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Check it out, its pretty kewl...

It is pretty cool but the resolution isn't great

The pavilions are going up pretty fast...
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...s4559/pav1.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...s4559/pav2.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...s4559/pav3.jpg

Kewl...

We need some more updates...

Yeah no kidding. I mean come on... I'm on my 5th Kirin Ichiban and no updates. I have some on my camera... I will try to upload some later. :)

I'm surprised that although One Park Place and the Pavilions are under construction, there is still no render of any of these four buildings for skyscraperpage.com. I would make them but I'm not artistically inclined. Any takers?

To give you an idea of how behind the times things are, Google Maps still has the shots of downtown Houston and the Airport from back in 2005 (the Toyota Center had no roof on it!). I guess Houston doesn't rate because it isn't changing like Beijing and Shanghai... and Madrid. Funk dat!:P

Here is some good news from the HBJ...

Oliver McMillan LLC out of San Diego has purchased the Westcreek Apartment site for the River Oaks District. Plans call for 350,000 square feet of mostly ground floor retail, a 10 story office tower with 250,000 square feet, a luxury apartment tower with 300 rental apartments, and two 5-star hotel towers totalling 500 rooms with one of the towers also including 150 for-sale condos on top.

http://cll.bizjournals.com/story_ima...00-0.jpg?rev=2

Ground breaking is set for Spring 2008 on the initital 15 acre phase I.

I read that article, its going to look very kewl...

in some REALLY good news,

The HBJ reports today that the second tower of the Mosaic broke ground this week officially after funding was secured. The first tower has seen excellent sales (218 units have SOLD).

Other tidbits from the article,

The base structure that connects the 2 towers will contain a Yapa Prepared Food Store, Unity Bank, a Dry Cleaners, and a 4,000 square foot restaurant/bar. Tower II will contain a sushi bar, a day spa, and a postal store. Great to see well planned ground floor retail in that area!

http://cll.bizjournals.com/story_ima...00-0.jpg?rev=2

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Glad to hear this!

Oh, and the Turnberry Tower should be completed by Dec. 2009:

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houst...ml?jst=b_ln_hl

A rendering is out for the Museum Place Apartments currently under construction on the 5300 block of Fannin. 219 apartments in an 8 story structure will rise on the light rail line. FINALLY.

http://www.graycopartners.com/ima/to...useumplace.jpg

Those look pretty damn nice, and in a nice location along the Red Line. How many residential units are going up in the Museum District?

Is this thing going to have ground floor retail?

driving by the Mosaic this morning.........looks great, can't wait for that to be up and running.
on my way back to my place in midtown, i was driving down Binz. Anyone have any info on the sign at Binz and La Branch. The pic looks to be 20+ stories.

That is good news. There is a picture of the rendering on Turnberrys website...


Turnberry Tower Houston

Nope but with that said, this looks a lot better than I thought. I thought we would get the same stucco midrises that we see all over the city like Ventana or something. This project and the Belle Meade(sp?) at River Oaks on Westhimer, the same company, are nice projects.

Lots of new stuff at Rice is getting ready to come out of the ground besides the Collaborative Research Center.

McMurtry College will be the 10th and largest of Rice's undergrdaute colleges. It is scheduled to open in 2010 with around 380 students.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...egeModelv1.jpg

Duncan College will be the 11th residential college and it too will open in 2010 with 324 beds. This will be a gold-certified LEED project. Kudos to Rice!
http://www.media.rice.edu/images/med...College_lg.jpg

Rice is also about to begin construction on the Shakespeare Graduate House Apartments. This 4 story building located on the corner of Morningside @ Shakespeare will house 238 graduate students.