Pearl Rosemont: Multifamily At 102 Dennis St.

[Valhalla]

4 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Dense is relative, each of those big townhouses has maybe 3 people

Relative to what, Manhattan? Ok then.

Houston has the greatest population density in Texas. Austin has more people living downtown than Dallas or Houston, but outside of downtown, Austin's population density plummets to endless rows of single-family homes. Developers there have to fight tooth and nail just to build the kind of townhomes that we're so quick to take for granted. 

[Squirrel]

8 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

Well yeah I'm talking about building density not population

it sounded like you were referring to population density, of course townhomes with less than a foot separation is dense. 

[MidCenturyMoldy]

10 hours ago, Squirrel said:

Dense is relative, each of those big townhouses has maybe 3 people

Compared to what was there 30 years ago, the aerial photos are astonishing.

[cityliving]

apartments above parking garage.

Edited August 4, 2021 by cityliving

[hindesky]

[cityliving]

Edited August 18, 2021 by cityliving

[KinkaidAlum]

Is that the old EMOS/Club Some across the street? Man, has that area changed. I remember being held up at knife point walking to my car from Some one night!

[dbigtex56]

1 hour ago, KinkaidAlum said:

Is that the old EMOS/Club Some across the street? Man, has that area changed. I remember being held up at knife point walking to my car from Some one night!

The same (2700 Albany).
It had undergone extensive renovation in c.1983 to open as The Officers' Club.
The owner, Jay Hollyfield, had his living quarters upstairs. 

[MidCenturyMoldy]

10 hours ago, KinkaidAlum said:

 I remember being held up at knife point walking to my car from Some one night!

Ahhhh! The good old days! I remember them well!

[MidCenturyMoldy]

Has it been mentioned that it's odd that the pool deck and all those surrounding windows and balconies are facing away from Downtown? Seems like a major waste of a spectacular view. I guess they think having afternoon sun is more important. 

[kbates2]

Yeah, for me the sun at the pool trumps a view.

 

Plus, this way you get pool view or downtown view and so more of the building is desirable.

Edited August 19, 2021 by kbates2

[MidCenturyMoldy]

4 hours ago, kbates2 said:

Plus, this way you get pool view or downtown view and so more of the building is desirable.

Yeah, that makes sense. Must be that I'm too old to still care much about the pool.

[Valhalla]

I've always wondered why you never see wrap apartments higher than 15ish floors. Would it just be too many units? Or it there a structural problem I'm not seeing.

[HoustonMidtown]

 

[mattyt36]

On 7/20/2021 at 11:57 PM, MidCenturyMoldy said:

Compared to what was there 30 years ago, the aerial photos are astonishing.

What was here 30 years ago?  Was walking through the neighborhood last night and realized I have no memory.  

Edited August 22, 2021 by mattyt36

[MidCenturyMoldy]

1 hour ago, mattyt36 said:

What was here 30 years ago?  Was walking through the neighborhood last night and realized I have no memory.  

No townhouses, that's for sure. If memory serves, older single family homes, small apartment houses, empty lots and, I think I remember TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) had something on the block this is being built on.

[hindesky]

[hindesky]

[cityliving]

Edited August 30, 2021 by cityliving

[hindesky]

[hindesky]

They were adding a construction elevator.

[KinkaidAlum]

Near Town/ Midtown needs about 20 more these, please.

[hindesky]

Consolidated AT crane just collapsed in the pool deck area.

 

 

[wilcal]

Damnit, you beat me to it. Hindesky is the fastest draw in the west.

Edit: Also, when I pulled on the street and saw the tape across the road, my first thought was that they weren't allowed to close the entire street. THEN I saw the orange crane.

Edited September 27, 2021 by wilcal

[hindesky]

First thing that caught my attention was why are all these workers milling around? In the street, sitting on the curbs. I was driving north on Helena coming from Fairview.

Edited September 27, 2021 by hindesky

[wilcal]

Crane was back upright this morning. They worked on it into the night.

[phillip_white]

14 minutes ago, wilcal said:

Crane was back upright this morning. They worked on it into the night.

From the aerial photos it looks like one of the telescoping sections is bent, which led me to believe that it was going to have to be disassembled before they could remove it from the site.

[J Money]

Do you think there's going to be an extended shutdown to investigate? I recall that occurring for the incidents at the new hotel off I45 N and the Hard Rock in Nola... certainly not nearly as bad in this situation though.

It looks like at least 2 floors have been damaged. I wonder how much they'll have to repair.

[wilcal]

I did confirm with some workers that were there last night that there were no injuries. 

[brijonmang]

10 minutes ago, cityliving said:

I wonder if the ZOOMLION crane might have collided with the other crane when the accident happened? I noticed some damage to the ZOOMLION crane as shown in this pic I took yesterday.

That or it got hit as the mobile crane was coming down.