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  1. Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized!
    14 points
  2. Costar article: Houston's coolest street is about to get cooler. A plan to transform a section of lower Westheimer into a trendy, tree-studded retail-office hub with a modern library is beginning to take shape in the Montrose neighborhood. Construction on Montrose Collective, a 150,000-square-foot-project, is officially underway, the project's developers have found a finance partner, and a lead office tenant has inked a new lease. Radom Capital, the Houston-based development firm known for creating hip, walkable projects such as Heights Mercantile, has formed a joint venture with institutional investors advised by JPMorgan Asset Management for the project. The team hired the Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, an Austin-based design firm behind Uchi restaurants, Understory and several other high-profile Texas projects. Montrose Collective is at 802 and 888 Westheimer Road in an area recently named as one of the nation’s top 20 coolest streets in a report by Cushman & Wakefield because of its walkability, diversity, nightlife, food scene and vintage stores. Nearly 97,000 people live within a 2-mile radius of the area with a median income of $83,233, according to the report. About 37% of residents nearby are millennials, the report found. Radom Capital and Michael Hsu sought to design a project that blends into the neighborhood with mid-rise buildings and a canopy of preserved live oak trees. Plans call for about 40,000 square feet of high-end shops and restaurants, plus about 110,000 square feet of office space and a modern roughly 16,000-square-foot public library building. The project is estimated to cost at least $38.9 million for the three mid-rise buildings, according to state records. With a planned opening of late 2021, Montrose Collective is expected to bring six new dining options, along with 15 boutique retail spaces for local and first-to-market retailers, plus beauty and service providers. The Montrose Collective team didn’t want to just create a "boring box" retail center or typical office building. "Montrose is really the hub of everything creative and has the No. 1 concentration of James Beard Award winners in the state. We wanted to do something scaled to the neighborhood," Steve Radom, principal of Radom Capital, said in an interview with CoStar News. The team plans to build a four-story structure that connects to a six-story structure with a cantilevered walkway. The buildings open to an outdoor plaza with seating, greenery, trees and unique lighting fixtures. Radom Capital hired landscape architect, the Office of James Burnett, to design exterior public improvements that include decoratively tiled sidewalks, an expansive green wall that wraps around one of the buildings, hanging plants and custom planters throughout the site. "This is truly a mixed-use project and it's going to look like it belongs in the Montrose neighborhood," said Parker Duffie, vice president at CBRE, who is handling office leasing for the project with CBRE's Elliot Hirshfeld. The project already has signed a lease with an undisclosed technology company for about 75,000 square feet of office space on floors 4, 5 and 6 in one of the buildings, according to the project team. There is roughly 35,000 square feet of office space left in the project, according to the team. The roughly 2.5-acre project is planned along the north side of Westheimer on both sides of Grant Street. The property includes the existing Uchi restaurant and the building next door with Hue hair salon and Rosemont Social, which will all remain on site. East of those buildings across Grant Street, buildings that previously housed a Greek restaurant called Theo’s and a city of Houston police station are getting demolished. Construction is starting after the Houston City Council in December approved a deal with the Montrose Collective team to transfer ownership of the land where the former police station was housed at 802 Westheimer to the developers. City officials closed the police station as part of an initiative to get more police officers on the streets instead of behind a desk, according to a Dec. 3 city council agenda item. The police department is expanding its online reporting services and closing police stations in most communities, according to the city. In exchange for the land, developers are building a new public library for the city to replace the aging Freed-Montrose Library at 4100 Montrose. The city will maintain ownership of the library at 10001 California St. through a condominium unit agreement with Montrose Collective. Radom said he sought a condo agreement for the library to secure financing for the rest of the project easier. The library building design includes a two-story custom art installation to be designed by a local artist, according to developers. The city expects to open the new library by 2022, and close the 70-year old Freed Montrose Library. It is rare for a public library to be in a privately built mixed-use project, but Radom Capital said the team is emulating Bookmarks, a public library in Dallas in the NorthPark Center. Radom Capital said it also took inspiration from the new Austin public library downtown that has drawn accolades for its design, retail and outdoor landscaped plaza near the privately built mixed-use Seaholm District. "I love taking my kids to the library. We really liked the idea of a mixed-use project, not just being your traditional mixed-use project. Our thought was what is more endearing to the community than a community library?" Radom said. He is envisioning a "dynamic, interesting" "house of books” with events, programming and retail. The plans will introduce new office to a neighborhood without a substantial amount of office space and bring additional retail to an area already attractive to real estate developers. The city of Houston granted 28 building permits for sites on Westheimer Road in 2018, which is double the number of permits issued in 2017, according to Cushman & Wakefield's report.
    13 points
  3. I know the opera hall is getting a lot of hate on here, but I think it fits the architecture of the rest of the campus perfectly. Can't wait to see all the landscaping finished.
    8 points
  4. Skid steer and mini track hoe have been tearing up parts of the sidewalk, this has to be a sign.
    8 points
  5. New name: The Streets of Buffalo Bayou Park https://www.rebees.com/project/the-streets-of-buffalo-bayou-park/
    7 points
  6. This is a bit confusing. All the projects on file are by Hines-I thought they were no longer involved? Mill Creek Residential only does multifamily so will they control the apartment component? Or is this a recently scrapped proposal? I count 38 floors. https://adelaiderealestate.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Adelaide_Summary.pdf
    5 points
  7. I like it, looks nice from the freeway and on the street the arches are kinda nice to look up at. I know some argued about its architecture, but this kind of reminds me of the Georgian-type stuff you'd see in College. Put another one of these just North on the same street and you could really be starting something in a part of midtown that is a little under-utilized for the average pedestrian.
    5 points
  8. Article on Costar says construction starts in May. Cost is $426 million.
    4 points
  9. The surface is a (poorly-designed, and therefore completely unused) green space. The building is where people entered to report for jury duty. The surface level is pretty much just vestibule, elevators and escalators. Below the surface was the jury assembly: some open space, multiple assembly rooms, and tunnel connections to all of the county buildings and courthouses. It was flooded by, IIRC, Harvey. Last I heard they do not plan to reopen it. Once would think a local journalist might have inquired and reported on it...
    4 points
  10. @CREguy13 🤖 https://www.costar.com/article/691455146/construction-begins-on-trendy-walkable-project-on-houstons-coolest-street
    4 points
  11. 4 points
  12. Can you give us an idea of what it looks like? Does it still retain the curved facade? Floor count?
    4 points
  13. ^^^ ok, enough with the KIBBLES 'n BITS scenario! maybe, just maybe, someone can deliver unto us proud HAIFERS, the approximate date/time... that the official new renderings/concepts may be hereby presented to the masses. props, in advance...
    3 points
  14. tech is a broad term but it's the perfect type of tenant for this kind of development. don't think this is a nab from another city as i'm pretty sure they have an existing presence here but i could be wrong. either way it's a great anchor office tenant.
    3 points
  15. wow fantastic....thanks for posting the whole article @CREguy13 (and for bringing it to our attention @Urbannizer )! my dream is that they would do the same in the space where Smoothie King is and then BOTH north and south east corners of Montrose (half priced books plaza AND the gas station)...and then have them all connected via huge bank tubes where you stand or lay in them and then just shoot over the street 😃 (and really, i think this project is going to be so AMAZING for Montrose!)
    3 points
  16. I think McKinney has the potential to become a bar/restaurant destination similar to Washington Ave (but totally different vibes). It's a super wide street with plenty of opportunity. At least north of the trail & light rail. Would also love to see 2524 McKinney turned into a lounge bar/restaurant. There's so many homes within walking distance. Plus 45/69 wiping Chartres off the map, those businesses could relocate here.
    3 points
  17. Did we know about this one? If so go ahead a delete
    3 points
  18. I think the name of this thread sums it up nicely. "Harris County Jury Assembly Room And Transportation Plaza"
    2 points
  19. That's good news. As suboptimal as the particular design may have been, it was going to be awful if left to decay 10% complete as it has sat for the last few months.
    2 points
  20. If there are pilings, they don't go deep, as it is impossible to hit solid rock here. Here's an article on construction in Chicago, which has somewhat similar conditions, except that there is solid rock in some places https://informedinfrastructure.com/31619/building-skyscrapers-on-chicagos-swampy-soil/ . Here's another one on the Texas Commerce, formerly Gulf I believe, building in Houston, which used a mat foundation https://www.asce.org/project/texas-commerce-bank-building/ The JP Morgan Chase tower, 75 stories, doesn't have any pilings or piers.
    2 points
  21. I thought almost all large buildings here have piles. Every tower I've see on this forum seems to have pilings.
    2 points
  22. Construction site this morning, remaining debris being hauled away.
    2 points
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