Triton Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 This definitely appears to be under construction. Heavy construction gear on site... excavators, etc. They are taking out the old iron fences around the site now as well as the trees mentioned earlier. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 This definitely appears to be under construction. Heavy construction gear on site... excavators, etc. They are taking out the old iron fences around the site now as well as the trees mentioned earlier. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Merge. Here's the latest rendering. "Hello, it's the Suburbs calling. Has anyone seen one of our apartment blocks?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Triton Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Yup! This is exactly what I saw yesterday. There's also heavy construction going on over at the AT&T monolith. Anyone know what's happening there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Houston19514 Posted March 29, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2015 "Hello, it's the Suburbs calling. Has anyone seen one of our apartment blocks?" We've come a long way indeed if a six-story apartment building, built to the sidewalks, with no visible parking lots, is now derided as "suburban". 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 We've come a long way indeed if a six-story apartment building, built to the sidewalks, with no visible parking lots, is now derided as "suburban". LOL... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Has that digger done any damage or is it just parked there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Has that digger done any damage or is it just parked there?Hard to see in this pic but there were several piles of dirt/rock toward the east of the pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Hard to see in this pic but there were several piles of dirt/rock toward the east of the pic.It has dug up ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackie21love Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Yup! This is exactly what I saw yesterday. There's also heavy construction going on over at the AT&T monolith. Anyone know what's happening there?The ATT is really ugly… at least some artist should do a big painting there… 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted April 4, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2015 This was next door at the AT&T building, looks like new power generators to me. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2015/04/15/new-apartment-project-breaks-ground-in-downtown.html Leon Capital Group broke ground earlier this month on a five-story, 220-unit apartment on city block 365, which is bounded by Austin, Caroline, Jefferson and Pease streets in the southwest quadrant of downtown. The unnamed Class A project is expected to be completed in the late 2016, according to Central Houston's quarterly downtown real estate report. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 I wonder if AT&T will hook this building up with fiber internet - just have to throw a cable across the street Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 I wonder if AT&T will hook this building up with fiber internet - just have to throw a cable across the streetHaha... I just realized that as ugly as this building is, it's actually not as bad as thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted April 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2015 Digging holes. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Does this project call for underground parking? They are digging deep. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Off topic .......So, why is it that in Houston one can't have a residential, single family basement? I was always told it was the "water table is too high....." Help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Off topic .......So, why is it that in Houston one can't have a residential, single family basement? I was always told it was the "water table is too high....."Help.Someone commented about this on a forum a while back...... It can be done, it just costs more. It costs a lot more here than up north because local contractors aren't used to building them.But make no mistake, it is possible. If you're building a custom house, have a ton of money, and really want a basement, yes it's possible. We can build concrete and steel structures that are completely submerged in water. We can definitely handle a high water table.It's not done because overall there's little reason to do it. If you want extra square footage, you can build an extra story for the cost of a basement here. If you want the extremely stable temperatures, you can always just over-insulate the heck out of your new house.Basements are used widely up north to deal with freeze/thaw cycles in the soil. Building codes require you to dig your foundation slab to below the frost line, which is often around four feet deep. (The frost line is the depth to which soil can freeze in the winter.) A basement is really just a slab foundation projected down.When you're already digging a 4' deep trench around the perimeter of your house, you might as well just make it 8' deep and make a usable space out of it.Now, we don't have freeze/thaw here in Texas, but we do have expansive clay soils. We have clays that expand immensely when wet and then shrink when dry. Since this occurs differentially, it causes low spots and high spots on the foundation, thus stress and cracking.This could be solved by simply building a basement. The foundation slab would then be below the freeze/thaw zone. We don't often do this because the water table issue. It's much better just to use a very thick, heavily reinforced slab, a pier and beam system, etc. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonIsHome Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) Off topic .......So, why is it that in Houston one can't have a residential, single family basement? I was always told it was the "water table is too high....." Help.I think the question is worded akwardly. It's not that you can't have one. They do exist.The better question is why are they so rare.My guess is the cost in having them built and maintained. Had a neighbor in san antonio whose pump would fail sometimes during some rain events and a swimming pool would result Edited May 10, 2015 by HoustonIsHome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crafty Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Yes, 2 levels below grade parking. Does this project call for underground parking? They are digging deep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Finally!! This one gets underway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Can we also put 1711 Caroline in the title? Was a little difficult searching for this thread. Construction valuation: $5,161,815.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 http://leoncapitalgroup.com/portfolio-items/block-365/ 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HNathoo Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Where is the H&M? http://leoncapitalgroup.com/portfolio-items/block-365/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparrow Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Can we also put 1711 Caroline in the title? Was a little difficult searching for this thread. Construction valuation: $5,161,815.00 Construction $5.2M. $3.3M incentive from the city (220 x $15k). Not a very difficult economic decision one would think. It's a wonder the program funding was still available as long as it was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanize713 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) . Edited June 17, 2015 by urbanize713 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Construction $5.2M. $3.3M incentive from the city (220 x $15k). Not a very difficult economic decision one would think. It's a wonder the program funding was still available as long as it was. I presume that $5.2 Million is from a building permit? That is most assuredly not the full cost of building a six-story apartment building such as this. Not even close. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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