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Snapped this the other day. Slightly wonky since I had to photomerge a multiple photos to get the entire building in the shot.

I'm back !! 3 months to the day after my accident - took my first bike ride - feels amazing to get back outside !!! Porta Potty away....

https://posthtx.com/ETFE/

God I dream of making as much money as this apartment costs. I just cant imagine spending that amount while building zero equity.

We are pleased to announce the opening of Carmen Herrera's Estructuras Monumentales in Buffalo Bayou Park! This spectacular outdoor exhibition by one of the world's most important living artists features four newly-created sculptures that were first envisioned nearly five decades ago. Estructuras Monumentales is the 105-year-old Herrera's first public art exhibition in Houston and only the second time that these large scale works have been presented globally. Organized in partnership with the New York City-based non-profit Public Art Fund, Estructuras Monumentales was first presented at Manhattan’s City Hall Park in 2019. This major survey exhibition offers Houston audiences a powerful and reflective experience that celebrates the full breadth of Herrera’s work in three dimensions. Concurrent with this exhibition is a showing of Herrera’s works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Now through April 23, 2021, you can visit these vibrant, larger-than-life Estructuras at the Fondren Foundation Meadow in Buffalo Bayou Park (Allen Parkway at Gillette Street) along with the Park's permanent sculpture, Henry Moore's Spindle. The five sculptures together are reflective of our Artful Anniversary, the fifth anniversary of Buffalo Bayou Park!

Great news, glad to have you back!

South Campus Parking Garage No. 2 https://www4.mdanderson.org/procurement/bids/index.cfm?pagename=viewBid&id=6998&name=Request for Qualification

Construction continues at the Residences at the Allen, with walls being added around the base of the High-Rise tower, work on the pavilion building continues to advance with roof work, windows have arrived and the metal coverings for pavilion are also on site.

This is unfortunate, but not really Lovett's fault. Alliance is a pretty solid developer, but equity for urban MF in Houston has dried up. Anyone who isn't already capitalized will be waiting for a while until investor demand comes back.

It's an entirely different world for their clientele I guess. I was just looking out my window, and realized their penthouse must have the best views in the city, bar none right now. Skylines wherever you look.

ride my bike past them everyday and they are cool! glad i know what they are now haha!

They sent out a construction update with a boatload of photos: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:831f26ef-34f1-4382-9519-171afadc27d4 Says that it is now leasing and still scheduled for a December completion.

DC Partners Targets Mid-2021 For Opening Of The Allen Lifestyle Pavilion Construction of The Allen, a $500M mixed-use development overlooking Buffalo Bayou Park near Downtown Houston, is well underway. The project, situated on 6 acres at the southeast corner of Allen Parkway and Gillette Street, broke ground in November. Eventually, the site will hold a 34-story tower with 99 luxury condominiums and a 170-room hotel. A lifestyle pavilion is also planned for the property and will be the first part of the project to deliver in 2021. Developer DC Partners CEO Roberto Contreras told Bisnow that the main construction of The Allen Lifestyle Pavilion will be completed by the first quarter of 2021, and tenant build-outs will then commence. The pavilion is expected to open to the public in Q3 2021. The 62.1K SF building will include retail and a ground-floor restaurant with a patio overlooking Buffalo Bayou Park, a two-story fitness club, and a rooftop restaurant and lounge area with views of Downtown Houston. The pavilion was 80% pre-leased prior to construction, and leasing for the remaining space is underway. Completion of the hotel and residential tower will take longer. That part of the development is slated for completion in the first half of 2023, the developer confirmed. The Allen is the first mixed-use project in Houston that features both condominiums and a hotel since the Four Seasons hotel in Downtown Houston was completed in 1982. The hotel will be overseen by Thompson Hotels, a boutique subsidiary company of Hyatt Corp. The Thompson Houston hotel will occupy floors 1-15 of the tower, while condos will fill floors 16-34. By building The Residences at The Allen, DC Partners is aiming to cater to the underserved luxury condo segment of the market in Houston. The company told Bisnow that so far, 20% of units have been sold, mostly to Houston-based buyers. One-bedroom condos start at $563K, while penthouses start at $2.4M. The Allen is one of several new infill developments underway in the Buffalo Bayou/Montrose area that are expecting to bring further residential and retail density to the already-popular inner-Houston neighborhood. The site includes a 2.9K SF sales center, which showcases two full-scale kitchens, two bathrooms and a walk-in closet. Customers are able to do walk-throughs of prospective condos using virtual reality software and select custom finishes from an array of samples. G.T. Leach Construction is the general contractor for the development. HOK led the site plan and architecture, while interiors for the hotel and the condos were designed by Abel Design Group. TQ RED and Westmont Hospitality Group are investors in the project. Contact Christie Moffat at christie.moffat@bisnow.com

The website is now live: https://www.liveatforth.com/ Edit: Well... "live" is generous, as it barely loads, but they have an online presence! Some finds:

That makes sense. And if there's an uptick in crime, try slipping your neighbors' dogs some mild laxatives as a precautionary measure.

master bath has a soaker tub per the floor plan.

There's a tub in the master bath. It's the oval near the left wall.

Damn it. I swear Lovett cant keep a plan together for more than 15 minutes before something falls through. So disappointing.

I like it better when they break the development up with a few little side streets as opposed to building it like some insular fortification.

Looks like the exaggerated renderings some companies like to put out. Thanks for the update, looks pretty good.

The Westin at Memorial does too, doesn't it?

Hmm...when I look up "temenos" Spanish translation, it says this: A sacred circle where one can be himself without fear A piece of land marked off from common uses and assigned as an official domain, especially to a king, chief, or god.

The Allen is the first mixed-use project in Houston that features both condominiums and a hotel since the Four Seasons hotel in Downtown Houston was completed in 1982. Doesn't The Post Oak have both or are they talking about inside the Loop?

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That’s a long and hard confirm

Exciting New Gulf Coast Eatery Acadian Coast Sets an Opening Date The restaurant tentatively plans to make its debut on October 31 Acadian Coast is set to open within the next few weeks. Acadian Coast A new Gulf Coast-style seafood and Creole restaurant is slated to open as soon as Halloween weekend. Acadian Coast, at 2929 Navigation Boulevard, is a joint project between John Avila, of El Burro & the Bull barbecue joint and the Henderson & Kane general store, Bruce Gingrich, who brought Memphis’ Corky’s BBQ to Houston, and Chef Jean-Philippe Gaston, known for his work in several Houston kitchens, including Cove and Kata Robata. Acadian Coast’s menu will focus on Gulf Coast seafood, with inspiration from American Creole, Southern US and Canada’s Acadian cuisines, culinary traditions that date as far back as the 17th century. As such, the restaurant’s opening menu will feature historically-inspired seafood and game meat dishes, including a rotating menu of fresh raw oysters, lamb heart carpaccio with balsamic and shallots, duck gumbo and four-bone rack of elk ribs cooked with mushrooms and Diane sauce. In the mornings, Acadian Coast will operate as a bakery and cafe, serving up handcrafted bread, pastries and beignets. The restaurant is planning a tentative opening for Saturday, October 31, thought that date may change. When it debuts, Acadian Coast will neighbor another Second Ward newcomer. Roostar Grill, known for creative banh mis, is opened a third location in the same shopping center at 2929 Navigation earlier this summer. https://houston.eater.com/2020/10/22/21527102/acadian-coast-houston-opening-october-2020-navigation-chef-jean-phillippe-gaston

Is it confirmed that the 2-story fitness center will be an Equinox?

The Allen high-rise project marks construction milestones The $500 million mixed-use project The Allen has marked two construction milestones: completion of the foundation core for its hotel-condo high-rise and the topping-out of its lifestyle pavilion, developers DC Partners announced Oct. 9. The four-level, 62,000-square-foot pavilion is scheduled be ready for tenant move-in by the first quarter of 2021, while the high-rise is expected in 2023. The pavilion is 80% leased, according to the news release, and will include a fitness club; rooftop dining with views of Buffalo Bayou Park; and retail and restaurant spaces. The Thompson Hotel will take up the first 15 floors of the high-rise, and The Residences at The Allen will take up floors 16 through 35, offering 99 condominium residences, 17 penthouses and a rooftop helipad "engineered to accommodate drone deliveries and transportation of the future," according to the developer. The residences are 20% pre-sold, according to DC Partners. https://communityimpact.com/houston/heights-river-oaks-montrose/development/2020/10/21/the-allen-high-rise-project-marks-construction-milestones/?type=article&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter_article

Maybe they can recreate the famous Mary's mural! 🤪

AUGH!!! Why no bathtubs? 3 bathrooms and no tubs???

Not at all. That is in fact the correct way to feel about it.

HAR listing for renting one of the PH units: https://www.har.com/homedetail/3411-yoakum-blvd-ph3501-houston-tx-77006/15128795 $11,207/month This next one might be common area?

North side.

Sorry for the delay. Here are some pics from One Park Place on 9/27.

The second set of apartments are called the "Exchange" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Mixed-income-housing-project-breaks-ground-near-14973901.php The 300-unit complex, called the Exchange, will have 50 percent of its units reserved for renters making between 60 and 80 percent of the area median income (or as much as $42,750), said Alastair Jenkin, vice president of development at the NRP Group. The remainder of the units will be set at market-rate rents. The lower-income demographic, Jenkin said, often includes teachers, police officers, nurses and young professionals who earn too much money to qualify for low-income housing but can’t afford Houston’s new apartment complexes in the urban core. “They’re just not in a place in their career where they make $100,000,” Jenkin said.

Sounds like the contractor charging thousands of dollars to fix a pothole is your problem and not the actual overpass lol... People actually use streets and highways. It's funny how upset people get when things don't fit their narrative. Btw, as a Houston resident and person who pays taxes, why shouldn't people be allowed to use it as a cut through? You make it sound illegal. People treat it like a on/off ramp because that is what is it. So if everywhere becomes a "neighborhood street", how exactly would you even move smoothly through Houston? Through our non-existent subway?

Did not know which Skyline Update thread to post this in. I was at a complete stop on the 288 overpass so I took this photo. Downtown, Midtown, and TMC Skyline. Including Uptown.

Good infill. Personally I like the look of it, it fits in with surrounding area. We only need a handful of glass towers in the area in the future.

New update; Polterghooosts

oh, my bad. Let me rephrase: I thought it was reported that GHOSTS were welding some components on or near the roof was the source of the fire?

That destroys the dramatic narrative we're trying to push here; ghosts?