Howard Huge

I'm looking for a dollar figure.

How much are companies paying in rent?

Let's use BG group place as an example. Prime, Class A office space with tunnel access. How much is the building owner making a month on a fully leased out 940,000 sq feet?

That's a pretty building.

LOVE the trees!

I bet the meth dealer on this particular job site makes a FORTUNE.

Those Grove cranes are garbage. And I never liked the single queens post design. Liebherrs are way more user friendly and less delicate.

Yeah Monarch, they've really picked up the pace.

I wonder how visible this will be in the skyline from the Gulf Freeway. Will it stretch the skyline past the severe dropoff at Chase Tower?

Skyscraper city and the Tallest Buildings in Houston wiki have it at 517/518 feet.

Maybe they're both wong, you got a laser range detector handy? I can get us on the roof.

Well, did they get it in?

"Smilodon" sounds a bit like an ancient shark, as named in a Disney film.

One Park Place holds that record at 518 ft.

This one will be 20 ft shorter.

So six to go roughly another 65 feet?

Since I popularized the phrase "game changer" on this board, I think it's time I invoke the next HAIF buzzword....

SKYLINE CHANGER.

How much money is there in being a skyscraper landlord? Lets say I owned Texaco Heritage Plaza, how much am I making a month off of that?

World class steakhouse right there.

Are those pictures from 6 months ago Hindesky?

This one has a lot underground.

I'll be "that guy."

I wish we were getting a Ritz Carlton like this downtown.

You've been eating better lately, Howard...

Here's a couple pictures from the JW Marriott Executive Lounge.

BTW this post signifies 5,000 of nothing but garbage. You're welcome HAIF.

Wasn't groundbreaking scheduled for November?

Now can you imagine a few more 30-40 story towers filling up the rest of the gap, cascading all the way down to the courthouse towers on the far left?

The skyline would be MASSIVE.

Oh my god. We did it Houston.

Wait what!!! Omfg, no way!!!

What does this mean??! Are they doing a rehab??

Reminds me of the Apple Maps van I saw a few months ago. I think that is their sole vehicle for the app too, which was neat.

Would that extra segment have come into contact with 609 Main cranes during its early stages of construction

When a lot of tower cranes are working in close proximity to eachother, they will always be at offset heights so as to make a collision impossible. (See any single construction site with multiple hammerheads, they are never the same height)

The only mishap that can occur when you have two or more cranes within jibs reach of eachother is the load lines from either crane getting tangled up in the other cranes jib by swinging over/under it.

This however is mitigated by all the crane operators and riggers in the area (even the tower cranes across the street) all being in constant communication with eachother.

Also when you're in the seat of the crane, you can see all the other cranes around you so, not really gonna happen barring some extreme operator error.

That's a good pic HH