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This one will start in November. No major design changes. 7 story, 33 unit condominium with 2 levels of parking. Amenity deck and pool at level 2.

Not entirely surprising, but it was announced today that the opening has been pushed back from November 1st to November 21st. Press release: https://www.mfah.org/press/mfah-announces-inaugural-installations-kinder-building Chronicle: https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/art-exhibits/here-s-when-you-can-visit-mfah-s-new-kinder-15567959

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/texas-inc/article/Houston-based-Barvin-sells-its-lone-Dallas-15186701.php "Barvin is preparing to embark on its first ground up development on Knight Road, north of El Paseo Street, near the upcoming TMC3 collaborative research campus and NRG Stadium. Plans have not been finalized, but the company hopes to break ground late this year on the site, which could hold 275 to 300 units and open in 2022."

They’re starting on the mural for the side of the building!

Well, it looks like the rent to park a shopping cart and set up a sleeping bag have gone up well above market value now...

Went down the Google-hole on Allen Parkway Village and discovered that this area used to be Houston's official red-light district--The Reservation!

I passed by this morning and snapped a surreal photo:

Buffalo Bayou Park Sec 4 plat. Parcel D, proposed 22-story office tower. The plat shows two new streets, Buffalo Park Drive and Cogdell Street. SubdivisionPlatPDF_Buffalo Bayou Park Sec 4 9-3-20.pdf

Quick update from the inside, museum staff have started moving in. There’s still quite a bit to do, but they are starting to move some art into the building. Of course, it’s not on display yet, but it is there! Barring any other major setbacks due to hurricanes or whatever, I think the new opening date is entirely doable.

Great! I love these smaller infill developments and the renders are handsome.

Pavilion roof assembly.

montrose?

Drive-to urbanism. The hope for urbanism in Houston is in downtown, midtown, maybe EaDo. Everything else is going to be a stretch.

Perhaps we really do have commies under the bed

That date felt a bit ambitious before the pandemic.

Saw an article in Houston Chronicle about Hempstead Highway but it is focused on the portion on the other side of 610 all the way to 99. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/TxDOT-takes-tolls-out-of-Hempstead-Highway-plans-15568502.php

I would have liked to have seen the new Transit Center built where Chick-Fil-A/Best Buy are, and in a still imperfect, but better world keep them both for GFR and have a pedestrian bridge over Richmond Ave to the McNair development. Would have made for a shorter trip down the BRT line and could have tied this area together nicely and spurred more vertical development nearby.

The Road.

Nice to see this building form a different view!

1955 was a great year to open a Chevrolet dealership. Advertising for the 1955 models called them "The Hot One" and they were with COMPLETELY NEW styling and an all new overhead valve V8 engine replacing the venerable but not nearly as powerful "stove bolt" six cylinder engine. The building was certainly not that exciting but, in those days I guess, the cars sold themselves.

I've been wanting to take a photo of the rebar cage on Almeda for a few months. Stopped by today.

Interesting aside... this building was next door to Jimmie Green's place, and he bought it to tear down and expand his business (I assume). It was called the Bible Cyclorama.

mls, do you remember the chimney sweeps from the movie "Mary Poppins"?

i got confirmation yesterday from a source that wishes to remain anonymous that the reason there are only 6 clear tubes FOR NOW is that they are testing them out...they are like bank tubes at the drive thru but for people...you step in and they suction you up to the next level...for now they can each only hold up to 2 people or a family of 3 to 4 depending on how small the child is...

Rendering and massing There's an absolute crap ton of information provided by @Houston19514 in that pdf (also includes i-45 redo, and many, many other things). Main takeaways: >> completion sometime 2021!?!?!? >> being redeveloped by Phoenix Development Partners >> includes 482 units with 100 units given the affordable designation >> 345 efficiency (362 sf), 22 efficiency +(467sf), 92 studio (507-585 sf), 22 two bedroom and two bath (1038 sf) >> 482 total parking spaces, also a bike storage area totaling 521 sf on the ground floor. >> 1257 sf of ground floor retail >> Garage roof >> ground floor plan with Bike Storage Again going to quote @Houston19514 for giving us this monstrous amount of information, which also includes much more than what I posted. Including garage floor plan, rooftop floor plan, efficiency/studo/bedroom floor plan, etc.

They're offering very good deals. My partner and I just bought one with unobstructed views of the Mosaic, 535 acre Hermann Park, the TMC skyline, Rice, the Village, and even Uptown skyline from THREE balconies in the unit. Less that $400 psf, compared to the Westmore at $600. Beautiful property in the Museum Center with the Red Line a few blocks away. Downtown skyline available for us from the amenities platform. Pumped!

They were doing core samples as I drove by on Friday.

Site visit today.

This is spot on. Now that its hit a critical point its going to come down to location. That whole Kirby corridor from 59 all the way up to river oaks is fertile ground for this building type. I fully anticipate more in that one pocket between San Felipe and Avalon near River Oaks, and between W. Alabama and Richmond. Good centralized location, but with how much land is getting squeezed in this area I think the townhouse type is a dying breed in this particular area. Just shows how dense this area has become in just this past decade.

Awww... that little jog through the railroad underpass was a nice bit of time travel.