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Thanks for the info! They all did a fantastic job "re-creating" this building. I was only in it briefly but was so impressed with the job they did. It has a very comfortable and open feel to it. Lots of greenery and they kept the wooden floors. Lots of natural light.

I worked in 1000 Main for a while after it was newly built. It looked very nice on the outside but it was so uncomfortable inside. Everybody was getting sick- something to do with construction dust in the air circulation, fumes from the new carpet, etc. Since we couldn't open the windows, we had to breathe the toxic air. Also, the building had a very closed-in feel to it. There was absolutely nothing organic in the building. Everything was metal, plastic and glass. Long narrow rooms with lines of identical cubicles. And most of the offices don't have windows- only the corner ones do. However, the lobby looks very nice. And the building looks nice on the outside. I like the lights on the top.

Anyway, I digress, hopefully others can learn from TMC's example...

please guys?...learn from this?...quit tearing down our history and replacing it with crap?...

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I really love what they did with this building- the preservation of history (the Nabisco signs are still up), the modern industrial elements, etc. I wish they'd do more of this around the city!

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Thanks for the info!  They all did a fantastic job "re-creating" this building.  I was only in it briefly but was so impressed with the job they did. It has a very comfortable and open feel to it.  Lots of greenery and they kept the wooden floors.  Lots of natural light.

I worked in 1000 Main for a while after it was newly built.  It looked very nice on the outside but it was so uncomfortable inside. Everybody was getting sick- something to do with construction dust in the air circulation, fumes from the new carpet, etc. Since we couldn't open the windows, we had to breathe the toxic air.  Also, the building had a very closed-in feel to it.  There was absolutely nothing organic in the building. Everything was metal, plastic and glass. Long narrow rooms with lines of identical cubicles.  And most of the offices don't have windows- only the corner ones do. However, the lobby looks very nice.  And the building looks nice on the outside.  I like the lights on the top.

Anyway, I digress, hopefully others can learn from TMC's example...

please guys?...learn from this?...quit tearing down our history and replacing it with crap?...

I agree with you about the nice job TMC did with the old Nabisco complex--even the water tower and the buildings on the back look good. But, 20sgirl, 'learn from TMC's example'? The buildings in the Med center are, for the most part, ghastly. Want an example? Take a look at the new Commons building with its silly seven story waterfall.

And, MD Anderson and the UT board of Trustees want the old Prudential building torn down. TMC, the corporation, who I assume holds title to the land and probably owns the building, should be able to prevent this. MD Anderson says the building is obsolete and it has no use for it even though they have offices spread over many buildings. Costly remod? You bet. MD Anderson is a spectacular research hospital and does a lot that is good for our city but I don't think that should give them carte blanche to destroy a neighborhood landmark such as this to put up another 'stairway to heaven' thing like that that's just opened next door. If TMC wants to tear something down, why not that titanic parking garage that spans Bertner along Holcombe and completely blocks views from that heavily traveled thoroughfare into the main campus. It even obscures one of its few stellar buildings, the newish Texas Heart Institute.

Nostalgia notwithstanding, that Prudential building, at 50 plus years old, will bite the dust like the old Shamrock Hotel, part of which survives to this day. Parking garages are forever

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Hey - I like that waterfall...

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Sorry Glen. I can see why you might like it. No wish to offend your sensibilities. It's better at night and it's better when it's on--which, unfortunately, is not most of the time. That building, which btw has a great restaurant on top, is, however. singularly unesthetic and an eyesore (ok, imo) located as it is in the geographic center of the main campus of one of Houston's best assets. Surely we who work there, live in the neighborhood and do the bus-to-train transfer in front of it (me) deserve better. Incidentally, the building houses a garage and many fast food restaurants. Its interior is as bland and unexceptinal as its exterior. The one caveat is the elegant and tony Treviso's restaurant on the top floor, which, imo, is one of the most beautiful restaurant interiors in Houston.

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I'm with Glen.  I like that waterfall (it's unfortunate that it is not consistently operating), and I like the whole building, especially considering that it is primarily a parking garage.  I think it was a creative and splendid way to "hide" a parking garage.

OK, a waterfall on a parking garage is an innovative and welcome site. But, that building is meant to be the 'student center' for a part of the med center 'campus' that sorely needed some services not readily available. The 'Commons', as it is called, was a much-discussed project because of its prominent location. It was intended to be a building for fast food, light retail, banking, meetings and a high-end restaurant. Of course, parking was an issue so the businesses would not have to depend solely on pedestrian traffic, and parking was included in the plan like in the St. Luke's Professional building between Main and Fannin. The building does look like a splendid parking garage though. (I don't mean that sarcastically.)

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This topic may be old news but it's new to this new member of HAIF. As a native Houstonian and second generation employee of the cracker factory I'm thrilled to find it. I was even there when the last RITZ cracker came off the oven in '99.

I was not part of the demo crew that removed all of the equipment but was fortunate enough to visit twice after the new construction was in progress.

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  • The title was changed to John P. McGovern Campus
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  • The title was changed to Texas Medical Center John P. McGovern Campus
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Proxima Clinical Research eyeing footprint expansion in the Texas Medical Center

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2021/08/04/proxima-clinical-research-tmc-fda-regulations.html

A clinical research organization in Houston plans to expand its footprint amid growth in business in the Texas Medical Center.

Based inside of the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute at 2450 Holcombe Blvd., the company works with early-stage medical device and biotechnology companies to get their products or drugs through clinical trials and the regulatory process toward commercialization. Proxima currently works with 120 companies in 17 different countries, including medical companies based in the Houston market.

Alongside Proxima's headcount growth, the company is eyeing larger office space inside of the TMC Innovation Institute. The CRO is negotiating for 12,000 square feet of space at the facility, Coker said.

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  • The title was changed to TMC Innovation Factory: Bio Technology Start Up Campus
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  • The title was changed to Texas Medical Center John P. McGovern Campus/Innovation Factory At 2450 Holcombe Blvd.

wow!

New TMC Innovation Factory street signage a long Holcombe Boulevard at Almeda Road.

Shaped just like the new TMC Helix Park signage. 2 curved plates together.  I do wonder the material for the front sign. Is that metal with a laser engraving? Looks industrial for sure!

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The rear sign that is curved is red.  Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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The old, or current, signage down the block.

Texas Medical Center
John P. McGovern Campus
2450 Holcombe Blvd

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