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  1. Nate99
    It looks like when they are done, it will be as near as anyone can tell to a full brick facade. The levels above the 3rd floor have a brick type pattern/overlay that someone mentioned as being thinly sliced brick applied to the coating you see in the pictures. In any case, I can't tell the difference from standing across the street. I'm betting that they will re-brick the lower sections where you see the exposed steel. It should look very well done, and when you consider that it was replacing what had become a rather neglected looking building, this is will be a nice add for the area visually.
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    Am I remembering a similar plan from a few years ago? Hope the demand heats up to support it, that would be cool.
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    That's how I read it. Not sure exactly what they mean by "preconstruction", but I would interpret that as moving dirt around.
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    Some mo' -
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    That's pretty fun to look at. Looks like it is missing the residential Market Square arrea tower though.
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    Before the Main Place/BG tower, 806 Main was pretty much the end of the line. Given that there were no retail/restaurants down the narrow path to get to it, and that the two buildings along that route were not terribly busy, not many ever had a reason to walk that way. I don't think their is room to put anything in any closer to the hotel, but someone could get creative I suppose.
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    Agreed. Hope it happens though, this thing has been a weed infested urine soaked eyesore of a crater for as long as I can recall.
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    They must be forecasting a high end residential element. No one onter than an NBA max contract guy would drive a Bugatti Veyron in to downtown Houston.
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    That's cool. Hopefully he's right.
  10. Nate99
    It was presented as a proposal to the Historical Commission (whoever they are) according to the Swamplot article. I'd guess it is well short of a done deal.
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    Ugh. I see a pattern developing.
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    Censible or not, there's not any reason that it could not look more or less exactly like the rendering. People like to fire up the outrage train so quickly, they don't even bother with the basic facts. Seems to me that a list of the people that have avoided Warren's because of traffic would be a whole lot shorter than the list of people that would go there because they lived a block over. Unless they don't want more customers, which is entirely plausible.
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    The proposed tower on the Milam/Prairie/Travis/Preston block would have to be built for this one to get to the tunnels, I would suspect. Even for that one they will have to connect to 717 Texas or the Chronicle building. I don't think I'd go through the Chronicle if I were planning such things. I'd not be long on that building having a tenant in 10 years.
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    For height reference, the 717 Texas (Calpine) building nearby (@Milam/Prairie) is within a few floors of this.
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    Kind of cool, if you ask me...
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    They had the fencing open the other day as I walked past. The ground floor lobby has quite a few of the structural steel support columns running through it, I'm curious how they will work with that as I am used to seeing wide open lobbies in modern hotels.
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    Hillcorp is building a tower, I think. No renderings, scant details, IIRC
  18. Nate99
    Walked by there at lunch today. They are jackhammering like a mofo. You could feel the sidewalk vibrating through your shoes.
  19. Nate99
    Interesting. The thing looks like a bomb shelter.
  20. Nate99
    Great perspective. Could this be an elevator shaft or fire escape stairwell?
  21. Nate99
    The mud wreslting champ from La Porte in the mid-90's, you knew her too?
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    I don't think anyone here knows for sure, or if they have mentioned it, I missed it. At one point I noticed that they had mocked up what looked to be "model" hotel rooms in the third or fourth floor of that section, so it is involved somehow, and I presume that it is contiguous internally, but I'm just guessing.
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    So anyway, some new pics. Pardon my hand in the first, but I was trying to shade the lens from the direct sun. It looks like they have taken out a good chunk of the exterior wall on the upper floors facing Travis. You can see the exposed steel.
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    The original brick looked like hell, they had to do something. Restoring the original brick, if possible, would have been ridiculously expensive. Replacing it probably even more so. Taking an approach as they have could be the difference between having a nice looking hotel and an abandoned useless rotting building on Main. JW Marriott isn't exactly in to letting their name go on dumpy properties, I bet it will look pretty sharp once it is done.
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    I agree. They put up the backer board and then troweled on the mud. I am assuming the brick pattern will go on top of that. If you look at my pic in post #186, you can see that they have the layers mocked up with backer board, mud, base brick pattern, finished brick pattern from top to bottom on the two strips. The quoins look to be made from the backer board material too.
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