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  1. Golyadkin
    It's all been internal work for a while now. They done some minor exterior things like painting, but beyond that nothing too visible from the outside.
  2. Golyadkin
    I had said they hadn't started it yet. And they haven't. The bottom of the current tower is part of the parking, yes, but around the outside, in the picture that HOUSTONIAN (N-ATL) posted, there is an additional garage structure. That doesn't appear to have been started yet.
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    I drove past a different McDonald's today, one that is the new style building that will be going here. It's really thin. With enough space for a drive thru, the edge of the building won't be any farther out than the flag poles out front, if that.
  4. Golyadkin
    Through talking with the guy at McDonald's and looking at the renderings on their website, it looks to me like the edge of the tower is going to be somewhere between that white strip in the parking lot and the edge of the current McDonald's. I think they are pushing it over as far as they can while still having just enough room for a drive thru on that side. I suspect the tower is going to have a much smaller footprint than most of us expected.
  5. Golyadkin
    I'll try to go down this weekend and get a few shots. As of now the curtainwall is almost finished and still going up rapidly (I drive by every day and there is definite visible progress each time). The garage still hasn't been started yet.
  6. Golyadkin
    Just went by and talked to a guy who I think was a manager at McDonald's. What I got from him: -McDonald's is closing in 10 days. -McDonald's reopening in May. They are demolishing their current building and putting up a new one that's pushed over more towards the apartments at 1111 Post Oak. They are going to clear the site and get a new building up and opened within 3-4 months. -This is the new McDonald's:
  7. Golyadkin
    They've started putting in the first steel frame for the office/retail section (phase 2 specifically - the concrete structure that's been going up on the site so far has been the garage).
  8. Golyadkin
    Correct. Apache bought a portion of the site (where the Pavilion once stood), and the word is that they plan on building their headquarters there. It's not officially part of BLVD Place proper, but it is on the site itself and the BLVD Place official site plans show two towers, one "33-story tower" along Post Oak Blvd. and an additional one to go up later (it's listed as "future tower") in the back along Post Oak Ln.. Probably won't hear anything for a while as their lease at their current spot next door at Post Oak Central isn't up until I believe 2018, so look around that time as a possible end date for the construction of whatever they may build.
  9. Golyadkin
    I know, hence the "they are moving people here, yes" in my comment. I was saying that 800 people over two years is not enough to necessitate a new tower, and there's no talking going on internally that I'm aware of that indicates that they will be moving any more people any time soon.
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    Not in Houston, at least not immediately, they don't I don't think. They're moving some people here, yes, but there hasn't been any talk internally, at least that I've gotten wind of (my dad is a Chevron exec based in Asia who keeps me up to date on these things) of any plans to expand their holdings here.
  11. Golyadkin
    Chevron already has the old Enron tower, no? Why would they build a new one?
  12. Golyadkin
    There's already a 16+ story tower two blocks from this site over on Robinhood. If they do it right I can see this being a nice addition to the area. If they do it wrong, however, I can see it ruining the aesthetic of a nice neighborhood.
  13. Golyadkin
    I'm hoping BLVD Place gets a W myself. I got to stay at the W Taipei in August. BEST. HOTEL. EVER. Also, almost every W I've seen has been an incredible modern tower. It would fit perfectly in the area.
  14. Golyadkin
    Unfortunately, that's the ORIGINAL plan for the site, circa 2007. This tower (http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hanover-blvd-place.jpg) is the most recent rendering for that site. I wish the 57-story one was more recent, but it's not. It's a pre-recession rendering, meaning that it's pretty much certain to never happen.
  15. Golyadkin
    That's where the confusion is. When the tower that's currently going up (the curved one) was first announced, it was made to sound like it was a replacement for the tower that was always talked about to go on the small block formed by Sky Lark, Post Oak Ln. and San Felipe (this tower: http://swamplot.com/...-blvd-place.jpg). But given that the site plans on their website show both, with that site looking the same as it always has, there's no clear information one way or the other. Personally I'm hoping they go back to their original pre-recession 57-story plan (here: http://www.slideshare.net/whyarc/2012-jy-hanover), but I'd be very happy to see a tower of any kind go there. I'm all for parks but a little patch of grass in that area is frankly IMO.
  16. Golyadkin
    It is. The plans for that one are still on their site plan map (here: http://www.blvdplace...rojectPlans.htm). Initially that was the site for the Hanover Tower, so there's a little confusion over what's going here now. It may be that Hanover is actually going to be putting up two residential towers here. No concrete information about it that I've seen at this point.
  17. Golyadkin
    This is the Whole Foods, which actually is basically all of the remainder of BLVD Place, assuming the finish everything planned for that site. And you are correct, this is the Hanover Tower site:
  18. Golyadkin
    The main constuction happening isn't just Whole Foods, by the looks of it it is all of the remaining BLVD Place - Phases 1, 2, and 3. And it looks like they've fenced off the area behind the park where the Hanover tower was originally supposed to go and where a tower still appears on the site plans, so we'll have to see what happens there.
  19. Golyadkin
    It was still open last I went by. I'm sick right now, but when I'm next up for it I'll head over and see if I can't get a definite timetable from someone.
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    From today:
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    If it is anything serious, I bet it's something like "hey, here's one idea that could work if you ever wanted to do anything with the right piece of land" rather than a serious proposal.
  22. Golyadkin
    As long as there is space for people to build a few 10-20 story buildings they will do that over a supertall. Unless there is some massive amount of hubris that drives a developer to build it, the space limitations that necessitate something of that size just don't exist in Houston at the moment. New York keeps getting more and more because they have literally zero land available. Their only option is to demolish something and build something taller where it was. Until downtown gets so dense that that becomes necessary, I don't see anything in the 800-1000+ foot range for a while. I think the most we'll be seeing is 500-600 or so until we fill in at least most of the surface lots downtown.
  23. Golyadkin
    It's going up on the McDonald's site down the street from BLVD Place (here: http://goo.gl/maps/sElzl). There is a pre-sale trailer that has been in the parking lot for a few months now, and the McDonald's is scheduled to be demolished in January last I heard.
  24. Golyadkin
    It appears that site prep work as officially begun for the residential tower (this one: http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hanover-blvd-place-revised.jpg). The site is fenced off, the trees are cleared out, and this thing went up Monday: I'm not exactly sure what that thing is. I want to say it's like this thing from the BBVA site last year: http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff345/bppedersen/Architecture%20Photos/DSC_0078.jpg, but there isn't a distinct drill-looking thing it in.
  25. Golyadkin
    From Tuesday afternoon:
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