toxtethogrady

On 1/5/2015 at 10:43 PM, toxtethogrady said:

The cynic in me says in five years they'd just throw the same crap up on the site but five years on. Might as well get it over with; I'm not getting any younger.

And here we are more than five years later, and I'm guessing still waiting, only with a little COVID on top....

On 2/11/2020 at 2:07 AM, nate4l1f3 said:

Looks like if the American Airlines Arena in Dallas had an apartment. 

Actually, it's had several. And yes they look like that...🤐

On 10/1/2020 at 2:02 PM, Naviguessor said:

Barf. Can be done SO much better. 

Did Donald Trump get to the developer and insist on a Classical look?🥴

I'll check back in a year....

On 12/28/2020 at 1:53 PM, dbigtex56 said:

Let's hope that the ill-advised plans to despoil 800 Bell have been thrown in the dust bin, and that it will not fall victim to an ignorant, awkward and unconvincing attempt to 'modernize' this beautiful and distinctive building. 
Consider some of the amateurish attempts to update older buildings such as the Federal Courthouse (515 Rusk) or Two Shell Plaza.

Is there even a tenant in mind for 800 Bell?

On 12/13/2020 at 2:10 PM, clutchcity94 said:

How amazing would it be if Elon buys out all of the existing pre-leases at the Ion and turns the entire building into Tesla’s new headquarters! Smack dab in the middle of the energy capital of the world.

 

Would take some major balls, but I can see Elon doing something like that now that he has moved to Texas officially.

Musk seems to be much more interested in Austin. I guess the return of Compaq (now known as HP Enterprise) is the most Houston can expect, at least until some serious VC money starts being made available for industries outside of oil and gas...

On 12/28/2020 at 11:51 PM, MidCenturyMoldy said:

LOL! 

The Adventures of the Little Red Riding Bag

the famous Skalgubar girl travels through renders and visualisations

https://littleredridingbag.tumblr.com/

And now the mystery of all the followers on Donald Trump's Twitter account is explained....

On 11/17/2020 at 12:23 AM, Yoda said:

 

Those "seniors" look pretty ripped. I hope I look that good when I'm a senior. 

 

Nice find @Urbannizer

I used to say that back when I was 24. Now I'm 64. so it's too late to worry...

On 12/28/2020 at 2:07 PM, phillip_white said:

I'm glad that Caydon's Laneways approach seems to be spreading to other developments.

And Caydon appears to have followed Crystal City in DC.

On 6/25/2020 at 11:32 AM, skooljunkie said:

Thanks for sharing this link. So helpful for me. Nice to be able to toggle between shots within the last year. 

That Zoom link is useful, but I notice that the most recent imagery appears to be November 2019. Google appears to have images from 2020, but in some spots, Zoom's are more recent.

And so it appears that Zoom has branched out...

On 12/8/2019 at 6:51 PM, ekdrm2d1 said:

 

Goodbye, Jetton's Cafeteria...

5 hours ago, cspwal said:

One time I walked by there, and there was one (1) person hand laying each brick. That would explain why it took so long

"One coffee bean...TWO coffee beans...."

We all have to start somewhere...

Census keeps the previous estimates, so the revisions can be looked at. One day when I feel up to looking at the older estimates, I may see what revisions were made every year.

On 4/18/2019 at 5:07 PM, Twinsanity02 said:

Population numbers for the Houston MSA in from the Census Bureau.   July 1, 2018  6,997,384. Rounding this is either an increase of 105,000 if you take the previous 2017 numbers of 6,892,000 or 92,000 if you take the revised 2017 numbers of 6,905,695. 

 

Nevertheless at a growth rate of over 1700 people per week we are clearly over 7 million.

 

I will stop obsessing about this topic now.

The numbers underwent some major revision, as there was one year (2017) that was previously identified by census as a no-growth year, but it has since been revised upward. Over a million in one decade. Still on track to surpass the Chicago metro in less than 25 years....

Someone's looking for a sweeter offer...

Houston may yet get Baker Hughes back as a locally-based company.

I can't believe all that real estate has any prospective tenants. Unless the GHP is going to make an aggressive push to bring in business from out of town, it's going to be a while.

But you might be amused at this interesting diss in the Boston version of Bisnow, regarding our neighbors up north....
"Dallas Office Park by the Sea"

6 hours ago, kbates2 said:

Knowing what a POS I am for even bumping this, the news below could be a pretty good sign for this building:

 

https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Chevron-to-buy-Anadarko-in-33B-mega-deal-13762129.php

 

I actually am pessimistic. One of the early paragraphs in the story is that the merge will result in some job layoffs (as these things usually do). To make this building happen, they would have had to suggest a thousand new hires or something like that.

Another interesting tidbit is that Chevron doesn't appear to be the only bidder circling. Rumor has it Occidental is interested and actually outbid Chevron.

On 4/3/2019 at 3:32 PM, Luminare said:

 

Its a pain to go up an escalator? A stair that moves for you?

It actually is. You have to get your car into the building, then up to the fourth floor just to get to that stair that moves for you...

14 hours ago, Triton said:

 

Actually, outside of Houston, Target has many many urban style stores. Glad to see we are finally getting one here. Last multi-story Target I visited was in Vienna, Virginia:

 

(not my picture)

 

I've been in that Target a few times already. Nice, but it's a pain to get up to the floor where it starts.

 

 

At DFW Airport 35 years ago, it was fewer sacks of concrete than specified in the runways. People eventually went to jail over it...

16 hours ago, jgriff said:

We call it value plus and can get a bonus if we find something that will save the client or us money.

You always have to be careful, though...
Leaning Tower of NYC

I remember when that building went up. I haven't seen that steel exposed since 1962...

Looks like they took the offices off the garage, resulting in the current configuration. And it sure went up fast.