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    Land is expensive there lately but it's still uncomfortable when architects have a frontage on a public square to work with in their design massing, and just punt by giving it the side-eye!
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    quite a lively Space
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    The building in the street view was Orion's matching sales center
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    Follow link for HBJ's Rendering of Planned Community Developers' Lake Pointe Plaza mixed-use development in Sugar Land, which includes a conceptual design representing Fort Bend County's future tallest building of 20 floors. GENSLER https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/08/21/planned-community-developers-fluor-campus-purchase.html "Planned Community Developers previously bought 190 acres surrounding the Fluor campus from Fluor, and this 53-acre site represents the last piece of the puzzle." -- Florian Martin for HBJ, August 21st 2023
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    Has the rebuilding of the burned Governors' Mansion completed or can we still move it to a new one in San Angelo (to cut down on the amount of temptation of spending one's years in office attending many press conferences to announce to gratified Austinites that the state's public PUF endowment is funding them even more local tchotchkes)?
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    Way to keep brainstorming and learning sir or ma’am 🫡 I like this thread.
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    I would rather see a neotropical SimCity arcology that's a cross between Garden Oaks, River Oaks, central Alvin and central Galveston.
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    Looking at Us-Living.com's marketing it's more or less geared to zillennial yuppie vibes for spendthrift consumers of Washington Avenue by night and white-collars-over-tattoos office employment by day and by evening. I would prefer to see someone else develop this later on when it's ripe for financing. That's in part because I would anticipate Us-Living skimps on architecture to splurge on amenities representing a lifestyle straight-from-ATX-well-at-least-from-The Domain-ATX replete with indoor outdoor coworking kayakshare boathouse beneath rooftop infinity-edge riverview yoga studio
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    Doesn’t seem to be a problem they thought about creatively, even if creating thoughtful solutions to problems is supposed to be supported in it. Pretty much your standard starter military-industrial business casual towncentre office park. Hopefully has nothing to do with the future of our state becoming some sort of . fusion of the very . Arizona-Utah-Nevada-California image-driven lifestyle and the very . Duke / Atlanta / SEC bland economic development-driven preppy mindset.
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    And finally here is why the three thousand acre regional logistics hub says it will have interstate access https://www.txdot.gov/projects/projects-studies/bryan/i14-corridor-study.html
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    Just not to confuse anyone since journalists refer to the Taylor plant as Samsung's second in Texas -- I realized that I could post to clarify that their copper fab opened in 1997 on Parmer Lane and their second fab opened next door in 2007. Journalists would probably confuse people who don't need extra explanation if they called Samsung Taylor the third without taking space to explain that the first site is already home to not one but two. They have tax breaks approved with Manor ISD for fabs 3 and 4 on that adjacent property. They are also testing the federal demand to subsidize additional capacity with as many as nine future phases at the Taylor site just in case it's viable, and getting the paperwork moving. Source for this particular idea was https://communityimpact.com/austin/pflugerville-hutto/2022/07/20/samsung-proposal-for-expansions-in-taylor-total-more-than-167-billion-and-8200-new-jobs/
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    Since Samsung's agreement to build a third major northeast Austin plant, the sixty mile US Highway 79 corridor between its terminus (I-35 at Round Rock) and US 190 / Texas 36 at the rural town of Milano has become a battleground of property values speculation. A group that relocated from California to Texas in recent years and rounded up some out of state institutional investment is trying to sign tenants for a regional logistics hub along US Highway 77 outside of little Rockdale, https://therealdeal.com/texas/austin/2023/07/27/xebec-holdings-to-build-50m-sf-logistics-campus-in-tiny-town-texas/ while Hutto is hoping to become an Austin light industrial exurb as well https://therealdeal.com/texas/austin/2023/07/13/prologis-titan-lead-the-way-as-billions-could-come-to-hutto/ and on the northern horizon, Interstate 14 may close a triangle extend when it extends southeast from its current terminus at I-35 in Belton in order to reach Bryan/College Station/Brazos Valley, I-45 and I-69.
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    The railroad crossing on Houston Avenue west of the Amtrak stop is a good landmark, it turned out. North and east of that is First Ward, south of that is Sixth Ward. Morin Place is in Sixth but the Amtrak stop is in First. https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gmd:gmd403:g4034:g4034h:ct002034/full/pct:12.5/0/default.jpg
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    It looks as though the duration is 18 months and the end date is end of October 2025, but one of those figures could be outdated. If they are both correct then that would place that tower crane placement at the end of February 2024. Cable stayed bridges still don't look like they are holding up anything more than a coat hanger holds aloft. There's no dramatic sweep or swoop with gravity like a suspension bridge, the Eiffel Tower, etc and, almost as uninspiring, they most often have dopey shapes to their towers. A lowercase w atop a capital M does not look like it will be a new favorite of our metropolitan population. We could do better. The early project interviews said that solid reinforced concrete towers would be too heavy so they would have to be hollow. Why not take that as a design prompt? a reason to engineer a graceful kind of load distribution with a less bland expression than these cable stayed ones generate? We're already well beyond the pale of efficiency on this bridge... Well, why not just make a four lane wide bridge that is triple-decker? Use the whole structural bundle of the three decks to itself transmit loads beyond the shoreline towers inland onto a variety of spread footings using a bigger grid of ground as its anchorage? Then we wouldn't even need to demolish the steep existing bridge just for four more lanes of additional width, either. So it could become an actual favorite landmark of local cyclists, runners, and walkers. Not sure how well it would suit the Rodeo trail rides though.
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    Announced yesterday: "The two new hospitals [a comprehensive cancer center and a different specialty hospital] will be located at the former site of the Frank Erwin Center. In May, UT Austin President Jay Hartzell announced plans to tear down the arena, an effort he said would begin this summer and conclude by September 2024. UT officials estimated construction would begin in 2026, with a 2029 or 2030 opening date for the hospitals. As work on the facilities progresses, Hartzell said, UT and MD Anderson will consider how the new hospitals can work with the Ascension-operated Dell Seton Medical Center, which is also on the Dell Medical School campus. Hartzell also said the estimated $2.5 billion investment will advance Austin’s standing as a hub for medical and life science innovation." https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2023/08/15/459494/ut-unveils-plans-for-two-hospitals-on-austin-campus-including-md-anderson-cancer-center/
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    Do these forms state when the work/tower crane obstruction will begin and end? Actually let's just use a bunch of robo hovercraft ferries instead.
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    On your linked City of Houston site, which is still an active project, the more recent soil testing and other documentation says 12.22 acres, leaving eight or so unaccounted for
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    That doesn't sound correct. 99 has a different owner and different standards (seeking to bar participating jurisdictions from building nearby feeder roads or alternative routes) than state highway 146, doesn't it?
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    If you want a real architecture surprise look at the error they made on the developer's street address Owner, rather
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    Uptown Houston Jacksonville Southbank Uptown Dallas Atlanta Cobb County the various bizjournals are paywalled but they have been all over a wide variety of real estate leases that the merged SunTrust + BB&T has been pursuing to expand its profile, in addition to its main offices in Charlotte and Midtown Manhattan. As for us, they had formerly been downtown. So we now have achieved nearly full 1980s stage separation between Finance and Legal, legal services staying close to government/justice/energy/education in Montrose/Midtown/Museum District/Downtown/Third Ward, while finance, general commerce, shopping and self-store-it units expand primarily west o' Kirby.
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    Seriously though if the trees were in grayscale the whole picture could be an architectural student's laser cut model
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    It's metallic and gray and blue all over... it's either an instant modern master planned development or a Civil War battle reenactment!
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    Baylor created the National School of Tropical Medicine there in 2011. This press release is curious since it mentions in the footer that Texas Childrens have a West Houston community hospital and another planned to open in The Woodlands in 2017. I had to look up the timing but they bought that site in 2007 and didn’t greenlight any construction until December 2013: https://communityimpact.com/houston/news/2013/12/11/texas-childrens-approves-plan-for-woodlands-hospital/
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    Not sure when your April post picture was taken by them, but there are only 3 additional floors in the end of June update.
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    It makes sense to at least wonder whether the old Saint Luke's Episcopal complex could become the headquarters site of an unprecedented public private partnership between Texas Childrens Hospital, Houston Methodist, MDAnderson (all three neighbors to the complex) and the wider UTHealth system, plus the medical researchers at other state-funded colleges and medical schools, to provide the best possible pediatric cancer center in the country.
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