HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 119

photoLith · #**2361** Posted **Jan 7, 2009, 12:20 AM**

Pictures from the medical center from yesterday. A lot of the projects I know nothing about, maybe someone can fill in the blanks.

Behind the not yet finished out patient care center on Main Street.

Maternity Ward or something. It looks like its going to be pretty massive. The billboard says completion will be in 2011.

This building/tower is located quite a ways away from the main medical center, there was no rendering or anything on the site to tell you what it was.

Look at all of those cranes! The medical center is going through a major growing period and is adding at least 12 new scrapers to its skyline. Most arent over 25 floors tall but its still really awesome density.

I counted 32 floors on this rendering.

MD Anderson Caner Centre

Outpatient Care Centre or something like that

A little extra tid bit, two days ago there were thousands of Muslims downtown saying that they did not condone terrorism. It was pretty crazy turning the corner and seeing thousands of people just walking down the street.

Boris · #**2362** Posted **Jan 7, 2009, 2:09 AM**

I really liked that last one. You should submit it to CNN.

TexasBoi · #**2363** Posted **Jan 7, 2009, 2:27 AM**

Yeah, he really should. At the same time, I think the medical center will be very important for the Houston economy in the very near future. So important that people will not realize that there's more to Houston than just oil.

Nickelplate · #**2364** Posted **Jan 7, 2009, 6:20 AM**

It looks like all women and children to me. Maybe only the men condone terrorism. jk

futuresooner · #**2365** Posted **Jan 7, 2009, 7:24 AM**

For an unincorporated area, The Woodlands is extremely nice.

Texas Tuff · #**2366** Posted **Jan 7, 2009, 7:59 PM**

It truly is amazing at how much construction is currently going on in the Medical Center. It's already the largest medical district in the world, I can only imagine what it will look like when all these projects, and the ones still to come, are completed.

A_Thellosovich · #**2367** Posted **Jan 7, 2009, 8:17 PM**

TMC>Dubai

TXLove · #**2368** Posted **Jan 8, 2009, 11:00 PM**

great updates Photolitherland, the medical center is crane porn!!!

Complex01 · #**2369** Posted **Jan 9, 2009, 2:59 AM**

Med Center pics are great. The last pic. Worth a thousand words...

Very Nice.

2009 - And Here We Go...

Xeelee · #**2370** Posted **Jan 11, 2009, 9:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Boris

I really liked that last one. You should submit it to CNN.

Good luck with that...

Xeelee · #**2371** Posted **Jan 11, 2009, 9:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by Nickelplate

It looks like all women and children to me. Maybe only the men condone terrorism. jk

Uh... why are you "jk"... ?

photoLith · #**2372** Posted **Jan 11, 2009, 4:09 PM**

The new YMCA downtown. I had never heard anything about it on here so I thought Id post it. It looks to be only about 4 or 5 stories tall but at least thats another parking lot gone on the side of town that really needs this project. The south side of downtown sucks. All it is is just parking lots and parking garages with a few high-rises here and there. Maybe this project will do a little something for that craptastic area. The picture are from Friday.

The site is located in front of the white abandoned hotel. The older YMCA building is the building on the lower right hand side of the photo. I hope they dont abandon that building because its a beauty.

2727 Kirby from Hotel Zaza on Friday plus the low rise development across the street from it.

The Mosaic

One Park Place is on the far right.

I just had to post this photo on here for the heck of it, the sunset was incredible last Thursday, probably one of the best Ive seen in a while so I rushed to the west side of town to snap some photos of it. Enjoy.

photoLith · #**2373** Posted **Jan 11, 2009, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nickelplate

It looks like all women and children to me. Maybe only the men condone terrorism. jk

No, I think the women and children had to be separate for some strange religious reason. There were more men and such there than women.

Complex01 · #**2374** Posted **Jan 12, 2009, 11:29 PM**

Nice pics. I really like 2727 Kirby. I want to live there.

The new YMCA downtown will be great for the location. Hope it spurs more stuff down the road.

Thanks for sharing...

Boris · #**2375** Posted **Jan 13, 2009, 2:40 AM**

That last shot was beautiful PL.

HOUSTONIAN57 · #**2376** Posted **Jan 20, 2009, 3:07 AM**

SouthPointe

Renderings

From Swamplot...

Quote:

One of Swamplot's best tipsters forwards a link to a website featuring lovely renderings of a family of glassy office buildings and blocky parking garages squatting on the former AstroWorld site — along with a rather direct question: "Is this real???"

Well, the Crosswell Torian website is a real website, where the development company proudly presents its AstroWorld tower roundup under the name SouthPointe: "a hundred+ acre, transit-oriented mixed use development." But a brand-new 13.5-million-sq.-ft. project doesn't exactly seem tailor-made for today's cautious real-estate market.

If the SouthPointe design isn't real, though, it's a brilliant parody — down to the ultra-generic name and its not-so-silent extra vowel. It expertly answers this question: How might a bunch of suburban developers — some of them from, say, Conroe — make a complete mockery of Houston's highest profile and best connected redevelopment site?

To be fair, the former AstroWorld site brings with it a number of problems: It has far-too-easy access to Houston's major employment and activity centers by freeway, light-rail line, and even pedestrian bridge. In less deft hands, the development might make it too easy for people to transfer from one transportation method to another. Fortunately, the designers of SouthPointe have avoided that sort of nonsense with their clever plan, clearly modeled after several better-known suburban office parks.

Except this office park appears to be built out of several smaller office parks, each of which is labeled with a separate theme: "institutional/medical," "office/corporate," residential, or "mixed use/urban." A collection of separately themed office parks — on the site of a former theme park. Get it?

They even have a website Now that was made today.

http://crosstorian.com/southpointe

Also this developement has been redesigned multiple times due to its location, the developer already owns the land and the site is already cleared.

photoLith · #**2377** Posted **Jan 20, 2009, 6:22 AM**

hmm.. never heard of this project. Would be interesting, only wish it was more dense but at least it will add yet another skyline to Houston. I highly doubt this is going to be seeing the light of day anytime soon. If done well, it could really be a success. Kinda reminds me of the Woodlands Waterway project in some aspects. When will freakin developers get it in houston that towers spaced far apart with stupid void green areas doesnt work well? All it will do is that it will make it feel like a glorified office park. Uhg, but it could be promising. hmmm......................................

HOUSTONIAN57 · #**2378** Posted **Jan 20, 2009, 2:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by photolitherland

hmm.. never heard of this project. Would be interesting, only wish it was more dense but at least it will add yet another skyline to Houston. I highly doubt this is going to be seeing the light of day anytime soon. If done well, it could really be a success. Kinda reminds me of the Woodlands Waterway project in some aspects. When will freakin developers get it in houston that towers spaced far apart with stupid void green areas doesnt work well? All it will do is that it will make it feel like a glorified office park. Uhg, but it could be promising. hmmm......................................

I am suprise to hear you say that, its what makes Hoston unique.

Anyway the developer already has a website for this (Its in my other post) and the location for this is aready cleared.This is were astroworld use to be and on the other side of 610 is Reliant Stadium and the Astrodome.Also the developer wants the new railline to go right through this project for better access.

HOUSTONIAN57 · #**2379** Posted **Jan 20, 2009, 2:56 PM**

New Renderings of Regent Square:

Forgot to post this yesterday and as you can see its 4 towers now..

After a delay and a new design for this developement expect a ground breaking in 2Q of 2009..

More renderings and info here: http://www.cbre.com/USA/US/TX/Housto...e.htm?pageid=0

HOUSTONIAN57 · #**2380** Posted **Jan 20, 2009, 3:24 PM**

Earth Quest Adventures.

Rendering:

Link: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/......ost&id=1150

I think its 1,600 acres and Groundbreaking is somewhere between Spring-Fall.

When completed it will be the second largest tourist attraction in Texas. (Alamo is 1st)