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    Kinda far off view from Hermann Park, but this is it...
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    The website has been updated with a "Virtual Tour" video and a number of new renderings. Among a few of the unseen... These feature the Embassy Suites, second Convention Center Hotel and some of the proposed residential & hotel developments mentioned in the past
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    This may be deserve it's own thread since it looks like they've kinda started. Through the netting, the lights inside were a bit easier to see since I guess the windows on those floors have been removed. Here's a photo from this afternoon.
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    Photos from this morning... Laying rebar around the recently poured office tower footprint.
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    Couple of snapshots from yesterday...
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    That more than likely isn't it. The image was removed from the site and wasn't even in the print edition. Considering they've only begun the attempt to raise money within the inner donors' circle donors for anything new, I doubt the building even has a preliminary design, much less something a bit more elaborate like the aformentioned rendering.
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    I saw that they removed the rendering from the article on the site, and it isn't in the print edition either. One of the other interesting pieces that jumped out at me in the print article was the mention of who purchased the Ballet's current building and land at West Gray & West Bell. Dienna Nelson Augustine Company (a local developer) and Novare Group (an Atlanta based Residential developer) were the buyers, though the Ballet is leasing the present building until May 2010. Wonder what, if any, future plans are for that piece of land...
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    Isn't this the block where a drive thru bank was recently demolished for short-term parking?
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    Kinda funny that the first day the Highland Tower work was underway, it also appeared that they were moving a bulldozer onto the site earlier in the day. Looked like there was some dirt recently moved around after months of letting the land grow full of weeds. First time I'd seen the gates along Westheimer open in a long time as well...
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    Lo and behold, this one actually did start as promised. Fence is up and bulldozers working to clear away the dirt around the sales office.
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    Plus a couple of the buildings look like the physical model that was shown last year, before the newer renderings were released. I'm going to guess that nothing's changed thus far with the more recent version, the financing group just opted to use an older rendering of the project for their notes. I haven't recieved any indication from the engineering firm I've talked to that it's been upsized, but I'm sure I can ask around.
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    According to the sales office, construction begins next week! Also, the 16th floor was added because of the high demand for the larger units on the top three floors.
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    Overhead view from 5HC taken this afternoon...
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    Cool, thanks for clearing that up!
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    Quick shot of the site on Sunday Morning...
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    Here's a shot of activity in the pit from a few days ago. They're filling in the perimiter wall for the parking garage. They've also started placing large advertisements on several sides of the site featuring sizeable versions of the renderings shown previously.
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    Also, what exactly is a "contingent agreement"? I ask since the latest edition of the Houston Business Journal included a commercial real estate market guide, and one page focused on the mixed-use developments in the area, including BLVD Place. It mentioned that a luxury hotel & full-serivce spa (the presumed Ritz Carlton) was under such an agreement.
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    Here's a photo of the first building from across Post Oak... Anyone have an updated overhead shot of the site?
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    Aww, I missed LTAWACS too.
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    Probably at the same time the Courtyard by Marriott became "A Marriott on the Courtyard". There would have to be a courtyard for the latter to be true. There isn't even one in the plan.
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    Looks like CBRE has updated a page for leasing space to include the rendering below...
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    Saw a gray trailer on the Travis side along the fence... did that just show up last week?
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    My guess is that they won't put the tree up until the design element on the west side is completed, not just the habitable floors.
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    Some photos from yesterday morning...
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    The development group that bought the shuttered Days Inn hotel on the southern end of downtown said it will spend up to $50 million converting the dilapidated structure into another hotel. New Era Hospitality, a group of doctors and entrepreneurs that bought the building in May, is negotiating with three hotel companies to brand the property. But demolition has already started on the interiors, which are being gutted and will be replaced with 340 modern suites, 60 standard guest rooms, 32,000 square feet of meeting space and a swimming pool and bar on top of the attached garage. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/busine...ff/5872453.html
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