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    I think it looks more like a reincarnation of the Magnolia Hotel. But, all snark aside, I'm really happy this is the fate of the building and not the wrecking ball.
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    World Trade Center.
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    I head east on San Felipe, pass the new HEB strip Center, Blvd. Place, Hannover Tower, BHP Tower, Astoria, Hop onto 610 North, then I-10 East and see the Sovereign, and then all the projects Downtown as I pass it. Coming home is a little different. Depending on where my job lands me that afternoon, the best is coming North on I-45 south and getting onto 59 south. You see the denser side of Downtown, sweeping westward views from Midtown to the Energy Corridor, and then the Museum District & TMC. Take that you train riding hippie. Sorry that was pure jealousy.
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    My german mother never blessed me with such beautiful sounding songs. She's no Hulda.
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    I was hoping the facade would have remained white/off-white. They look tan/beige now. That colored cheapened the already cheap look.
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    plumber2 - Please don't take this as any personal attack but Bill Maher is a ******* idiot. The issue I see it as is not the fact it's a cross, but a huge obnoxious statement piece. This one is no container tower cross (I-45 South). Of course anyone knows you expect to see a cross or two from a church. As an atheist I have no quarrel with crosses. I know this may seem like the grounds for starting this topic... I have a huge respect for people, even if I think that most are brainless sheeple (religious or not). Of course I would support a detached cross for a church, but certainly not a HUGE one, especially in the city limits.
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    Half of it should be pictures of potholes.
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    I don't know the number of Japanese residents currently in the DFW area but I'm pretty sure not all 5,000 employees moving are Japanese. Good for Plano. DFW has a marketing edge Houston might never embrace. It's a blessing and a curse.
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    I still see the Christmas Tree HAIF logo as well. Didn't get the tannenbaum reference. Maybe before my time.
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    The Woodlands was it in the 90's. Cinco Ranch was very popular as well. As far as the inner city neighborhoods the West End really started taking off in 1998. The Social was the "it" club, and only a few townhouses littered the landscape. In the mid-90's the area south of West Gray was blooming with townhouses as well.
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    I absolutely love that little white office buildings next door.
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    I wasn't intentionally posting fake renderings, simply copying them from the crazed city vs. city topics, thinking they were real. Ignorance is not bliss. I would get so excited and then post them here and immediately get shot down with disappointment. Before theniche and redscare there were two major posters. I can't recall their names.
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    It looks a little better with the Brick they have added. No one knows what #3 is? They have almost finished the huge parking structure. It doesn't look like much room for apartments. Snail's pace...
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    The rich blue glass clashing with the brown and beige. Very turn of the last century. Looks like every ticky tacky building on the beltway west of I-45 and east of 249. The arches above the windows are probably the icing on the cake, Of course the industrial grey dome... I imagine it generates a ton of heat with the sun beating on it continuously. This project was a great realization for me. The original renderings and how it turned out echoes with Embassy Suites. It was supposed to be a higher design from the County Courthouse building, but I prefer it to this.
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    Yes the fence for the project was there well past the super bowl. The empty Trailer up until 2006 IIRC. I think the giant projects (River Oaks District's Towers, BLVD Place's Ritz and other towers), were solid eye candy. Those ugly projects you mention were in the works after 9/11. I truly did not like the Hobby Center but the street front has grown on me. The Parking Garage facing the bayou was and is a travesty. HAIF was in an uproar regarding that. I think in the old HAIF there was a plan for a residential tower on Westheimer in the early design stages. Like 5 boxes stacked on one another but at different angles. Seemed ahead of it's time. Edit: I think I also had a few issues posting renderings from SSP or SSC or City Data (one of those...), and they ended up being fake projects that someone else had posted. It was a dark time.
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    I am particularly happy we didn't end up with Shamrock. Or Orion for that matter. Tack-a-rama
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    Are there new lights ontop of the Chase Tower? They look like the usual Christmas bulbs they have but more streamlined. I could have sworn they changed color but they seem dim.
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    I'm kind of glad it's gone. Re-reading posts from your 11 year old self are the definition of cringe worthy. Although I do miss my arch enemy dalparadise. And the eccentric poster from Dallas who continually posted about luxurious projects that were totally made up. The most exciting projects were 1000 Main, the condo towers along Uptown Park, Calpine Center, 3333 Allen Parkway, and of course 1500 Smith.
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    I can't believe I forgot to mention the steel products! Can you ever forgive me?
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    Moving Chanel and other high-end retail out of the actual Galleria and in separate buildings above the parking garage as pictured in the renderings. I was joking around, as I could never afford to buy anything other than a spec of dust in those stores, and only gaze through the windows.
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    I know this might be veering off topic but do you all think this area of Downtown will be one of the last to be fully developed?
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    Have any renderings surfaced of the high-rise? I guess they plan on moving all the ritzy stores away from all the peasants huh?
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    The Ship Channel (other than importing cars and furniture), is completely centered around the petro-chemical industry (Oil). Our biggest import/export is Chemicals. But I do agree on the second half. Our landscape is not something unique or that people would flock to from around the globe (our summers are grueling). A lot of Europeans like it though. Weirdos. I kind of like that we don't have any major world famous landmarks. Houston is such an odd city, and I'm increasingly looking forward to see how the city develops and what changes come into place. My father says Houston will become more like a city in the north east.
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    It is not dry at all. Their Humidity is WORSE than ours. I couldn't wear my glasses because they would fog up all the time.
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    Please don't get me started on the Civil courthouse...
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