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  1. uhlaw09
    Actually, the crane that he's referencing is for a development West of Waugh/Heights, located near Jackson Hill.
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    According to this recent Chronicle article, the bridge will go over the lake. I too would like to see a rendering... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...es/6043258.html
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    Workers have staked off the property over the past week. The areas staked off stretch from W. Dallas and Waugh (the Whole Foods site) to W. Dallas and Eberhard (across from Vincent's and Nino's). I haven't noticed any changes to the property that is between Eberhard and Montrose. It's a little hard to see the stakes, but here are a few pictures. This could end up being a very nice addition to the neighborhood:
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    Here's a brief update. I've noticed 2-3 workers on the property the past 3 days cleaning up large objects and doing some work with a blow torch (I live around the corner, so I have a vested interest). Since this is the first movement I've noticed on the site since the Allen House demolition, I stopped today to ask one of the guys what they were doing. Granted, this is from a guy at the bottom of the totem pole who may or may not have any clue what's going on. The worker said they were doing site prep work to prepare for the ground work for the development. Said they were removing large debris that was left over from the demolition and they were cutting out some metal structures left over from the old Allen House covered parking. I asked him if they were about to start development work there, and he said "yeah, we're about to start the ground work here, but it may be a few months." He asked me if I lived around here, and he said, "It's about to get really noisy around here." Again, take this for what it's worth. It's from a site worker wearing a hard hat who may or may not know anything. I just noticed some minor work being done on the site, so I inquired. I would welcome input from those on the board who are connected in the development community. Given the current economic outlook and credit situation, I'm worried that a lot of these projects won't get off the ground. Here's hoping that this one actually makes it...
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    I'm not concerned about different branding of the two areas (the streets even change names when crossing the bayou bridges). What I am concerned about is being able to walk between the two. A ton of exciting development is going on both immediately South of the bayou and immediately North of the bayou. The areas are as closely connected as any place in the city--divided only by a 5 minute walk over a great park space with the best downtown views in Houston. However, walking the narrow sidewalks on the Montrose or Waugh bridges is quite unwelcoming to typical pedestrian traffic. Having a signature pedestrian bridge in this area (which would provide amazing views of downtown, by the way) would be great for the area and for the city. Actually, it'd be nice if pedestrians could easily walk both the Waugh and Montrose bridges, but I'll settle for one.
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    The pedestrian potential for this area is pretty exciting, especially if Regent Square and the Archstone development are built. Combine that with a new pedestrian bridge and the Whole Foods / Finger development, and this area would be a very interesting place.
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    "High Street" is a British thing.
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    The ones toward the top are new to HAIF. They've been on the developer's site for a month or so. The pictures of "Regent Park" in the daytime and nighttime were added to Developer's site in the past week or so. Older versions of the ones in the middle were "stiched" together by other HAIF users from older marketing materials. Also, there have been posts here and on Swamplot about the "Ghost Tower" shown in one of the images. As I'm looking at it, the newest renderings of the full development (i.e., the first image) and the Retail Leasing Plan appear to show that the "Ghost Tower" is just the condo tower proposed in Phase 2 (as opposed to a separate development or even the proposed Finger condo, as previously suggested). Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that...
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    Here are all of the most recent Regent Square images from the Developer's site (http://www.naberkowitz.com/project_regent.shtml):
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    The sign on the property says: Restaurant: 8,000 square feet Retail: 21,000 square feet The Whole Foods on the property is planned at 50,000 square feet, which is larger than the average 38,000 square feet for a typical Whole Foods (per the Sarnoff article from earlier this year).
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    I'm kinda doubtful about One Park Place being lit up at night. Discovery Tower looks like it will be lit up well at night, however.
  13. uhlaw09
    This building is going to be an awesome (and unique) addition to downtown. And Jax is the man for his dedicated picture-posting.
  14. uhlaw09
    I can't wait to see this building really start to crawl. It is going to be pretty prominent in the Allen Parkway/Memorial area, especially because its base is a bit higher than the buildings on the South side of the bayou. Will make the drive down Allen Parkway/Memorial even more enjoyable once it gets on up there in height.
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    Bear in mind that those pictures probably place it too far away from the other buildings. This is still going to be connected by skybridge. It's not like they're building the thing in Montrose. I also think the building will probably look significantly smaller when built compared to the pictures above. For the sake of comparison, Heritage Plaza is 53 stories. The Five Allen rendering is 50 stories. Very nice job with the pictures though, and thanks.
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    I've searched for the best views of Houston for a while, and the best that I've seen is from the 610 South exit ramp onto 288 North. It's elevated and the Med Center, Uptown, Greenway, Allen Parkway, and Downtown skylines all mesh together to make one awesome urban skyline. If I had a camera and knew how to take good pictures, I would park and sneak up onto the ramp to take some pictures one day. That view captures Houston better than any I've seen yet.
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    I also saw men posting a sign for the development on the Travis side of the block this morning on the way to work (I believe there is already one on the other side). It's possible that they were just moving it, I'm not sure. This was on the land outside of the fence.
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    Will be a downtown grocery in OPP soon enough.
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    Yes, it was added this past week.
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    A pedestrian bridge would be awesome. This area will really be transforming into a more walkable area over the next few years. There will be a lot to do in this area between: the developments at Regent Square, the Whole Foods and accompanying developments on W. Dallas between Waugh/Montrose, the parks along Buffalo Bayou, and everything North of the Bayou including the new Studemont tower, the Archstone development, and the existing residential in Memorial Heights. This area is going to be a great place in 3 years or so. Having a pedestrian bridge would make it even that much better. With so much development on both sides of the Bayou, it would be a shame to have no way to walk across.
  21. uhlaw09
    I like it.
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    I think that ivy would be key. Otherwise, it will continue to look pretty ugly.
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    They've dropped prices significantly since I visited last time about 3 weeks ago.
  24. uhlaw09
    I know this is a year later, but for future reference for others who may be interested... I called today for 1BR or Studio availability 3 months in advance, and they said they had no units available. She sounded like she didn't think that any would be available in the near future. A 2BR is going to open up a couple of months, though. If they're fully occupied so often, why don't they raise the rents?
  25. uhlaw09
    So were the links working when you viewed the page? I pulled it up shortly after it was posted yesterday, and all of the links were dead. Can anyone enlighten us as to what was so "interesting"?
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