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A 33 story office tower has the potential to become the tallest building in the med center (not including the multiple spired buildings. This thing should be in the 500 foot-to-the-roof range). 

Office floor to ceiling heights are almost universally taller than residential. Love they height but the massing of the overall development looks a bit crazy. 

The top floors are for apartments. Lower floors are hotel. Don't pop wood because they aren't making it taller!

Or, maybe, he's expanded his plans. When it was first floated he wouldn't need financing, it was just one tower. He's since made more land purchases for future development.  

Wasn't the 41 story apartment tower supposed to break ground this quarter?

My daughter has some friends here and they all seem to like it. Meanwhile, the Vue continues to disappoint. No way we're going back there next year. Her car window was smashed in for the third time... in the damn garage. 

What blows my mind is how many young UH women live in the Mosaic/Montage on Alameda and the Skyhouses downtown! There's a lot more $ at UH than when I was there in the 90s!

So did this one lose 2 floors and 20+ feet?

So glad to see it coming to fruition. This is what Midtown needs along the rail corridor. I can envision a "wilshire" like stretch of high rises connecting downtown and Hermann Park some day. 

The residential tower is turning out to be quite handsome. Nothing spectacular but solid. Much better than I expected. 

People flock to take their social media-filtered posts at Austin's graffiti wall/park. Lets one up them. Hipsters would love it and it could help lure Amazon II. It's on the light rail too! Win-Win-Winning. 

(sarcasm)

They went Hollywood glam  but missed. That looks dated already. The public spaces aren't bad but that room...

Sad to see old trees coming down. Yeah, yeah, I know. 

I can see my sister's house and mine in this photo.

Also interesting to see the big field where the Ashby HiRise hasn't risen. 

That read as so self-defeatist. I've lived in New York and Boston and I think Houston has a better overall quality of life and it isn't just because it's more affordable here. I really wish Houstonians would stop feeding into the national narrative that we are lacking. We are not. 

I love how slender it is from the southern view. 

I have a hard time seeing anything other than a massive freeway. 

Brass fixtures have been a thing for the last few years; everything from hand rails to faucets. Not a fan. 

When Rice Stadium built, not only was there no NFL team but UH had only been playing football for 2 seasons. Also, Rice was good. 

In the 1940s, Rice won a Cotton Bowl and an Orange Bowl. Rice not only was in the SWC but they also played LSU every year and beat teams like Clemson, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and LSU. 

We're not getting Amazon and I am not bothered by that at all. Sure, it would be nice if they took up the old Exxon Building and filled in the surrounding blocks but it isn't happening unless we give them everything for free and promise not to be mean on taxes. Even then, they ain't coming to H-town. 

Just more corporate extortion. 

LOL that overdevelopment, overpopulation, and deforestation are not part of the flood problem in India. You might want to try google. 

in the last 17 years we've had a 500 year flood, a 1000 year flood, and the most destructive drought in the city's history. Climate change + over development of sensitive and flood prone land is 100% the cause of our woes. 

Asphalt lots, detention ponds, and converting a few pod sites isn't going to cut it no matter how hard you try to ignore the overwhelming evidence. 

Houston was protected by the Katy Prairie which absorbed way more water than the reservoirs can hold. But, we allowed mega developers make bank and we paved a massive amount of the prairie. And, if that wasn't bad enough, we allowed mega developers to the North clear cut the piney woods for housing.

We can't concrete ourselves out of this mess. We need to SAVE the remaining Katy Prairie to our West and the woods to our North. If government won't do it then we need a public land trust that'll outbid developers. It also wouldn't hurt to take back as much as we can. Greenspoint might be a good place to start. Buy it, rip it down, and turn it into another Bear Creek type park. 

Not sure how that's a bad location. That was Berryhill's forever. 

Here's a hint, if you open a tex-mex joint and your food is gross, you're not going to be in business long. 

Still cannot believe the original apartment component never got off the ground. Since then, how many units have opened downtown? So short sighted. 

Where's the picture? You claim it exists so produce it or shut the hell up with your fake news. 

Pretty typical for a large shell space. Commercial grade appliances required in a kitchen that size will eat up a huge chunk of that budget. Then throw in materials and fees for designers/architects and it's easy to get there.