HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 82

Wattleigh · #**1621** Posted **Feb 19, 2008, 8:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Von

I know its like off subject...but when will Discovery Tower site will show any signs of movement?

It's a Houston thread so it's not really OT

Anyway, over the past couple of days, they've been assembling some equipment on the site. I took these photos earlier in the morning.

photoLith · #**1622** Posted **Feb 19, 2008, 9:56 PM**

Good to see them doing something at least, and its great to see all of that parking getting turned into towers, even if theyre just 30 stories tall. It will add so much to the downtown experience to get rid of all that parking. Are there any renders for this project?

Wattleigh · #**1623** Posted **Feb 19, 2008, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by photolitherland

^^^ So thats where the 60 story Discovery tower might be? I thought it was closer to the JP Morgan Chase tower? Good to see some crap parking turned into buildings though! This will be a great addition to the skyline and the downtown street life! Lets pray it goes through!

Discovery Tower's only 31 floors and it's at 1501 McKinney. It's the Houston City Centre proposal that's the tall one that's been pitched for the block across from the Chase Center Garage.

rdavis4559 · #**1624** Posted **Feb 20, 2008, 9:38 AM**

2 Things out of Chron.com this morning:

"Rail lines can be adjusted for new stadium"
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/5554299.html

"The second leg of the Grand Parkway...is now finished on the east side."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/5554281.html

Von · #**1625** Posted **Feb 21, 2008, 5:23 AM**

okay those are some great news!!! well at least for me

anyways I had to go to downtown today with my friend and took these two shots my friend hates it for me to take pics with my phone bc he thinks is weird... ? lol anyways here there are

rdavis4559 · #**1626** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 9:16 AM**

At the Houston Pavilions site, they are making great progress on the skywalks. I don;t have a construction picture right now, but one of the skywalks they have started looks from the renderings like it will be open to the environment. I can't be sure... but see what I mean?

Xeelee · #**1627** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 3:09 PM**

That looks nice.

Complex01 · #**1628** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 3:12 PM**

It looks very nice. I cant wait till it opens and stuff. Very Kewl...

rdavis4559 · #**1629** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 4:34 PM**

2 things I saw on HAIF today:

1) The newest office project on the West Loop is unique in a couple of ways.

The 20-story building is the first development venture for Dallas-based The Novati Group, which acquired Bank of America Center in downtown Houston with the General Electric Pension Trust last August for a record price of approximately $370 million.

The building also fits right in with a Landry's Restaurants Inc. marketing brochure making the rounds.

Novati is buying 3.5 acres out of a parcel owned by Landry's on the southbound feeder road between Post Oak and San Felipe.

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houst...25/story1.html

2) Finger has plans for Montrose parcel
The Finger Cos. has purchased 11 acres west of downtown on West Dallas between Montrose and Waugh for a possible development that could include apartments, shops, offices and a hotel.

The tract is south of, and adjacent to, the AIG complex on Allen Parkway. Finger said plans have not been made final.

Cushman & Wakefield's David Cook, Jeff Peden, Marshall Davidson and Graham Horton represented the seller, Knickerbocker Corp. The price was not disclosed.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/5561132.html

Wattleigh · #**1630** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 4:34 PM**

He beat me to it by a few seconds

Xeelee · #**1631** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 5:59 PM**

Man you guys are phast!

Saddle Man · #**1632** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 6:11 PM**

Anybody remember the remember the building that looked like cubes stacked off-center from each other. There were rumbling about it being on Westhiemer in Montrose. I liked that one.

Shasta · #**1633** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 7:07 PM**

Here's the old Ziegler Cooper design for the 20 story tower at 1600 West Loop. The HBJ article states they will be using the same one so I imagine it will look a lot like this;

That same article also mentions the possibility for a 21 story hotel tower located on the same parcel.

rdavis4559 · #**1634** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 7:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by kingkirbythegreat

Anybody remember the remember the building that looked like cubes stacked off-center from each other. There were rumbling about it being on Westhiemer in Montrose. I liked that one.

I liked it too.... haven't heard anything about it though.

Xeelee · #**1635** Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 10:06 PM**

I think it was nothing but a fantasy.

rdavis4559 · #**1636** Posted **Feb 23, 2008, 7:51 PM**

Several more things I grabbed off of HAIF:

1) Commercial real estate firm Transwestern Houston has acquired 50 acres along the Texas 288 corridor and plans to put up six industrial buildings there over the next two years.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/5563713.html

2) Archstone-Smith is planning to demolish the 12-year-old Archstone Memorial Heights apartment complex to make room for a new mixed-use project.
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houst...5/story10.html

3) Nearly 400,000 square feet of new office space will be under construction in The Woodlands area by mid-spring.
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houst....html?page=2#1

Reverberation · #**1637** Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 12:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by rdavis4559

At the Houston Pavilions site, they are making great progress on the skywalks. I don;t have a construction picture right now, but one of the skywalks they have started looks from the renderings like it will be open to the environment. I can't be sure... but see what I mean?

Look at all those people! In fact, I see the same three guys over and over again in that shot. I guess thats how they make those.