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Early 2020 construction start http://www.spearstreetcapital.com/portfolio/owned/

Winner: Kevin Daly https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chron.com/business/amp/Houston-Endowment-s-new-HQ-will-become-14816152.php

https://issuu.com/midway2/docs/191031_citycentre_six_-_office_leasing_brochure_-_?fr=sYWY3YjMxODM2Mg

Topped out https://www.chron.com/business/bizfeed/article/Stonelake-Capital-tops-out-River-Oaks-area-office-14814742.php#photo-18568861

Yea everytime I see a new posting, I think it new information...instead it just two people still having a D measuring contest.

http://www.allusanewshub.com/2019/11/07/steven-holl-designed-kinder-building-nears-completion-at-the-museum-fine-arts-houston/

Wow. Looks something that one would find in any Dutch city or in London. Really like the material palette and the various building forms.

I think some of y’all aren’t seeing the long term approach Metro is making politically. They offered an affordable cost efficient plan that over time will rally enough support to convert to light rail. I don’t see every line staying BRT. The infrastructure will be in place for an easy conversion. Plus the plan also focuses on making Houston streets safer and more pedestrian friendly with new sidewalks and access to stations. Much of those changes will incorporate repairing and repaving many of Houstons worn out transit corridors such as Richmond Ave.

https://www.chron.com/business/bizfeed/article/Stonelake-Capital-tops-out-River-Oaks-area-office-14814742.php#photo-18568861

It becomes more evident that you are trolling. Obviously there are bigger institutions involved in this than HCC and SanJac. No they're not as big as Harvard and MIT, but who said we were going to beat Boston? The goal is to become the third coast for biotech, not the first or second coast. If you look at other major biotech hubs in the country like Raleigh-Durham or Washington D.C. or Philadelphia, I do think that the research institutions involved in this (UT, A&M, Rice, UH) measure up to the research institutions in those places. And if the major university systems in Texas are focusing on biotech in Houston, that at least makes it more likely that if a hub does develop in Texas, it will develop here and not some other city.

Buzbee, that explains everything. We don't need another mini me Trump running Houston.

Let's move on. There is a $1B+ campus on the way, with a lot of private industry expressing serious interest to complement TMC3. Developers are gearing up with sites acjacent to or near TMC3. This is a clear net positive. I trust the leadership involved and the amount of capital being invested shows that others do too.. No way to predict what will happen, so let the chips fall where they may.

Yes you may be right about the fact that the prestigious universities in SF and Boston play a role in the massive amounts of VC. But if you think Rice, MDA, BMC aren’t “premier research institutions”, I don’t know what else to say. Yes I know Rice isn’t in TMC3 but they’re in the TMC and have expressed interest in joining. I’ll give my personal anecdote: I live in Boston, work in the biotech industry, and am getting my master’s in biotech. A lot of my colleagues/classmates/professors know, or have heard, about Rice and MDA and the research that has come out of them. If the largest biotech hub in the nation knows about these institutions I can bet every single other hub knows also. I’m really sorry if I come off as defensive, but this is something that I wished was here when I graduated UH! Maybe I’m in cloud 9, but TMC3 is something that will elevate Houston’s profile in the life sciences industry and a place I would want to work in. And I really want to move back to Houston

Randalls midtown is going to have to step it up a lot

now they need a 2 story HEB downtown

This is good This is actually ethical vis-a-vis the park. It has a very good relationship with the park.

It wasn't a valid critique, it was a couple of days of laughing at what everyone on here had to say because your wife used to work for Dr. Quaggin. Some people come on this forum with worthwhile insight that they don't mind sharing with others and some people overinflate their qualifications, exaggerate their knowledge, and expect to be worshipped. If you think you've made it to heaven because you're in Chicago, enjoy it. I've been there and done that and will throw my lot in with Houston, biotech hub or no biotech hub.

I think I speak for 99.99% of Houstonians when I say, nobody cares what you think about of our inferiority complex or our medical center. Have a nice day.

Yeah, the museum sent an email yesterday: JUST ANNOUNCED The Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus will be completed in fall 2020 with the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building Gary Tinterow, Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced that the institution’s multi-year project to expand and redevelop its Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus will be completed in fall 2020 with the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. With more than 100,000 square feet of space, or 56 percent, dedicated to the presentation of works of art, the Kinder Building increases overall MFAH exhibition space by nearly 75 percent. A series of major site-specific commissioned artworks will be inaugurated with the Kinder Building, serving as portals that connect this new structure with the other components of the campus. Commissioned artists are El Anatsui, Byung Hoon Choi, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Olafur Eliasson, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Cristina Iglesias, and Ai Weiwei.

In my 20 years or so on this site I've ignored two people. It's a great feature. It doesn't work when folks quote them though.

This is a great building. The simple lines and modern feel will compliment the AIG campus buildings (not their tallest tower) just across the way. Spotts Park needs a major upgrade... hopefully it will get one. The low rise nature of this will allow for towers in the back off Washington Ave to have sweeping views. One day, we will truly have the 'valley effect' in the bayou and it will be glorious.

Amazing growth. Great photo. We must have one of the largest, if not the largest "edge cities" in the USA.

We are well aware of that. But if you don't try to develop a new industry or project or anything it won't happen at all. They said you couldn't bring boats to a port in Houston 45 miles from the coast. We built the port. They said baseball couldn't be played indoors.. So we built the astrodome. They said man couldn't get to the moon and we built NASA. We like challenges and maybe we'll never be Harvard, MIT, Stanford or Northwestern but we'll joe just fine. Don't tell a Texan it cant be done. Sure it will take a while. Get over the double Helix design and the yoga mats and the trails. There are four institutions in Houston that have quite a bit of money and pride. I'm betting that in the long run this will become an important hub for bio research.

Maybe its trolling, but really its just plain ole smug elitism combined with the natural human fallacy of "I've yet to see something specific happen in this instance and therefore in my laziness I'm going to side with the fact that it will never happen," or in other words, recency bias. I'm sure there were people who said exactly the same about MIT and Harvard when they start, "oh they will never be as good as Cambridge or Oxford. How foolish of them to try!" These people will always exist and have always existed.

I thought I might be one of the first 200 in line to get that insulated bag. Alas a conflict came up..............sigh Wont get to experience the whole “kazillion people in line” Kazillion people trying to check out at the same time not to mention everyone looking and exiting parking at the same time.......oh my so how was it?

*Cries* are you saying...I can go from downtown to...UPTOWN? MY GOD IS THIS REAL. I never thought I'd see the day I could take a timely, consistent, and frequent transit option from Downtown to the Galleria. This blows my mind.

Are M.D. Anderson, UT Southwestern, and the health science centers well funded? Is their prestige greater than UT Rio Grande Valley? I didn't say they funded actual research, the implication was that they have well-funded campuses that attract researchers. You're just going to argue until you get the last word; my mistake arguing with a troll.

Something was bugging me and I realized it reminds me somewhat of the Menil and I don't know why. I love the design. The only thing is those skinny columns, dont know how I feel about that. The airyness of the design is pretty striking. Make parts of this out of recycled materials and we have a true winner.

You're right. I'm not the one shilling for a political candidate. I'm such a terrible human being.

Bingo.

You said they were clustering with HCC, TSU, and SanJac, ignoring the $30 billion cumulative endowment institutions that they actually are clustering with. That's not a valid critique. That's trolling.

What do we all say we make Friday a TMC3 comment free day. Wouldn’t that be nice?

https://communityimpact.com/houston/cy-fair/transportation/2019/11/07/with-bond-funding-secured-metro-officials-announce-next-steps/ "Projects that will move forward first include a new rapid transit line connecting downtown to the Northwest Transit Center at Hwy. 290 and Loop 610—a project that has already been picked by the Houston-Galveston Area Council to receive federal funding—and accessibility improvements, such as sidewalk connections and making bus stops compliant with the American with Disabilities Act."

It should be 3 stories to one up Whole Foods

I actually have a Randalls a block away and a Whole Foods a block away and i go to both equally... (i am on mccue in uptown) Randalls for all the basic items and Whole Foods for specialty items so i think both will be fine...however i haven't been to that Randalls in Midtown in a long time so definitely time for an update if it hasn't had one in awhile!

Everyone at my office was saying the exact same thing! With that being said, its not like its out of the realm of possibility, right? I mean I remember this project by SANAA for a university cafe: The slender column was at the Serpentine Pavilion for 2019 by Junya Ishigami: Theres this example of a new visitors center at Stonehenge (which must be recent because I don't remember this being there when I went (7ish years ago): I'm also trying to remember that one post-modern architect that first played with the super tall and slender column, but can't remember the name for the life of me. I think the biggest question mark is the intention of this roof and whats its materiality. In the visuals it looks like concrete. You can go super skinny with metal, but concrete will be tricky.

I drive by this, and the Ion building, every day. Both have hit the overdrive button on working, 15+ people on site every morning doing various things when previously you would go a few days with very minimal movement on the site. The glass tube wrapping seems to now only have one large side and one tiny side left, when like in early September they had only done one side. Probably good for the construction guys and gals, Christmas is coming and overtime sounds pretty good right now.

It has 8 levels of office and 7 levels of parking. They do that so that they can provide the parking sought by prospective tenants.

An additional fact is that the Texas A&M Health Science Center is actually a component of the university in College Station, as of 2013, and its College of Medicine was founded as a part of TAMU before being split off to form the Health Science Center in 1999, contrary to his claim.

Why pick an extreme example when you could just pick the obvious example right in front of you, that they are clustering with UT, A&M, and Rice? I'm not misquoting you at all.

The best part is this doesn't even pan far enough to the right to include the rest of Uptown!!! @brijonmang where are you when we need you for a new updated Uptown masterpiece of yours?!

Not to mention conflicts of interests which weren't previously disclosed in his comments. Essentially this person doesn't believe Houston will be anything unless they "help it" or are given power to "help it". So not only smug snob, and an over reliance on recency bias, but we can also add a Messiah complex as well haha. Its funny how people like this eventually reveal their true colors after only a few pokes. Don't you agree H-Town Man?

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2019/11/07/photos-look-inside-whole-foods-new-houston-store.html?iana=hpmvp_hstn_news_headline

This is the correct answer! I was surprised it finally got knocked down...and yes they have been using it for workers of Post Oak Blvd etc from what i can tell... who knows what it will be, but it's prime real estate that is for sure!

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/when-does-the-new-mfah-kinder-building-open-14814071.php#photo-18567502

Hard to see because I photographed this from a moving train, but they've dug a fairly large hole on the "north" side of the building. I'd guess at least 6-8 feet deep:

CityCentre Six https://realtynewsreport.com/2019/11/04/midway-tees-up-new-office-building-project-in-citycentre/