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Old Posted Nov 6, 2011, 11:35 PM
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New Hope Housing at Rittenhouse (in North Houston at the corner of Stuebner Airline Road and Rittenhouse Road) will be the company’s seventh single room occupancy housing community. The project recently received an allocation of 2011 Low Income Housing Tax Credits through the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. This will be New Hope’s fourth tax credit development financed through a public-private partnership. Ernesto Maldonado, who also designed the firm’s Brays Crossing property, will design the 160-unit Rittenhouse project. The $11M property will be LEED certified
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Cadence McShane was awarded two new industrial buildings in the Liberty Northwest Business Park. The firm will construct Building 3 (an 84k SF distribution facility with 3,498 SF of office space) and Building 4 (a 126k SF property with 2,462 SF of office). The buildings were designed by Seeberger Architecture and will be LEED certified. Look for completion of the two buildings in January 2012.
Source: http://www.bisnow.com/houston_commer...ry.php?p=18742
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Old Posted Nov 7, 2011, 11:16 PM
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Old Posted Nov 8, 2011, 12:28 AM
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^ Such beautiful infill. I'm just completely wowed by 1:28-1:50 & 4:50-4:54. Those were some amazing shots!
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Old Posted Nov 8, 2011, 1:09 AM
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Growth appears to be accelerating in Texas, which can only be a good thing for migration magnets such as Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. http://www.newgeography.com/content/...rning-normalcy
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Simply amazing. It would be awesome if this was more central, but the whole campus among the tall pine trees is breathtaking (at least in video). The centerpiece is awesome and is really a breath of architectural fresh air.
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This thing is like 5 min. from my house and to see the dozen or more cranes sticking up over the trees is the next best thing to an orgasm. Too bad none of it will be seen from the freeway upon completion.
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Trader Joe's opening in The Woodlands:

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/...the-woodlands/
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Old Posted Nov 8, 2011, 8:46 PM
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Skanska USA Commercial Development said today it will start construction “immediately” on a new office building in the Galleria area.

The 20-story tower, which has been in the planning stages for almost two years, at least, will go up on 2.3 acres at the site of the old Tony’s Ballroom near the Water Wall.

The company said the 302,000-square-foot project would be “self-financed.” It did not say it had a tenant in hand for the space.

“We have the highest confidence in the future of Houston’s economy. Uptown Houston is one of the largest business districts in the United States and headquarters to top corporations around the world
http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/...near-galleria/
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Old Posted Nov 16, 2011, 12:09 PM
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MD Anderson to break ground on new research building.

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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center .. will break ground on the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Building for Personalized Cancer Care on Nov. 16, making way for the new 12-story building.

Funds for the building were contributed by the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, which gave MD Anderson a $150 million transformational grant in 2011 to accelerate the pace of personalized cancer therapies and pancreatic research.

From this grant, $100 million will be used to build the Zayed Building for Personalized Cancer Care next to the Texas Medical Center hospital, closely linking research to the clinics. MD Anderson will match those funds.
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2011, 6:59 AM
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Downtown Rooftop LED Lights

Everyday this week I've noticed a new building downtown is lighting up with LED lights at the top. Have you guys seen this? Are they going to do every building this way?
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2011, 9:27 AM
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Everyday this week I've noticed a new building downtown is lighting up with LED lights at the top. Have you guys seen this? Are they going to do every building this way?
Noticed this too. Hopefully it's just a few with LED's and the others get lit up another way. For example...the Gulf Building and the Continental Airlines Building. But so far, looks great!
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2011, 5:06 PM
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Everyday this week I've noticed a new building downtown is lighting up with LED lights at the top. Have you guys seen this? Are they going to do every building this way?
They do this around this time of the year, every year. They're getting ready for their Christmas/New Years lighting, from November to February is when Downtown is the brightest and from March till October, its pretty much more dimmed down.
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2011, 5:08 PM
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Buffalo Pointe is based on the extension of the light rail and the extension of Buffalo Speedway into the property. Embrey’s project will sit at Buffalo Speedway at West Bellfort, just south of the Medical Center.
Source: http://www.bisnow.com/houston_commer...ry.php?p=19223
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2011, 5:52 PM
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They do this around this time of the year, every year. They're getting ready for their Christmas/New Years lighting, from November to February is when Downtown is the brightest and from March till October, its pretty much more dimmed down.
I have lived by downtown for 5 years and I have never noticed lights on these buildings. However, I do know some buildings light up around this time of year but these look new. I could be wrong.
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2011, 7:19 PM
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the lights on Wells Fargo are new. The lights before were white bulbs during the holidays like most of the buildings around town.
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2011, 2:20 AM
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New slideshow (44 pages) on Downtown Houston's proposed Shopping & Entertainment District: http://downtownhouston.org/site_medi...-HDMD_Post.pdf
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the lights on Wells Fargo are new. The lights before were white bulbs during the holidays like most of the buildings around town.
Last year they were red, blue, green, white, and purple, but most of the time red, blue, or white. It's seasonal, they do it only 4 months of the year and then they dim down until the holiday season/winter season again.
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there was a neon light setup around the top of Wells Fargo from 1983 at least until 2001 when Tropical Storm Allison did some damage, or the neon could have been an Ike casualty. My memory is fuzzy.

Both Wells Fargo and Enron 1 had year-round white neon at the top.


Now what Wells Fargo has is a variation of a lighting fixture called a Versatube. It's an RGB LED tube, about the same size as a flourescent bulb. There are two rows of these tubes. If anyone has ever counted the number of window panes there are in a floor on WF, that's about how many tubes there are up there

They can make any color that can be made with additive color mixing (mixing red, green, and blue)

It looks pretty mundane considering what the fixtures are capable of... lol


(I'm a concert lighting guy... i notice these sorts of things)
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Old Posted Nov 27, 2011, 6:41 AM
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Everyday this week I've noticed a new building downtown is lighting up with LED lights at the top. Have you guys seen this? Are they going to do every building this way?
They've always had those lights on around the holidays it just looks different now because they switched from dull-yellowish incandescent bulbs to cool white energy efficient LED's.

Wells Fargo has LED too, but it can change colors for different holidays & events. In that pic it almost looks purplish.
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Old Posted Nov 30, 2011, 2:56 AM
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This is a big break for Houston Tx. Great views!
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Old Posted Nov 30, 2011, 7:36 PM
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Those lit buildings look like they are of the Allen Center. Is that complex of buildings managed by one company and I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
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