rooms for tenants who want to jog or hike at Buffalo Bayou Park across the street. It is the first office building in a growing residential corridor near downtown, says Michael Anderson, executive vice president of Colvill Office Properties, which is leasing the building.

Is this article incorrect, or is the project not on hold anymore?

I think the only real disappointment here is that they were unwilling/unable to put the large windows in the lobby as the rendering showed, and instead they just have a few small windows by the doors.  I have no complaints about the color scheme change.

Of which of the hundreds of buildings lol 

On the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world).  On one of the tiered balconies near the top, there's something yellow that might be a sports car.  I guess it had to go up in the service elevator!