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One end of the TMC3 mixed-use building underground cistern is nearly encapsulated with dirt. Future East Street connection to Wyndale Street (NE corner behind hotel & conference center / residential tower) TMC3 Collaborative Building is picking up steam! Across from Collaborative Building, the tower crane for IB1 stands tall. The TMC3 Collaborative Building and IB1 are both scheduled for late 2023 completion, so rapid advancement on IB1 is expected for early 2022.

Since we're throwing around ideas 😂, it would be amazing if Starbucks built a Starbucks Reserve here/in the area. This location is always packed so I know it would do well here. I'm sure everyone already knows what Starbucks Reserve is, but for those who don't, its basically like a MEGA Starbucks. They have "gourmet food," a full bakery, even cocktails/ alcoholic drinks! Theres only 6 in the world, but who knows.

They have been pouring concrete the last couple mornings

^thought that was the new proposed use for this site for a second, and I completely couldn’t place how that area looked like that.

The survey map has two different Main Street intersecting each other. It doesn't generate a lot of confidence.

Looks like they are doing work to extend the trail under the rail line just east of Mason Park. That’ll add another mile to the total length!

Love this angle!

Yeah, it’s weird. I’m probably in the (extreme lol) minority on the forum, but I’m Republican, and this project is about as ideal, on paper, to us as it could possibly get. It’s being privately developed, will create domestic jobs, will definitely spur development at the stations and their surroundings (creating more jobs and $$$) and it gives consumers another alternative way to get between Houston-Dallas. It is straight-up one of the best possible routes in the US for HSR- it’s the perfect distance, these are two huge cities with big economies with tons of travel between them (isn’t that route one of SW’s busiest?) this thing is going to print money because trying to fly that route sucks- to say nothing of driving it. I think there’s a couple of private buses that do the route but the options for people like me who don’t really drive, and don’t do well with flying are severely limited. I’ll be interested to see how this plays out. It’s not very pro-business of us as a state to squash down emerging companies in sectors like this.

Sod going down and sprinklers on....

Tower crane assembly from today. They had to stop due to the storm.

https://lionheart.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_02oHQN9lC2TA6ge Midtown's Annual Survey on transportation and development for the area. Good portion of the survey mentions Caroline Streetscape Improvements. If you live, work, or visit midtown often, this survey might be for you :).

If you have to ask...

So exciting! I don't know where my post went on this website but I've been saying this for years. This is an absolutely prime spot for higher density. The Container Store would definitely need to look for another place though since this is the only one inside the entirety of Beltway 8. It's more of a big box store that I doubt would want to pay the price of a potentially higher end location.

^^^ MY GOODNESS! you would think that in such a SWANKY/POSH area of town, that they would do something regarding those awful/horrifying low hanging POWER LINES. what a strange and completely outdated scene...

This is correct. The silver cladding is all fabricated in Australia. Or at least that is the info I got when talking with someone involved in the project ages ago after they had constructed the little condo showroom.

Bring the Astrodome down to it's steel studs and put a park in the middle of it. Next question.

Unrelated to the attached photo I took, but yeah doesn’t anyone know why only half the crown is being lit?

https://www.adg-stl.com https://www.sisuclinic.com Looks like a Botox Clinic.

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12.14.21 Gala at Macgregor by Houston HCDD, on Flickr 12.14.21 Gala at Macgregor by Houston HCDD, on Flickr

12.14.2021 Project Progress - Dian Street Villa by Houston HCDD, on Flickr 12.14.2021 Project Progress - Dian Street Villa by Houston HCDD, on Flickr 12.14.2021 Project Progress - Dian Street Villa by Houston HCDD, on Flickr

12.14.2021 Project Progress - Regency Lofts by Houston HCDD, on Flickr 12.14.2021 Project Progress - Regency Lofts by Houston HCDD, on Flickr

Just thought it was interesting how long this took (sidewalks)... I was waiting more than a year! Awesome! The quality of these developments are really nice. I hope they set the standard for the historic neighborhoods there. Perfect scale for the area.

Probably had to rethink their plans when Covid struck. Not much demand for offices or movie theaters now. Sad but as a developer they got lucky they hadn't started building those yet. Home Depot will do well here. The only other places are off IH 610 north loop, 610 west loop in Bellaire and Gulf Frwy near Gulfgate. Just a few small hardware stores inside the loop.

Tower crane erection at 1550 on the green !

The Sterling at Regent Square now open https://realtynewsreport.com/regent-square-adds-park-and-apartments/

Seeing that Houston tears everything down and saves virtually nothing, you could argue any building that lasts that long could be considered significant.

I'll be gone for two weeks so this is my last progress picture of the year. It's been fun watching the steel workers climb around on this.

Think they’re done with floors and now working on the top: taken just now

Architect: Forge Craft Information: The project will consist of two buildings and a parking garage. Outdoor amenities include a swimming pool, play areas (covered and uncovered), gazebos, community gardens, and a dog park. Building #1 6-story with 168 units for a total of 184,420 SF. There are also two ground floor retail shell areas totaling 22,765 SF. Building #2 4-story with 157 units for a total of 134,864 SF. Garage 9-level precast concrete parking garage with a total of 558 parking spaces.

Demolition Permit issued for old Party Boy building

Stormy Levit Green.

I think it matches the renderings. Link to Urbannizer's post from 2019:

The Center St. side.

Fitch Ratings - Chicago - 16 Dec 2021: Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'AA-' Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and bond rating to the following Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corporation taxable revenue bonds, issued on behalf of Texas Medical Center (TX): --$93,725,000 Taxable Revenue Bonds, Series 2022. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The $93.7 million in series 2022 bonds will be issued as fixed-rate taxable bonds, proceeds used to fund two parking garages on the Texas Medical Center (TMC) 3 campus, fund capitalized interest through October 2023, and pay costs of issuance. The bonds are expected to price the week of January 10 via negotiated sale. [more in linked Fitch Ratings article]

Rising!

The King Ramses exhibit is extraordinary. Houston is one of only three cities in the US getting this exhibit.

Been noticing the pictures that you been posting lately, and all I want to say is keep it up. They look great. What some have been saying on here is right, you definitely capture the building as it was sold in the render, yet at the same time it has surpassed the render itself. Looking forward to more pictures from you.

Good description. It really fits with the Rice on the next block. It should make the Sambuca space and the open spot that used to be the sushi/Japanese place more attractive. That block had been basically shut off from pedestrian traffic since 2016, with a year-ish in there when it was the surface lot. It's been a long time coming, but the streetscape of Texas Ave/Street is vastly improved. Wyatt square has a year or two to get done, and there's still the lot down by Catalyst/Urban League, but that whole street from the Wortham down to the ballpark is like another city from what it was 15 years ago. Get the MMP mixed used thing up and down and it's a pretty organically done makeover.

This picture made my day. I have not generally liked this building so far, as I fear the march of glass and concrete into the Historic District. But at ground level, this is pivotal for downtown Houston. We have not, since before World War II, seen a Class A office building that devoted such attention to the ground level, sidewalk experience. Texas Commerce Tower had ground floor retail as a nod to Main Street, but it was in the parking garage building. BG Group Place turned a cold shoulder to Main. 609 Main has ground floor retail but it's sort of an afterthought architecturally; the emphasis is increasing but it's not really there yet. But this building (1) sharply differentiates the first two floors from the rest of the building, (2) puts the retail on the best street frontage, Texas Avenue, (3) makes the office entrance secondary to the retail - a total revolution for downtown, and (4) adds a canopy as a significant architectural component, in the tradition of the Rice Hotel, acknowledging the climate and the needs of pedestrians, i.e., people who are not necessarily tenants of the building (!). I mean, you literally have to go back to the days of the Gulf Building, 1929, to see this kind of recognition of the street and the public domain in a Houston office building. Obviously the Houston Center reno gives similar attention, but that's a renovation. This is the most premium product from the most premium developer in Houston. A century has gone by and the circle is complete; an era has finally ended, a new one has begun.

The signage is up.