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  1. I snapped this on my flight today. Definitely gaps between prominent towers but the skyline is more like a mountain range in the Rockies with lower peaks between the taller ones.
    9 points
  2. https://communityimpact.com/houston/heights-river-oaks-montrose/development/2020/05/15/with-demolition-of-former-smith-wollensky-building-highland-village-project-moves-forward/ Per this article, the building will house a Lululemon "experiential store" which has yoga/ HIIT classes, locker rooms, meditation room, a cafe/restaurant, as well as apparel. I believe they're only occupying 2 floors; I'm not sure whats going on with the other 2 floors (I attached old permits). Their Chicago experiential store is their largest at 20,000 sqft, so the permit for 20,000 sqft makes sense. Not sure about the other 20,000 sfqt. This permit is for the entire building This permit is for Lululemon This is what their Chicago experiential store looks like for reference
    8 points
  3. Towers in Uptown aren't really "surrounded" by each other - setbacks are enormous and there are, of course, the many strip malls. It's getting somewhat denser but I'd say each tower still largely stands alone. And Montrose Boulevard, just between Westheimer and 59, already has, what, 4 towers? I would love to see stuff like this downtown, but Montrose Boulevard is in a weird in-between state right now and would really benefit from density. I don't think I actually want it to become a corridor of towers, but this is Houston. Nothing ever becomes all one thing anyway. A mix of eclectic retail and midrise apartments regularly pierced by a tower? Sounds perfect to me.
    8 points
  4. I completely agree, I think what our downtown is missing is more residents. Residents are ultimately better than tourists/ hotel users. A constant flow of people utilizing the food halls, Main Street, and other businesses in downtown. Obviously tourists are a plus, but they fluctuate based off the season and what events are in town (unlike residents).
    6 points
  5. They were replatting to remove the alley that runs through the middle of the property. They might be doing this to close off the somewhat dangerous "exit" in their parking lot right by the front door. This is an alley: It is visible on Google Maps and looks like a road here:
    5 points
  6. Looks like this site plan and cutaway includes the new ACBs from when Duncan and Mays were built. I would assume it's still mostly accurate? Mays at right and Duncan at bottom.
    5 points
  7. Stop trying to accuse people of feigning sympathy or pretending to care about others just to hide whatever you think their real motivations are. Just stop it. You can disagree with them. You can think they are misguided or wrong. That's all fine. But let's not call each other liars.
    4 points
  8. That would be an even bigger coup than Austin getting the Tesla factory. Important to note that Axiom and SpaceX have deep ties that are only getting deeper. SpaceX is currently Axiom's transportation partner and likely will continue to be once the Axiom becomes independent of the ISS. SpaceX has also stated they have little interest in developing habitats for the Martian surface which I think perfectly tees Axiom up to step in and be their habitat partner. Maybe Axiom also jumps in to develop the Artemis Base Camp on the lunar surface for NASA?
    4 points
  9. Here's to celebrating 10 years of the most underwhelming development in Downtown Houston. Hip hip hooray.
    4 points
  10. I could have sworn this already had a thread but could not find it. This warehouse will be converted into a bar. Apparently it's already under way per houstonculturemap, slated to be completed by this fall. I attached link for all the details. https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/05-12-22-heights-social-1213-w-20th-st-drift-bar-open-champagne-service-brunch-cocktails/
    3 points
  11. Idk if I'm fantasizing, but is anyone else seeing a consistent skyline form between Uptown and Downtown? Uptown to Greenway started to fill up with new residential buildings near ROD to 2929 Weslayan. Greenway to Montrose has its fair share of high-rises, from the cluster of buildings near Allen parkway to the cluster off of Kirby. Montrose to midtown/ museum district/ downtown is filling up nicely as well. I know its not a back to back skyline but the gap has been looking smaller and smaller over the last few years! Imagine if we can get a super tall observatory near Kirby & Westheimer (think space needle). We would have a 360 skyline view from that point!
    3 points
  12. May 4-5, 2022 Meeting of the UT System Board of Regents https://www.utsystem.edu/board-of-regents/meetings/board-meeting-2022-05-04 MD Anderson TMC Projects that were approved: Ambulatory Clinical Buildings 2/3 Bed Tower Mobilization Renovate T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower - Floors 20 and 21 Finish Out Mid Campus Building 1 - Floors 23 and 24 Replace UPS Systems - CPB Data Center 2/3 ACB: Consistent with the institution's Master Facilities Framework 2030, U. T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is proposing to construct two new buildings, Ambulatory Clinical Building 2 (2ACB) and Ambulatory Clinical Building 3 (3ACB). These new buildings are to be located on the institution's Texas Medical Center campus (TMC Campus), south of Holcombe Boulevard and bounded by Pressler Street on the south, Richard J.V. Johnson Avenue on the east, and Fannin Street on the west. While the project includes two separate buildings with integrated parking garages, 2ACB and 3ACB are expected to be joined at the podium level to form one contiguous ambulatory treatment facility (2/3 ACB) that is proximate to and interconnected with the existing Lowry and Peggy Mays Clinic and the Dan L. Duncan Building. Overall, the 2/3 ACB facility is anticipated to consist of approximately 3,300,000 gross square feet (GSF). 2ACB will consist of 950,000 GSF of clinical and departmental program space located on seventeen floors above grade and 550,000 GSF of parking located on three floors below grade as well as a central parking structure. In total, there will be 1,500 parking spaces added on five levels. 3ACB will consist of 1,500,000 GSF of clinical and departmental program space located on nineteen floors above grade and 300,000 GSF of below-grade parking adding another 785 parking spaces. The project is also expected to include the construction of two seven-story connectors that will complete a circulation route between 2/3 ACB, the Mays Clinic, and the Duncan Building, forming a complete quadrangle around the central parking structure. The top of the parking structure will align with the existing exterior plaza decks of the Mays Clinic and the Duncan Building to form a raised exterior garden. If this recommendation is approved, the project is expected to proceed with requested inclusion in the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) in August 2023, design development approval in May 2024, construction start in November 2024, and substantial completion in December 2027. Inpatient Bed Tower: U. T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is preparing to construct a new inpatient bed tower to be located proximate to and interconnected with the institution's Main Building complex, on a site currently occupied by the Percy and Ruth Leggett Jones Basic Research Building, the Bates- Freeman research building, and the Anderson Central Building. The proposed Bed Tower Mobilization project will involve a multi-step approach to include the vacating of approximately 527,100 square feet of existing buildings and preparations for demolition. To consolidate science research laboratories and clinical support functions currently housed in the buildings to be demolished, approximately 400,000 gross square feet of space will be renovated in other facilities proximate to existing inpatient services and associated clinical science laboratories. The project will also include abating vacated spaces, facility modifications to accept connections for temporary bridges installed around the site for the future inpatient bed tower, and detailed analysis and planning to facilitate the decoupling of utility infrastructure in anticipation of future building demolition.
    3 points
  13. The height mystery seems solved. This looks like 26 residential floors over at least 10 floors of garage space. This is much closer to a 40 story tower than a 30.
    3 points
  14. I imagine a Nail Spa, Sauna, and Clean Juice are not the type of tenants they thought thought they'd get for this project. I didn't know River Oaks was getting a new strip center...what, no checks cashed place...no dry cleaners...no donuts shop? This literally went from a City Centre or River Oaks District type project to this! How did GID botch this project when every other developer figured it out and in less desirable locations?
    2 points
  15. Hmmm, "converted into" looks suspiciously like "replaced by". Not that I'm complaining. New building is a bit awkward but definitely an improvement.
    2 points
  16. Oh HELL yeah! That looks great. Montrose Blvd is going crazy. Honestly I'm kind of glad that lot is still empty at Fairview. Who knows what we might get there now.
    2 points
  17. I got a photo. It seems they are just using it for parking at the moment:
    2 points
  18. He'd be insane to not build residential immediately. That gives me pause. The last thing we need is another Green Street. I cannot believe those morons nixed the residential component and went with an boutique office building instead.
    2 points
  19. Interior fit out permit. Architect - https://www.hksinc.com
    2 points
  20. Photo from TMC's Facebook page. Can't wait to see some of these first phase buildings start to complete!
    2 points
  21. 2 points
  22. Greetings. Wondering if anyone is aware of a link to an aerial of the old South Main Drive In near Stella Link and what is now Willowbend? Or any other old photos of it for that matter. Thanks in advance, Neil
    1 point
  23. I’ll buy you a drink at the rooftop bar of the Le Meridien Houston Downtown as soon as I recover from COVID, H19514.
    1 point
  24. I do have high hopes for those developments and for Westheimer in general. I don't have much hope for the ground floor of this. Maybe a 2,000 SF retail space would be par.
    1 point
  25. Do you see it becoming more comfortable anytime soon with what's being built on/proposed for it? Fortress-like towers/garages and afterthought retail...
    1 point
  26. Well, It’s not the ugliest building I’ve ever seen, maybe there will be some changes in the architecture.
    1 point
  27. I'm with you. I've been hoping for about two or three years that I could find someone with a photo of the Winkler Drive-In Theatre. No, it wasn't torn down around 1960 because we went there from 1962-64. I thought someone on another topic/thread said that he was driving down Winkler drive recently and he saw that there still stood an old rusty sign with an arrow pointing saying "Winkler Drive-In Theatre." If you or anyone else is driving down that way in the near future, maybe you could look for it. If it is still there, maybe you can take a photo of it and post it where we all can see it.
    1 point
  28. Funny, and I remember seeing the 1st Planet of The Apes at The Broadway Theater 1968. Fantastic Voyage w/Raquel Welch was the flick afterwards. Double feature, (no pun intended)
    1 point
  29. I remember the golf course, us kids would look for stray golf balls along the perimeter. I remember seeing "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" at McLendon in 1971.
    1 point
  30. I forgot that it was open as late as 73.. I've sure I've probably been there when we first moved here, but for some reason I don't really remember too much about the place. When McClendon triple opened, I think we always went there instead. And that would make sense if South Main starting showing porno flicks at that time.. I remember the Golf Course across the street better than I do that drive in for some reason. I worked as a caddy at that course a few times, and played on it a few times too. I guess McClendon triple and Southmain were open at the same time for a short while, as I seem to remember triple opening pretty early in the 70's. I was there the opening night and I'm sure I was still in Jr. Hi.. So that would be no later than 72-73. MK
    1 point
  31. 1965, traded my 65 GTO for the night to a friend with a 62 Rambler that burned a quart of oil every 30 minutes of engine running time. why? the front seats reclined all the way back and I was taking the smokin' hot chick (I've now been married to for 38 years) to the South Main Drive in.
    1 point
  32. I saw Live and Let Die there in 1973. It was part of the ABC Theatre chain that also owned the Tower, Village, River Oaks and Alabama theatres. My dad was manager of the Village, so we got in free. I was four at the time and thought watchng a movie in the car was stupid. There was also a big dump somewhere near there. We would call it a landfill today. There were mountains of garbage fifty feet high and hundreds of seagulls. The smell was like onions, old tires and urine. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world next to the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History.
    1 point
  33. Here are links to a couple of Bob Bailey photos of (according to the captions) the South Main Drive-In: http ://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/image_lg....able=e_bb_1769 http://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/image_lg....iable=e_bb_1770
    1 point
  34. I know by 1972, they were showing what would be soft porn today. My teenaged buddies and I once climbed on top of a railcar parked on the track next to the South Main. We could seen the movie fine, but no sound. A HPD patrol car came up next to us, and we thought for sure we were going to busted for trespassing. I'm not even sure they saw us, they watched a few minutes then left.
    1 point
  35. Sure wish someone had pics of The Winkler Drive-In, but up close. All we saw was the far away aerial, which is better than nothing I guess. If only we knew what year it actually closed. Only a local kicking around at the time could divulge? I would assume judging by the design of the now gone Bill McDavid Oldsmobile Sales local next door could we determine? Remember it had that very tall slender neon sign on the edge of 45 with an arrow flickering to the top and the state of Texas would light up? The place appeared to have that early 60's modern Jetson's design. So maybe the theater was torn down around 1960? Hello out there Houstonians! Help!
    1 point
  36. We used to go there with our baby daughter in the 60's....it was a great place to go because we could watch a movie, while our baby slept in the back seat of the car.
    1 point
  37. Yesterday afternoon Drive-ins.com was up and working. That's the same photo it shows of the South Main DI. How far was it from Rice University? I wonder if it spent its last years showing only X-rated movies like some many of the other closed-down and demolished theatres did?
    1 point
  38. I found a modern view on google maps. You'll have to click full view image or "view image" feature on your browser to read the street names. The red line is the train track that ran along side the drive-in. Willowbend was the back side of the drive-in. I remember having to bicycle through a field to reach the back gate. The entrance would have been on the south side of this photo, somewhere between the train tack and Stella Link, off of South Main, which was a simple, four lane black road back then.
    1 point
  39. You might want to contact: http://www.positiveimage.com/ They have an impressive collection of vintage aerial photos from all around Houston. I have seen many covering the South Main area including the drive in. The only catch is, the photos are not posted anywhere. You must visit them.
    1 point
  40. Well that's strange: when I go to www.Drive-Ins.com I keep getting the message that says: <H1 id=textSection1 style="FONT: 13pt/15pt verdana; COLOR: black">The page cannot be displayed</H1>The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.To attempt fixing network connectivity problems, click Tools, and then click "Diagnose Connection Problems..." Is it just my machine or does anyone else have the same problem? Also, does anyone know the address of the old South Main Drive In? Wasn't it basically at the interestion of Stella Link and Willowbend Blvd (on the West side of Stella Link)? Thanks again, Neil
    1 point
  41. Drive-ins.com has a photo of the South Main DI from the front. If you had the street address, you could enter it on GlobeExplorer.com and it might show a recent photo of the remnants, unless, like the Winkler DI, something was built all over the site (there's a Home Depot where the Winkler was).
    1 point
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