[KevinFromTexas]

I was never even a fan of Trammel Crow's original proposal. I was wishing for Stratus. The building designs were amazing. Good height, too, with a 650 footer with 54 floors. Plus a downtown HEB grocery store. And the designs were nice and modern. It's too bad the Museum Tower didn't happen. It would have been a nice complement with Stratus's design, and I think they were having their architect do the central library back then. Plus the buildings had green roofs.

Still, I'm not exactly disappointed with what we'll get. I just hope we actually get it. I mean, there will be 3 new 400 foot towers on a property that for the last 60 years has been used to treat the city's water in downtown. I just wish the buildings were a little taller. They should have been a good 100 feet taller at least with maybe one on the north side of the development being taller as austex said.

By the way, one tid bit. When the woman at Gensler sent me these heights. She said that Block 1 (the bigger east residential tower) is "currently" planned as a 412 foot building. I sort of took it as a hint that the building might be taller eventually. I don't know if I'm just reading into it, but she didn't word it that way for the other towers. So who knows. The Block 1 tower is the taller of the two residential towers (only by 2 feet), but it has 682K square feet. About 250K more than the Block 185 tower. And in the renderings that building doesn't seem all that much larger than Block 185.