Luminare Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Can you imagine the hospital, mall, and bunker hill west being connected in one coherent walkable district? That would be pretty cool. I mean, one can hope right? THENNNNNN, greater Memorial City can be integrated into Citycentre along I10 to form one large west Houston district... We'll call it the WHE8 district. West Houston, East of 8: WHE8. We'll pronounce like 'wait' or 'weight'. Then we can have this amazing Abbott and Costello routine when we describe the area: Person: Where do you live?Me: WHE8.Person: Sure, answer when you can.Me: I didPerson: Did what?Me: Answered your question.Person: No you didn't. You said wait.Me: Exactly. Hilarious Houston Home Humor. Would be awesome, but just looking at this area on google maps gives you a headache x.x It's all so disjointed and none of the other developments work together to make everything cohesive. Not to mention all these areas still heavily depend on the hwy frontage road as if it's some kind of main street...blahhhhh You can clearly see this dependence in this master plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 Work to begin October 15th. Stucture Name: Hotel Zaza Structure Height: 228 feet https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=258681295&row=13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I haven't heard anything about this one in quite a while... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 228 feet tall and just 11 floors? Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 228 feet tall and just 11 floors? Interesting. Maybe a change in design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 228 feet tall and just 11 floors? Interesting. Nice, cozy rooms with 17 foot ceilings. In case one wants to play basket ball in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79ta Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 for perspective, does anyone know the heights of the newer air-liquid office buildings? is this going in the fenced in area at the i-10/bunker hill intersection or behind dillards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted October 2, 2015 Author Share Posted October 2, 2015 http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2015/10/hotel-zaza-to-break-ground-in-memorial-city-this-month/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 ^^^ very nice! props for sharing urbannizer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Sure has taken them a while. Was supposed to start beginning of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asubrt Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Is that brown area on the map at the corner of I-10 and Bunker Hill still supposed to be a Whole Foods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 That's a lot of stucco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 That's a lot of stuccoStill looks better than the Dallas ZaZa.I drove to Katy today and the whole stretch through the Energy Corridor is impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VelvetJ Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Hoped for more in the design. :-I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ozone Files Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Sigh. MetroNational continues to disappoint in Memorial City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Very uninspiring design to be sure. Hopefully not stucco. Whole foods is out btw. They could never agree to terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intencity77 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Le sigh. If this is the front, it looks as bad if not worse than the Embassy Suites downtown. What happened with the other two prior renderings? They looked great. This one is a drastic downgrade and departure from those. Hopefully the unseen side looks better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Very uninspiring design to be sure. Hopefully not stucco. Whole foods is out btw. They could never agree to terms.Who would with this trash?Although the 1,500 layoffs probably had nothing to do with that decision... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79ta Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 a fence was being put up between guadalajara and the forest painted parking garages. perhaps another garage is going up for zaza parking? i'll be back over there in a few days and will try to snap a pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79ta Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 This first two pictures are looking at the NE corner of Bunker Hill and I-10 (pretty sure this is where the ZaZa is going) This is the newly fenced off area. Any idea what's going in here? Behind Ciro's Behind Guadalajara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alejandro Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Le sigh. If this is the front, it looks as bad if not worse than the Embassy Suites downtown. What happened with the other two prior renderings? They looked great. This one is a drastic downgrade and departure from those. Hopefully the unseen side looks better.Typical MetroNational / Anslow-Bryant. Ask any architect who has worked with them in the past (Morris, Gensler, etc.) They will all say the same thing. You create a sensible design, nothing outrageous, and Anslow-Bryant prices it into oblivion. Any other GC around town would have brought it in for a reasonable price , but not A-B. That's why everything at Memorial City looks so dull. They have to reduce the quality so much to get the price anywhere close to reasonable. The price isn't the problem, its the GC. Pretty sweet deal for A-B. The rumor is that they are partly owned by MetroNational, so its sort of twisted. I guess MetroNational doesn't want the hastle of bidding out projects. They definitely pay the price in the end though. A real shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasGeneral Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 The construction fence is going up today, the Murphy building garage is being boarded up on the side that the ZaZa construction will be going on, the road running next to the Murphy garage has been closed and construction barriers are up. Lots of workers on site today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 This first two pictures are looking at the NE corner of Bunker Hill and I-10 (pretty sure this is where the ZaZa is going) IMG_20151018_143910.jpg IMG_20151018_143755.jpg This is the newly fenced off area. Any idea what's going in here? Behind Ciro's IMG_20151018_143745.jpg Behind Guadalajara IMG_20151018_143904.jpg I think you meant to say the SW corner of Bunker Hill and I-10 (not NE). Za Za is not going on the corner. It's going in behind Ciro's and Guadalajara. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79ta Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I think you meant to say the SW corner of Bunker Hill and I-10 (not NE). Za Za is not going on the corner. It's going in behind Ciro's and Guadalajara. The first two pictures are looking NE to the intersection of BH and I-10, I'm just not sure what's going there now. You are correct though, it's the SW corner. That area has been fenced off for a while (since the air liquide center was under construction). Is that where the Whole Foods was rumored to go in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motis B Totis Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Aha! It will fit in PERFECTLY with the other buildings. Memorial City is the absolute worst. Hope another developer comes in eventually to distract the eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 What's the big blob of brown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 What's the big blob of brown?That's your brain on HAIF. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I haven't kept up a lot with Memorial City development, so please be patient with me as I ask a few things: - Weren't all these restaurants built, in like, 2008? And they're already going to demolish 'em?- The Ciro's itself was a move from a Ciro's closer to Spring Valley Village (iirc), but what was the "vacancy" in front of the existing restaurant? I thought that was all Ciro's?- Where was the Whole Foods supposed to go?- What did the brown space used to be? It looks like there was a Mexican restaurant called La Fiesta and another building to the right of current Ciro's that looks like it was fast food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I haven't kept up a lot with Memorial City development, so please be patient with me as I ask a few things:- Weren't all these restaurants built, in like, 2008? And they're already going to demolish 'em?What restaurants are being demolished? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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