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The big kid toys have arrived.

https://www.hansenpartners.com/development

https://gff.com/view/ojala-east-riverside/

Too bad there is a substation there next to the Hilton and Toyota Center. That would be another great spot for development.

apartments above parking garage.

Oooo

They now have a drilling rig onsite, I think they might be moving beyond mockups!!

These renders look like they came from the 2005 version of The Sims

Ojala que también construyen un edificio.

That was my first thought. Whoever thought up the name clearly isn't from around here. Montrose and Bridge City are like craft cocktails and Natural Light.

The renders give me a creepy “WandaVision” feeling that something s horribly wrong and incomplete.

La Calle has opened. Hefty crowd there tonight. Lots of misting fans.

East River Building F Site and Foundation. Building is a total of 5 floors above grade.

thank god for Michael Hsu

feh. Bro. Jordan probably expects people to use that stick behind the steering wheel that turns on those funny flashing lights, too.

Maybe they can build a fake building around it https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/12/13/lights-on-but-nobody-home-behind-the-fake-buildings-that-power-chicago/

Museum Park Super Neighborhood wrote a letter in support of the project: Texas Department of Transportation, Attn: TPP-UTP, P.O. Box 149217, Austin, TX 78714-9217 Submitted via email to: UTP-PublicComments@txdot.gov August 3, 2021 RE: Draft 2022 Unified Transportation Program (UTP) North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP) Public comment supporting ongoing funding for the NHHIP TO: Texas Transportation Commission FROM: Museum Park Super Neighborhood Kathleen O’Reilly, President, president@museumparksn.org Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important project, Museum Park Super Neighborhood supports ongoing funding and agrees that it provides many benefits to the region, and to Museum Park, centrally located in Segment 3. Midtown is our immediate neighbor, with Wheeler Station truly being the center of our wheel so we hold the opportunities of providing connecting bridges including highly enhanced pedestrian/ bike amenities and suppressing the roadway as very high priorities. These priorities are defined in the Museum Park H-GAC Livable Center Study (LCS). Museum Park Livable Centers Planning Study | Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC). The LCS included robust community engagement with central themes clearly emerging of mobility, walkability, and reknitting the neighborhoods of Midtown, Museum Park, and Third Ward through the multiple crossings created with suppression of U59/69, and an important element of crafting Houston’s Cultural Trail. This Trail will connect our diverse cultural and educational institutions, through the Museum District to Hermann Park and Emancipation Park, a need that becomes more apparent and important every day. Reconnecting the two major employment centers north and south of Museum Park, Downtown and Texas Medical Center, through these same connecting bridges is an opportunity that can’t be overstated. The Innovation District and The Ion add technology, and the people that the Innovation District will add to the mix, people who list walkability and quality of life as key components of where they want to live and work. We believe this effort can be transformational in many ways. In Museum Park, the resulting bikeways and walkways created by bridges in immediate proximity to METRO’s Wheeler Station will connect Downtown and Texas Medical Center. the Museum District, Hermann Park, and will be multi-modal transit hubs for Rice University, Texas Southern University, and The ION. The planned bridges in Museum Park will provide pedestrian enhancements with a goal of visionary landmark features in Houston’s core. We appreciate the recognition of their importance, and the commitment by TXDoT to make sure these crossings are all that they need to be, as a part of this monumental project. We appreciate the decades of work that TXDoT has put into this enormous effort and the extensive public engagement. We look forward to improvements in this dangerous section of IH-45, with the purpose and promise of the Project to improve safety and operations, allay congestion, improve mobility, expand transit, cycling, pedestrian and other modes, provide an emergency evacuation route, improve storm-water management, support local and regional growth, while mitigating the Project’s impact on housing, adjacent neighborhoods, and the environment.

This looks like a crappy rendering of a Morris Adjmi building who makes his buildings look very industrial. He did just do the Standard Hotel in Nola so this seems like possible connection but I think it's a weird fit for the area and would have been better in a more industrial heritage area like sawyer yards or Eado or even Westheimer through Montrose.

Don't get too caught up in guessing the location. The name translates as "Hopefully" East Riverside, so they don't seem too sure about where it will be yet... 😂 I'll show myself out

Agreed, although it will block the view of the Astrodome from my office, which I am sad about.

Im so glad that this project will cover up that horrid building from view from Discovery Green

I think it's work done on the curtain wall, I was guessing resealing/weather stripping.

All wrapped up.

Right after I took this pic of what I guess might be some big wigs, a chauffeured Mercedes shows up to drop off another big cheese. I think this may crank up soon.

I've noticed some poles being planted around the property for what looks like an impending construction fence.

Just did some digging and looks like it’ll be a restaurant/bar/club called Outside. Here is their IG profile: https://instagram.com/outsidehoustontx?utm_medium=copy_link

https://www.khou.com/article/traffic/houston-home-to-four-of-uss-deadliest-highways/285-579810288 sadly, it is a stat that's based on the length of the road, not normalized to VMT. so the more people on the road, clearly, the deadlier it is going to be. the stat also doesn't take into account what makes it deadly, drunkards? ladders? mattress? poorly designed road? so the question is, is that even a statistic that is worth looking at?

One positive: the setback from Montrose looks to be decent, which will provide a better pedestrian experience.

They've got a whole tangle of LLCs, which were all created in the past 2-3 months and everything was set up through registered agents and attorneys. Based on the name, this sounds like more townhomes which is a shame if they own an entire block and a half.

I think at one time the Axiom used to be a Askew's Drug store and the upstairs was a hotel. It later became a brothel then a liquor warehouse. I used to go to Axiom when it was open. Some up and coming bands played there including some band named Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo, Social Distortion and many others. https://www.houstonpress.com/music/almost-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-axiom-6491690 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-axiom-6574860

Now, if they could just give Houston a new Ritz-Carlton...

Ok.so this has been sold to a Maryland company. What's the likely branding name of this hotel?

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/houston-intersection-main-cavalcade-studewood-16363355.php?IPID=Chron-HP-Trending

In addition to the problems you mentioned, it also does not distinguish between the Katy Freeway portion and the Baytown/East Freeway portion (let alone between the expanded part of the Katy Freeway, west of the Loop, and the unexpanded portion, inside the Loop). So, no, not worth looking at, but thanks for posting the info.

That property was owned by Consolidated Graphics Properties, a subsidiary of R R Donnely, the printing company that owned the block to the West, across Jackson. Both properties were sold in a transaction recorded on July 23, 2021 to 1702 McGowen, llc. The officer of the llc is Aspen Grey Homes from Austin. I refuse to pay the Secretary of State to search records, so I have no idea who actually runs things. I expect the printing building on the West side of Jackson will be demolished at some point.

They probably paid about $10 million and it's probably now worth about $30 million, higher if not for the pandemic and oil collapse. But if they could sell the block for $30 million, that's the opportunity cost for developing it. So whatever they build there is going to have to be worth enough to pay for the cost of construction as well as the land and a suitable profit of 15%-25%. So it's going to be tall.

Agreed. That is what Midtown, Montrose, East End, and all of the peripheral downtown neighborhoods are supposed to look like. Cut it out with the townhouses and build some real density.

I mean, a 18 rail wide super commuter line would be very interesting.

Wow, thanks JLWM, fantastic find. Now I'm convinced that the route was: 1 - University to Main (videos show the motorcade leaving Rice Stadium on the University side, the news article clearly says they took Main to go to Rich Building, and the videos show them heading toward downtown) 2 - Main to Pierce (as was suggested, and your map clearly shows there was no way to jump on today's 59) 3 - Pierce along 45 feeder and on to 45 (the news article clearly says they took the Gulf Freeway) 4 - Reveille / 35 to Westover (your map shows the importance of 35 as a thoroughfare, and the video shows them arriving to the Rich Building on Westover) Since the news article didn't name 35 as being on the route, I was thinking it was supposition as well. But I just don't think by looking at your map they would have exited the Gulf Freeway anytime before 35 and I see no reason they wouldn't have taken 35 on the last leg, especially since they arrived on Westover. Good sleuthing, but I am 100% convinced now. I'll drop in if I ever hear form the Secret Service history department, but not holding my breath.

Flooding was partly the reason San Antonio built the River Walk. Obviously they don’t know how to flood like we do!

Wow @Paco Jones coming in guns blazing!

Centennial Tower This project consists of a new hospital tower within the Texas Medical Center, on the corner of John Freeman Blvd and Bertner Ave, next to Walter Tower. The new hospital tower is a 29-story tower (511' to top of mechanical roof) with total square footage approximately at 1.2 million sf. The new hospital tower will adjoin to the existing Walter Tower on Levels 4 and below. Centennial Tower will also be connected to Walter Tower via a series of skybridges on Levels 9 - 21. Skybridge connectors will also connect Garage 7 and existing Walter Tower/Fondren Brown atrium to the Outpatient Care Center. The site is located next to Walter Tower and will be bounded by Bertner Avenue and John Freeman Blvd. An existing building will be demolished on this site also owned by Houston Methodist.

The second photo has the only clear picture I've ever seen of the Western Union building that was incorporated into the Bank of America tower.

Austin's Loro from Aaron Franklin (Franklin's BBQ) and Tyson Cole (Uchi) If this is accurate, it will be a welcome and highly anticipated addition to the Heights.

Sikorsky S58bt or ET. 60 years old, reengined with PWPT6 turbines. Originally had a radial engine that burned gasoline, not what you want to fly into a war zone. These are variants of the H34 helicopter.

I watched these guys place some HVAC equipment on top of a Costco. Looks like a fun job.

^^^ props for sharing!