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    Two pics from Texas Street. It is a big mobile crane. Lots o' mud too...
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    I walked by there the other day, I was tempted to go up and take some pics myself but got a glowering stare from a segway mounted security dude and kept on moving.
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    Let's all chip in and buy Triton a tripod.
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    I noticed the CN Tower in the video, but chalked that up to the pervasive cheesiness of the whole thing. If one were seriously marketing what could be in the neighborhood of a billion dollars worth of condos, you'd think you might want to scrub the materials a bit to rid them of the Nigerian crown prince selling Amway and used cars vibe. They used Keller-Williams name/logo on their website, which would be courting legal action if they were faking the whole thing. Maybe their marketing team is just horrible. Anyone friendly with a K-W agent?
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    12 months seems like a pipe dream, but I guess anything is possible with enough money. The lack of specifics seems consistent with a very early stage idea, if anything.
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    If everything on the drawing board goes, a significant number of those surface lots that you see will be gone. The eastern side of downtown was pretty much worthless for years, this type of thing takes decades.
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    Green backer board going on the lower floors...
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    You can't hear much apart from the construction noise anywhere around the block these days. The big excavator mounted jackhammers were doing their thing on the old foundations.
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    Funny you should mention that. It is hard to see, but if you look in the picture here, just beside the Bobcat in the shadow on the left, there is a cut in to what used to be the basement wall of the Texas Tower pointed directly at the Magnolia, so there could be something there. You can also see where they are chipping away at another basement foundation that is to the South of the now former Texas Tower that belonged to a building that must have been demolished a long time ago, like Pre-McDonalds. Some more: I also saw on Swamplot where someone else had the same idea of getting a pic of the Gulf Building while it was temporarily fully visible from that angle.
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    another drone cam:
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    The nine big pillars that the canopy/pressbox rises from necessitated gutting the back side there, but it needed to be gutted in any case. I have not been on the concourses over there since the late 90's (as a student), but I understand that they had not received much attention since, and they were in pretty bad shape with potholed asphalt surface and very little ventilation (because Read sealed in the concourse). The stadium will have a completely different look, hopefully the feel is the same on gameday.
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    Likewise Magnolia rooftop poolside sunbathing will not be for the attention averse.
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    Looks like they designed the outermost cantilever support beams to start right above the roof of the Bright building and hang to hang as much of the upper deck over it as possible. That is tight. That would have been a variable in the project that set a lot of other parameters. They are moving the playing field something like 18 feet (correct me if that's not the actual number) to the south, effectively lengthening the entire stadium to take up every available inch. Awesome pictures Scotch.
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    I like it a lot. Very neat to see the rendering with the actual street incorporated. Needs more Audis though...
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    http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/30146-what-happened-to-downtowns-major-vacant-buildings/
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    They could be done with the exterior very soon.
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    AT&T has a store Main @ McKinney where Krispy Kreme was once located.
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    Better (well, different anyway) shot of the stripped out part. Looks like they have two floors worth of frame exposed already on the Capitol side. Sorry about the glare, would have been a better shot a few hours later.
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    You forgot peeler club. We do have the Burlesque place now, though it's not really the same thing.
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    It will be interesting to see how they work it. If there were an agreement to allow for views of the games from the development, I would presume that we would see marketing to that effect. The roof of the Union Station building is ~6 stories up, so one floor up and across the street would probably offer equivalent views. At a minimum, I would imagine those apartments will sell at a premium, maybe Crane gets to lease those first and sub them out.
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    Hardware store.
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    Set up shop at the top of the Four Seasons, you say? I might know a guy who would be interested.
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    My reference to their cultural homogeneity was more general in its implication. Sweden seems to be held out as a model in many ways these days, but they are a global anomaly for many reasons, even if one accepts that their way of doing things is ideal.
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