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No.  There doesn't seem to be much "correct" going on there.  Not the proper use of a container either. 

When I rode past this yesterday, I was pretty confused too by how they had positioned it. Got the hell away as fast as I could!

Yes, Third was has been changing from multiple directions. The dangerous aspects aside, it really is an interesting part of town to live. The Bayou, The slightly rolling terrain of Riverside Terrace, The beautiful big houses surrounded by delapidated shacks, the history, the food, the University culture (however shall it was at the time).

My favourite thing to do was bike riding along the path down brays Bayou to Hermann park.

As to the lower income people moving out, the ones I know have been moving to the burbs.

From what I understand of Europe, this is the way a lot of their cities work: rich interior, poor surroundings. For a long time, it's been the opposite in the US (much to the confusion of Euro tourists) but now that trend is of course changing.

I can confirm that the house is completely down, and the lot is now ready for whatever comes next.

The AT&T building is actually a predecessor to a data center.  Back when telephone switching equipment took lots of space, they had to build buildings like this just to handle telephone calls.  There's a similar one downtown, too.  Nowadays the switching equipment is much more compact, so I guess these buildings could be converted to data centers.  Usually companies like to have data centers be much less prominent, though.  I have no idea what all this building is being used for now.  I'm sure some of it is still used for switching, but I think that wouldn't occupy the whole building.  It used to have a bunch of antennas, I think for microwave frequencies, on the roof, but they are all gone now.

From what I have been told, and I don't remember the technical terms, it's a hub for internet and phone service in that area. The similar building in downtown serves the same purpose.

Anything going on here? A few months ago I was told demolition would begin in February or March.

Rode by the other day. If it's some sort of old house that's being torn down for this, then we are all systems go. They are gutting the inside at the moment.

Yep, I could hear the jackhammers from home, on Friday.  They have Hawthorne blocked from home.  It looks like I'll have to find another way to get to Kroger.  I wonder how long this is going to take.

Not very long, they seem to be making pretty good progress. All these damn public works projects and construction projects around Montrose are messing up my bike commutes!!

They have nearly everything we need to know on their website and even data to download to explore and manipulate if you have ideas you want to share.  Still can't wait for the verdict

http://portal.smartgeometrics.com/cistern/#prettyPhoto

Huh, so they are going to take off the top of the cistern? Or make it a ramped entrance to the underground chamber? Either way, It's an amazing space that we need to take advantage of!

Rode by today on my bike, they are definitely making progress on this!

A lot more rebar onsite.

Where are our HAIF photographers! Oh wait...

I wanna join the club! Midtown, Montrose, Museum District, and Rice Village is a big enough area for me on a slow day I'll leave DT to the people who live/work there!

I'm all for this building, but not at the cost of physically damaging nearby homes. I hope Hines can go forward more carefully and the neighbors can prove the damage wasn't already there and they get compensated.

Same here, and I'll continue to ask my friend from time to time to get more details and updates.

Finally something goes there! I feel like taking my shirt of and doing a soccer-style knee slide 

Spoke with someone who works with the person living next door to this project. Cracked foundation, shaking windows, only a matter of time until the neighborhood puts a legal postponement to this

They tore down the parking garage today.

Yes they did. Dust all over the place, nearly choked on all of it on my bike!

Looks great, and will really go well with the future developments just up the street. I love this area of town!

Updates:

The surrounding area is really nice, and walking along Las Palmas will be awesome in the near future:

Finally got off my lazy butt!

A little bit of progress on this:

As of today, still work being done! Dunno what the building behind it is, but it's looking good too. This northern part of River Oaks probably doesn't have much longer to go as an exclusive single-family homes area...

Taken earlier today, they have the three houses in question all fenced off. A guy was running into one of the residences, so they must not be completely closed?

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/City-to-collect-again-when-Midtown-building-sells-5298648.php Maybe this is part of the overall MATCH complex?

I'm not sure what the status of MATCH but I know Trinity Episcopal is now taking steps to build a walkway from the Center north of their building to the small parking spaces (accessed from Francis street) next to The Bering House to allow staff access to building when the parking lot on Holman in under construction.

So maybe things will start happening soon.

I seem to recall an apartment block design for the old permit building?

I live at Calais, there is nothing going on at the moment. Still a parking lot for the Med Center.

It may be the rain and cloudy skies, but driving home earlier this evening I noticed those rendering colors look nothing like what it actually is. Will try and get photos tomorrow.

Wait, I'm sorry, but are y'all saying that the rendering two posts above mine isn't planned to be built?

According to the link, the front four buildings are part of "phase 3", which the current owner is trying to sell. The back two apartment buildings will be u/c starting this year.

How many cranes do we have in downtown right now?

One for Skyhouse.

One for this, soon to be two.

One for the Demo work on 609 Main.