HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 545

The Best Forumer · #**10881** Posted **Oct 22, 2018, 8:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by llamaorama

What I heard from a relative who is an engineer:

The real plan is that TXDOT is proposing to widen and improve the interchange ramp and lane configuration on the other sides of the downtown loop. You will get your own lanes if you want to go from 45 north to 45 south. The pierce elevated thus becomes redundant, and is considered substandard design in any case.

This means there is a chance to tear out the viaduct from Allen parkway to the 59 interchange and rejoin downtown to midtown. Right now it’s a grodey parking area/homeless camp under the elevated structure. This is also why I don’t like a high line park. Get ride of the ENTIRE thing. Make the downtown blocks seamless with midtown, with the corner of the 4th ward,etc. save the money and use it to make streets elsewhere across the city less ratchet and make people will actually walk places.

This is the Best Post Of The Day.

The Best Forumer · #**10882** Posted **Oct 22, 2018, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by thatguysly

The greyhound and McDs are just areas to be. The homeless population won't go anywhere because there are a lot of outreach centers in Midtown. As long as those exist the homeless will be in the area.

But to just tear down and build doesn't solve the problem, it might move it a little but it doesn't end homelessness. If you really hate seeing homeless people then the real solution is to ship them to katy.

I agree. We need to do something about the bus station.

Urbannizer · #**10883** Posted **Oct 22, 2018, 10:05 PM**

Alexan Lower Heights

Currently under construction and part of a 21-acre mixed-use development.

2018-10-11 18.41.08 by Marc longoria, on Flickr

Crest at Taylor

Fencing is up, warehouse on site to be demolished soon.

Wattleigh · #**10884** Posted **Oct 23, 2018, 5:26 PM**

2850 Fannin - on the far left

Houston skyline from 288 by Arie, on Flickr

3300 Main

c/o 'rechlin' on HAIF

c/o 'MarathonMan' on HAIF

Dariusb · #**10885** Posted **Oct 25, 2018, 4:13 PM**

That' skyline pic of Houston is beautiful!

Zapatan · #**10886** Posted **Oct 25, 2018, 4:23 PM**

What's the status with 7200 main? That building is absolutely beautiful

Wattleigh · #**10887** Posted **Oct 25, 2018, 4:52 PM**

The Revere at River Oaks

Crane is up per Swamplot.

Twitter1 · #**10888** Posted **Oct 25, 2018, 5:26 PM**

^ almost took the exact same shot. I’ll post it later. Or, you can do it

The Best Forumer · #**10889** Posted **Oct 25, 2018, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zapatan

What's the status with 7200 main? That building is absolutely beautiful

Not sure but that's a good question!

Twitter1 · #**10890** Posted **Oct 26, 2018, 11:15 PM**

The Revere at River Oaks

Urbannizer · #**10891** Posted **Oct 29, 2018, 9:49 PM**

Museum Fine Arts, Houston Completes Phase 2 Of Its $450M Campus Redevelopment Project

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One of the largest contiguous spaces for a public museum's conservation efforts now caps and cantilevers over an existing parking garage at Museum Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).

Freshly completed, the two-story Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation has been the second phase of the museum's ongoing campus $450 million redevelopment, which is slated to wrap up in 2020.

A two-story project, the 39,000-square-foot conservation facility was designed by Lake|Flato Architects. The center consolidates the museum's previously dispersed conservation department, established 20 years ago.

In profile, the new center's exterior unfolds in a series of glass-and-steel boxes atop the museum's four-level parking garage. These studio bays along the perimeter (one for each discipline: painting, sculpture, textile and decorative arts) have clerestory windows to catch the indirect, conservation-friendly north light and ceiling heights of up to 22 feet. The building's floor plan also has facilities for conservation functions requiring darkness, such as imaging and x-ray studios. Support spaces occupy the corridor bisecting the light and dark work areas. Mechanical support is located a level below, which freed up ceiling space from duct work and piping.

MFAH's master plan for its 14 acres calls for a more connected, pedestrian-friendly campus that incorporates existing and new buildings, plazas and landscaped public spaces as well as improves the sidewalks, lighting, tunnels and parking.

llamaorama · #**10892** Posted **Oct 29, 2018, 10:02 PM**

Excellent picture of Midtown. Some of the buildings in that shot are kind of ugly IMO, but at least density is starting to happen.

The Best Forumer · #**10893** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by llamaorama

Excellent picture of Midtown. Some of the buildings in that shot are kind of ugly IMO, but at least density is starting to happen.

Yes. Hopefully not too long before we can put up an 800 footer here...

Urbannizer · #**10894** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 6:30 PM**

State National Bank Building (412 Main)

The owners are in the process of selling 412 Main to "Highrock Hospitality, LLC", which means we'll see this converted to hotel use.

http://images4.loopnet.com/d2/TG_9d9...g/document.pdf

Wattleigh · #**10895** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 3:56 PM**

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...ith-hines.html

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Exclusive: Houston upstream co. in talks with Hines to relocate to new CityCentre tower

By Cara Smith – Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Oct 30, 2018, 4:17pm CDT

Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) is exploring the possibility of relocating to a new tower in CityCentre, sources with knowledge of the deal told the Houston Business Journal.

The new tower would contain around 600,000 square feet of office space on a roughly three-acre tract of land at Interstate 10 and Beltway 8. Houston-based Hines is in conversations to potentially build that tower and buy the land from Houston-based Midway, according to the sources.

Marathon's Houston headquarters is currently at the company's namesake building, Marathon Oil Tower, at 5555 San Felipe St. in the Uptown/Galleria area.

Marathon and Hines declined to comment. Midway couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Nothing has been signed or is finalized, sources said.

Wattleigh · #**10896** Posted **Nov 1, 2018, 3:19 AM**

2850 Fannin

Still from Drone Video - c/o 'phillip_white' on HAIF

c/o 'ekdrm2d1' on HAIF

3300 Main

c/o 'ekdrm2d1' on HAIF

Hanover River Oaks

c/o 'ekdrm2d1' on HAIF

Revere at River Oaks

c/o 'ekdrm2d1' on HAIF

Gables Westcreek

c/o 'ekdrm2d1' on HAIF (10/21)

c/o 'ekdrm2d1' on HAIF (10/28)

Urbannizer · #**10897** Posted **Nov 2, 2018, 5:51 AM**

Plans revealed for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s new Houston-area campus

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A Springwoods Village campus for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is scheduled to break ground in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to an Oct. 31 press release.

HPE has preleased 568,000 square feet for its new campus, which represents the largest office deal that has been executed in Houston this year, according to HBJ research.

The Palo Alto, California-based company announced last November that it would move out of its existing Houston campus after unprecedented flooding two years in a row. The company planned to build a new facility to keep most of its Houston operations in the area, but it will relocate its manufacturing operations.

However, specific details were not finalized at the time.

Now, the developers behind CityPlace at Springwoods Village — Houston-based Patrinely Group, San Antonio-based USAA Real Estate and CDC Houston — have announced HPE will be the fourth major corporation with a campus in the mixed-use development. The other three existing or announced campuses are for Houston-based Southwestern Energy Inc. (NYSE: SWN), Houston-based American Bureau of Shipping and California-based HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ).

Urbannizer · #**10898** Posted **Nov 2, 2018, 9:20 PM**

Plucking the Cloverleafs off Waugh Dr. at Memorial So Extra Park Space Can Take Their Place

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HERE’S another highlight from the city council’s meeting this morning: Plans to get rid of the cloverleaf interchange that moves traffic between Waugh Dr. and Memorial Dr. got the green-light and will be sent over to the Houston Galveston Area Council as part of an application for funding. The idea first emerged in the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s 2002 Master Plan as a way to make room for more bayou-side park space at the crossroads. Right now, all the land adjacent to the ramps — shaded gray in the map above — is vacant, except for the portions lassoed by the circular roadways, where 4 isolated tree groves continue to undergo seasonal color changes. You can see they’re gone in the east-facing rendering at top included in the Partnership’s plan — replaced by inlets, islands, stormwater detention, and what looks to be a boathouse at the southeast corner of the 2 roads — all accessible from a network of new walkways that link up to existing bayou-adjacent trails.

In total, 16 new acres are expected to become part of the park — providing a continuous swath of green between Spotts Park and Cleveland Park, shown below on opposite sides of Waugh in a map from the 2002 plan:

A look at what’s there now:

Twitter1 · #**10899** Posted **Nov 3, 2018, 4:12 AM**

This shot of Hanover River Oaks

Urbannizer · #**10900** Posted **Nov 3, 2018, 10:39 AM**

Some new midrise projects proposed/underway around town.

Broadstone N Shepherd at W 15th

8-stories, 337 units by Alliance Residential

Alta 6400 Washington

6-stories, 203 units by Wood Partners

Alta Medical Center

4-stories, 333 units by Wood Partners at 9330 Main