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The lit up clock tower looks really amazing, especially with the city skyline in the background. I'll have to wait until my next camera comes in until I get good night shots again... Here's what I got for now: Hardy Yards Downtown Houston at Night by Marc longoria, on Flickr

The Founders District - Phase II to The Cannon - multifamily, office, hotel & retail https://www.foundersdistrict.com/

Building height is 114'

https://www.arch-con.com/division/affordable-housing-operations-center/

Rice University awarded grant for 'mass timber' building on campus "Rice's proposal is for a five-story, 50,000-square-foot student housing building on its campus."

It looks like Oui Eats is going in on the Travis Street side of the One Market Square garage.

But this website hasn't. Rosewood 2023! https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/houston

donations can be tipped to go wherever the person doing the donating stipulates. if I were a law student alum, and I had ambulance chasing money, I'd donate a few million to get my name on the building and also to get a better looking building. The Samagon Law Building. it would be a mix of Gaudi and the Disney Music Hall.

Website is up: https://www.novelriveroaks.com/

Website for this 3200 Post Oak has expired. But the website for McNair Interests has been updated. https://www.mcnair.com/

(If others think this should go to a different subforum, I totally understand... just let me know) https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2019/09/houston-mayor-selects-developer-for-70mw-urban-solar-array-in-revitalization-plan.html

its not like Iah77 doesn't have a point, but the foundation of the argument is really really bad. This person started with a conspiracy, and its only within the past few comments that this person brings up gentrification and low-income families. If this person cared about these things then that is what would be led with. Those are just very vague buzzwords just like when nimbys talk about general vague terms such as parking, traffic, etc... This person is not initiating this counter-point in good faith. I mean this thread is 18 pages long! NOW this person has a problem? I don't buy it. Neither should anyone else. Yet again, the same with those opposed to the reroute, what is the alternative? I have ideas too, and I'm sure we all have ideas for what could be possible here, but what is on the boards right now is the best possible that someone has put time and money to achieve.

Well it looks like my drone landing pad has been over engineered just a bit but it's better to be safe than sorry!

The new Sid Richardson replaces this building. Don't hate me Aggies it's part of Sid history.

That’s correct. No new information comes from the Chronicle article, just late on reporting the story (as always).

FWIW, that entire complex of townhomes is for sale... https://www.har.com/homedetail/1117-saint-agnes-st-a-houston-tx-77030/8668808

good. More banh mi downtown is desperately needed.

Rice approves new visual and dramatic arts building So, Visual and Dramatic Arts will get a new building, but it seems pretty clear that they intend to remove the Media Center before construction of the new building has even been funded. Temporary relocations of the affected departments and faculty are inevitable if they opt to erect the new building on the same plot of land the Media Center currently occupies, but there's no reason to fast-track the demo until the plans are a lot farther along.

certainly, and my point 2 posts above that one was basically, the area around the KBR site is already being gentrified. there's townhomes that have been going up near Jensen and BB for years now. it isn't Midways fault. Midway buying the KBR site is not a catalyst for gentrification, it could be considered an accelerant for this area of the east end, but the entirety of the east end has been speeding up the gentrification process that has been happening for well over 10 years and that sure as heck isn't Midway's doing. my response in the post you quoted was specifically regarding 3rd ward and midtown tirz. a lot of the property changing hands in 3rd ward is being bought by the midtown tirz, which I think is far more dirty (in an almost redlining kind of way) than anything Midway and BBP are doing, but again, different thread.

Will be the 5th tallest in Texas when complete. https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2019/09/03/demolition-right-around-the-corner-to-build-6-x.html?iana=hpmvp_aus_news_headline

I'm loving the contrast and all the colors added to downtown's night skyline, and very visible, even from this distance. Thanks for the cool photo !

How do you think all the lower and middle class people in Montrose that were displaced in this last wave of old apartment demo's to make way for new high priced rent condo's and apartments. It happens everywhere and that just an unfortunate situation. Its happening in third ward now.

More piling...

...what are you talking about?

They are not currently planning to demolish old Sid - as of the beginning of this year, the thinking was that it would be repurposed as graduate student housing. New Sid Rich building on track for 2021 completion

From site plan, looks like this building remains... do we know why it would be torn down? Seems odd that both Rice Andy UH could be taking down their old residential towers instead of renovating... i hope it stays and they renovate it.

New Sid Richardson College - 160' feet in height https://sidrich.rice.edu/construction-timeline https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=415693139&row=6

I stayed here two weeks ago and had a great time. The pool was chill on Friday but Saturday was packed with people having their last pool staycation of the year. This is a picture I took before I went down and it got packed.

It may be a bad guess, but it's just that, so wasn't a factual assertion at all. The current lot is small, and access right off Texas has to be a mess at peak game time, but many private garages make extra effort to get gameday parkers in, I don't think IWA/Annunciation's current situation would preclude having a plan for a garage that made them extra revenue without conflicting with the needs of the church/school.

I think that they are desperate to assure parishioners and school families that there is always a place to park, easy and free, at their church.

I liked this building... I am sad to see it go.

There will probably be much less resistance within the MPNA by then. The organization seems to be mostly made up of retirees.

You make a great point. Both my kids are 20-something engineers, and while their workplaces are considered among Forbes' "best companies to work for" with onsite amenities to combine work and play, the hours that they put in working leaves little time for play. So much so that burnout and turnover among the young engineers is very high. I almost wonder if the amenities are more of a ploy to just keep you at work longer. It reminds me of a modern take on company towns like Hershey, PA where the workers lived, worked and played in the town, which also kept their earnings going back to the company's bottom line.

It's a shame they knocked down the old quads instead of renovating them. This new building looks pretty soul-less and generic and isn't going to age well. From the sounds of it, they're going to make the same mistake with Moody.

Slowly wrapping around the building. Now working on the north side in the first pic.

Wrecking ball demolition of the main building.

This important research may call for HAIF peer review. Maybe we could get an NSF grant.

Texas A&M University awarded $2.5 million grant to establish Academy of Physician Scientists https://www.tmc.edu/news/2019/08/texas-am-university-awarded-2-5-million-grant-to-establish-academy-of-physician-scientists/

That sounds like we need some side by side taste tests once in n out is here. Challenge accepted.

https://www.virtualbx.com/construction-preview/houston-high-end-mixed-use-project-in-upper-kirby-passes-planning-hurdle/

A really nice well designed hotel/residential tower would be nice there, especially with the park and the three other residential towers in the immediate neighborhood with the addition of the Hines residential going up on the Hogg parking garage site. I don't think it's slowed as much as they're just catching their breath. I'm dizzy just trying to keep up with all that's just happened over the last three years. The city has definitely shed its old skin and it's looking quite smart with all of the new buildings, parks, trails, hospitals, museums, infrastructure, residential developments and the list goes on. Thats a lot too digest, and I think it would be interesting to compare the two major growth spurts in Houston, over the last 40 years. The present one , and the late 70's early 80's spurt that added so much to our downtown skyscraper count. I actually think the current growth has been more helpful to the public realm and has had a much more dynamic result in framing the city in a positive way.

They've slowed some. This lot needs to sit for a few years until the hotel market comes back and then put a nice hotel here, or mixed use with hotel component. Last thing we want here is a huge glass office building looming over Market Square.

From DC Partners USA ......

5 stories. http://swamplot.com/the-glittering-5-story-affordable-housing-thinktank-bubble-that-could-rise-by-emancipation-park/2016-07-19/