HOUSTON | Ace & Ivy River Oaks | 183 FT | 13 FLOORS
Project in brief: An existing 3-story office building at was sold earlier in the year to a developer at 3100 W. Alabama in the Greenway/Upper Kirby neighborhood.
In its place would be a new mixed-use structure featuring residential condominiums, an interior courtyard (marketed as a plaza or paseo) and spaces for retail including a number of pickleball courts, as well as parking. I notated the structure as having 11 floors as the penthouse atop the building looks to be for mechanical purposes rather than habitable space.
The courtyard/retail component has been redesigned somewhat and after being revised further in the past few weeks, it was able to gain approval of the Planning Commission yesterday.
The Planning Commission approved the variance request. A House and Robertson architect spoke during the meeting and so did the developer Wilson Ho who said it will have 11 pickle ball courts.
A note - I missed it before, but it looks like the overall height has increased a bit. The 10/16 agenda for the Planning Commission show this now to be a 13-story structure and 183' to the top of the penthouse.
Demolition of the existing structure is underway. c/o hindesky on HAIF who writes...
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Plumbing demo is completed, crew was doing core drilling but only 1 spot so far but may come back to do more once the building is demolished. They said they hit sand for 75' and clay at 150'. Grant MacKay's excavator is on site and interior demolition is taking place. I would expect them to get the building demolition permit any day now. The whole lot is fenced off. All the utilities around the site have been located and marked.
Exclusive: $100M River Oaks condo project to include 45,000-square-foot indoor pickleball club
By Marissa Luck,
Staff Writer
Feb 26, 2026
A planned $100 million boutique condo tower in River Oaks aims to push Houston’s luxury market further into the realm of wellness living, pairing 31 high-end residences with an onsite 45,000-square-foot indoor pickleball club and spa-like features built directly into each unit.
Called Ace and Ivy, the proposed 11-story tower represents one of the most intensive efforts yet to integrate a wellness-forward focus into a high-end condominium community in Houston. The 400,000-square-foot mixed-use project enters an increasingly competitive luxury condo pipeline stretching from The Woodlands to Uptown, where developers are escalating amenities to capture a limited pool of high-end buyers.
With condo pricing starting at $2.8 million, Ace and Ivy residences will be part of a 1.7-acre development at 3100 West Alabama Street. About 10,000 square feet of wellness-focused retail space is also planned by real estate firm Everlight Group.
Developer Winson Ho did not originally set out to build a mixed-use project with a residential tower. After discovering pickleball two years ago, Ho was frustrated that there wasn’t an indoor pickleball club near his home in River Oaks, so he set out to build one himself.
Over time, though, his idea evolved into a broader mixed-use project, anchored by community filled with residents sharing a passion for pickleball and wellness.
Ace and Ivy is the first project for real estate firm Everlight Group, but Ho envisions replicating the concept elsewhere if it proves to be successful in Houston.
"I'm not developing real estate because I love real estate. I'm developing real estate as a means to an end, and the end is to create a center of community,” said Ho, founder and CEO of Everlight Group.
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