Posted Oct 2, 2026, 10:40 AM
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The Milam
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The Milam is Zhukovskyi Development’s flagship adaptive-reuse conversion: the 24-story, roughly 542,919-square-foot landmark known as 919 Milam — built in 1956 as the Bank of the Southwest Building, the first Houston tower clad in an all-aluminum curtain wall — reborn as a vibrant mixed-use address. The plan brings approximately 400 luxury apartments, studio to two-bedroom, to the heart of downtown, while keeping several office floors in service so the building works around the clock.
At the base, a tunnel-level food hall and restaurant concourse is being curated, with a limited number of spaces now available to lease — a rare downtown opportunity that arrives with built-in demand. The space plugs directly into the Houston downtown tunnel system, where 919 Milam has long stood as a central hub with access in all directions. Operators get a climate-controlled, weather-proof corridor funneling downtown’s workforce past the door, a shared food-hall format that spreads back-of-house and seating cost across vendors, and — for the first time — a growing base of on-site residents who eat dinner and stay on weekends. Select restaurant and retail spaces are available to lease now, ahead of the August 2027 groundbreaking.
The acquisition recently closed. Houston led all ten major U.S. metros in return-to-office in 2025, weekend foot traffic downtown has rebounded to roughly 97% of pre-pandemic levels, and a wave of office-to-residential conversions is bringing new full-time residents to the core. A November 2023 AECOM study ranked 919 Milam the second-most conversion-suitable building downtown. With groundbreaking targeted for August 2027 and delivery in early 2029, the operators who move now will define the address from day one.
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