HOUSTON-The 27-story, 5 Houston Center, the first high-rise tower to be built in Downtown Houston since 1986, is proof positive that the revitalization of that city’s booming downtown area is now more fact than fancy. Crescent Real Estate Entities will build the 577,000-sf building next to its existing Houston Center complex and connect the two with a skybridge.

At the ground-breaking ceremony, dignitaries had assembled before an architectural rendering of the new development bearing the headline, “Expanding the Dimensions of the Houston Skyline,” and that has been the theme of the project.

Downtown Houston had been stirring when the storied Rice Hotel had been resurrected. It took a great leap forward when Enron Field, the new baseball stadium had risen from the rubble. But, a new skyscraper tells Houstonians: “This is for real.”

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