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corvairkeith · #**141** Posted **Mar 11, 2018, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

lolll. y'all are crazy. This is the ugliest/tackiest thing I've EVER seen

I assume you haven't been inside the Fairmont yet.

GoldenBoot · #**142** Posted **Mar 11, 2018, 8:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by corvairkeith

I assume you haven't been inside the Fairmont yet.

I'm still in shock. I cannot believe The Fairmont "okay'd" that crap. Yes, they are just managing the property...but, thery do have something to say about the interior décor. It is their name on the marquee.

Urbannizer · #**143** Posted **May 11, 2018, 6:05 PM**

Homewood Suites by Darius Fontenette, on Flickr

The ATX · #**144** Posted **May 12, 2018, 12:30 AM**

Progress on this project has slowed to crawl over the past few months. Maybe it just takes a while to craft something so ugly.

the Genral · #**145** Posted **May 12, 2018, 12:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Progress on this project has slowed to crawl over the past few months. Maybe it just takes a while to craft something so ugly.

But I do like the EVH vibe. That horrific parking podium is what make this look...half bad. Parking podiums just flat out suck.

The ATX · #**146** Posted **May 12, 2018, 1:55 AM**

I never thought I'd ever say this, but Millennium Rainey is only the second worse project to ever happen in the Rainey St. District.

H2O · #**147** Posted **May 12, 2018, 2:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Homewood Suites by Darius Fontenette, on Flickr

I like how Hotel Van Zandt and Hotel Van Halen have a similar color scheme to 70 Rainey.

We vs us · #**148** Posted **May 12, 2018, 2:28 PM**

That hotel will never not be known as Hotel Van Halen in my mind. Excellent nomenclature.

the Genral · #**149** Posted **May 12, 2018, 10:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by We vs us

That hotel will never not be known as Hotel Van Halen in my mind. Excellent nomenclature.

I am so word deficient. I had to look up nomenclature. Good use of the word We vs us. I bet you don't get to use it in a sentence often. This forum is both entertaining and educational

We vs us · #**150** Posted **May 12, 2018, 11:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by the Genral

I am so word deficient. I had to look up nomenclature. Good use of the word We vs us. I bet you don't get to use it in a sentence often. This forum is both entertaining and educational

Ha! My long discarded English major occasionally pokes its head up and gives a bark to let me know I still can use $.50 words. Thanks for letting me inflict them on you

The ATX · #**151** Posted **Jul 5, 2018, 3:19 AM**

This hot mess has a website now with reservations being accepted for December 1st. I like how they show no photos or renderings. They have a new name now. They didn't keep Rainey or East Ave in the name.

The progress on this one is unusually slow even though there are a lot of workers on site every day.

http://homewoodsuites3.hilton.com/en...OHW/index.html

We vs us · #**152** Posted **Jul 5, 2018, 2:10 PM**

Van Halen Hotel really doesn't give a shit about websites, or high quality images, or your personal naming preferences. Van Halen Hotel wants to rock.

EDIT:

https://youtu.be/5EqWN4fT79s

MIGHT AS WELL JUMP (jump!)

Geckos_Rule · #**153** Posted **Jul 5, 2018, 2:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

This hot mess has a website now with reservations being accepted for December 1st. I like how they show no photos or renderings. They have a new name now. They didn't keep Rainey or East Ave in the name.

The progress on this one is unusually slow even though there are a lot of workers on site every day.

http://homewoodsuites3.hilton.com/en...OHW/index.html

I agree on the speed of construction. It's almost the opposite of 70 rainey. It shot up within a few months, but it feels like it's been 2 months since we've seen any visible changes with it.

corvairkeith · #**154** Posted **Jul 5, 2018, 11:54 PM**

They must be using the same workers that have been repainting the Hilton for over a year now and are just now half way done.

the Genral · #**155** Posted **Jul 5, 2018, 11:54 PM**

Come on guys!! Its bold, its imaginative, its unique, its modern, its exciting, its eye candy, its...oh heck...who am I kidding???

_Matt · #**156** Posted **Jul 6, 2018, 10:33 PM**

I really like it! If nothing else, it's a conversation starter when you're stuck in traffic on the interstate.

LoneStarMike · #**157** Posted **Jul 8, 2018, 4:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by We vs us

Van Halen Hotel really doesn't give a shit about websites, or high quality images, or your personal naming preferences. Van Halen Hotel wants to rock.

It's Van Halen Suites

the Genral · #**158** Posted **Jul 8, 2018, 10:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

It's Van Halen Suites

Well done sir!!!! I'd stay there for sure

The ATX · #**159** Posted **Aug 23, 2018, 6:54 AM**

Two years late, but we finally have renderings - color elevations really.

And my favorite...

http://eastavenue.com/portfolio/home...-austin-texas/

Sigaven · #**160** Posted **Aug 23, 2018, 2:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Two years late, but we finally have renderings - color elevations really.

And my favorite...

http://eastavenue.com/portfolio/home...-austin-texas/

I hope they get some artists to paint some really big cool murals on those huge blank walls on the north and south sides. The one on Hotel Indigo could be a good precedent. I think something like that would slightly redeem this building for me. Hell, put two big LED screens on those walls ala Times Square and play ads and such for drivers on I-35 - would be a heck of a lot more interesting than seeing a big blank wall driving into DT.