Houston is always doing its thing. I love Houston. I do wish NOLA would have high-rise towers in downtown.

Main Place (BG Group Place?) reminds me of an enormous Bic Lighter! :D But yes, it's one hell of a nice tower! :yes:

Aaron (Glowrock)

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How are you liking your new home?

I'm liking it quite a lot! :yes:

Aaron (Glowrock)

Main Place is Houston's Trump Tower. Why? Because it has a giant comb-over! :)

Got a press release at work tonight saying that the Mayor's office will announce a $1 BILLION DOLLAR renovation to terminal B at IAH. I can't give out any more info. until tomorrow.

its out..........but this has been news for the last 2 years.

Courtesy of the Houston Business Journal-

http://assets.bizjournals.com/housto...dering.jpg?v=1

The Village of Meyerland
4141 North Braeswood
120 units of senior living
August 2012 opening

Also, there are very strong rumors that two different developers are looking at downtown (not Midtown but DOWNTOWN proper) Houston apartment projects to build off of the success of One Park Place. Overall, the downtown market has a 91% occupancy rate and rental rates have increased 3% over the last quarter. Both are from the ground-up projects so they aren't the recently leaked rehab of the old Texas Company Buildings.

Sad day :( It would've been a fantastic project, but I'm sure other great things will come down the pipeline in time :tup:

Waht else have you heard about this. By downtown do you mean actual downtown or are you including teh area near the new dynamo stadium?

Hooray for senior living!

Photos from a few days ago.

West Ave. development is pretty much done, and phase 2 is a long way off still but the developer told me it would get started this year.

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/f78.jpg

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/f76.jpg

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/f65.jpg

This isnt really a development, but a tear down that I had no idea was happening. Its that old 60sish building across from the Hyatt Hotel downtown. Brookfield is tearing it down and replacing it with a "landscaped" fucking parking lot, so thats just amazing.

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k591/birdboy1/f.jpg

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/ff.jpg

MainPlace adding to the canyon and it looks like the long abandoned Wilson building is finally getting restored...
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/f5.jpg

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/f7.jpg

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...dboy1/f1-1.jpg

Market Squares been done for a while but didnt see anyone on here say much about it.
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/f43.jpg

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...irdboy1/f6.jpg
Niko Nikos is delicious and a surprising amount of people were eating there at 9 on a Thursday night.

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/...rdboy1/f54.jpg

And I never knew this existed either, is it new? Doesnt look like it but I had just never seen this hotel before.
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k591/birdboy1/d.jpg

The hotel being demolished in downtown is the Sheraton-Lincoln. It was famous for being the place The Beatles always stayed at when they came to town.
The owners of the building right next door bought it so they could demolish it to use the underground parking garage and open up the view on that side for their tenants.
Here's twp swamplot articles on the demo:
http://swamplot.com/former-downtown-...ve/2011-03-21/
http://swamplot.com/old-sheraton-lin...ts/2010-09-23/

And if the source I talked to three weeks ago was correct, BLVD Place should be breaking ground on the Uptown Whole Foods this coming month.

Waterway 3 in The Woodlands has been approved and set for construction. The office building will be 9-stories and have approximately 200,000 sq. ft. Date of construction is not set but architects are currently working on the project.

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/sprin...b85832430.html

Amazing photo Lith! You took that one?

The lightrail train just makes that photo from good to great.

What's this gonna be?? Anything good? I just looked over all the projects on page 1 of this thread but I couldn't find it.

Sure did and thanks, I take all the photos that I post on ssp. I have a video I made also...

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And no, thats not really anything good, the Exxon Mobile Campus is going to look a lot like Sears shitty suburban campus in Chicago once they moved out of the Sears Tower. But, nearby there is a new semi urban residential development going in.

That's going to be the new huge campus for Exxon Mobil.
http://swamplot.com/a-first-look-at-...on/2011-03-17/
http://swamplot.com/exxonmobils-top-...ps/2011-05-05/

Wow. 3 million square feet. 15-17k employees. That must be the largest construction job in the country.

I clicked the links; No renderings have been released though, right?

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No, at least, Im not aware of any yet. I really hope it is more than just a giant suburban office complex, but we'll have to wait and see I guess.