HOUSTON | 609 Main at Texas | 752 FT / 229 M | 49 FLOORS - Page 6

photoLith · #**101** Posted **Oct 25, 2013, 11:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbanactivist

As excited as I am about the new tower, it's a real shame to see the Sterling building go. The astrodome is part of the same cycle.... a building shuts down, and it sits vacant so long that people would rather knock it down than try to rehab it. Totally lazy IMO. Here's a picture of it from the 1930s, via houstondeco.org

Horrible horrible loss, so stupid, so lazy. Houston in 30 years wont have hardly a single historic building left at the rate of destruction were seeing now. Just in the past 2 years I can think of 10 fairly significant historic buildings downtown being plowed down. So dumb when theres a thousand vacant parking lots, makes no sense to me.

photoLith · #**102** Posted **Oct 25, 2013, 11:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by cloud713

That building is definitely going down. It's called the Texas Tower, and it's not much to look at so it won't be missed. I drove by it today and the entrance is fenced off and boarded up with no trespassing signs. I didn't realize it was empty. I guess they're getting ready to clear it out for the new tower.

That fence has been there ever since I can remember. And it will be missed, the bottom was destroyed with some brutalistic crap and the top ornamentation was taken off. It could easily be restored, Hines has the money and they could have built this glass tower around it.

jtown,man · #**103** Posted **Oct 26, 2013, 1:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by photoLith

Horrible horrible loss, so stupid, so lazy. Houston in 30 years wont have hardly a single historic building left at the rate of destruction were seeing now. Just in the past 2 years I can think of 10 fairly significant historic buildings downtown being plowed down. So dumb when theres a thousand vacant parking lots, makes no sense to me.

I don't think redevelopment is taken by a measure of being lazy or not. It is done by dollars and cents. It probably is not cost effective to redevelop a large building like that compared to its higher use. Which is basically economics, scarce resources being used for their highest use, which is a new building in this instance.

Urbannizer · #**104** Posted **Nov 2, 2013, 6:04 AM**

New fence around site, demo work has begun.

By Nate99

By BaderJF

Urbannizer · #**105** Posted **Nov 13, 2013, 8:42 PM**

The work going on is more apparent now. Deconstruction elevator going up. By rechlin.

TowerSpotter · #**106** Posted **Nov 22, 2013, 12:15 AM**

609 Main at Texas

http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-rea...ile-john-mooz/

toxteth o'grady · #**107** Posted **Nov 26, 2013, 3:54 AM**

That building is going to be quite bulky.

shakman · #**108** Posted **Nov 27, 2013, 2:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady

That building is going to be quite bulky.

Texas sized bulky. I believe the term is "Everything is big in Texas"

Will this development have a webcam during construction?

glowrock · #**109** Posted **Dec 1, 2013, 10:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by shakman

Texas sized bulky. I believe the term is "Everything is big in Texas"

Will this development have a webcam during construction?

If there isn't one I could always set one up out of one the windows from my new apartment. Perfect view of the area!

Aaron (Glowrock)

shakman · #**110** Posted **Dec 2, 2013, 5:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by glowrock

If there isn't one I could always set one up out of one the windows from my new apartment. Perfect view of the area!

Aaron (Glowrock)

Please do so.

Wattleigh · #**111** Posted **Dec 13, 2013, 9:22 AM**

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2013/12/developer-to-ramp-up-tenant-amenities-in-new-downtown-tower

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Developer to ramp up tenant amenities in new downtown tower
Posted on December 12, 2013 | By Nancy Sarnoff

This architectural model represents 609 Main at Texas, a downtown office tower scheduled to break ground in March.

An executive at Hines, which recently developed 811 Main, also known as BG Group Place, said the company took a similar amenity package but brought it up several notches.

“We’ve taken this building and reacted to what tenants are looking for,” project manager Philip Croker said at the company’s offices at 811 Main.

For the new building, that means a much larger gym, a 35,000-square-foot green roof with more places to sit and more trees to provide shade, and three times as much retail space than what’s in 811 Main. The lobby, too, will be designed to encourage tenants to interact or work on laptops, with more seating areas.

Croker said there’s been interest by tenants to lease the space, but this time of year is usually slow. The company is seeking rents in the mid-$30 per square foot per year range.

A crane is set to go up in about a week to start dismantling the Texas Tower, an empty building that’s being removed on the site.