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A little tough to see in the picture, but soil testing is happening today.

One of the midrises going up next to St. Joesph is advertising being in Midtown so words don't really have meaning anyway

I live across the street from Steele. The Giorgetti fence has been up for a couple months. The new fence that went up yesterday that I'm referring to is specifically around this Hanover site. The site has been an eyesore since they demolished those apartments more than a year ago. Even if they're not ready to start the apartment building itself, it looks like they are readying for site prep. There are some old foundations from recently demolished buildings on the Kipling side that need to be dug up.

I will gladly volunteer to test run all the restaurants for them before the superbowl all i ask is for 2 meals and 2 beverages

Does this mean anything? Who is Yang Liu?

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/12/05/exclusive-houston-developer-finally-closes-on.html?ana=RSS%26s=article_search

Per a request from @EllenOlenska: @TowerSpotter, you're cracking me up with that Mia Khalifa Avatar. Gets me every time.

Can't make out the exact location but in the last rendering you can see the Greenway area in the distance. http://miradorgroup.com/projects/giorgetti-houston http://s3.amazonaws.com/miradorgroup-webassets/Projects/Giorgetti-Houston/_full/01-Giorgetti_Exterior-final.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/miradorgroup-webassets/Projects/Giorgetti-Houston/_full/02-Giorgetti_Exterior-final.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/miradorgroup-webassets/Projects/Giorgetti-Houston/_full/03-Giorgetti_Exterior-final.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/miradorgroup-webassets/Projects/Giorgetti-Houston/_full/04-Giorgetti_Exterior-final.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/miradorgroup-webassets/Projects/Giorgetti-Houston/_full/05-Giorgetti_Lobby-final.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/miradorgroup-webassets/Projects/Giorgetti-Houston/_full/07-Giorgetti__Lobby-final.jpg

Residences at Park District, via Facebook:

Well I didn't read the article and expect everything to be spoon fed to me so thank you.

I second that motion! the Galleria is just plain UGLY on the outside.

No, I'm pretty sure it was just a matter of swtsig having read the linked article, which includes: "Another developer, yet to be announced, is planning a large mixed-use project across Steel Street from Hanover and Stolz’s projects."

No, West Ave currently exists.

Technically that one isn't wrong yet as the Texaco renovation won't wrap up until 2035.

interesting that there's another as of yet unannounced development poised for Steele St.

Not sure if this has already been posted. Project Name: Pearl Midtown Residences / Whole Foods 3120 Smith Street Houston, Texas 77006 Start Date: 10/25/16 End Date: 02/05/19

If memory serves me, this project will likely be, what?, 2+ years behind schedule? I can't even imagine what that has done to the budget. Who is the developer? They must have a lot of resources as you would think that a delay like this would have sunk less well capitalized developers.

That should be "refurbished 60's icon"...

I would love to see a complex of buildings, with similar lower rise mid-century design elements, develop on the empty blocks around 800 Bell. in my opinion the only major aesthetic problem with this building, is that it looks lonely and out of context.

https://houston-texas-us.blogspot.com/?m=1

Travis Street closures near the building for tower crane removal Fri 8pm to Monday 5am.

There was a fair amount of hand-wringing and pearl-clutching at the meeting, as one might imagine. Concerns expressed included: "How will this affect children coming to and going from Helms ES?" (across 21st from the 275-unit building) "It's already hard enough to cross 20th at the bike trail, now it will be impossible" "Where will all the poop go?" "That sure seems like a lot of apartments. Couldn't you build fewer?" "If people park on Nicholson (like they do around the apartments on 23rd & Nicholson) it will be impassible." The irony of wanting ever more walkability but opposing every apartment development is apparently lost on the Heights. Also, the renderings kind of make these building stick out, but they're adjacent to a hospital and across from a medical building of similar height. The value of Alliance's bid won't become public until city council votes to approve the sale, but I'm guessing it's in the low 8-figures. I wonder what will happen when Chase realizes that their drive-thru lanes are sitting on $5M worth of dirt?

Public meeting on the development tonight. Some very quick details: Tract 2 (NW corner of Nicholson & 20th) will be an 8-story, 275-unit apartment building (80% 1BR, rest 2BR) East half of Tract 1 (SE corner of Nicholson & 20th) will be a 63-unit "boutique" apartment bldg (90% 2BR, rest 3BR) Harres Exezidis (Cottonwood, Lagrange, Liberty Station) is a partner in the development for the restaurant spaces Each of the existing buildings (4000 sf reservoir, 1700 sf and 4000 sf pumping buidlings) will be restaurant spaces, with additional patio space, as well as space for food trucks. Up to 5000 s.f. will be community garden. They want to commission a sculpture made from the salvaged, excavated pipework. Planned construction start, late summer 2017, for 2019 completion. (Harres expressed a hope that the restaurant spaces would open earlier than that.) All of this is preliminary, of course. Deal is not closed, and permits have not been issued. Some photos of the posters at the event are below.

Working on Thanksgiving....

http://arausa.listinglab.com/KirbyLandSite/index.cfm?doLDPage=1 https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/mixed-use/houston-developers-defying-national-perception-with-new-projects-49116