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TMC|3

I’m surprised this has not been mentioned yet. TMC3, $1.5 Billion BioResearch Campus is underway.

https://i.imgur.com/KHg4FQZh.jpg
High-rise Tower

I remember when they were in that church... wow.

Whoa... is that tower included?

Wow, awesome!

https://i.imgur.com/vZrnXTh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FH9GJxP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/xwifYn5.jpg

That garage on the residential tower turned out a lot better, it was just a massive slab for awhile.

Yeah... kind of an eyesore.

Selections from HAIF on various projects...

Texas Tower

c/o 'jermh'
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...658233a8_b.jpg

c/o 'cityliving' - 3/26

https://i.imgur.com/TNKZjvOl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/V0Rh7pZl.jpg

4/11

https://i.imgur.com/T8vuXNCl.jpg

Brava

c/o 'hindesky'

https://i.imgur.com/2VNDAcAl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eEPhUSql.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ttKfp01l.jpg

c/o 'cityliving'

https://i.imgur.com/oxLSPh8l.jpg

Post HTX


c/o 'cityliving'

https://i.imgur.com/pJ8M8RSl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zN4mmxll.jpg

c/o Facebook

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net...3b&oe=6092B0D3

Regent Square


c/o 'cityliving'

https://i.imgur.com/2QypakFl.jpg

The Allen


c/o 'hindesky'

https://i.imgur.com/lJ1Hokel.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/9KiHWCkl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hN44z4tl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5btCiufl.jpg

c/o 'cityliving'

https://i.imgur.com/ZsdBASwl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bLok0ohl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pcNYTFtl.jpg

Hanover / Autry Park

c/o 'cityliving' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/8OIx4M0l.jpg

Montrose Collective


c/o 'cityliving'

https://i.imgur.com/euBVzOUl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3t8buhIl.jpg

TMC 3

c/o 'Highrise Tower'

https://i.imgur.com/39nATCVl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/kfexT8al.jpg

c/o 'aachor'

https://i.imgur.com/3Hh83O3.jpg

Nice update photos!

Thanks for the updates!

North Montrose and the Heights are blowing up with apartments near the bayous, which coincidentally have added a lot of new hiking and biking infrastructure along with flood control.

I really like the black brick on the Montrose Collective, that's going to be really sleek.

Kirby Grove Phase II: Office Tower

Per Urbannizer on HAIF:

~160,000 sf of office

~15,000 sf of retail

https://cw-gbl-gws-prod.azureedge.ne...a18dda026e6b63

Looks like corner of Eastside and Richmond where the Upper Kirby building used to be and just behind Levy Park.

Are they building towers in that area too?

Some more selections from HAIF...

Aspire Post Oak


c/o 'Highrise Tower' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/H2rnX5cl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NbCJCltl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Giy0Vlol.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Uz5b4CKl.jpg

Museo Plaza MOB

c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/JRPj1bol.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eTjWvKUl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2p3h394l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UT8AmrRl.jpg

Boone Manor

c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/84LLPFBl.jpg

Rice University - New Sid Richardson College


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/5G6iVrQl.jpg

Texas A&M Innovation Plaza


c/o hindesky on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/YTDwH6bl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UuYduVtl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jL4oAdll.jpg

Blossom Hotel TMC

c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/0IN9HF0l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nDXKarxl.jpg

Baylor St. Luke's McNair Campus

c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/cQLWuhGl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jyWLzntl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yh10UPUl.jpg

TMC|3

c/o 'Highrise Tower' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/WpUa4bIl.jpg

Hyatt Place / Hyatt House TMC


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/BgJl9aGl.jpg

The Woman's Hospital of Texas Campus


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/qkx85KXl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0OhQAmKl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/JcLyUXtl.jpg

[QUOTE=SupaK;9234368]Also, the Spec's, Half Price Books, and 24 hour Emergency room on Westheimer (across from Kung Fu Tea) is now almost fully demolished.

Well now it is fully demolished. View of Montrose Collective in the background.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...29e129fb_b.jpg

Anthology Of Tanglewood Expansion: New Senior Living

https://i.imgur.com/jVVtPJn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/a9E3pQD.jpg

800 Crawford / Block 98 Apartments


c/o 'Highrise Tower' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/INHprxql.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fyvltDwl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HfTHx2vl.jpg

c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/tkZjbiel.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/z8eafUnl.jpg

Block 387 Apartments


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/zhlEJ8Al.jpg

Sovereign at the Ballpark


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/6TRw4hxl.jpg

Modera Washington


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/0KC0FPRl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/561Hoffl.jpg

EaDo Navigation


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/QGsGpvxl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hzxcKD3l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/CoTMhmUl.jpg

Alta River Oaks


c/o 'hindesky' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/r9qlWtQl.jpg

Bowen River Oaks

c/o 'Highrise Tower' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/JDQdwdKl.jpg

4411 San Felipe

c/o 'Highrise Tower' on HAIF

https://i.imgur.com/7f5fcjMl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SonF4uml.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SonF4uml.jpg

Uptown skyline from about 2 weeks ago:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...658f3a53_k.jpgUptown Sunset by brijonmang, on Flickr

Wow, great shot!

Agreed. Reminds me of one I saw posted here. It was taken from the 225/610 interchange flyover during/right after Tropical Storm Allison. It included 5 skylines in one shot.

That is such a great picture. Need some more of these types of shots from around town.:worship:

^That's a beautiful shot!!

I know... are there others?

Emancipation Center: Dowling At Elgin St.

Nonprofit office space (I believe) plus some affordable housing (orange).

From Urbannizer on HAIF
https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...6c4a6f0b2.jpeg

That's cool and let's hope so. Also, downtown skyline has really beefed up and stretched out.

How much is the rent?

Cool picture!

I know... du u have any to post here?

Great shot

Yeah, that's a really nice flattering photo of Houston.

Great shot. That part of northern montrose is really blowing up along Buffalo Bayou/ W Dallas St.

Great picture Brijonmang. That’s a nice angle if you want to show someone how nice individual buildings in the downtown skyline are. You can go from left to right and focus on each individual building and it’s style and that drive down Allen Parkway headed towards downtown is the perfect drive to show the uniqueness of each of those buildings too. It makes each building standout but doesn’t do as much for the downtown skyline as a collective whole. I don’t like it as an overall skyline view because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings.

I like the Downtown Houston skyline view from the south, from UH. Houston looks like the beast that it should rightfully be recognized as being, no major gaps either, and plenty of density. And great fill in between the two supertalls too.
https://www.uh.edu/magazine/2017-fal...licy-polls.jpg
https://www.uh.edu/magazine/2017-fal...licy-polls.jpg

That's my favorite perspective as well.

Indeed. I remember someone from a while back... from the Houston Dev Thread I from... 2001 or perhaps even before that... to add BladeRunner style flitters in the night time skyline shot of Houston... to make it seem like a futuristic cityscape. Pretty cool.

This is a f**king beautiful shot!

Any entry into town from the south or southwest have to be my favorite views. Since 90/Main Street was rebuilt, I've used it more and I think it's just past the intersection with South Post Oak where it's elevated for a bit and the skylines wrap around the horizon somewhat so you get Uptown, Greenway/ Upper Kirby, TMC/Museum District & behind them Downtown. I recall going on field trips in the 90s on that route and even then it was pretty neat to see.

Runner up might be the approach from the Southwest Freeway - maybe starting around Sugar Land or Stafford where Westchase shows up and you start moving past it toward Uptown where that skyline completely dominates, while Greenway and Downtown start getting closer and closer.

Then again, thanks to development, you can actually see the Williams Tower from ROSENBERG now on the elevated portion of 59. That made me do a double take on my last visit in December. Hadn't tried to see if I could see any of the other towers.

"..because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings..."

I thought I remember see a photo last year that showed downtown had lots of surface parking spaces? From what I have been hearing, it seems like Houston does need more residential downtown, although I see they are building one or two residential towers. Hope the residential densification in some of the other areas, like Montrose, comes to downtown. How many people live downtown and is there a grocery store now?

Phoenicia is a grocery store that’s been there for over a decade now. It’s next to Discovery Green Park. About 8,000 people live in Downtown now, nearly quadruple how many were there in 2010. Yes, there are lots of surface lots downtown but they are primarily towards the south and east. All the skyscrapers are mainly concentrated in the skyline district part of downtown, where it is structurally very dense and there are barely any lots.

Also to be fair, within a mile of downtown accessible via high frequency all day all week transit you have Randalls, Whole Foods, Fiesta, Kroger, Sprouts, a Target, even a Super Walmart. Houston has a lot of retail and things you need in the general core of the city, just not in the downtown proper. Except for that Phoenicia of course.

I think an Aldi's would be a nice fit downtown though. I'm surprised you don't see more of those in an urban setting. My money would be on an H-E-B though because they have urban style stores (ground floor retail space below other things, with garage parking) around the city already.

Do you mean this photo? If so, it was taken around 40 years ago.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...63cf4210_c.jpg

Off the top of my head I can think of at least 9 existing high rise residential buildings with at least another 2 (42 and 46 stories) residential buildings under construction. There are also more and more mid rise residential buildings being built or already finished Downtown. The numbers I've seen are from 10K to as many as 15K residents in Downtown. https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neigh...ographics.html

This is the same area in the photo above seen from a different direction in 2018. There are already at least two completed high rise residential buildings not yet in this view.
https://live.staticflickr.com/4824/3...00663619_b.jpg
Its beginning to look like Christmas in Houston by Raul Cano, on Flickr

View from another direction in 2019. Again, there are two (42 and 46 story) high rise residential buildings under construction not seen in this photo.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9619731a_b.jpg
MinuteMaidNight by Raul Cano, on Flickr

Everything in these 2 photos was a parking lot in 1980.
https://live.staticflickr.com/1980/3...087f91c6_b.jpg
Avenida, Houston by Bill Jacomet, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/2892/3...ccf43a4a_b.jpg
Los Skarnales at Avenida by Bill Jacomet, on Flickr


The freeway in this photo is the same freeway as in the 40-year-old photo at top.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...69dfb605_b.jpg
Downtown Houston Skyline-EaDo by Mabry Campbell, on Flickr


Finally found a photo that shows the location of Discovery Green Park beyond the Convention Center. The photo is five years old so it's already obsolete.
The freeway in the 40-year-old photo is directly behind the convention center. The black building on the right in the old photo at top can just be seen peaking
out from behind the building with gray and black horizontal stripes just right of center in this photo.
https://live.staticflickr.com/1627/2...840ff849_b.jpg
Discovery Green by russell.hancock, on Flickr

Houston lags far behind most cities its size as far as downtown residential but has built a lot in a fairly short amount of time. I suspect in another decade or so, it will look/ feel drastically different.

I think it depends on the definition of downtown. The same website that lists Houston's DT pop as 15K, lists Dallas's as 11K, Chicago's as 22K, and San Antonio's as 17K (which makes me wonder what they consider downtown).

That Chicago number seems awfully low and must be the just Loop and not anything north of the river which is loaded with residential.

Yup

Dunno about Loop, etc. But my understanding is that Chitown has about 1 Million ppl in downtown,

Awesome pics! Does Houston have the most residents in it's downtown compared to Dallas, Austin or San Antonio?

That particular website says San Antonio has the most residents downtown...I don't see how that's possible. Makes me wonder what they consider downtown...and if any of their numbers are correct.

There isn't a definitive definition of what is "downtown" when comparing cities. It's almost like comparing City proper populations instead of Metro population when ranking cities by population.