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Old Posted Sep 28, 2007, 3:34 PM
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I just read the story online. Have to see...

Anyhow here is another rendering of Main Place. It looks very nice. Taken from http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/...c=11978&st=450



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Now that is just a lovely building. I love the "skin" of it. So smooth, so sleek.
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Main Place is fucking sweet. That is an awesome shot of downtown too. Good angle.
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reminds me of the W hotel in Dallas. Unbelievable pic........can't wait to see this on the skyline!!!
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So whatever happened to Ballpark Place?
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Here's a rendering for the 23 floor, 266 feet tall proposal for 1717 Bissonnet.



Will have street level retail including a space for a restaurant. 5 live/work townhomes on streel level as well. A 5 story attached garage with space for 467 cars. The 6th level will house an amenity deck with pool/spa features. The top 17 floors will house either 226 rental apartments or 187 for sale condos. Exterior will be red brick with cast stone details (per EDI Architecture).
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Old Posted Oct 1, 2007, 12:26 AM
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Now, the $64,000 question is, what will the backside of the building look like? Will it be a solid brick wall with little to no windows?
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Here's a rendering for the 23 floor, 266 feet tall proposal for 1717 Bissonnet.



Will have street level retail including a space for a restaurant. 5 live/work townhomes on streel level as well. A 5 story attached garage with space for 467 cars. The 6th level will house an amenity deck with pool/spa features. The top 17 floors will house either 226 rental apartments or 187 for sale condos. Exterior will be red brick with cast stone details (per EDI Architecture).
This is a very nice building =)
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Wow. Main Place looks HOT.

The Bissonnet looks great. And yeah, I'm crossing my fingers that the backside isn't a boring wall w/ windows.
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Old Posted Oct 1, 2007, 2:02 PM
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This is a very nice building =)
That is really nice looking building. Good to see they incorporated ground retail into it as well...

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i think this is hte building that the local residents are fighting, and the mayor just joined their side. If I recall, the mayor was quoted as saying he is going to do all possible (legaly) to stop this from being built
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i would like to see 1717 built...just somewhere else.
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i think this is hte building that the local residents are fighting, and the mayor just joined their side. If I recall, the mayor was quoted as saying he is going to do all possible (legaly) to stop this from being built
Why would they be fighting it?
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i think the chronicle article said the residents said it would block their own views......not sure of what though!
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i think this is hte building that the local residents are fighting, and the mayor just joined their side. If I recall, the mayor was quoted as saying he is going to do all possible (legaly) to stop this from being built
Sounds like we need another mayor...
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i think the chronicle article said the residents said it would block their own views......not sure of what though!
I take what the comical says with a grain of salt. Have you seen some of what passes for journalism there lately?
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the barnacle's website had britney losing her kids as more prominent story than the monks in burma. grain of salt indeed.
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I just read the Comical's report on this tower and the fuss it's making. Looks like the mayer, some attorney, and alot of money are teaming up against the developer.

I'm curious. Where does city council stand on this issue?
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Well the worlds tallest building is one step closer to finding it's way to Houston. The financial guru Zaya Younan has been in business since 2002 and owns $1.5 billion dollars in office buildings. He owns many in Texas including the Thanksgiving Tower in Dallas. Now he says that he has ruled out Los Angeles for a place to put it and is currently looking for a location for his office, hotel, condos, school, and museum combo supertall in Houston and Chicago.

The article was published in the Chicago Sun-Times last week.
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Well the worlds tallest building is one step closer to finding it's way to Houston. The financial guru Zaya Younan has been in business since 2002 and owns $1.5 billion dollars in office buildings. He owns many in Texas including the Thanksgiving Tower in Dallas. Now he says that he has ruled out Los Angeles for a place to put it and is currently looking for a location for his office, hotel, condos, school, and museum combo supertall in Houston and Chicago.

The article was published in the Chicago Sun-Times last week.
this would be great..........we certainly need to take back the title of largest building west of the mississippi............but the country let alone the world would be great!!!

anyone have any news/info regarding the leveling of some buildings on studemont just south of I10 and north of Washington??
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