Howard Huge

"That thing is HUGE!"

I'll let someone else follow that with the appropriate joke.

Yeah that's just gross dude.

It's like a triangle right? There's a center...with two stubs pointed out...and a longer section pointing out...

Oh right, yeah its shaped like a star wars ship on it's back lol

Did I miss something or did Camden change their minds and go with the whole project.

I thought the last official word that I read on this site from Camden was that they were going to put a hold on the residential

part of the project and just build out the garage and park for Superbowl and wait for some recovery before actually building the development. I thought this was going to be like Skanska Capital project downtown. Just get the garage built and sit on it.

I remember reading the same thing Bob.

Mah man.

Wait...so this has three "wings" right? One longer one and two shorter ones?

Oh man...12 year old me is loving this

I don't get it.

Dammit Houston really needs a spire in that mass of flat rooftops.

I actually attended the downtown management district meeting on Thursday and they are planning to add food trucks and other vendors to Main Street Square as a part of the larger main street "beautification" project.

But the homeless don't have money for food from the trucks?

Do you have a rendering for this one Urb? Too lazy to go back and look.

Does anybody else walk by one of the two groups of racists that like to gather (on the corner of Travis and Preston on Saturdays and Main and Texas on Sundays) that will openly yell racist comments at you? Those guys are real winners.

The bouncers who got fired from The Gaslamp?

^^^ sorry gents, but this is not me, i am currently working in the middle east. however, do not fret, as soon as i return home to houston... ROD, i am all yours baby....

I wanna go with you!

^^^ THE COFFEE SHOP is now open at ROD. complimentary coffee to all guest / shoppers throughout the holiday season. however, i love me some green tea... yummy!

That's an expertly manicured thumb. Are you a metrosexual Monarch?

He's making pocket change compared to the guy selling horse tranquilizers and Xanax a couple blocks north.

BING, POW, ZZZZZIIIINNG!!!

Cool.

I came to this thread to say that the parking lot was still full of cars today. I guess that we will know when the lot gets fenced off.

There's a lot of lots on that lot, only a little bit of a lot will be lotted off for this lot.

The rest will probably stay a lot of parking lots for a lot longer.

Did I just see a ghost? Where in God's name have you been?? One of the few pre-crash Haifers on here, good to see you again buddy

Sounds like they're going for the Gaslamp/Rebels Honky Tonk crowd.

Sorry guys, but that's asphalt paving equipment.

I was referring to commercial. Oil and gas is way more stringent on safety.

Yes they are.

^^^ heck, i am still WONDERING about the proposed hotel component that is / was supposed to sit atop the 10-story PARTNERSHIP TOWER? anyone harbor any insight? what on earth happened to this proposal?

There ain't no more AWL MONEY BOY! That and we don't want no gays and their CHILD MOLESTING conventions in our God fearing city! YEE HAW!

If Pujols had hit that ball off Lidge in 2015

Too soon....

......for the ball that Pujols hit off of Lidge in 2005 to have come down.

Another update. The owner is Beer Market Co, this will be their second location.

http://www.beermarketco.com/

Man that team is really aggressive with their concepts. I like that.

Sweet mother of God and baby Jesus.

Skyline changer.

6 Houston Center will top out before they finish cladding block 334.

In general the way buildings like this are appraised is the income approach which applies a cap rate to the net income to get an income value for the entire property. So if you know the value and the cap rate you can back out to what the yearly income probably is.

For either the CBD or Uptown the cap rate is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 7-8% for early 2015.

For BBVA this is $100 million * 7%/8% = $7 to $8 million income per year

For Bg Group Place is roughly $450 million * 7% = $31.5 to $36 million income per year

Wow, thanks for the in depth breakdown.

So just to clarify, that figure is net profit, before expenses, correct?

The Catalyst is approx 60 ft shorter than the Marriott Marquis ( according to Emporis). How visible is the hotel from the Eastex or Gulf freeways?

EXTREMELY visible. This is good.