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The parking garage... so ugly. If they could just remove all those screens so that you're looking right at the cars, then paint the remaining portions black, it might be somewhat better.

$2.9M remodel planned.

Apartments.

Eh, in terms of structure,the type of building,not as much. However, it is all flat slab so that save time and the type of formwork they're able to use as a result of the very simple geomety of this particular building allows them to just go.

*grumbles* that's what happens when you have an astronomical amount of money for your construction budget.

The old pick 2 theory : cost, time, quality. Unless of course you're willing to bump cost, then you can have it all.

Going down.

Also let this serve as a PSA that Travis is shut down.

I spy.... Cranes

Taken from the pond at discovery green.

Everything being built now is "luxury" apartments. Couldnt there be something inbetween  that and a halfway house... This could be a great area to build housing geared for U of H students with easy access to campus via rail. 

A normal apartment you say? Blasphemy. 

Surely there is a point though, with all these luxury apartments going up, that the market gets over-saturated and we get to a point where prices on the luxury ones normalize down to a reasonable rate? 

I know we have had a major influx of people moving to Houston the last few years, and although home prices are astronomical, they are building and building. Once everyone wraps up, surely we have more than we need and there are cost effective choices again? 

I think the spaces along the outside walls are bigger.  I drive an SUV and don't seem to have a problem.  The inner spaces seem smaller.  The spaces at the Alley Garage are way to small.

I'll take your word for it. I got lucky and ended up with a spot on the end and drive a crossover, so my life could be worse, but the rest of my office is on the inner loop and all drive full size sedans, trucks, and SUVs. Most of them can't help that even parked straight, their tires are on both lines.

They ought to for what they now charge monthly for parking.

^ preach! They also ought to give us real sized parking spaces, but alas, I digress.

Hopefully they keep this after the trial period ends. Nothing feels quite as satisfying as flying by stop and go traffic at 70 mph. I'll gladly pay one dollar to save a few minutes.

 

Thing is, I wonder how much this reduces the HTR inbound traffic. Paying $1 for the 45 Express Lane is much cheaper than the HTR--and it takes you all the way to Downtown.

Wow! That's it? Its like $4.50 to get on going outbound on 59 entering the lane off of Milam. I've never used it since I have a jaunt from downtown to bellaire-ish area, but that amount seems absurd. Some of my coworkers say its worth it, but sheesh. 

Progress. From JPMC skylobby.

Progress. From JPMC skylobby.

Yes. The northwest corner of the building where there's the lantern feature is where that's slated to go in.

Lots of cranes

1st one is from Market Square rail station.

2nd one is from the corner of Milam & Congress looking at the residences of market square crane with 609 main cranes behind.

Lots of cranes

1st one is from Market Square rail station.

2nd one is from the corner of Milam & Congress looking at the residences of market square crane with 609 main cranes behind.

http://abc13.com/business/grocery-store-eyes-expansion-in-bellaire/841317/

Whiners. That quote from the dry cleaner reeks of entitlement. You have a right to do business so long as the space is available and you pay your lease. It's business and no one owes them any more or any less.

I feel like this will only help local business. It'll be nice and shiny and new and as stated above, if you build it they will come. One can hope it will only revitalize this side of Bellaire and things drive more business and help clean up and add nicer things.

Yeah, ideally on a big pour you should be able run 150-200 cuyd an hour through it. But if the trucks don't leave whatever plant they come from when they should you have gaps or traffic, or if they send them all out in succession you get the scenario you have seen. Which seems like an okay thing, but if something happens with the pumping & placing boom the concrete is only allowed to sit for so long. like 90 minutes at a max temp of 90degrees is average before you have to turn it away. 

You wouldn't gain too much from that and the trailer is on ground floor anyways. Not to mention if you could get the clearance in the garage (which you can't, its incredibly small (its where I park)) you then create a logistical nightmare of getting them in and out (there isn't a good place to turn them) especially since concrete material companies are incapable of actually staggering the loads like they say they will, you get back up. As it is, they have them wait on Preston when they start backing up and have them drop back around the block to be where they need to be when its their turn. 

The neighbors keep moving up. Someone mentioned jumping the crane... Overheard once they get the floor they're on poured they'll do the tiebacks and then jump it. Although it doesn't look like its poured, haven't seen a sizeable fleet of concrete trucks this week (which isn't saying much). If not this weekend, next weekend has to be a sure fire thing.

For everyones viewing pleasure. I also get grabbed some shots of the other project across the park - those will be up shortly.

^ Rain. It may not look like it, but we're moving. Stay tuned in the next few weeks. 

I have heard there is a couple of other projects in the state that have actually bypassed SOG because of mud and just went elevated because they couldn't get it dry enough to get select fill or if they could get dry material it wouldn't be for long.

Surely they're subject to same COH noise regulations as the rest of us working downtown...?

And what I'm earth are they doing that requires night work?

Sounds like a personal problem to me. People move to NYC knowing full well why they are getting in to. Yes, it seems like paradise because we have some of the lowest cost living in the country. Regrettably, that fact coupled with a solid job market is causing this lovely traffic CF we are dealing with.

In any case, I agree with tigereye. You want it? Work for it.

I feel like it's time to update our city seal. Somehow a train and a plow don't cut it anymore.

Voila!