Originally Posted by The Best Forumer (Post 7101584)

I've a couple of friends at Baylor's Alkek building there... why do you think it's a pain?

Originally Posted by rellott (Post 7104464)

Probably old news, but I have a source that said that 6 Houston Center is on hold until investors get enough confidence in the O&G market again. They're just waiting for up and up numbers.

Originally Posted by Kenchiku desu (Post 7105750)

It seems odd, since energy prices will rebound sooner or later. Logic would have them building in a down economy, ready for the next boom.

Originally Posted by The Best Forumer (Post 7105743)

This is likely the same reason they gave the last two times this tower was shelved.

Originally Posted by Kenchiku desu (Post 7105750)

It seems odd, since energy prices will rebound sooner or later. Logic would have them building in a down economy, ready for the next boom.

Originally Posted by Houston Chronicle

Midtown poised for first new office tower in decades

Midtown, the thriving urban neighborhood just south of downtown, could see a sleek new office tower rise from a parcel of land that for years housed a Vietnamese restaurant and is now near the center of a growing real estate boom.

Houston-based Senterra Real Estate Group is planning a 16-story office tower at 3003 Louisiana. The company says it would be the first new office tower to be built in Midtown in nearly five decades.

Construction, however, won't start on the building until about half of it is spoken for by future tenants.

The Gensler architecture firm has designed a building for Senterra's site with 250,000 square feet of office space in nine floors above seven levels of parking. The structure will allow for six corner offices. Terraces will face Anita, Louisiana and Milam on the building's eighth and 16th floors.

The building could be completed by the end of 2017.

Originally Posted by Kenchiku desu (Post 7105750)

It seems odd, since energy prices will rebound sooner or later. Logic would have them building in a down economy, ready for the next boom.

Originally Posted by glowrock (Post 7105886)

Being someone in the business, so to speak, it's going to be later rather than sooner. I'm shocked Houston is still building as much as it is right now, as it's bound to result in a moderate to major crash at some point in the near future. Especially in terms of office space! Residential perhaps not so much, but certainly retail as well.

Aaron (Glowrock)

Originally Posted by Houston Chronicle

A place for artists takes shape near downtown

An art destination unlike any other in Houston - and bigger than anything of its kind in the U.S. - is taking shape a mile and a half west of downtown in a scruffy area off Washington Avenue.

Developer Jon Deal and several collaborators are creating a 36-acre "creative campus" called Sawyer Yards where people can eat, drink, shop and visit more than 300 studios. The total investment represented in the preliminary plan - including loft apartments and a parking structure - could exceed $100 million at current land values, Deal estimates.

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady (Post 7106207)

This development is noteworthy, not for being high-rise development, but for being more than the usual bland public housing development. And it's on North Main.

The Most Interesting Affordable Housing in Houston