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The Hamilton Apartments At 1800 St. Joseph Pkwy.


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This block seems suited for a gas station or some type of strip center, but not so much for residential. It just seems far too noisy and distanced from the downtown core. I wonder what imppace residential in this area would have on downtown overall. I would think marginal, especially when compared to the emply lots that are readily available in better locales.

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According to HCAD, 1800 St Joseph is owned by John Beeson. Did a little search and found this:

http://realtynewsreport.com/2014/07/28/city-of-houston-rejecting-john-beesons-high-bid-of-40-million-for-tract-near-downtown-houston/

 

Article is about the land on West Dallas and Gillette. But if he does own it, he's a developer with a fat check book.

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According to HCAD, 1800 St Joseph is owned by John Beeson. Did a little search and found this:

http://realtynewsreport.com/2014/07/28/city-of-houston-rejecting-john-beesons-high-bid-of-40-million-for-tract-near-downtown-houston/

 

Article is about the land on West Dallas and Gillette. But if he does own it, he's a developer with a fat check book.

 

This is an interesting revelation!  I was impressed by his plan for that tract.  I can't wait to see what he has planned for this run-down lot.

 

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Yeah I wish John Beeson would have got the West Dallas/Gillette property. He had two 30 story towers and retail planned for that site.

ugh.. you just had to bring that up. i swear, if Alliance ends up throwing up another midrise apartment complex on that entire lot im going to be severely bummed. at least save room for an office building or condo tower along Allen or something.

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ugh.. you just had to bring that up. i swear, if Alliance ends up throwing up another midrise apartment complex on that entire lot im going to be severely bummed. at least save room for an office building or condo tower along Allen or something.

Has Alliance every did anything except midrise apartments ?

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it seems like a horrible place for an apartment complex with elevated freeway on two sides.  will it be affordable housing maybe?  i certainly wouldn't plop down market rates for that locale.  soundproofing seems like a necessity.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Providence+Uptown/@29.7289079,-95.461692,399m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x9c2c5ec20fdad89a?hl=en

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.8026572,-95.448478,418m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

 

Most places don't sound proof (at least the ones I have been in). When I lived at Sawyer Heights I luckily had a unit on the southern side of the building, but would still hear the freeway. I'm the princess and the pea when it comes to noise, but I didn't have too much trouble. The train horns were pretty bad though.

 

Alexan Silber is REALLY bad. I would imagine the complexes in the links from google earth would be just as terrible.

 

Edit: I guess It depends on the units and how their windows face.

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Why would this project not be on the development map? Are we sure this isn't for the new interchange ramps?

I believe they wait for a more concrete announcement than what we have now. If the map updated to HAIF rumors, skyhouse main would have been shown months ago.

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I believe they wait for a more concrete announcement than what we have now. If the map updated to HAIF rumors, skyhouse main would have been shown months ago.

Good point.

At the same time, they seem to be ahead of public announcements by several weeks sometimes with the Camden projects and a few other low-rises. Guess we shall see soon.

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