monarch

wonderful illustrations!  much obliged..

wonderful pic tanith27!  the hotel is coming together...

WAITROSE, is a british based and yet very simplified grocery market.  please do not be fooled.. it's an ok market.  however, nothing at all like the fine supermarkets that we are hereby used to in houston.  it's a wonderfully convenient market for those that are shopping at the mall, and don't want to make another market stop along the way home.  i have very often shopped at the WAITROSE at the dubai mall, uae,.  once again, extremely convenient market due to the fact that i normally lodge at the connected hotels affiliated with the mall itself.  

outstanding illustrations!  edifice is becoming a showplace indeed...

Another thing I noticed...all black people in this rendering.

finally...

wonderful illustration tumbleweed_tx.

i concur!  this is going to be an awesome development.

very nice pics!

I am skeptical that a tweet and other news are linked but, I guess it could be.

Here is what I believe:

An upscale dry goods retail chain is coming to downtown again. I have no idea who, what, or when. But, with affluent population growth in DT, mid-town, and EaDo, coupled with 100,000 office commuters, a "smaller scale, urban concept" store by one or several retail chains could make a splash and be profitable.

i concur utterlyurban!  i guess that i just find this timing incredible.  notable rockets star harden.. (why james harden?) plays in downtown houston.. current bloomingdales chatter regarding downtown houston as per notable houston city officials.. quite coincidental indeed.

If I recall correctly, didn't the mayor's office indicate, at a planning meeting for DT, that a Houston civic rep would be going to NYC with hopes of bringing back good news? This was like 3-4 weeks ago. 

exactly right!  this is part of the reason that i was so intrigued with harden's tweet...

I really dont see why they would be doing publicity shoots right now, if it is in the works, its eons away from actually opening.

you could be correct howard.  however, james harden, does countless publicity shoots / commercials.. and we never see him publishing tweets beforehand.  i was just a bit intrigued as per this particular news coming from such a high profile houston basketball star regarding bloomingdales .  coincidental, who knows....

Behind the scenes at my shoot with @Bloomingdales...more coming soon!

houston rocket star JAMES HARDIN, is currently preparing for his role for an upcoming commercial shoot regarding bloomingdales.

to date, us HAIFER'S.. are all aware that there has been a small bit of chatter regarding the forthcoming arrival as per bloomingdales to downtown houston.  is there something conjuring up behind the scenes?  james, took the liberty of tweeting this info out this evening.  my curiosity is now on overload capacity.  MOD's, please pardon me if this subject is upon the wrong area.  much obliged, monarch.

sunrise indeed!  gorgeous development.. ambitious.

nice illustrations h-townchris!

simply doesn't matter triton.  every illustration that you grace us with... we're happy.

terrific illustrations hindesky!  simply great.

"let us name the twins before christmas"

my choices are:

BHP BILITON / ROCKIN EDDIE

ASTORIA / ROCKIN STEADY

i concur!  wonderful catalyst for growth upon this particular neighborhood.

skyhouse RO, appears to be well constructed and almost complete.  wonderful illustration triton!

terrific pic triton!

should we try this alternative?

what else is there to do....

HAIF photographers are amazing!  brilliant.

amazing!

props for sharing!

anyone know what's actually coming to this location?