The pedestrian barricades along Lavaca & 2nd Street are gone, and the W Hotel is looking damn fine. I love this pic from Photolitherland @ SkyscraperPage.
Above, you can barely make out the strip of LED lights running the span of the building. When I took the photo they were changing color: green to blue to red, etc.





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