I drove down Loop 610 West yesterday around 9:30 a.m. and the ceiling was so low that you could only see about the first 20 floors of Williams Tower. It was really strange looking.
Discovery Tower, going up across McKinney St. from Discovery Green Downtown, has its first tenant — and it’ll be taking the whole building.
Beginning in late 2011-about the time Hess's current lease at One Allen Center expires — the 31-story tower with the wind turbines on top will be renamed Hess Tower.
This new building, to be renamed Hess Tower, will be the first energy efficient Gold LEED design in downtown Houston.
I present to you yet another rendering of Five Allen Center...
Look at the Modern Sculpture!
From Swamplot..
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A major downturn in the economy tends to make it a bit easier to happen upon images of developments that have been planned in secret — though finding them can be somewhat less exciting than unearthing plans that are actually likely to happen. A tipster reports HAIF user lockmat’s discovery of two images of Brookfield Properties’ planned Five Allen Center office tower Downtown. We saw one hazy picture of this building back in June. But is there any more to it now than just a few pretty pictures?
Five Allen Center is marked “pre-development” on the Brookfield website: a 50-story, 1.2-million-sq.-ft. office tower planned for a 2.5-acre site at the northwest corner of Downtown — at the northeast corner of Houston Ave. and West Dallas. That’s a rather prominent position.
It looks really kewl. I really do hope that this project can get off the ground. With all the news going on around it something has to be in the works. Yes it Can...
Here's a nice cap from around dusk, taken from Ch. 2's news on Sunday. The trio of cranes and the rising Discovery Tower can be seen, w/ OPP on the extreme left side.
Also, it looks like they're about to start clearing the first structures for the land METRO's Intermodal Terminal will occupy.