Posted Jan 16, 2019, 12:07 AM
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New hotel, residential, office mixed-use project planned near downtown
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A developer is seeking variances from the city of Houston planning commission for a 13.6-acre mixed-use development about 2 miles west of downtown.
Documents from the Jan. 17 agenda show plans for a development on six reserves just south of Buffalo Bayou, between West Dallas and Allen Parkway, extending from Marston to Tirrell Street. It's near the small Autry Park and South Shepherd Drive. Plans show a hotel, residential component, office building with two floors of coworking space, retail space, activity lawn and plaza.
While the variance form and plat document don't list the developer name, additional pages from the Jan. 17 agenda show Houston-based Hanover Co.’s name and refer to the project as Hanover Buffalo Bayou. Requests for comment from Hanover weren’t immediately returned. The form was submitted by Houston-based LJA Engineering Inc., and Baltimore-based Design Collective and Houston landscape architecture firm OJB are also listed on some of the pages.
In October, Houston City Council approved a deal to sell about 4.54 acres at 3540 W. Dallas St. to the apartment developer. The property is within the site where Hanover's proposed mixed-use project is planned, but Hanover hasn’t closed on the tract yet, according to Harris County Appraisal District records. According to a City Council agenda item from October, Hanover R.S. Limited Partnership will pay $30.6 million for the land, and the city will split the proceeds evenly with Harris County.
The variances requested include extending Marston Street across the project and adding another street, Buffalo Rising, to extend from West Dallas to Allen Parkway. A site plan shows two additional proposed roads, Autry Park Drive and Buffalo Park Drive. The developer is also requesting a zero-foot building line, stating in the variance application that “the size, and location of this development lends itself to require densification with the zero foot building line.”
The city planning commission will vote Jan. 17.
Hanover also has other projects underway around Houston. The developer's second tower on Post Oak, the 280-unit Hanover Blvd Place, will feature a clear-bottom “sky pool” jutting out from the rooftop deck. Hanover is the developer and contractor for Houston-based Weingarten Realty Investors’ (NYSE: WRI) The Driscoll, a $150 million, 30-story high-rise set to overlook the River Oaks Shopping Center. And Hanover River Oaks — a luxury apartment tower in the Upper Kirby area — broke ground about a year ago and will include a first-floor retail component.
Near Hanover's proposed Buffalo Bayou project, Atlanta-based Wood Partners could be one step closer to pursuing a new apartment building named Alta West Dallas near the corner of Shepherd and West Dallas. In November, the city of Houston planning commission approved a request to replat two tracts of land into one nearly 3-acre reserve.
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