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Cloudy Sunrise Time-Lapse from Eleanor Tinsley Park

7 hours ago, Luminare said:

 

If I were a bettin man, I would put money on @Paco Jones and the stuff he posted. So my money is on the final render.

The top rendering is old design concept. This has a rendering from inside the pool area. 

Fly through video rendering of the interior renovations. 

I may be overthinking this, but wouldn't this tenant make the rest of the building less desirable? "Hey, want to go grab drinks at, Gibbs' used to be a boat store -- now is next to cough, cold, and COVID testing site Bar & Grill?". I guess you're happy to get any retail tenant right now. If I were to speculate using purely judgmental Houston strip-center bingo, I'd say there's' a boutique dental practice and Poke restaurant coming next.

Skanska recently purchased that strip center, so If they move forward with development it's probably going to have to move if it survives regardless of the rent cost. Here's a link to the thread about the development.

Permits on the door:

7 hours ago, monarch said:

 

^^^ @kbates2 no, this one.  actually, i haven't eaten there in years.  they used to have the BEST oatmeal, raisin, pecan cookies ever!  they used to be located in the tunnel.  i may just have to swing by one day...

Sorry to get yalls hopes up, but  I was wrong. It's actually Mia Bella not a La Madeleine. I'll post a picture of the permit on the door below.

It looks like a La Madeleine is almost fully built out in the Rusk and Fannin corner of the building. Construction screening on the windows was removed, and  when I walked by over the weekend I could see pallets of shrink-wrapped furniture ready to be unpacked.  

On 9/23/2020 at 9:04 AM, cougarpad said:

Does anybody have access to the top pool deck at the Market Square tower? I'm curious how this new building will block the view of the skyline from that pool deck especially the glass infinity pool. That is such a unique feature of the building and it would suck if the view was completely blocked by this new tower. I am sure that pool deck is also a selling point as well and tenants in that building probably will be dissapointed if the pool deck view is gone.

Inquire about a leasing a unit. When I did a year or two ago the tour included the pool deck and gym on the 39th floor.

Looks like they aren't planning on opening until downtown pedestrian traffic picks up.

Phase II of the lobby renovation is kicking off construction 8/31. Exterior windows punched similar to what was done for the restaurant space on the Capitol St side of the building. Additional conferencing, a coffee bar, and two floors of office space added in the former bank lobby. 

18 minutes ago, Houston19514 said:

 

It appears to be either owned by, or under long-term lease or easement to, Centerpoint Energy, which makes sense given the large electricity transmission lines that run over the property.

 

So, we won't be seeing any buildings on those parcels.

I wish we'd see a bike path in that corridor under the powerlines from Memorial Park to maybe Richmond. 

That connection would be great because it gives you the option of avoiding that target parking lot and crossing houston avenue and all the intersections on spring street. That's whole stretch can be slow and sketchy and crossing at stude would bypass all of it.

It looks like they are getting close to having the roof done. I walked by the building and the roll-up door on the front was open over the weekend, and the inside is about as far as you can be from being done.