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Montrose Collective is coming soon with shops, restaurants, new library
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I take it this is going where that Greek restaraunt and the HPD substation was correct and not the corner of Westminster and Montrose? Judging Uchi's location in relation to this...
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Greystar Heights Phase I & II The Heights
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Montrose Collective is dope. I wonder if it will be glazed brick or conventional brick on the facade. Either way, if they don't skimp on materials that will be a damn good-looking project.
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should be good either way. i thnk.
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Nice!
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Some HAIF updates from TXDOT of 59/610 interchange plus the new transit center south of Uptown:
The new transit center that will connect Park&Ride Buses from SW Houston to Uptown's new BRT. The upper level will be Park&ride connections and lower level will be BRT/local buses. In between will be parking. https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...d6dee5b3395551 New Connector from 59 to 610S plus direct connector to Bissonnet (I think) https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...cd9140c20e7f7a New Connector from 610W to 59S plus direct connector to Chimney Rock https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f738dcf063a769 |
Aspire Post Oak
https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...c4ecc39529a38e Bowen River Oaks https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...86793f52823322 Park Place River Oaks https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...acc1f2883b2cf4 Novel River Oaks https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...80219fa7a594c6 ekdrm2d1 |
Texas A&M to build $550 million complex in Houston's Texas Medical Center
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A&M will be almost across the street from UT (Health). The Aggie building too far left/ bottom corner is existing BoA currently being renovated about halfway finished.
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Wow. This is big news. Not only across the UT main campus but right near the major light rail stop in the TMC.
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Block 98 Tower / 800 Crawford
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2505 Fannin / AMCAL Midtown
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Thanks for the update!
I visit HAIF a lot but its too hard to digest all the posts there. I noticed today driving down 59 that you can definitely see the new Hines tower making its mark. I can't wait till that one is done, it is going to really bulk up the skyline. |
Great stuff going up in Houston!
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Unbelievable... I'm so lost with it all!! :D
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Great photos! Love following the progress of this city.
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there;s a lot goin on here.
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Having Regent Square, The Allen, & Hanover River Oaks all breaking ground and going up at the same time is going to usher in a staggering, instantaneous change for that entire section of town along the Bayou. I imagine a Houston answer to the rows of pricey residential towers along Lake Shore Drive and Lincoln Park in Chicago.
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Hanover will be a HUGE improvement over what's there now; rotting old county buildings.
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More towers to join The Driscoll at River Oaks Shopping Center? Maybe.
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Currently Allen Parkway has 9 highrises over 10 stories tall. The Allen is 4 highrises, Regent Square is 5 highrises (one built already), Hanover Buffalo Bayou is 3 highrises, that highrise Urb mentioned, and assuming "multiple" means at least 2 near the Driscoll then that makes a total of 14 highrises in the pipeline. If you add the 9 currently already built then that's a total of 23. Now that's truly an emerging skyline and its only 1 mile west of downtown and will play a pivotal role in eventually merging Allen Parkway with Upper Kirby. Allen Parkway and Kirby are the same road, it just changes its name once it curves near the bayou. Upper Kirby also has a lot of highrises on the drawing board. There's an entire mega-project on Kirby near 59 where those old offices were that were torn down, it'll be right next to Greenway Plaza, which Upper Kirby has already merged with. There's also that HEB with a highrise on top where that strip center that was torn down was and that land is big enough to accommodate a second highrise or a midrise too. Then there's that Westmore thing on Kirby too, which isn't a highrise but is 7 stories and is one of those midrises that's vertical enough to serve as fill in for that burgeoning skyline. Now all Upper Kirby needs is more growth northwards towards Allen Parkway, I think that'll be the last gap filled in from Uptown to Downtown. Allen Parkway's skyline is growing towards both Upper Kirby and Downtown. Next to Upper Kirby is Greenway Plaza which has the RO, its a huge mega-development, there's also that second phase hotel near Levy Park, and Randall Davis' Paramount too. These are only the ones we know about, there's no doubt going to be more new developments popping up in this area in the next 3-5 years. Looking forward to these. Cant forget about Montrose, which is beginning to develop a cluster of highrises of its own too. |
Wow! These are exciting times! Especially with all of these skylines merging together. Future panorama will be massive. Do you think TMC will be merging with the other skylines you mentioned or is it too far away?
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Midtown is the one that's been holding that area back but that's now starting to change too. Before the only highrises in Midtown were the ones fronting the freeway just across from Downtown. Technically these were in Midtown but to most people they were more associated with downtown. So excluding the highrises in midtown along the Pierce Elevated freeway ramp, the only other highrise building that Midtown had was that HCC building. Then Caydon bought some land near the HCC building and planned 5 highrises. The first one named Drewery Place is already done with construction and the second one will be over 500 feet tall and will have the Kimpton Hotel is now in site prep about to start construction. There will be 3 more, with a few of them also being very tall, one of them if I remember correct will be around 640 feet. The biggest benefit to this mega-development (called Laneways) will be at street level. It will implement the arcade and laneway system that Melbourne has, which will be the first of its kind in the US and a little piece of Melbourne will be brought to life in Houston. Near there PMG is also building a 30 story highrise which should be almost finished with construction. So if you count the HCC building, Drewery Place, and that 30 story PMG building then Midtown has 3 highrises now. Laneways will build another 4 more, some of them will be very tall. AMCAL also has a 30 story highrise proposed and there's a 21 story one on Elgin also proposed. When and if all of these are finished then Midtown will have 9 highrises, up from just the 1 it had only a few years ago. Land is also becoming scarce now in Midtown, especially with Rice planning the Ion and Innovation District on 13 blocks in south Midtown, so more highrise proposals will become the norm. Along with more midrises too. To connect Downtown to the TMC with a very thick 4 mile long vertical wall, Midtown will need 30-40 highrises. That's about 20-30 more years of infill and growth. But the good news is that Downtown, TMC, and Museum District are all doing their part quickly, so the wait is only on Midtown to get it going faster. It'll happen. Midtown is Houston's premier entertainment neighborhood and its hottest living space. It's too in demand and its grown like crazy. Btw, to change gears a little bit I missed one more mega-development on Allen Parkway. Buffalo Heights District. That'll have 3-4 highrises and several midrises of its own. That would bring Allen Parkways expected number up to 27 if they all get built (Allen Parkway currently only has 9 highrises). Every major highrise cluster from Uptown to Downtown and Downtown to TMC has at least one major mega-development anchoring it. TMC: 1. TMC3 (2 highrises and several midrises, like a sea of them) 2. Innovation Tower (the other 2 Medistar towers are already completed, leaving only Innovation tower left to do) 3. A&M campus expansion 4. UT Health campus expansion (several other highrises and midrises planned by other medical systems expanding like MD Anderson, TX women's health, etc) Museum District: 1. Museo Plaza (3 highrises, the tallest one is over 600 feet) 2. the Parklane Towers (3 highrises, the tallest one will be 500 feet) (several other highrises like X Houston, Chelsea, Boone Manor, and a couple more also planned) Midtown: 1. Laneways (5 towers total, 1 of them already done) (two other highrises also on the drawing board that AMCAL one and that Elgin one) Allen Parkway: 1. the Allen 2. Regent Square 3. Buffalo Heights District 4. Hanover Buffalo Bayou (several individual highrises also planned, the news story yesterday hinted at "multiple" towers near the Driscoll and that highrise Urbannizer pointed out a few posts ago too) Upper Kirby: 1. the mega-development at Kirby and 59 (4 highrises) (a couple of other individual highrises like the one on top of the HEB and the Westmore one) Greenway Plaza: 1. the RO (7-8 highrises) (the second phase hotel near Levy Park and the Paramount) Uptown: 1. McNair Campus (3 towers, tallest one could become the second tallest building in uptown after Williams Tower since its 51 stories) 2. the Perennial (3 towers, one was completed a few years ago for BBVA, one is supposed to be a Loews Hotel and the other one an office) (several individual highrises, too many to list) Downtown actually seems like the only core cluster that doesn't have a mega-development of its own but that's excusable because they're building Texas Tower, the Preston, and that Block 387 with Block 98, Theater Square, and maybe 6HC still in the pipeline. Though 6HC appears to be a longshot. Downtown has built 609 Main and BG Group Place which are over 700 feet and 600 feet in recent years and dozens of other highrises near Market Square and Discovery Green Park. Downtown is trying to quadruple its population in the next 20 years, so we can expect to see several more highrises and midrises proposed there in the future. Even the Energy Corridor has a mega-development in the pipeline with Republic Square. That has 7 highrises but that's a longterm project due to the slippage of oil prices a few years ago and the state of vacancies in the Energy Corridor. There are several other highrises in Montrose or the Heights that I've prolly missed mentioning. The Greystar phase 2 under construction in the Heights comes to mind but I covered a decent bit of what is to come. From downtown to TMC, the holdover right now is Midtown. From Uptown to Downtown the holdovers are that gap between Upper Kirby and Allen Parkway and the gap between Greenway Plaza to Uptown, though there's another way around that one. Greenway Plaza just needs to grow out towards Westheimer and then use Westheimer to grow towards the River Oaks District shopping area. Thanks to the RO and highrises like the Paramount that is already happening. So that wont be a problem as long as HOU gets more highrise developments to bulk that area up some more. All HOU needs is these projects and a good deal more infill from some currently unannounced future stuff to beef up that wall of highrises from uptown to downtown and its done. Even more distant in the future will be Uptown going west and connecting with Memorial City, City Centre, Westchase, and Energy Corridor. Memorial City, City Center, and Energy Corridor are already merging with each other, they just need to beef up their size some more. They’re already a straight line of development along I-10, flowing from one to the next and then to the next one after that. They just need more bulk to fill in some of the small gaps between them. Westchase just needs more towers going north to I-10 and it will merge with those City Center and Energy Corridor. Chinatown just south of Westchase also has 6 highrises planned. There's 2 twin 33 story towers and 4 highrises from that KP Plaza thing, so Westchase's skyline is also bulking up. But Memorial City/City Center/Westchase/Energy Corridor merging with Uptown is very far down the line because between Uptown and Memorial City there are 5-7 miles of only lowrises and midrises with barely any highrises currently in between them. It will take a very long time to fill in a gap that large. Probably 40 years or longer. So this one is a very distant possibility. Either at the end of our lifetimes or after we’re all gone. But when this starts happening then all of HOU's main business districts and skyline clusters will become one, except for Greenspoint. Greenspoint wont ever integrate into the larger skyline because there's 15-20 miles of single family homes between downtown and Greenspoint. That's a gap that will never get filled with highrises in our lifetime, that's just too much area to fill in and you're basically starting from scratch. 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N90, I really like your posts.
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^^I concur. N90 is so precise and leaves nothing out. N90, in response to your post, it's like we're witnessing the Manhattanization of Houston. Maybe that's a bit much but you know what I mean. I lived in Houston in 2011 and the city has changed a lot since then. I can't imagine what the skylines will look like in 20-30 years.
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This is a future phase of Boston based GID's Regent Square in Houston. It's in the Allen Parkway area which is bursting at the seams with mega-developments right now. The future phase is architecturally different from the current phase 2 that's under-construction now, that's what I like about Regent Square, it'll be a mix of architectural styles between its different phases. This future phase brings some Boston flair to the heart of Houston.
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That's by far the most impressive project I've seen here in years. Hope it comes to fruition without being value engineered into oblivion.
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Regent Square was the one project I was most excited about when it was first proposed. I was bummed it was delayed due to the financial crisis and it seemed like it might even have died. But man it has come back super strong now. It's been great seeing these projects get resurrected. I hope the proposed Ritz in Uptown is next.
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I understand what you’re saying and I mean no disrespect but I have to disagree with you. This project is huge and each of its different phases will have its own characteristic to it. Completely different from the other phases. I'm not worried about Regent Square’s future phase. Even in GID's office they have a 3D model in their presentation room with all of Regent Square and all of the phases put together and how it’s supposed to look when its fully built out. Their most recent design for it, etc. Like I mentioned earlier in my post, different agencies are designing the different phases. Phase 2, which is the one that's currently under construction wasn't designed by GID itself or suited for their preference in architectural style, it was designed by a local contractor from HOU. Phase 3 however is designed by GID and their team of designers from BOS and it shows in the architectural difference between the two phases. This was always going to be a development incorporating different architectural styles because its being built in phases many years apart from each other. This is the phase 2 under construction and this is their model of it in their showroom. If you look on the right then you'll see the red brick building from phase 3, a different architectural style from the phase 2. https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...5587ceb8089d86 This is one view of the model of a future phase, this model is from mid-2019 btw... still designed to have that BOS architecture style in the future phase (red brick buildings, white brick buildings, etc) https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...10c14c5dd9a236 It still looks as nice as it was before, even though I wish the guy that took pics of the model took more pics where the highrise wasn’t blocking most of the future phase and took more pics from other angles of the future phase. But from the architectural style seen in the models, it shows that the next phase is going to be what GID had envisioned from the start. The only complaint I have against Regent Square is how slow its been. Other mega-developments have been proposed and fully built out in just a few years time but the picture I just linked you to of the model from May 2019 shows a part of the future phase with a different architecture style and color scheme from the phase 2 under construction now. All the info from them in the last 1 year and the last 3 years says their future phase won’t stray away from their original vision for RS. Maybe things will change later on with time but for right now they’ve still got a lot of their original concept for much of this project. |
New info today on the Innovation Tower, TMC3, and Texas A&M’s new campus. Innovation Tower will become TMC’s new tallest building.
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[HAIF] Memorial Hermann TMC Expansion
Older, but nice pic of the current expansion by ekdrm2d1 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...e3a27bc304ce7e https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...8b925ea142f04a https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...f5edbab9311cf1 Awesome pic and screen grab from Hindseky of the new helipad on top of the expansion https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...aee8bc88803606 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...a18fb85ce1073e https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...39c1ecc76c1acd https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...2a0172e475d649 |
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[Upper Kriby] Hanover River Oaks - 39 Stories
Pics and instagram screen shots by ekdrm2d1 on HAIF https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...18dae02e2a3098 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...c3c0d6f9c811a5 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...5d0ae376a16895 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...27795a17f78975 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/...6e086313e3a7f7 |
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