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  1. Height: 468’ Work begins 4/20, light one up for this one 😆 https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=430526526&row=2
    18 points
  2. $550 million med center expansion w 18.19 and 30 story buildings.
    16 points
  3. Screen grabs from the Houston Chronicle. Notice the south side of the renovated building only has railings on the second floor.
    10 points
  4. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-A-M-medical-center-TAMU-college-med-millio-15069488.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HC_DailyHeadlines&utm_term=news&utm_content=headlines# "The complex will occupy 5.5 acres at the southern border of the main medical center campus and comprise an 18-story academic building for the specialized engineering medicine program on which Texas A&M and Houston Methodist are partnering; a 19-story student housing building; and a 30-story medical office building. All three will tout the A&M logo."
    10 points
  5. And its now open for customers. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2020/02/20/photos-houstons-largest-health-system-opens-17.html?ana=e_me_set1&j=90481551&t=Morning A&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRnM1pHUmpNalF3TTJSaiIsInQiOiJ6c1NDQVZwMnJhXC9HMHZ0M1F5S3lkWFhiMkZNNlY0RUpSYVlJWUxhXC9zN3RMTzhleFdvWlQwcUpJalI5dWR3NURjQWtrU2s4akNYQkJMNFFxT1wvVVg1b3I5ank1ZEZpbUtvZ2xoazlhSEVBdTdUOUxvdHFQR2hsUjRPVjY1RWw2VCJ9 Some screen grabs.....
    9 points
  6. February 20, 2020 METRONext Business Now—Upcoming Projects Sharing a few of the slides
    5 points
  7. ABC13 just had a blurb saying that A&M is releasing an announcement today at 11 about a development in Houston that would be “one of the largest in the country”.
    5 points
  8. Then you may be disappointed as smoking, smokeless tobacco, and vaping were banned on all Texas A&M University System property starting January 1 of this year.
    4 points
  9. ^^^ will definitely stop you. safety first...
    4 points
  10. Concrete pours scheduled for both today and tomorrow. I'm guessing today's will get delayed due to weather. That said, I'm expecting another level up by the weekend.
    4 points
  11. Mention this to a few people. I fully expected my rent in Montrose to go up this year, but it didn't. More building equals more competition. If you want to keep rents "affordable" then one should be in favor of more development as it only provides more options which makes it a sellers market which drops the price.
    3 points
  12. They can pry my cig from my cold dead fingers.
    3 points
  13. https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/development/2020/02/17/work-on-new-zoning-district-for-former-chevron-property-inches-forward/
    3 points
  14. As a smoker myself I'll glady walk out to both get some fresh air, along with breathing in my Camels' smoke. Monarch can just watch, or try to stop me.
    3 points
  15. I get on the gravel trails all the time. they're wide enough to accommodate cyclists and walkers/joggers. I just keep the speed way down.
    3 points
  16. Nob Hill Apartments In Meyerland For Sale. https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/development/2020/02/19/meyerland-apartment-community-nob-hill-is-for-sale/
    2 points
  17. I'm super pro-rail and pro-LRT, but I am also pretty surprised at just how much cheaper it is to build BRT than LRT. I totally get why, and I'm not knocking LRT, but wow that is pretty nuts, and it really makes a lot of sense why METRO's opting to go this route, and I respect it. I was disappointed that old maps that showed heavy implementation of LRT/heavy rail seem to have been scrapped in favor of BRT and less LRT, but now that I've actually seen the cost, and understand that it's been a huge fight for METRO to even get money for these projects at all, it does seem like BRT will be more bang for their buck, let them move more people, and maybe be able to prove that Houston CAN be a transit-friendly city. Those BOOST lines sound neat, too. Are they currently being implemented around town? I think I saw on one of the bike path threads they were (painted bike lanes and 'floating' bus stops). If that's what the BOOST lines will all be like, that will be awesome!
    2 points
  18. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2020/02/20/houston-developer-gets-financing-for-mixed-use.html $38m construction loan provided to Hunington Properties by Parkview Financial. Expected to be complete in mid-2021. 168 units, 20,475 sqft of ground-level retail space. Above grade parking with 305 spaces.
    2 points
  19. Really going to try to leverage the construction of this to keep my rent the same next year 😂 Excited to see it go up, though. Was showing this dev to a former NYC planner and they were blown away that such a thing is possible "in the middle of a neighborhood". I still think that a small coffee shop open to the public would do really well here, but I know that it would likely cause tremendous issues with parking and having a public lot.
    2 points
  20. From the picture : the lower left hand corner is the remodeled former bank building, the one facing Fannin street will be built where there is a parking garage which will either be torn down or incorporated? into the design, and lastly the tallest building on Main will be built where currently stands a one or two story building. Amazing project. Not an Aggie , but nevertheless Way to Go!
    2 points
  21. And if the gateway station would ever get off the ground too. It shares the same block as the A&M development. I wonder if the A&M development will be a tipping point for the transit center . https://mcmunnnicholas.wixsite.com/nicholasmcmunnarch/copy-of-confidential-casino-and-res
    2 points
  22. Part of the deal is A&M sells its 2121 W Holcombe land to Medistar for $51m? That would be best case scenario to have Medistar completely redevelop that plot of land across Main Street. Main and Holcombe will be quite the intersection in 5+ years.
    2 points
  23. The "cut-through" that I was reference is that people are traveling 45S (like Heights area or whatever) and driving towards Sugarland and instead of going through the 45/59 interchange, their navigation apps are recommending that they get off the highway to drive Bagby to then get on the spur. Also, I don't think anyone is taking the spur to go to the Museum District. Can you clarify? Edit: Diagram of people "cutting-through" Red: Someone bypassing a highway by driving through a neighborhood. Green: Their normal route. Blue: The route that will be available to downtown commuters which will remain open. I meant shifting drivers over two streets to the other side of the same ramp onto the spur. The same spur entrance will still exist on Smith St. Because the traffic engineers said so? If you live in a highrise in Midtown why would they be trying to leave Midtown to go 59S during rush hour? Unless you are talking about somebody that is living in Midtown but then working in the Galleria or Sugarland, but then they would be reverse-commuting and not competing with traditional commuters.
    2 points
  24. Exactly. This is how train travel worked in Germany while there. Their ICE trains went on straighter routes bypassing the majority of small towns just like TCR is doing with its trains. Then DE in Germany also had a regional network of trains (RE) that would connect to small towns which then connected to larger regional centers which had access to ICE. It was an incredibly efficient system with some built in redundancy. HSR doesn't and shouldn't be used in every situation. Have HSR connect major cities. Then another layer of transit which is just a notch slower than HSR, but still quick which gets out from major cities to large regional towns, and then you have the next step down from that which would be regional travel. In Germany it was ICE (intercity express) which was the fastest, then IC (intercity), then it was RE (Regional Express). So if here we have our HSR which will go at 200 mph or higher, then the next step below that would be an Intercity/InterLargeTown train at 150mph, and then a Regional Train that would go at around 75-100mph.
    2 points
  25. Skid steer and mini track hoe have been tearing up parts of the sidewalk, this has to be a sign.
    2 points
  26. You could plat it out with (mostly) narrow streets (30-ft RoW), small-ish blocks (~200-ft), small plots (mostly 25-ft frontage, with some 50 and 100-ft lots), require zero front setbacks, allow zero-ft side setbacks, institute a height limit (say, 50 ft), and exempt the area from parking minimums. Within a generation it'd be one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Houston.
    1 point
  27. Current freshman at Lamar, based on what I’ve heard from teachers and other staff, the older buildings were becoming really rundown and infestated with rats and things of that nature. Was it like this back when you went here? I know the East & West buildings were relatively new at that point (built in the late 1980s if I’m not mistaken).
    1 point
  28. Looking into it, appears you are correct, Emmett's camp did claim the trip was paid with campaign funds. I wonder if that's what his Harris County Republican campaign donors expected their money to be spent on? And was traveling to other countries to visit water parks what we elected him to do? Did he use personal vacation time, or was he "on the job" when he was over there? I always took a dim view of Lee Brown's overseas trips; local elected officials are elected to govern locally, they have no foreign policy role and foreign trips should be unnecessary. If an elected official wants to use their private money and their vacation time to take a vacation, and tack on a busman's holiday to see something they think might apply to their job, that's their prerogative. When they spend money other than their personal money, it's pretty obvious that's not how they see the trip.
    1 point
  29. I believe the claim they traveled overseas on Harris County taxpayers' dime is false. It was reported at the time that Emmet used campaign funds to pay for the trip.
    1 point
  30. Well, I was happy to engage in civil, mature discourse on the subject and assume good faith, but seems like it's just too emotional an issue for some other people to approach objectively. Oh well.
    1 point
  31. Yeah, but they aren't wrong when they said its a wasteland. Its just not politically correct to say so. That doesn't mean it doesn't have potential. The fact of the matter is that area is just too large in scale without the right plan to bring it all together. Most people can wrap their heads around a city block, but most can't wrap their heads around an area the size of some actual small towns. Constraints are not only necessary, but the ignition point in which creativity starts. You first have to know what you can't do before you can start asking what you can do, and once you understand what you can do only then can you start to break or bend the rules of what you can't do. A normal city block is a good enough limiting parameter to setup ones mind for what could be done and what can't be done.
    1 point
  32. There appears to be what I am sure was unintentional mischaracterization of my last post, so I will do my best to clarify now. I did not recommend razing the Astrodome because it might get in the way of a possible future as-yet-unconceived development. What I said was: 1. Leaving the dome idle for posterity like a "rusting ship" is not reasonable. Even the dome's most ardent preservationist cheerleader, Ed Emmet, said so ("rusting ship" was his turn of phrase). 2. The public has made it clear that they don't want to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars required to rehabilitate the dome to useful life. That means private money, and private investors would want revenue that would produce a good ROI. 3. The dome's close proximity to NRG Stadium and NRG Center mean that year-round use of the dome by a private business/businesses would interfere with Texans and HLSR activity, according to Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. Executive Director Ryan Walsh. Curtailing that private business during the 6 weeks of Rodeo alone would limit a private venture's ability to make that ROI. 4. So the only way to add a business to NRG Park would be to site it away from NRG Stadium, Center, and Astrodome so there would be no interference. I'll add here that since most of the unbuilt land on NRG Park is parking lot, to make up for that, turning the Astrodome into parking space would likely be necessary to compensate for the displaced parking elsewhere. Just converting the dome to a parking structure without all the other amenities Emmett dreamed of might not cost the full $105 million, but it will still be significantly more expensive than simply razing it and putting in a flat parking, and again, the public has made it clear they don't want to spend that kind of money. So that narrows it down to spending $28 million on a parking lot. 5. There is another alternative. Instead of spending $28 million on a parking lot, $20 million of which is backfilling a giant hole, spend only $8 million and leave the hole. Turn that hole into a flood retention pond, which would help protect NRG Park and even the surrounding area from flooding, and which could be beautified with landscaping. Imagine walking out of a Texans game, or the Livestock Show, or the Car or Boat Shows, and instead of seeing a "rusting ship" of a vacant, idle old stadium, visitors would encounter a 9 acre lake fringed with bald cypress trees, cattails and bulrush, with great blue herons, white ibises, and roseate spoonbills wading the shoreline. Imagine people all around the country watching Texans pregame shows on their TVs seeing that sight, how that would help to counter Houston's reputation as an ugly city that not only doesn't care about the natural environment, has no natural environment to care about. It's about highest best use practical for that piece of property at the lowest cost. Moldering mausoleum for past memories, or vibrant natural habitat that beautifies NRG Park while also aiding in the protection of property and lives during flood events?
    1 point
  33. Yeah. Those outside have no idea. When you do experience some behind the scenes stuff, or are part of the profession like I am, you are actually amazed anything ever gets built at all which ends up as a humbling experience, and you learn to gain a greater appreciation for whatever does get built both good and bad.
    1 point
  34. So you're saying you didn't open the ABC 13 link?
    1 point
  35. I know dozens of people that live in midtown/downtown hi- rises. Most of them only use their cars socially. They commute via walking, rail, or bike. That's why building along a simple transit corridor is so great. It's why I don't get excited about the Uptown 610 freeway hi-rises. Those places 100% require a vehicle for virtually everything. My sister at One Park Place walks to work in the Houston Center. She walks to plays at Hobby. She rides the rail to UH for football and basketball games. She tells me she can go weeks without her car and usually only uses it for larger store runs or when she leaves for her ranch.
    1 point
  36. @Luminare The HAIF map has incorrect address. @hindesky I haven't been by in a while any change on this?
    1 point
  37. This development will be 13 stories. Cafe facing Crawford. Matches the neighborhood feel quite well.
    1 point
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