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  1. Golyadkin
    It's because this site is less prominent, much smaller, and is a generic multi-family complex. BLVD Place has been one of the most anticipated developments in the city for quite a while. Also, BLVD Place's constant delays made it feel like it was never going to happen, so ANYTHING happening on the site is huge. Besides, the big tower crane just looks cooler.
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    I could swear that little crane has been up and active for almost a month now.
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    That bench is still there last time I checked. It was moved from Post Oak in front of the Pavilion prior to the demolition.
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    They are starting to put up another crane on the other side of the site:
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    The crane was taken down yesterday.
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    All I know for certain is they have always mentioned plans for multiple towers, and the construction permit posted on the site says it's for "towers."
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    The site design has always called for three towers, originally I believe one office, one hotel, and one residential, although I think they switched the residential to second office if I remember correctly. Here's an old rendering of what the site was supposed to look like circa 2009: You can tell that the building on the left is the one that's going up (http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/bbva-compass-bldg.jpg), albeit with a moderate redesign. I don't believe I've seen any current renders for the whole site yet, though, but the plan should still be to have two additional towers on the site: one on the corner of Guilford and Post Oak, and one towards the back of the site.
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    They finished assembling it right as the sun was setting last night: And the finished crane this morning:
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    This building is the first of three on the site. It isn't designed to be a single stand alone tower, it's designed to work with the other two once they're built.
  10. Golyadkin
    From Chron: http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2012/09/rising-in-the-galleria/#7470101-1 Looks like the tree is finally going up.
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    I'll just leave this here...
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    The site is almost cleared and ready to go: The next section of the crane has arrived:
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    BLVD Place sent out an email basically just saying "hey, we're finally doing something!" It had a link to the Chron article above and this HBJ article: http://www.blvdplace.com/news/HBJ%20-%20Construction%20begins%20on%20next%20phase%20of%20BLVD%20Place.pdf
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    Well progress has picked up in a big way today it seems. They went from having one truck ferrying the dirt across the site to a single bulldozer to 5 trucks ferrying to four different pieces of equipment laying it out in the last little hole in the site and filling it in. The rest of the Pavilion site itself is filled and flattened. They also added a small parking lot on it. The hole they are digging from has also expanded significantly and is now starting to resemble the shape of the underground parking for Whole Foods. Also, is it just me, or does that look like they are installing the base of a tower crane?
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    I'd personally love to see a W Hotel on this site. I think it'd fit the area and the design of the site really well.
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    That. Would be. AMAZING. And that map fits with the information we have about the site so far: Apache is going to build their HQ there, there is going to be a condo tower around the outside of Skylark, etc. and the hole they're digging on the Whole Foods site seems to match up with that garage so far. This gives me a LOT of hope. I REALLY hope this ends up being the case.
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    In their most recent game, the offense looked really good. If the new receivers could hold on to the ball better, the Cougars would've broken 700 yards passing. The problem is the defense swtiched back to the 4-3 this year, undoing all of the progress we had made on our defense when we were in the 3-4. If the defense could pick up the pace a little, the Cougars could do really well. I suspect 2013 and 2014 are going to be quite good years, as there is a lot of obvious talent on the team and we are going to be losing many of them for a while. UH will probably lose this coming game, but should do alright for the season. I'm expecting 6-6 or 7-5, which is quite good considering we lost the vast majority of our starters.
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    They've cleared the ground out around the fenced off area in exactly the size and shape of what they would if they were lining up an entrance to the road coming in to it. I'll get a picture tomorrow if I can.
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    It's really been moving along recently. Looks like almost a floor a week for the glass on this side:
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    With the exception of where the theater was, the site has now been pretty much entirely filled to street level, and they paved and opened up the bottom left corner as a driveway for the shops and restaurants:
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    I spent an hour and a half circling campus in the ridiculous heat getting these pictures. I REALLY hope it cools down by the next time I go around and take another set. Insperity Center (yes, that's what the new business building is going to be called http://swamplot.com/...ner/2012-08-31/): The Engineering Laboratory (the old hanger-looking building) was demolished: Garden between Melcher and the new building: Power Plant: Cougar Village 2: UC renovation (I didn't get the front of the UC - the little info desk and the awning are both gone): Finished optometry building: 1A garage: New dining hall: Cougar Place: Finished stadium garage: New front of the Fine Arts building (facing the parking lot): I didn't get a picture of it from the right side, but it looks like they are changing the intersection at Entrance 13 (this one: http://goo.gl/maps/DS6FC) and the parking lot there so that the entrance lines up with the street coming in and the intersection isn't all weird like it is now:
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    I was looking at the online campus map (http://www.uh.edu/maps/) just now, and noticed that all of the buildings that are planned or under construction are outlined in a dashed blue line, and there are two that I hadn't seen any prior reference to anywhere. There appear to be plans for a building next to the new Fleming Lab building: and one behind the new Biomedical Sciences building:
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    I'll do my best. I travel a lot (for example I am writing this post from a waiting area at Tokyo Narita International Airport), but when I can, and when something of interest happens, I'm sure to update. If I can get myself a proper intervalometer, I'll try to make some more of these time lapses of the site.
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    This is a time lapse I made of the site on July 31. I just happened to pick the day they brought down the last wall. Unfortunately my camera stopped working for about 30 minutes during which they brought down one section, but I managed to catch the other section being taken down (it falls around 5:58). The bulldozer in the front also gives a really good idea of how they are filling in the hole with the dirt from the Whole Foods site.
  25. Golyadkin
    A lot of glass is going up:
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