“We mowed the lawn this weekend, so we’re giving it to them in nice shape.” — Dougal Cameron of Cameron Management, leader of an investment group that delivered the freshly LEED-certified and entirely vacant 12-story 2000 St. James Place office building just south of Tanglewood to Wachovia Bank (now a part of Wells Fargo) in a sparsely attended foreclosure ceremony earlier this month. Minute Maid moved out of the building in February 2009 — about a year and a half after Cameron’s investment group bought it; the building has had no tenants since then. [Houston Business Journal]
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6 Comments
Not a good sign of things to come.
I hope they put toothpaste in all the nail holes, too.
If only the city of Houston had been willing to top Sugar Land’s $2 million bribe to Minute Maid, that building would be occupied today!
Check this out:
http://www.cameronmanagement.com/userfiles/File/2000_St._James/St._James_Summer_2008.pdf
What a difference two years can make.
This was the first building in Texas to achieve LEED Gold for Existing Buildings.
http://www.cameronmanagement.com/userfiles/File/HCB/HCB_Autumn_2009.pdf
All wonderfully entertaining. Guess green doesn’t translate to green, if you know what I mean.