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Dariusb

Jun 24, 2019 4:58 AM

Hope it happens.

Urbannizer

Jun 25, 2019 9:23 PM

Greystar Heights: The Heights

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f503e28c201cc0
hindesky

Broadstone Summer St: The Heights

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...66111401_b.jpg
Untitled by HoustonEado, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a831057c_b.jpg
Untitled by HoustonEado, on Flickr

The Sophie: Memorial Park

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...8b9427d03f5b8b
hindesky

The Byrdie: Memorial Park

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...6373ed7bac89ea
hindesky

Alta 6400 Washington: Memorial Park

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...5cb1bb825851fe
hindesky

Urbannizer

Jun 25, 2019 9:43 PM

Holocaust Museum Reopening After $34 Million Expansion

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The Houston Holocaust Museum is reopening Saturday at nearly double its previous size, following a $34 million expansion. The new building is almost 57,000 square feet, making it the fourth largest Holocaust museum in the country. Alongside an expanded facility, it has also expanded its mission.

Kelly Zúñiga, CEO of the Holocaust Museum Houston, told Houston Matters that while the Holocaust gallery is still a main part of the museum, they have also expanded their galleries to include a larger discussion of human rights and genocides throughout recent history.

http://res.cloudinary.com/culturemap...3_original.jpg

Urbannizer

Jun 26, 2019 12:55 AM

Construction begins on Multifamily Residential Property in The Woodlands Town Center

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THE WOODLANDS, TX – The Howard Hughes Corporation® (NYSE:HHC) began construction today on a new, 179,338-square-foot luxury multifamily project, situated on 1.67 acres at the southeast intersection of Six Pines Drive and Timberloch Place in The Woodlands®. The project is adjacent to The Millennium Six Pines and The Millennium Waterway, both communities in the Howard Hughes portfolio.

This seven-story, multifamily building will provide the perfect urban living setting, located in The Woodlands Town Center® near The Woodlands Waterway®. The project will be comprised of 163 residences and offers one-, two- and three-bedroom plans as well as townhomes with direct street access. The average unit size is 1,100 square feet. Features in the new development include quartz countertops, simulated wood flooring, stainless appliances, walk-in closets, nine-foot-plus ceilings and washer and dryers in every home. All units will highlight home automation technology, which allows the tenant to control the door lock, thermostat and lights via smartphone or verbally through Amazon’s voice-controlled, Alexa.

This community is projected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2020. The project team consists of Shepley Bulfinch as the architect, and Hoar Construction as the construction manager.

https://rebusinessonline.com/wp-cont...-Woodlands.jpg

Urbannizer

Jun 26, 2019 6:41 AM

La Colombe d'Or Residences: Montrose

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...55f1d01890c101
hindesky

Broadstone Museum District: Museum District

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...281f045081d743
hindesky

The Driscoll: River Oaks

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...bb223c6f48d026

Novel River Oaks: River Oaks

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...1ae4c5837b2c56
ekdrm2d1

River Oaks Medical: River Oaks

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...04502a07855959
ekdrm2d1

The Revere at River Oaks: River Oaks

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...7b65874803f527
hindesky

Urbannizer

Jun 26, 2019 9:37 PM

Laneways Midtown

New renderings of phase II are beginning to surface from Caydon's social media page.

https://scontent.fftw1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...16&oe=5D8F10D5

https://instagram.fftw1-1.fna.fbcdn.....fna.fbcdn.net

The Best Forumer

Jun 27, 2019 3:13 PM

looks good!

Urbannizer

Jun 27, 2019 4:40 PM

$125M UTHealth psychiatric hospital breaks ground near Texas Medical Center

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The UTHealth Continuum of Care Campus for Behavioral Health — a joint project between the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission — broke ground near the Texas Medical Center on June 26.

The new facility is at 5601 W. Leland Anderson St., adjacent to the UTHealth Harris County Psychiatric Center. Both facilities will be managed and staffed by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.

The $125 million project is expected to be complete in early 2022. It's the first public mental health hospital built in Houston in more than 30 years, and the combined campus is expected to create the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country, according to a press release.

https://cdn.hpm.io/wp-content/upload...1-1200x742.jpg

Houston Airport System to break ground on Spaceport project

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Phase 1 of the Houston Spaceport is slated to break ground on June 28.

The Houston Airport System will celebrate the groundbreaking of phase 1 — an $18.8 million project — with a ceremony at Ellington Airport at 13150 Space Center Blvd. The scope of the project’s first phase includes streets, water, wastewater, electrical power and distribution, fiber optics and communications facilities, according to a June 26 media advisory from HAS. The first phase will also include the construction of 53,000 square feet of lab and office space, according to the HAS website. Some 154 acres of land are set aside for phase 1.

Texas Sterling-Banicki JV LLC, a joint venture, is developing the infrastructure for the spaceport, according to a building permit filed with the city of Houston and previous Houston Business Journal reporting. JV partners Houston-based Texas Sterling Construction Co. and Phoenix-based Banicki Construction are both subsidiaries of The Woodlands-based Sterling Construction Company Inc. (Nasdaq: STRL). More than $13.1 million of the $18.8 million will cover TSB’s preconstruction and design services as well as construction services for the infrastructure work.

The first company to sign on as a spaceport tenant — Houston-based Intuitive Machines — is already underway on lunar lander and drone technology. On May 31, Intuitive Machines received a $77.2 million contract from NASA to develop, launch and land its Nova-C spacecraft on the lunar surface. The company is on track to be the first private U.S. firm to land a spacecraft on the moon during a planned 2021 mission.

https://www.virtualbx.com/wp-content...an-800x391.png

clubtokyo

Jun 27, 2019 11:44 PM

Great news on mental health facility!

Urbannizer

Jun 28, 2019 12:24 AM

Developers unveil plans for former post office in downtown Houston

Can we say, underwhelming?

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Developers at Houston-based Lovett Commercial have unveiled plans for how they plan to transform the former Barbara Jordan Post Office into a 550,000-square-foot multiuse development that's intended to become the downtown Houston area’s newest destination location.

During a June 27 groundbreaking ceremony, Kirby Liu, Lovett's director of development, said the finished renovations will affect nearly every aspect of the existing structure, which has stood largely vacant since Lovett purchased the property in 2015 except for hosting several Day for Night festivals.

Lovett plans to deliver the renovated building, which will be known as Post Houston, next summer.

Lovett’s plan for the property involves creating three distinct “districts” within the first floor of the building, which will be centered around cultural experiences, food and a coworking space.

Kirby Liu said the dining district in particular will be modeled on a Tokyo night market, where visitors will have a variety of food options to choose from before they move onto other areas in the building.

To offset those areas, the plan calls for three atriums to be cut through the building’s second floor and roof. Three distinct staircases will run through the atriums, which Kirby Liu said will aim to promote interactions among visitors as they move between floors.

“Yes, the goal is to provide access to each floor. But the real goal is to have these staircases act as social locations where people can meet as they move around,” Kirby Liu said.

The building’s roof will feature a nearly six-acre park with views of the downtown skyline, along with space for restaurants and vendors. The atriums will be covered by new-to-Houston ETFE roof systems, which are polymer-based structures that allow sunlight to come through.

The building’s second floor will be reserved for office space, Kirby Liu said.

In all, Post Houston will offer 130,000 square feet of office space, 60,000 square feet for retail, a 45,000-square-foot market hall and 20,000 feet of coworking space.

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...3e0dcd38d7a6c2

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...ddf65a9fd200b5

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...c71805330cf73a

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f2b80696beb8dc

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...d70b1d487a35ad

kingkirbythe....

Jun 28, 2019 2:48 AM

Yikes. If that’s it, don’t bother .

The Best Forumer

Jun 28, 2019 3:49 PM

meh... looks like some crap from the 60's. ugh.

shakman

Jun 28, 2019 5:14 PM

If this gets built, I will say what a wasted opportunity.

nmed	Jun 28, 2019 5:28 PM

Houstonians will not use this kind of facility even if there were retailers to fill it. A really badly thought out concept, a 60's enclosed mall.

DBGHouston

Jun 28, 2019 6:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nmed (Post 8618921)

Houstonians will not use this kind of facility even if there were retailers to fill it. A really badly thought out concept, a 60's enclosed mall.

Mercado del Sol redux, unless they put highrises on all of those surface lots. Isn't there some catch with repurposing this building that it can't be torn down because of the way it was originally financed (Federally)? Yes it is close to the new and upcoming residential towers downtown, but it's not that close...would anybody in their right mind ever consider walking to the old post office from their office on Louisiana or Smith street? Nope.

JManc

Jun 28, 2019 6:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Best Forumer (Post 8618792)

meh... looks like some crap from the 60's. ugh.

That's because it is.

shakman

Jun 28, 2019 8:05 PM

Is this the same concept as the Bayou Center?

DBGHouston

Jun 28, 2019 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shakman (Post 8619092)

Is this the same concept as the Bayou Center?

This is just under 1/2 a mile to the north of Bayou Place. It is across the Bayou beyond the aquarium, between the Amtrak station and Downtown UH (accessible to neither), at the now shuttered downtown Post Office. It is "theoretically" accessible by foot from downtown but...

I think there is a lot of grumbling about this on this site and HAIF because the potential of this site is amazing. But this ain't it. It actually will compete with downtown for bodies and unless they put the Battleship Texas, the London Eye, or a Saturn Five rocket on the roof, as suggested on another forum :) it won't work. Right now "going downtown" is actually -- can this word ever be uttered by a Houstonian with a straight face -- cool. People at restaurants, bars, people in Astros gear before and after games, people walking dogs, joggers, OMG a tourist!, etc. This is not "going downtown," it's going near downtown. I know the scales are not remotely comparable, but nobody goes to New York to visit Jersey City. If the area had it's own residential population, on the order of a few thousand apartments, it might escape the fate of Mercado del Sol which turned into a ghost mall.

shakman

Jun 29, 2019 8:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBGHouston (Post 8619244)

I know where the Bayou Center and this ...crap... is located. My post is referring to similar concept not location.

427MM

Jul 2, 2019 1:46 AM

Wow. What a disastrous waste of development. Why would anyone surround their development with surface parking unless their goal is to be an undesirable waste of space? Really hope this fails and someone with vision of what urbanity can be comes along to do better.

JManc

Jul 2, 2019 4:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBGHouston (Post 8619244)

It actually will compete with downtown for bodies

No it won't. Downtown is overrun with bums and otherwise dead. People only come downtown for specific reasons; Astros, Rockets, concerts, theater, functions at Discovery Green or a convention. If this thing pans out, it will be one more reason to come downtown.

Urbannizer

Jul 2, 2019 8:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JManc (Post 8621395)

No it won't. Downtown is overrun with bums and otherwise dead. People only come downtown for specific reasons; Astros, Rockets, concerts, theater, functions at Discovery Green or a convention. If this thing pans out, it will be one more reason to come downtown.

You should head Downtown more often, certainly not dead. New food halls, restaurants, hotels, apartments, parks etc has brought in a lot more activity. The reason this will not compete with Downtown for bodies is because it's feels disconnected. No one's going to walk from other parts of Downtown with that sea of surface parking.

There's word of future phases so hopefully will get some residential here.

Urbannizer

Jul 2, 2019 12:11 PM

Wood Partners Announces Groundbreaking of Alta West Alabama in Houston

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HOUSTON, July 1, 2019 (Newswire.com) - Wood Partners, a national leader in multi-family real estate development and acquisition, announced earlier today the groundbreaking of its newest luxury residential community — Alta West Alabama — in Houston, Texas.

Alta West Alabama, once completed, will total 304 units in a mix of 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom floor plans. The open-concept units will feature refined finishes that provide residents with a rejuvenating retreat. The premier apartment homes, with high-end finishes including stainless steel appliances, gas cooktops, quartz countertops, tile backsplashes, and full-size washer and dryer, will provide an A-class living experience that sets Alta West Alabama apart in the market.

Alta West Alabama is expected to open in the third quarter of 2020. It joins a list of 16 properties managed by Wood Partners in Texas, three of which are in Houston with four more, including Alta West Alabama, in development

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...4edf75678fb53f

Waterworks Highline: The Heights

80 to 100 units at Lawrence and West 20th

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...5fc62648cf163b

Co-Op at Summer Street: The Heights

150 apartment units, 50 townhomes @3725 Summer St

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...9f9c6ef3a8807d

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...8a59a367eaca0f

Urbannizer

Jul 2, 2019 3:22 PM

X Houston

370' ft, 35-story multifamily high-rise with office space by X Social Communities and Lamar Johnson Collaborative.
Location: 5501 La Branch, Museum District.

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...a4d6e092457ecf

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...8770cbc011cf53

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...1234dc1fa2bf4f
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/5501...n-TX/14957678/

nmed	Jul 2, 2019 5:20 PM

I'm sorry but where are the planning authorities? Houston X is 35 stories in an area of two story houses and two lane streets. Water? Sewage? Parking? How does this make sense?

JManc

Jul 2, 2019 7:07 PM

^ It's Houston. Since when does that matter? There's no zoning and that is in and around the Museum District so there are presumably other high-rises near by.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbannizer (Post 8621492)

I'm there often enough, my wife works down there. Downtown certainly has improved and I love Finn Hall and the Conservatory but the livelihood still largely depends on major events; games, concert or convention. Otherwise, it's going to be pretty dead. Not uncommon to be there on a Saturday night and it be pretty quiet there if there no games or other events going on.

I disagree about the Post Office. I live in the suburbs and if I go check this place out, I'm more than likely hit up downtown for a drink at Dean's afterwards. Perhaps that's just me but the two can compliment one another.

Urbannizer

Jul 2, 2019 11:04 PM

Main at Holcombe

Texas A&M is expanding its campus in the Med Center. A model has been found which represents future phases of their property.

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...b220c28d88506f

Phase I, 1020 Holcombe, is well underway:

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Texas A&M Health Science Center selected Vaughn as the construction manager-at-risk for the Engineering and Health Building Renovation project in the Texas Medical Center. The existing 282,000 SF, 17-story steel frame office building will be renovated to serve as the education and training facility for Texas A&M’s new Engineering Health program. The program will be the nation’s first comprehensive educational program to fully integrate engineering into all health-related disciplines. The initiative hopes to build upon Texas A&M’s long-standing research and education presence in Houston. The $31 million project will include new gross anatomy labs, simulation labs, lecture halls, MEP infrastructure improvements, and skin improvements. Construction is scheduled to begin in January 2019 and targets a final completion date of July 2020.

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...5378ef25e73b80
hindesky

llamaorama

Jul 2, 2019 11:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nmed (Post 8621803)

I'm sorry but where are the planning authorities? Houston X is 35 stories in an area of two story houses and two lane streets. Water? Sewage? Parking? How does this make sense?

Houston doesn't have traditional land use zoning but that doesn't mean it doesn't have planning or civil engineers.

The Planning Commission will give a formal review and hopefully grant it a variance for the driveways and canopies and the NIMBYs will have a forum to complain about it. It's in a part of the city which has numerous other high rises and is a few blocks from light rail. It assuredly has the infrastructure(wastewater, etc) to handle this tower. The fact it neighbors low rise buildings doesn't mean anything, this is a district in transition to a mixed use high density, high rise corridor that will eventually link the Medical Center and Downtown someday.

JManc

Jul 3, 2019 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbannizer (Post 8622234)

Main at Holcombe

Texas A&M is expanding its campus in the Med Center. A model has been found which represents future phases of their property.

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Phase I, 1020 Holcombe, is well underway:

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That's fantastic news. First that they are going to preserve that old Bank of America building; originally it was going to be demolished and redeveloped into something new and second, A&M is expanding it's presence and filling in the height gap between UTHealth and Texas Children's.

Urbannizer

Jul 3, 2019 7:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbannizer (Post 8617046)

We have seven different FAA cases for this now, the description for every filing mentions four high-rises.

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A group of high-rise buildings with a maximum height of 53 stories. There are 4 high rise towers located on one site. Longitude and latitude have been provided per the attached exhibit.

Quote:

Work Schedule: 12/13/2019 - 11/09/2022

Height figures: 600' and 570' feet.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884593&row=6

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884602&row=7

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884617&row=8

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884614&row=9

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...3884595&row=10

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...3884597&row=11

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...3884615&row=12

Urbannizer

Jul 3, 2019 4:41 PM

Northbank Buffalo Bayou

Residential, office, hotel and retail @55 Waugh. Site work underway.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4790/4...77bd13e3_h.jpg

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f853195ee9f44c
skooljunkie

Urbannizer

Jul 4, 2019 12:12 PM

Wyndham Hotel Resorts; 14-story high-rise planned for Galveston

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Blair Korndorffer, owner of Diamond Development, explained it to the Planning Commission during a May session this way:

“We’re doing the 302 Moody building for Wyndham (Hotels & Resorts), and we have plans still to develop that building into a residential piece. Right now, we’re looking at potentially putting a 14-story residential tower next to it.”

The 302 Moody building Korndorffer referred to is an 11-story, 80,088-square-foot Art Deco building constructed in 1960 that has been vacant for years. It stands at the corner of Moody Avenue and Mechanic Street on the far end of the block across 20th Street from One Moody Plaza.

Kordorffer said he is hoping to restore 302 Moody and construct the 14-story residential tower at the same time. But those future residents will need parking.

https://www.virtualbx.com/wp-content...al-800x521.png

jowens

Jul 4, 2019 4:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JManc (Post 8605914)

^ 1972 called, they want their shitty off the highway hotel design back. Yikes. That looks like the Days Inn downtown...with windows.

.....which use to be the Holiday Inn :D :yuck:

The Best Forumer

Jul 5, 2019 2:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbannizer (Post 8622477)

We have seven different FAA cases for this now, the description for every filing mentions four high-rises.

Height figures: 600' and 570' feet.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884593&row=6

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884602&row=7

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884617&row=8

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...03884614&row=9

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...3884595&row=10

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...3884597&row=11

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...3884615&row=12

very exciting to see such tall towers (if built) in midtown. awesome.

JMKeynes

Jul 5, 2019 2:58 PM

Houston is amazing!

AviationGuy

Jul 6, 2019 5:03 AM

Very good webcam on YouTube is available for Houston (it's about time). Mostly shows downtown but often is pointed toward Uptown and Greenway in the late mornings. Last night, I watched the entire fireworks show on Allen Parkway via this webcam. I've watched several rain events on this cam, too (including lightning). One of the nice features is that you can back up 12 hours. I've seen very few webcams that allow you to do that.

• Video Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldl9whGFtHo

clubtokyo

Jul 7, 2019 5:28 AM

Nice updates!

Urbannizer

Jul 8, 2019 10:09 AM

Westmore Condominiums | 2323 W. Main, Upper Kirby

7-story condo building by Pelican Builders.

https://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph...AmJSgLAA/o.jpg

clubtokyo

Jul 8, 2019 6:21 PM

Simple but nice design

Urbannizer

Jul 8, 2019 7:00 PM

A new development map for Houston:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer...325305198&z=15

llamaorama

Jul 9, 2019 1:06 AM

My only beef with developers in this city is that inside the loop they'll flatten huge tracts of perfectly decent apartment complexes which were affordable and then sit their asses on a ugly field of broken concrete and graffiti'd fences for the next 20 years. Put up renderings of the latest and greatest mixed use project which is obviously vaporware, then cancel, and then 5 years rinse and repeat.

Remember Regent Square? The area along Allen Parkway is so far away from being a corridor of high rises, its more like a graveyard of real estate failures.

Urbannizer

Jul 9, 2019 5:22 AM

Dariusb

Jul 12, 2019 5:33 AM

Nice updates!

clubtokyo

Jul 12, 2019 9:47 PM

Agreed, nice updates!

The Best Forumer

Jul 15, 2019 4:24 PM

as always.... excellent!

Urbannizer

Jul 17, 2019 12:02 AM

Montrose Collective | 888 Westheimer - Montrose

A ~250,000 sq ft creative office building with retail by Radom Capital and Michael Hsu. Construction scheduled to begin 4Q 2019 and commence in 2021.

https://i.imgur.com/WJGJj9D.jpg

The Best Forumer

Jul 17, 2019 4:33 PM

i dont think ive ever been to that restarurant.

clubtokyo

Jul 17, 2019 7:47 PM

Nice updates!

Urbannizer

Jul 23, 2019 11:15 AM

400 Jensen Dr| EaDo

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In early 2020, Marquette will break ground on a 332-unit, mid-rise multi-family development in Houston’s East Downtown (EADO) district. Situated on 3.28 acres at 400 Jensen Drive, the development is located along Houston’s historic Buffalo Bayou, a 53-mile river running east through Houston to Galveston Bay and the Golf of Mexico. The building will feature a dedicated park and green space, with connectivity to over 3 miles of trails, 17 acres of parks, and a nearby kayak launch. The apartments will average 920 SF, including junior, one-, two-, and three-bedroom floor plans with 5,000 SF of retail. Groundbreaking is scheduled for January 2020, and first units are anticipated in the summer of 2021.

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...368f600b5f9286

clubtokyo

Jul 23, 2019 5:48 PM

I like the design.

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