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Tower crane base installed.

Montrose Collective- concrete base for parking garage, laying out more steel wire for another concrete pour.

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It was not previously apparent to me why there were notches (?) in the sides of the parking podium, but this photo shows that they correspond to the corners of the office tower. Very cool (at least to me)!

The bones of the building are the same but the finish is significantly different. Medical offices have much more extensive plumbing and wall divisions. They also have different developers and investors who specialize in them. Yes, this building has a much better chance than a general office proposal in Houston.

In the distance..

Anyone know what's going on next to the Federal Reserve on Allen Pkway?

https://awards.re-thinkingthefuture.com/rtf-awards-2020-winners/alief-neighborhood-center-eyp-inc/ https://www.houstontx.gov/parks/communitycenters/cc-alief.html

You do know that thousands of people live within a small radius, right? And that there are, in fact, poor people in Midtown and Montrose? Holman/Hawthorne is a major route for people commuting by bike from affordable housing in garage apartments, '30s era small aprtement buildings, and '50s and '60s era garden apartments in Montrose to HCC, UH, TSU, and jobs in midtown and downtown. The completion of the Braxos St and Austin St bike lanes, in combination with the removal of this ramp and its replacement with off-street multiuse paths, will help formalize that connection and make the route safer. Almost as importantly, it will make the route (and in particular, this major connection point) *feel* a lot safer, which will mean more people will use it who might otherwise be afraid to. Slightly changing someone's commute isn't regressive. If you can't get to work because your car breaks down, you can't afford to fix it, and you don't have a safe alternative? That's *actually* regressive.

Better to be undesirable than deplorable.

Do we actually know this to be true?

Davis is the "D" in "DC Partners"

Making plans for the future Kickball field?

I live in the apartments butting up to the development and saw a group of men in business attire walking across the lot the other morning. They looked to have rolls of plans with them and we pointing around chatting... but I’m not sure what that could mean.

Now listed on DC Partners' website: http://dcpartnersusa.com/properties/the-allen/

The villages on Allen parkway really create a problem. You remove them and you have a nice corridor going from this project straight into downtown. That corridor would be ideal for similar, mixed-use type projects along these lines, and you'd have a nice green belt across the street. Seems like an ideal way to expand downtown/increase urbanization. I understand that the villages have been designated as a historic neighborhood, but my common sense tells me that, if this project gets off the ground, there would have to be a developer willing to work with the city and the villages to relocate the people there to another site by "buying out" (or whatever the appropriate legal term would be) the historic neighborhood qualifier. But I might be wrong. In any event, seems like a really ideal way to connect montrose with downtown.

The property did not flood during Harvey.

I believe Sic' Em Bears is essentially spot on in his analysis. Those who tire of the urban archipelago commerical developments are going to be disappointed. This development will look good off the freeway, but I suspect will add little to enhancing the urban feel in the CBD. It will be an island. Ideally ( for those of us who like density) this would be built between the new Marriott and Minute Maid Park or just south of the Convention center near the stalled out Camden apartments. Eventually something will pop up in those areas. They are rich with opportunity.

^^^ i do not believe that the above illustrations are set in stone. i believe that GENSLER is currently working on the ACTUAL renderings to be revealed at a later date. i am almost certain that all provided illustrations are nothing but concepts.....

Weird that there is a different developer now! I searched Jianqing and nothing came up :/ Thanks though

Is this going into that lot at Dunlavy maybe? http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/gansu/2016-08/22/content_26559908.htm "Tianqing RED, as the major stakeholder, is partnering with Houston developer DC Partners on the project. The master plan will be designed by Gensler, which designed China's tallest building, the Shanghai Tower." "A total of $500 million will be invested in the project. The planned first phase includes a luxury hotel of 150-180 rooms and a high-rise condo. Construction is expected to start by the end of 2017 or early 2018. Another high-rise condo, a class-A office building and possibly a luxury senior-living building will be built later. Upon completion, there will be two condo towers with a total of 180 units along with the hotel, an office building and ground-level retail spaces. The project aims to become a new landmark in Houston."

Got a couple of drive by pics of this. Would have more and better pics but my Zabaks was getting cold. Avenue R is the name.

^^We're in Houston so... that sounds about right.^^

I am guessing more overflow parking.

Jeff Davis hospital, then an empty field afaik.

What was there before?

I've been wondering the same thing. Anyone have some insight?

Looks like I forgot how to properly link a pic...in the meantime, here's a link to a pic of the 2nd Jeff Davis Hospital. http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-5865:197

I have so been wanting to get back in to the building and do another investigation and interview some fo the residentsd. Many of them seem to closed mouth whenever anyone starts talking about weather itr is haunted or not. I was once contacted by one resident who wanted to talk about some things but one day he stopped returning my messages or answering his phone. I would love to add some pictures to my collection of what the place looks like now that people actually living in the building. I know that I put these up somewhere else on this board but here are the semi finished pictures of the inside again.

Yeah, the Google maps are pretty cool. We've come a long way since Terraserver. This page shows the address for the original Jefferson Davis Hospital: 1101 Elder Street. I believe the other Jefferson Davis Hospital was at the location where the new Federal Reserve building is on Allen Parkway. I stood nearby and watched the second Jefferson Davis Hospital be imploded. Amazingly, I took no photographs. That was pretty stupid, even for me.

The security guard who was on duty saw me taking pictures out front and he asked if I wanted to look around inside. We went to all the floors. Kitchen cabinets and mircowave were already inatalled in the appartment units we went into. Floors still need to be redone. Felt very creepy inside the hospital. Did not take any pictures inside, but i'm going to go back and see if the guard will let me look around again.