HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 144

Complex01 · #**2861** Posted **Dec 8, 2010, 5:27 AM**

A couple of pics from the weekend. Not the best but still nice. Main Place is just a beautiful buildings. Aww sure do miss my Houston. I even wrote a blog posting about it - Houston My Houston...

CALMSP · #**2862** Posted **Dec 9, 2010, 4:38 AM**

did Brookfield Properties cut off lighting up the top of Continental Center 1? Now all I see is the 3 levels that the building has lit up with a line of white lights.

ktk819 · #**2863** Posted **Dec 9, 2010, 4:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by CALMSP

did Brookfield Properties cut off lighting up the top of Continental Center 1? Now all I see is the 3 levels that the building has lit up with a line of white lights.

I've noticed the same thing.

photoLith · #**2864** Posted **Dec 22, 2010, 3:00 PM**

Picture I took while driving out to Austin last Wednesday.

Complex01 · #**2865** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 7:18 PM**

Ooo fancy pic.

annie himself · #**2866** Posted **Dec 26, 2010, 9:50 PM**

May I ask where you took that from?

weatherguru18 · #**2867** Posted **Dec 27, 2010, 6:45 AM**

38-story tower planned for BLVD. Place once again scrapped?

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/p...ace-never.html

photoLith · #**2868** Posted **Dec 27, 2010, 4:08 PM**

I took that picture from the off ramp into downtown from 59 south. It's the ramp that takes you right to minute made park

weatherguru18 · #**2869** Posted **Dec 27, 2010, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by weatherguru18

38-story tower planned for BLVD. Place once again scrapped?

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/p...ace-never.html

This is just a review of this past year's story. No news here. Sorry.

photoLith · #**2870** Posted **Dec 28, 2010, 5:51 PM**

Photos I took on Sunday evening.

Im not digging the parking garage they made for Hess, wish they could have at least made it look decent, like clad it in glass or something. But oh well, just another bland boring street ruining parking garage. But at least we got a nice tower from it I guess.

MainPlace is damn good looking though, its actually my favorite tower downtown now, you just look at it and you know it means business.

CALMSP · #**2871** Posted **Dec 29, 2010, 3:40 AM**

I really wish we'd see some more work around Minute Maid Park. Its hard to believe that, unlike all the other cities in teh country, where downtown baseball stadiums were built, Houston is the only place that has yet to develop around the stadium. I really wish that 30 story residential place would have been built overlooking left field!!

photoLith · #**2872** Posted **Dec 29, 2010, 4:00 AM**

^
Hell, theres an abandoned hotel that has just been rotting since like the 80s and its right across the street from MMP. Its pretty pathetic to say the least, who knows, maybe it will change when the light rail goes right by there in the not too distant future.

JoninATX · #**2873** Posted **Dec 29, 2010, 4:12 AM**

agreed the City needs to focus on where density needs to be.

johnme · #**2874** Posted **Dec 29, 2010, 7:37 AM**

I took these photos throughout December; it is a shame that most of these lights will be off by New Years Day.

JoninATX · #**2875** Posted **Dec 29, 2010, 8:40 AM**

Nice pixs..

weatherguru18 · #**2876** Posted **Dec 29, 2010, 8:46 PM**

I love the lighting on the Continental and surrounding buildings. I wish our skyline resembled Dallas' at night or Miami or Chicago. Houston's skyline: Beautiful in the daytime, dark and unwelcoming at night.

TexasPlaya · #**2877** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 7:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by CALMSP

I really wish we'd see some more work around Minute Maid Park. Its hard to believe that, unlike all the other cities in teh country, where downtown baseball stadiums were built, Houston is the only place that has yet to develop around the stadium. I really wish that 30 story residential place would have been built overlooking left field!!

I agree, unfortunately and fortunately, Houston has slowly been converting and building new buildings downtown ever since the rape and pillage of downtown history to make way for surface lots from 1970-1990.

TexasPlaya · #**2878** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 7:21 AM**

The new Houston Ballet Building in Downtown progression from Oct 2010-present by Barracuda:

OCT

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???Windowless east side??? Bwah?

Present

Overall, a very nice addition.

TexasPlaya · #**2879** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 7:26 AM**

More updates....

Looks like Rice Village is getting a significant boast.

Rice Village: Hanover Plans Smaller Development in Place of Sonoma Screwup:
http://swamplot.com/a-plaza-view-for...up/2010-12-29/

"Hanover’s project, called Plaza View, is scheduled to include 385 “high-end” apartments, 14,000 sq. ft. of retail or restaurant space, and a multi-level parking garage, all in what its designers label a pedestrian-friendly design. What’s that plaza we’ll be viewing? An almost-17,000-sq.-ft. public space along Morningside, with a “water feature, grass lawn, large trees, and restaurant dining spaces.” According to Hanover executive veep John Garibaldi, 55,000 sq. ft. of retail space, 34,000 sq. ft. of office space, and an 8,000-sq.-ft. grocery store were cut from the earlier Sonoma plans....Along Kelvin St., Hanover’s buildings will reach 6 stories tall; 5 stories along Morningside and Dunstan."

"The City of Houston has reviewed and confirmed that the Hanover proposed development conforms to the existing Development Agreement issued for the closing of Bolsover for the Sonoma Project. . . ."

According to source on HAIF, groundbreaking July 2011.

ChiPsy · #**2880** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 1:52 PM**

Superb materials on that Houston Ballet building -- I especially like how they broke up the rigid rectilinearity of the skywalk with gently curving, contrasting surfaces.

(Contrasted with, say, these images: http://www.google.com/images?q=skywa...iw=998&bih=593)

I agree about the blank wall, but otherwise it looks great, much better than the renderings suggested.