This Weekend in Urban Social: Houston’s Underfunded Decentralized Dance Party...
Will the Decentralized Dance Party scheduled for Houston this weekend even happen? Not if fundraising goals aren’t met in time, declares the event’s Facebook page, and with less than 10 hours left...
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New Hilton Americas Sidewalk Cafe Seating Will Feature Electrifying Views
Spencer’s for Steaks and Chops inside the Hilton Americas Hotel downtown will soon feature sidewalk seating and an outdoor lounge area — but not on the hotel’s busy side facing Discovery Green.The...
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A Texas Island on the Next Convention Center Hotel
These renderings of the Marriott Marquis show the shapes of things coming — by 2016, according to current plans — to Downtown. Planned for the corner of Walker St. and Avenidas de las Americas, the...
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New Convention Center Hotel Seems a Done Deal
Today, reports Prime Property’s Nancy Sarnoff, the city and developer Rida announced that an agreement has been reached and construction will begin soon on the 1000-room Downtown Marriott Marquis —...
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The Second Convention Center Hotel, a Marriott Marquis, Is Going Up Starting Now
A groundbreaking ceremony today is marking the construction start of the new $335 million Marriott Marquis hotel on Walker St. and Crawford next to the George R. Brown Convention Center downtown,...
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This Skinny 39-Story Apartment Tower Will Squeeze in Next to the New Marriott...
It looks like engineers have begun soil testing the thin strip of land left along Crawford St. downtown between the Hess Tower parking garage and the surface parking lot where the new Marriott Marquis...
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Houston’s Biggest Boosters Planning Their Own Downtown Perch, Offices,...
The 10-story office building announced earlier this week for a site across the street from the George R. Brown Convention Center won’t just house the Greater Houston Partnership, for which the project...
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Houston First Showing Off Pics of Downtown Hop-on-Top Hotel for Greater...
Earlier this month, Houston First showed off renderings of the office building it’s planning to build for itself and 3 other Houston-boosting organizations (top), headlined by the Greater Houston...
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And Now a Downtown Dance Performance About Flooding
Invitations to the latest site-specific performance by the Karen Stokes Dance company went out on May 25th, the day before a good part of Houston woke up to find various areas in and around the city...
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What It Looks Like When More than 65,000 People Try To Go to Discovery Green...
If you missed the free Fallout Boy and Kendrick Lamar concerts during Final Four weekend, here’s your chance to catch both, condensed down to less than 5 minutes (no sound, though). This week...
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NASA-Themed Super Bowl Tower To Drop Visitors 90 Feet Toward Discovery Green
This week’s SpaceCom expo at the prettied-up George R. Brown Convention Center included a preview of some more down-to-earth plans for the immediate neighborhood — including the NASA-themed drop tower...
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Steering Clear of the Super Bowl Crowds, Whether They Show Up or Not
Steve Jansen of the Houston Press runs through some numbers this week for the impending Super Bowl LI — many of which depend on the wide range of visitor estimates put forth by booster groups and...
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