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This was just posted in the bicycle advisory committee infrastructure meeting. Staging for this project is going to block the bike lane so a temporary bike lane is going to be made, and the developer is going to pay for the temporary polk st segment to become permanent in addition to restoring it along lamar/crawford after construction. 26 month construction for the project and the start is imminent. Temp bike lane going in as soon as next week.

Survey stakes are in the ground for phase 1 area!

That’s up to you and how much beer you’ve got.

https://www.gid.com/invest/development/

Can't forgot never ending state subsidies and an artificially inflated "economy."

Grand projects are always much easier in countries with concentration camps and slave labor.

http://texasinnovates.org/texas-innovates-campus/

The weather finally allowed them to jump the tower crane.

Giant LED screen like Times Square

Is that a city vehicle doing ground contaminant testing? The vision.... The reality...

And who could forget the Texaco/Havoline Grand Prix of Houston... (from Wikipedia) Sounded like a bunch of angry bees during practice the week or so before.

This thread seems like an appropriate place for a shout out to all the great photography we're consistently blessed to have on this site. Big thanks to all who contribute.

They're putting up a temporary bike lane for construction blockage? That's insane! It's like someone, somewhere treats the bike lanes as actual transportation infrastructure . . .

solar panels, bike storage, hydroponics garden, green wall, it's like buzzword bingo on things that never happen in Houston. I'll be cheering from the sidelines, but I won't be disappointed when we get a combo storage units/mattress store.

I saw that they also installed two big escalators which are visible from this angle.

anytime I see renderings for a project with solar panels I just assume it will never be built.... and this is a mixed use project with solar panels, thats like double proforma confusion....

The mountain or yet another Starbucks? 😄

Really? That seems like it would indicate some kind of very serious environmental apocalypse.

Yes, and you bring them on with you just like the light rail.

Borrowing one of Hindesky’s shots from a sunny day, I’m somewhat confused about the position of the northside Parcel C pillars. Based on the architectural standards document and several renderings, it appeared that Lehall St. turns into D Street. For those of you who understand the current state of the collaborative building development and the likely function of these pillars, does it appear that D Street will be placed above several of these north end structural pillars, or did the TMC3 collaborative building shift north? Unless otherwise advised, I’m assuming the former with Lehall Street running into D Street with utilities below street level. https://www.tmc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TMC-Arch-Standards.pdf

Could be worse...

The lower Westheimer sidewalks are being set up as mountain bike trails....it's all part of the bike plan...😜

Here is the rendering. Looks great! An actual timeline of the Inner Katy BRT, too.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/katy/article/Start-in-Katy-finish-in-Katy-HCC-to-open-16185310.php#photo-21006032 Some walls are up, lots of dirt work done, can't see it getting any prettier based on the Chron story. Then again, I guess as long as it works, it's sufficient. Just wish they had shown a bit of imagination like the UH building several hundred meters away.

Downgraded to 16 stories as I was told by worker.

If y'all read Dug's article about the BRT line he mentions how the University line met resistance from those residents "west of Shepard" which eventually derailed ()the development. I can understand these detractors are a lot of people with money, but was that all of the opposition? I know Culberson was a naughty boy, so was it him and those residents? I was thinking about why now, like why did Metro feel these two particular BRT lines were the ones to push to get done (outside of the mandate by the voters). And I really think a good deal of it is Rice and their development around Wheeler. If it was still the old Sears, the Uptown development folks prolly wouldn't be too anxious to get BRT done from this direction (sorry Eastenders). But if Rice's development is at least partially successful (and it already is in terms of attracting tenants and Greentown Labs), that's a lot of potential spending power. Plus Rice is marketing this as a more walkable development with potential residents and users less likely to use cars; so they sure as hell want this. Just saying, I think there is now a lot of synergy between Uptown and Midtown and the East End that may not have been there even 5 years ago. And I'm happy for all the East End homies too 🥳

I knew the family owners of the building and business (a pest control chemical company) at the corner of Jackson/Polk to the south of the convention center that had been there for decades. It was frequently robbed and wasn't anywhere anyone wanted to be. It's around the Hilton's loading dock area now. The whole convention center/DG area transformation since the early 80's is mind boggling.

SE Tower Crane coming down today.

I'm inclined to think of anything north of Waxahachie as southern Oklahoma.

To live in Houston and to have trepidations about new food trends is like living in Hawaii and being afraid of the ocean.

Yes, the "EaDo 800" development is planned for the end of Middle St., which runs parallel to Velasco.

Sounds like they are trying to get federal funding under Biden's Infrastructure Plan... let's hope this thing passes. Bumping from previous page.

Why not both?

Updated renderings.

Signs up for new car wash and auto detailing center on the lot right where navigation curves through Engelke I hope they make use of the current Torres Auto Repair building, it's such a unique structure.

I thought New Mexico was a state. Has that changed?🤣 Yeah, yeah, I know you meant new consulate for Mexico, replacing the dump that was next to 59 off of Wheeler.

I'm also looking forward to the BRT stop near me. Two stops to Red Line and four to Purple.

Oh boy. Right next door to a small lead fabricating company and a large mound of earth encircled by security fencing.

Hopefully this does get built and the city builds a bridge on Velasco St. over to the East River project. It would be in the wooded area.

I'm over in the Second Ward and a lot of it seems to be "why build here when it'll flood/ it's a toxic waste site" or "should use the money on other development/ other parts of town" or "it's going to fail like such-and-such other development" It's really disheartening. But I'm not sure whether it's the new transplants or old time residents that oppose it.

Someone in the zoom meeting with Rep. Garcia joked that the quickest way to get UP to fix the issue would be to allow those blocked by the train the right to start unloading its cargo after 30 mins of waiting.

It's usually the "you don't like trains, you shouldn't have moved here" type.

I completely agree, and it is actually one of the reasons why I recently bought a place in Eastwood near where this line would have a mini transit center to connect the Green Line and the University BRT. It is going to be 15-30 minutes away from the 3 largest job centers (downtown, med center, and uptown), 3 major universities, and Hobby all via mass transit. Would be really nice to be able to not have to worry about what traffic is like on 59 to go Uptown or wherever else.

they're easily relatable assets. saying a park near downtown will be Houston's equivalent of the Tuileries Garden doesn't make a lot of sense to people who haven't visited Paris, and even of those that have, they may not recognize it as the park that's next to the Louvre. thanks to movie magic, everyone has heard of central park.

I find it interesting that whenever this project is mentioned on Nextdoor, it seems people are SO against it, so then I retreat back to HAIF to be among my excited people.

They don't know yet so everyone needs to have a little patience on this one. They're very actively engaging various stakeholders in the community, meaning they're taking a very long-term approach to the site.

last night i had a dream...well okay a nightmare that this was the sign they put at that entrance: 💀