Hines’s increasingly pointy 609 Main and flat-topped Chase Tower are visible to either side of the company’s Aris Market Square apartment highrise in this recent shot from Congress at Travis streets (sent in by a reader, who noted the top-out tree temporarily hoisted onto to the rooftop). Following the latest growth spurt, the tower has now gotten about as tall as it’s going to (and the newly-craneless Market Square Apartment Tower, now leasing across the eponymous Square, will always have 8 stories to lord over it). Here’s a closeup of the Aris’s Preston-facing facade, as the glass and exterior finishes start to creep up the sides:

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• Previously on Swamplot: A Quick Wandering Tour of Stuff Going Up Downtown; Hines’s 32-Story Apartment Tower Catty-Corner from Market Square Is Going Up Now; Hines Market Square Takes Over a Surface Parking Lot Downtown; The Best Views Yet of Hines’s Market Square Apartment Tower and Its Downtown Headlight; A Few New Views of the 33-Story Apartment Building Hines Wants To Build in Market Square; A First Look at Some of the 33-Story Apartment Tower Hines Wants To Build in Market Square; Hines Interested in Building Residential Tower on Downtown Block Near Market Square Park

Photos: Christine Wilson