[Houston] The Titan

[Wattleigh]

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/TitanColor.jpg

26 Floors
80 Units

Website: http://www.randalldavis.com/titan/

A Randall Davis Company (http://www.randalldavis.com) Project

The sales office at Post Oak and Garrettson opened in January and construction is projected to begin in late 2008 and end in 2010. The promotional banners around the base of the Cosmopolitan construction site across the site have been changed from advertising that project to a block-long or so billboard for The Titan.

More info will be forthcoming as the developer releases names of partners involved with the project and the sales packets are mailed out over the upcoming weeks.

[Great_Hizzy]

The website doesn't really say much so far.

[Xeelee]

Yeah I know...

[Wattleigh]

The website doesn't really say much so far.

Yeah, it actually seems to be one of the less comprehensive projects I've encountered overall. When they opened the sales office, the floor plans were still being worked on and only maybe 5-7 complete ones were visible for visitors. The broker had to download the few from a secure server, so there weren't any even in print at the time. According to her, they were finalized that morning. A lot of it is understandable since the project doesn't launch until next month, but still... if you're doing an open preview, it would help to have everything in order.

[Major AWACS]

I like the rendering though!

hope it comes to fruition.

Ciao,
AWACS

[verbl]

Thats rad!

[KevinFromTexas]

I posted this in the Houston compilation thread, but the building to the left is 1200 Post Oak. That building is 359 feet tall. So I would guess The Titan could end up being about 450 feet with the spire and probably close to 400 feet to the roof.

[BSofA04]

Houston and "Titan" will never sound good together. Bad choice of words.

[Xeelee]

Ah you mean because of the football team?

[Wattleigh]

I posted this in the Houston compilation thread, but the building to the left is 1200 Post Oak. That building is 359 feet tall. So I would guess The Titan could end up being about 450 feet with the spire and probably close to 400 feet to the roof.

I requested the various heights from the broker I've been dealing with, so hopefully I'll be hearing back on that soon.

[BSofA04]

Ah you mean because of the football team?

Yeah, many people in Houston despise Bud Adams and his Tenn. Titans.

[Saddle Man]

Bud Adams was one of the major reasons I stopped watching professional team sports.

[Trae]

Yeah, many people in Houston despise Bud Adams and his Tenn. Titans.

I would say 99% of people in Houston despise Bud Adams.

[SAguy]

Titan- Very nice tower.

[Wattleigh]

I received the sales packet in the mail today, and it was full of the floorplans for the units. There are 21 different ones to choose from, it appears. A special letter was also included, mentioning that pricing & contract executions would occur around May and construction should begin by July. Also, the website should be updated and a promotional video should be online within the next 15 days.

As is standard with the other Randall Davis properties, there is a cocktail party scheduled for March 5th in the Cosmopolitan (across the street from the Titan's sales office) where their reps will be showing off amenities and attempting to sell units.

[Boquillas]

I like the flatiron style shape of the building, but I think the spire undermines the emphasis on the wedge-shaped cross-section. It looks kind of Disney Tomorrowland-ish. I would like the design a lot better without the spire, but it's good for Houston.

[Wattleigh]

The website (http://www.randalldavis.com/titan) has been updated and includes a video with a 3D model of the building from various angles...

[Great_Hizzy]

Is that thing to scale? Because in the 3-D it looks like it's easily 500 feet.

[KevinFromTexas]

Yeah, I was thinking it looked taller there. The roof of it looked to be ~75 feet over 1200 Post Oak, then the spire about another 100 feet.

[priller]

I like it! What is that on the side, a jumbo-tron?

[Complex01]

Wow, nice. I like those pools at the top...

:yes:

[Wattleigh]

Is that thing to scale? Because in the 3-D it looks like it's easily 500 feet.

I'd guess it's a rough model that gets the sizing relatively close, but not really precise. Just something to show to perspective buyers, writers, etc. If I'm not mistaken, the renderings of the Cosmopolitan varied at times. Sometimes it's taller, others it's shorter. If Titan does happen to be as tall as the video hinted, I won't complain.:cool:

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sarnoff/5583898.html

Name-dropping

What do Steven Spielberg, Winston Churchill and Bill Gates have in common with Houston real estate?

They're all names of floor plans in Randall Davis' latest condo creation, suitably named Titan.

"They're who I consider to be great titans of the world," said Davis, who's throwing a soiree this week to jump-start sales in the 80-unit Uptown building.

The 26-story tower is planned for a 25,000-square-foot site on Post Oak Boulevard and Garrettson, just north of San Felipe.

Davis is buying the land from McDonald's, which has a two-story restaurant there. The sale is expected to close this summer.

Sometime after that, the McDonald's will go, but the hamburger chain is keeping a portion of the land to build a sleek new store as part of its "re-imaging" program, spokesman Adam Salgado said.

Davis expects condo prices to range from $500,000 to
$4.5 million.

Units will range in size from 1,150 square feet to 6,000 square feet. Two-story penthouses will have rooftop pools.

The building will be white, or a shade close to it, and accented with green glass and green lights near the top of the building resembling "inset jewels in a crown," Davis said.

And the tower will be topped with a 75-foot spire that will glow green at night.

It was designed by Michael Graham of Element Architects.

Davis said Titan will be his swankiest project yet.

Select units will have private pools, and as for the kitchens and bathrooms, "We've taken the appliance package to the top of the food chain," Davis said, rattling off luxury brand names.

But what about the housing slowdown and talk of a recession? Davis doesn't think selling 80 units in a city the size of Houston is anything to seriously fret about.

But he's dangling a carrot in front of early buyers in the way of $100,000 off the price of a penthouse and $50,000 off other units.

He's about sold out of units in Cosmopolitan, a condo project he's building across Post Oak from the Titan site.

All but two of the condos are spoken for. The last units in the building went under contract for just under $400 per square foot.

"People who have bought at Cosmo have made a very good buy in today's world," said Davis.

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This invitation has been going out to those (including yours truly) who registered to obtain more info. They actually sent out a print version in the mail as well.

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/TitanInvite.jpg