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This crane came down this weekend as well. Only one crane left on I-10 between BW8 and 610 (Marathon Oil building at CityCentre), down from 7 earlier this year.

The other tower crane came down today, but there continues to be minimal apparent progress despite continued work. Still lacking most windows except for the lowest floors of the tower.

On 10/18/2020 at 4:25 PM, Triton said:

From what I can tell, looks like 288 is going to open any day or any week now. I saw police officers and probably construction workers smoothly driving down the tollroads yesterday. Most of it clearly looks finished.

288 toll lanes open Monday (11/16) per Fox26 report. Free for the first two weeks through 11/29.

Apparently there was a murder in this building 😧

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/Man-fatally-shot-in-Midtown-Houston-high-rise-15700781.php

Not sure what's going on, but after rising pretty quickly this seems to have slowed wayyyyy down. They are definitely still working, but I haven't seen any appreciable progress in weeks/months. You would think they would start putting some windows in the tower by now, but nope. 

One crane coming down today

This isn't technically the correct location/thread, but I couldn't find anything better by searching... the old Goode Co. Seafood building right behind the new one is currently being demolished. I read once awhile back that there were plans for an office tower there, but not sure what the plans are at this point. 

7 minutes ago, midtowndweller said:

Best view hands down of Houston’s SKYLINES is that 610 Eastbound–>288 northbound overpass! The colors from the mid center buildings glowing in the foreground, downtown looming in the distance and the uptown skyline watching over. 

288 Northbound -> 69 Southbound is pretty awesome as well, a little bit closer in version of that same view (minus the med center)

It's pretty well hidden (only really visible coming north on BW8), but there is a top-out tree on this one.

Being that close to Buffalo Bayou Brewery would be amazing but dangerous

Yeah I was just going to post how it looks like they'd stopped again, I guess that week when there were a bunch of guys working on the office component they were just tidying up the site or something. Oh well.

The lights look awesome now, the building really stands out along Westheimer at night but not too in-your-face.

6 hours ago, X.R. said:

You would have thought the pandemic would have allowed them to speed up the construction, but instead its sorta just continued. The Southmore bridge is way passed the promise date, and its just sorta been sitting at the same point for a while. They have finalized entrance and exit ramps during this time, and part of the south 288 in and around pearland, so I wonder if they are rushing to get that done, and then working their way up, which seems like an OK strategy. 

The Southmore bridge was torn down at least a few months before I moved away from that area in July 2018... I hadn't been over there in a while, so when I was driving down 288 the other day I was shocked to see it still wasn't finished. I think I remember them saying it would be closed for about one year, and now it's been well over two.

Thought this one topped out a few weeks ago, but saw those pilings or pillars or whatever they're called up there so I wasn't sure... spotted the tree today so it looks like it is.

Residential tower has been topped out for a week or two

Some lighting elements on the south side of the office tower were on last night, possibly incomplete because they looked like some sections were missing

Looks like the last crane jump happened today

9 hours ago, LBC2HTX said:

Phase 2 is supposed to be an office building + EQX hotel, plus some retail.

The rendering above seems to be for the hotel portion, hence the lobby + terrace yoga. So seems like plans haven’t changed, just dragging ass with no movement since last year. Though, I don’t blame them given the less than stellar occupancy at Phase 1.

Oh ok that makes sense. The link makes it look like just office but I guess it is only marketing/lease that portion

So that lot is going to be an office building, not Equinox hotel? Or both?

On 7/3/2020 at 10:36 PM, Highrise Tower said:

 

The office building has appeared to stop. No activity in 2 months.

Good news (hopefully)... there were quite a few guys working on the office component today, or at least doing something on top of the one floor that has been constructed. I'm wondering if maybe they pushed it back to utilize one of the cranes from the residential component and that way delay completion of the office part a bit until there is more demand? We'll see.

Construction trailer has arrived at the former Smith & Wollensky site

2 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

I used to work at the strip club across the street. the late owner RJ and i used to watch the crackheads steal all the copper out of the Medical Arts building

Wispers?! Man that is one unpleasant place lol

Decent amount of glass has gone up here. Sorry couldn’t safely get a pic at highway speeds.