Pumapayam

I don't think this phrase is accurate anymore...

Here, have a cookie . . .

Randall Davis will resurrect the Titan when the economy is good and ready.

Randall Davis has yet to have a building not built.

And the Turnberry not only has a super expensive office shack, but billboards all around town. They seem determined to make this building happen.

Damn how thing change in 6 months. . . so sad.

I could'nt find a thread about this nor on the Houston Water Meuseum; Education Center.

My name is Tubbs, and I am in your thread.

I thought this post was about Tubbs. No?

Here is a direct link to Swamplot.

I tried.

You could tell the difference pretty easily if you had ever been to Bridgeland...the winding street pattern is supposed to be a selling point of the community. I found it a good way to get people going to wrong way down a divided drive...

I was always under the impression that a winding street was a fake way of introducing road design dependant on topography of the land. Developers think it makes the neigborhood more pleasant to drive in, but it is a waste of space in a location with flat land.

Check at this recent aerial photo of Bridgeland. . .

Looks inviting huh. . .

Okay, I kid, just a random development in California that went bankrupt, but who can tell the difference.

Was that approved in at last weeks meeting?

What meeting are you referring to Jessie?

That old article is from November.

I'm guessing reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points, Pumapayam.

Epic fail? Really?

Sales have gone well in Bridgeland. It's a beautiful new community surrounded by other really nice communities in the $200K+ to $1M+ range. GGP has taken a hit nationally and is trying to reduce its debt load.

Which translates to cutting the fat, removing the dead weight, = poor investment returns.

"Slow" sales maybe, I dunno what you are referencing then, "well" is considered slow, then yes.

I just sensing location bias since you live in NW Houston. Of course you will see it "half glass full".

Good news, bad news...

The Willie G's office project by Simmons-Vedder is off. The site is for-sale again.

Now, for the good news, here's some update info. from the HBJ on the new Four Oaks Tower

Tower Five at Four Oaks Place is the official name.

The tower has grown and will now be THIRTY stories instead of 17/18.

22 floors of office space making up about 525,000 square feet.

8 levels of parking holding 1500 cars.

Funding is in place and this project is a GO

Ground will break in first quarter of 2009

PICKARD CHILTON is the design firm on record

That last bit is the best news. Main Place and the old proposal for the AIM Headquarters are Pickard Chilton projects. At 30 stories, were looking at a 400 to 450 footer or more if there is a decorative top!

Some updates we have missed in HAIF since August, a variance sign, I saw posted last fall, was approved in November.

The City of Houston

Wow, is anything else opening up soon? I was not aware they were this close to opening anything.

That's all I was able to find, Lifetime Fitness of course, has been open for a bit now too.

The land is for sale now, anyone interested in buying?

There is no asking price attached to the property, but Creech says it will likely sell for $100 to $200 per square foot, or $13 million to $26 million. The site is most suitable for a residential property, retail space, office building or hotel, Creech says.

A multimillion-dollar model home and office space used to market Turnberry

Touched a nerve...

I'm just gonna quote myself in my defense:

They're all horribly average. Pappasito's included. Sorry.

Well looks like whatever Pappa-suffix they wanted to open is gone, flyer is updated, with the removal of Linens N Things completed too.

I liked the phrase "Special Introductory Pricing" on the site.

Studio Movie Grill opens in 2 weeks, on a Monday of all days.

So do you believe it

Pipe dream. It will take a while before anything that nice is built in Greenspoint. Unless they get some incentive or a tax break, this looks unlikely.

The Memorial City District redid their website.

http://www.memorialcitydistrict.org

Hey "Bridgeland", looks like companies know a poor investment choice when they see one.

Epic Fail.

For a long time.. nobody.

I smell Big Lots, Fallas, etc etc.

Well it appears Circuit City will not be opening now...

I did not know this, but it was to be the first one in Houston branded as "The City" I went to the 6-10 West location yesterday to shop, and they had bags that said "The City" instead of "Circuit City". They said they sent all the inventory from the Bunkerhill location to this one since it never opened.

I have read about a prototype store being called that, but was the sign they hung above the new store reflective upon this name change?

The logo, for the sake of CC, looks identical, so it is easy to miss, with City being the larger of the two words.

Sorry to be critical, but why would you waste 20% of the land on a parking lot, and not build a garage? Is that was I see on the bottom right?

Are they doing more than just parking demo right now?

Yeah, drove by it last night, fence is up, and the building is still standing. Just the drive-thru and parking was demo'd.

It's going on right now ... I can watch it from my office window.

Crap, had I known, would have taken a same location before and after photo. I drive by that building on the way to the gym.

Thoughts?

Sure, I love newbs!

Threads combined

Lauren, thanx for being on top of this.

This development looks sweet and the land is already cleared so hopefully it will go through. The only thing I dont like is that its not dense enough but it will add yet another skyline to Houston. A totally new one at that, SWEETTTTTT!!!!!

Dense enough, compare to the loss of what the HISD building plan turn out like. It better than most ideas.

But lets wait and see if this happens, of if it turns into a Walmart.

Does this smell like Hardy Yardsish marketing type stuff to anyone else?

As in something that looks promising, but will never get built, YES.

How did you find that?

Sweet find, for some reason, this plan looks familiar, yet it has more information than I remember, the renderings are nice though.

Just got a memo saying that Hess is taking over the building fully and it will be renamed Hess Tower which will be the E&P headquarter for the company. Occupancy in 2011.

Discovery Tower sounds much better, as did Transco.

People just want to brand things regardless. moo.

RR had some tables and such outside... and that was on the outside corner. The RC (?) was on the INSIDE corner. Right across the walkway from Cafe Adobe. There was a waterfall, animatronic birds, and alligators or whatever. Even had the jungle flora and background noise... if it wasn't that then what was it?

I think it was Surfer's Paradise, they likely shared the same tropical theming as Rain Forest Caf