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    If it takes a crane to build a crane, where did cranes come from? Answer: aliens.
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    This thread is now over 10 years old. Best economy in 30 years in this town and,,,,..... It still ain't built.......... And here comes the crunch...... Perhaps they will start or perhaps they will wait for the next cycle.....
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    Ya gotta give this developer some credit. No hoopla. No big promises. No grandstanding. No "here is a rendering" only to find out a year later that the project never gets built. Nope. This guy buys, stays quiet. Builds. I wish them success. He has purchased a property that I would not have considered good for resi. That may mean that the rents might be a tad more affordable for a young office worker or tradesman. I hope so.
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    I tend to agree, unless it was a timing issue. When did the Pavillions "start" to fail? Since around 2010, downtown hotel occupancy rates have been very high and got even higher each year. Hard to find a room many times. Since around 2010-ish, downtown resi rental has really taken hold and gotten better each year too. But, Greenstreet was built earlier than that and we would have to look back and see what residential occupancy rates and hotel occupancy rates were at that time. I don't know but the environment was likely not as conducive to resi and hospitality success as now.
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    Found them..... Halfway down page 7 http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/1851-houston-pavilions-now-green-street/page-7 So, let me get this straight: somebody proposed buildings like the renderings and ended up building the current Pavillions? Lord.....
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    I too have been asking this question. There is a ton of money going into buffalo bayou trails and structures which WILL go underwater at some point in the future. I am wondering if that is somehow accounted for in the building design and construction. Then there is likely millions of dollars in landscaping and such..... Will that all not be ruined under 20' of fast moving, muddy, water?
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    Did I just read in C2H's post above that the original Houston Pavillions concept had included a residential component? Wow! Cn anyone enlighten me? What was the original, never built, plan?
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    30 pages for a building that doesn't exist yet?
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    May I ask a question? I honestly don't know the answer...... Why would not only minor pedestrian improvements to the existing overpasses be sufficient?
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    While not always true, "homeless-ness" is often a euphemism for "mentally ill". The fact that we have a number of non-violent, mentally ill people on the streets who are capable of "surviving" on their own is a product of the Burger court.
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    An academic and research focused college is going to spend $30m on a weightlifting facility?
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    "they've repeatedly hijacked what are public street slots for their valet." 1) what establishment are we talking about here? 2) can you explain your statement? Are you saying that public parking along the street has been blocked off or forbidden (in some manner) by whatever establishment you you are referring to? I did not know this was a legal practice! Please help me understand.
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    Not trying to start a flame war here.... But, do consider that the City of Houston is probably 5 times bigger than the City of Atlanta, 10x bigger than the City of Boston, and much bigger than the City of Dallas or Philly. While Houston may have many more tall buildings, they are spread out.(but still inside the sprawling City limits).
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    Depends on what you mean. They won't let you put out a fire pit or something. But, are you asking if they will restrict the type or style of deck chairs and stuff? Probably not. The lower floors were scheduled for move-in in a few months as I recall. I wonder if still on track?
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    Looks like we have a totally plausible hypothesis! Thank you!
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    I know zero about construction. So, to me, this sounds possible but, I think they just pile drive those, don't they?
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    Wide open to drive on. As such, I think that metros biggest challenge to running the trains on time will initially be the number of car-train collisions. I expect the learning curve for houston drivers will be higher than on main (which, as I understand, had a "lot" of accidents initially).
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    Yup. But, I think there was at least a couple of weeks of digging before the crane showed up. I may be wrong on that though. I just remain surprised that the crane showed up in the first wave. I don't recall seeing that before. It's very interesting though.... A 40 story building across the street excaves a huge hole and then starts building. This Hines structure of 30-ish floors seemingly will not (or maybe they will?). Fun to watch the differences in construction techniques (and equipment staging!).
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    But given the connectivity of downtown to buffalo bayou and onto memorial park, if one of the two thoroughfares was going to turn into a slower speed street, would not memorial drive make more sense? Memorial drive is a straight shot to memorial park and already has lots of signals on it. Slowing it down east of Shepard would not be a big deal. Allen parkway, east of Shepard has large office tower complexes that likely need less lights to move traffic. If one or the other was to turn into a street, to me, it would be memorial.
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    Additional traffic signals? They will need to rename it "Allen Street"
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    Wow! No digging at all for a 30 story building? Holy moly! Has anyone seen a project that skips site work and goes straight to pile driving? I have limited experience but I have not.
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    Opened in 1953? Wow! Quite a run!
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    This part I understood -- I know that there are tower cranes and all sorts of mobile cranes. What I don't understand in my original post was why the crane (any crane) is there so early. A poster above suggests that it could be for drilling pilings .... Could be but it still seems too early. Isn't their at least a few weeks of excavation or grading to do?
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    Errrrr. What? For the uninitiated among us.... What does a crawler crane do and how is it involved in the excavation?
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    Isn't it too early for a crane? Don't they need to dig a bit of a basement first??
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