After a discussion that followed my post about the three-unit town home being built in my neighborhood, I decided to check out the condos on Westheimer (one of Montrose’s main streets a few blocks from me) that were mentioned in the comments. Tim and I drove by there last night and saw lights in only three of the units. I noted how creepy it would be to live in a nearly-empty building.
Today, I went by and took photos of it. Then I came home and Googled “Tremont Tower.” Damn! It’s the stuff of soap operas, with corruption and scandal including shoddy building practices, dead and injured construction workers, grieving parents, fake business names to avoid penalties, financially devastated consumers, and insufficient, inefficient, and inadequate investigations of the alleged guilty parties. Only about ten of the seventy-something units have been sold, and apparently some of them are uninhabitable because of mold (which the builder says is not there). Added to all that is some people’s contention that the building is haunted. No wonder I shudder every time I drive by it: bad energy. Well, that and the ugly red/orange faux stucco.
Is that a steeple?
Are there many people who ride bicycles in Montrose? It looks nice and level. : )
Except for Glenwood Cemetery and highway overpasses, Houston is flat, flat, flat. That is one of my main complaints about it. I NEED HILLS.
Huh, who knew that cardboard was classified as a building material?
That looks a lot like a condo complex they are building in Nashville.
wow, that would be a kind of creepy place to live with all that going on.
That’s a frickin’ butt ugly building.
That is probably the first building designed by someone who is architecturally challenged. Apparently is is based on a Lego model he put together. Perhaps he was aSPIREing to greatest with his design.
wow, I didn’t know all that. So not only is the building ugly, it’s evil. I think it must be that big spire thingy, it’s obviously an antenna for badness.
an antenna for badness
Some men have this, too. 😉
To quote a vulgar (but true) Aussie colloquialism, that building is as ugly as a pocket full of a***holes!
And the saga you found when you googled Tremont Tower, yikes! If it wasn’t so tragic it might be funny. Even the photos give off yukky vibes.
I wonder if they built it over a sacred site or similar?
Someone or something has cursed that place. I feel sorry for the people who’ve bought an apartment there.
By the way, if you want hills you should come visit Albany some time. We have lots of them! Where we live we have a view of King George Sound and two of the islands off the coast, Michaelmas island and Breaksea island (of which the latter has an operational lighthouse – fantastic to watch at night). You’re welcome to stay anytime 🙂