Another find courtesy of Paco Jones on HAIF

Home2 Suites / Tru by Hilton Hotel

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...2ade95a559991e

This is about a block from the Toyota Center and catty-corner to Camden's new apartment tower. It only takes up a quarter of the block.

The Texas Medical Center is already the largest medical center in the world and is still growing! Houston Methodist opened Walter Tower in 2018, Texas Children's opened an expansion tower a year before that, and Memorial Hermann opened the Susan and Fayez Sarofim Pavilion this year. CHI St. Luke's has an on again, off again expansion on Old Spanish Trail that might eventually replace their main hospital on Fannin Street. The Harris County Psychiatric Center is expanding, Texas A&M is building and refurbishing a quad of buildings next to the TMC transit center, and the huge TMC3 complex should break ground this year. These projects are a huge boon to Houston's economy, especially considering how many well-paying, recession-resistant jobs they support.

I like the Granduca's concrete exterior based on those renderings. The top looks art deco. The 107 units are going to have a high price to cover the cost of a 34 floor tower.

TexasPlaya, what does your signature mean exactly? This one:

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Invest in the future!

From Hindesky on HAIF, looking West from I10E:

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...eca6c93dfdbd9f

Not an angle we typically see in photos, and I love how it features some of the newest towers most prominently, and the right side is about to fill in even more.

Agreed, you have the new and the old.

Thank you for the info... and investing in the future... and the cool shots.

Hines and 2ML Real Estate Interests to Build Levit Green

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/12/45/...4/rawImage.jpg

^^^
Really exciting news. If there's some silverlining to Covid is that it may spur more life science investment that Houston can capture. Here's an aerial of the Levit Green site from CrockPotandGravel on HAIF:

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f3f3fd8fef0e5e

Perhaps coincidentally....

Bisnow: Houston’s Life Sciences Industry Needs Spec Space

Bump

Some cool aerials of a potential multifamily south of the TMC by HighRise Tower on HAIF:

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...b9fc87fbce76dd

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f1cd513d93f782

South of the TMC represents a good area for potential redevelopment, especially along 288 and 610.

Some more public/private partnerships, ION. You have TAMU/UT investing in the med center, Rice investing in ION collaborative incubator in midtown, and TMC3 hoping to garner more private investment.

Updates from Brooklyn173 and ChannelTwoNews HAIF on ION:

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f6b72c49c403e0

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...9f898e291ef02b

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...5d252f10a34445

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...e36cc53ab7.jpg

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f37be130e8.jpg

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...9ba18608c8.jpg

I spoke to the consultant that represents the developer (Interfin) they have placed the Granduca on hold.

Google and Amazon set to open new locations in Houston

https://abc13.com/google-and-amazon-...bs-in/6254325/

A very huge project!

Levit Green is nuts. Seeing these megaprojects unfold and seeing TMC mentioned in the same sentences as Boston and San Francisco when it comes to life sciences tech makes me optimistic. Even if it isn't exactly like the rendering this is still a huge deal.

It makes me wonder if Houston's entering a new epoch where the South/Southeastern quadrant of the metro area will start to grow more rapidly and the NW quadrant is going to cool down. Not that Pearland isn't a booming area, but its still not nearly as populous as other suburbs. But this could make it explode with growth IMO, especially now that the 288 toll lanes project is almost done. If you went back to the 1950s and 1960s that was where the new development was, some of the first suburbs in Houston were areas like South Park, Gulfgate was the first mall, etc. Then for some reason the metro tilted north and west.

For the past 15 years the ridiculous growth in Katy, Cypress, Klein, seems to have been helped along by the oil industry. Tons of jobs in high rise office towers in the Energy Corridor and The Woodlands plus all the new manufacturing and small engineering/tech firms in low rise industrial areas along Beltway 8. But now they are saying we could be looking at 100,000-200,000 people losing their jobs due to depressed oil prices even if the COVID economic recovery turns out to be "V" shaped. That's got to be bad news for anyone trying to sell those $400k McMansions out on the prairie by the Grand Parkway.

If the TMC becomes the core of a "new" economy in Houston based on things that aren't just oil(the oil industry will recover and have at least one good cycle and not fade away overnight, obviously) its definitely going to rearrange what sides of the city are more or less desirable for new growth. Definitely look out for even more gentrification happening in Sunnyside and the Third Ward, too.

Then again they're predicting oil prices to skyrocket. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Regent Square Update

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...6d112f515c2aa9

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...e30245fa51166c

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...de718f37a8c479

Picture credit by Highrise Tower on https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...e/25/#comments

Texas A&M Innovation Plaza

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...0c5f2725e92c55
https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...4824d1a44bfc33

By Hindesky

One of my favorite photos of the week.

New hotel in the TMC at Almeda & Holcombe.

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

Almeda between MacGregor up to Peggy's Park and 59 is one of those forgotten major streets in Houston that has a lot of things on it. I took a drive down it the other day since I was bored and cruising around in a car is one thing I guess we can still do with COVID going on.

So what is the purpose of this building? Is this the place where TAM students come to innovate?

For how long will it sit empty?

I've heard about Houston's density inside of 610 but is that density spreading outside of that area or will soon?

Not in any meaningful way. Houston’s densest parts of town are not within 610.

As Cory said, its really the reverse as half of "inside of the loop" (610) is heavy industry and extreme poverty. Although, that means a lot of potential for redevelopment like in south, near east and northeast Houston.

Uptown/Galleria is probably the geographic density center of Houston.

In terms of people per square mile in census counts, the densest neighborhoods are outside of the 610 loop and within or around Beltway 8. These are concentrations of apartment complexes built in the 1970s and 1980s which became low income housing and are populated by immigrants living in crowded conditions.

However in terms of the number of apartment units and buildings per acre, which is a more visible form of urban density, then probably the western half of inside the loop is denser.

Ok cool. Thanks for the clarification guys.

I'm not a local, but I've always considered the core of Houston to be the roughly triangular area with its corners at Downtown, Uptown-Galleria, and the TMC. Not only because those are the areas with the densest and tallest concentrations of highrises, but also because the districts in between contain the majority of major civic institutions and culturally notable neighborhoods. They are also the areas - i.e. Upper Kirby, River Oaks, Allen Parkway, Midtown & Museum District - that are seeing the majority of highrise infill outside those corner points.

Texas A&M Innovation Plaza renderings by Paco Jones @ HAIF:

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...22323024deb77d

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...168d9de6f1d96c

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...d2d2c57a5e08c1

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...142007387649fd

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...695a2862c4dd26

Posted from the prior page, what's currently under construction:

Uptown 1801 Post Oak: New Mid-Rise

From Paco Jones

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...7568cf477ff7ee

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...8ae759d867dcc1

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...d9b126cfc62e6b

From Highrise Tower

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...1f57a8385e7844

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...b510f5dafcf78a

^^Cool look at the Uptown BRT nearing completion too.

From Skyboxdweller

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...8952afefb.jpeg

^^ The midrise is in lower left corner. Shows the scale of the Boulevard Place project and the holes in development. Also, cool cloud cover.

TMC 10 story Hilton Inn- 6840 Almeda

From ChannelTwoNews

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...73cf51ad4433d9

[Greenway Plaza] The RO: Mixed-Use Development at West Alabama and Buffalo Speedway

An overlooked mixed use development that will add to the Greenway Plaza skyline. They've already cleared off the old Exxon buildings.

From for Urbannizer on HAIF:

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...1a6ac07ec6f25f

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...906ac0302a1ba4

Renderings from Highrise Tower on HAIF:

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...128ac77f993eab

The Allen: Allen Parkway/Gillette

Most recent rendering I can find, from Urbannizer on HAIF

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...a56c4e78f16d94

From brijonmang on HAIF
https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...9298ffbed09bb8

You have the Federal Reserves building in the right foreground, new multifamily next to that along W Dallas, a closing public housing development next to the construction, and TMC in the background. Buffalo Bayou really driving development along the adjacent parkways and W Dallas.

Houston kind of needs some type of zoning...

Why? Downtown is literally about a quarter mile away and this development is along a really popular greenbelt.

Man, Michael Graves style is so uncannily recognizable that I knew instantly that Federal Reserve Building was one of his. A quick Google search confirmed that suspicion...

For the sake of the forum, don't start... :runaway:

Houston's lack of zoning can be a problem in some areas but this isn't one of them. It's a good thing that there isn't zoning preventing this development.

Yes you are right about zoning in Houston.....I live in the middle of a residential neighborhood... with a body shop as my next door neighbor ...

You seem to be located on the highly industrial east side based on your profile location...

I agree Houston needs better land use policies but the east side was industrial before it was recently gentrified.

Yup more of a case of gentrification than zoning. One block from me in Austin is a body shop across the street from a mixed-use complex.

An example of Houston’s no zoning laws would be a high-rise going up in the middle of a neighborhood made up mostly of residential homes.

and this was always a commercial area. The long gone Jeff Davis hospital was to the right a bit from the Fed building.

Lol Houston is like a Southern L.A. very sprawling basin, tons of mid rise all over, strong Hispanic culture, nice prominent art deco downtown core with a satellite city for double skyline shots. Even the Texas A&M building and USC tower look similar, I never noticed how similar the two cities were, despite LA being a more sprawling and populated city. Houston punches more for it's weight though!

Alta River Oaks

https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/ima...VqOL6ErNQWeufg

Uptown Houston’s skyline is a monster in length and size.

I can only image what Houston would look like if ALL of its towers and skylines had been combined into one. That'd be one HECK of a skyline!!

Yeah. That is fun to imagine.