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Environmental Commission ponders new South Central PUD

Another South Central Waterfront planned unit development proposal has officially commenced, with real estate development attorney and City Council regular Richard Suttle stopping by the Environmental Commission last week for preliminary negotiations.

If realized, the project will bulldoze the defunct Texas Department of Transportation headquarters at 200 E. Riverside to make way for two 410-foot high-rises with 1.38 million square feet of office space and 29,318 square feet of ground-floor retail. Suttle says the development will feature 0.87 acres of pocket parks and open space and a potential Blue Line rail station, and will significantly raise the environmental and community amenity specs at a site presently engulfed by dormant pavement.

Suttle said while there are currently no plans for housing on the site, that could change as the project moves forward. Only time will tell, but those interested can expect further details to take shape when the project makes its next stop at the South Central Waterfront Advisory Board.