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I spoke with a friend this morning who brought up this property. She said that some existing site utility issues at McAlpine St. were being finalized and that the multifamily development is now moving forward. The building design and total levels is not yet finalized but it will be a mid-rise with surface parking at Level 1 and a concrete podium above with residential levels stacked. This is a Padua property and there are rumblings about Hines, to what extent I am not sure. I asked about Marquette Cos. and received shoulder shrugs. Please consider all of the above the be "water cooler" talk. I do know that this development is moving forward, whether is goes beyond final design and pricing is uncertain. Or perhaps this is all posturing in an effort to push the land sale? This info should make things as clear as mud.

"In a 5-3 decision, the court ruled Texas Central — the company planning to build the Houston-to-Dallas railway — has eminent domain authority." https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/06/24/bullet-train-eminent-domain-texas-supreme-court.html

"Chevron is selling its San Ramon headquarters property in California and plans to downsize while remaining headquartered in the city, while also shifting some workers to Houston." https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Chevron-to-sell-San-Ramon-HQ-property-move-some-17264711.php Sounds like they might do what Exxon did and eventually realize they should just move here completely.

"New office tenants include Method Architecture, Teal Construction and Impact Networking." https://methodarchitecture.com https://www.tealcon.com https://www.impactmybiz.com https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/texas-inc/article/Retail-wrap-Midway-s-East-River-inks-new-17260240.php

Things like this are why when I worked in TV news, she was often referred to as "Sheila Jackson Me."

Updated mock-up of the Salty and site plan for 1658 Westheimer Rd. Architectural drawings show a walk-up counter for the Salty for customers to place to-go orders.

Based on @Paco Jones diagram these Oak trees are being saved. During the online meeting I attended they said they are going to keep as many of the trees as possible.

Well, like I said before, this project is not dead yet. Maybe Brightline will step in and save us? Shame that lending markets have tightened up.

I agree that it is tacky. In fact, I find the whole building to be gaudy and ugly. However, Houston has no shortage of sterile glass boxes. I think the city could stand to have a few tasteless, garish, and cheesy buildings. Over the coming decades, for better or worse, this building will be a landmark. No doubt.

So nice to have the buildings along Washington and not the parking.

I get the sentiment. The solution is quite simple, really: don't live in the dead-center of the nation's fourth-largest city. If you can afford to live near Bissonnet and Ashby, you can afford to live just about anywhere else. People have a right to control their own property. But they don't also have a right to control everything else within their eyesight. Especially when they are surrounded by seven million other people who also have their own interests.

A preliminary site plan for Canopy on Washington, Oxberry Group's mixed-use at 3800 Washington Avenue. According to the site plan, Primeway Credit Union is staying on as a tenant. https://www.crexi.com/lease/properties/414119/california-canopy-washington Brochure: https://api-lease.crexi.com/assets/414119/flyer

This is so disingenuous. There will be ZERO added traffic on Wroxton Court, and I really have a hard time believing that the traffic on Bissonnet will be significantly worse, especially considering there were apartments here before (as has been frequently noted in this thread). I don't know if it's a property value issue, or that they just don't want a high rise in their backyard because of privacy or views or whatever... but this is almost right in the center of Houston, there's going to be density whether they like it or not. I can see several high rises from my backyard (in a significantly less dense area of town), and you don't see me crying about it.

Lunch time.

This one is. Someone on Nextdoor asked why they closed. Seems like another vagrant has been added to the tenant list when I went by yesterday.

Still no work going on but they took a lane and parking away with the new barriers.

Bare concrete looks like a future fountain and will be covered in marble.

Many, many more buildings. https://iondistrict.com/files/Ion-District_Presentation-Deck_Compressed.pdf

This project continues to deliver truly "exceptional" / original design ideas. I have been involved in a number of projects where we demolished tons of that green marble. This dude should not be trusted with a 58 story building!!!!

Marketing materials for 1735 Westheimer Rd show surrounding businesses including the forthcoming wine bar and tapas restaurant chain Barcelona at 1731 Westheimer. The map indicates it's opening Fall 2022. It's possible the opening will be much later like early 2023 or early spring 2023.

More Football Operations Building News, along with a fundraising campaign. Campaign: https://uhcougars.com/news/2022/6/23/cougar-pride-houston-athletics-launches-100-million-fundraising-drive.aspx A lot of new images with a few old ones.

The WSJ had an article as well: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chevron-to-downsize-in-california-remain-based-in-the-state-11656103820?st=0c596dvqujc5192&reflink=article_copyURL_share “Some of Chevron’s ex­ec­u­tives have long wanted to move the com­pa­ny’s head­quar­ters to Texas, but its lead­er­ship has held off, largely be­cause of the com­pa­ny’s long his­tory in Cal­i­for­nia and its as­sets there, such as its Rich­mond, Calif., re­fin­ery, ac­cord­ing to peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter.” “Cal­i­for­nia law­mak­ers have pre­vi­ously con­sid­ered im­pos­ing a sev­er­ance tax that would tax oil pro­duc­tion in the state. If Cal­i­for­nia were to im­pose such a tax, that would likely prompt Chevron to re­con­sider keep­ing its head­quar­ters in the state, one of the peo­ple said.”

It looks like gym and fitness center chain Facet Seven is leasing a unit at the Docks at Timbergrove, the retail development from Ancoran at 2505 W 11th St. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2505-W-11th-St-Houston-TX/23271056 https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/O3H6_IKiGGlyGCpy42sH6ZsrF6YQ_DIA0Fuxkk-vd_o/11th Street Mixed Use Flyer Current.pdf

Covering up and packing the right side and digging up the left side.

Still standing, I guess they are waiting on permits to close the street.

This faces Hazard St. but they have a Richmond St. number. Looks a few more months till it's finished.

Topped out. I don't think those trees are on their property. There seems to be an easement that probably belongs to TXDOT.

If you look closely you can see all the vintage train cars next to the left warehouse.

Reason for today's ride was to chase a Bike Tag. Had to look for this......609 W. 9th St. in the Heights, brand new house and a very unique fence. and now they have to find my Bike Tag.....so I can't post my ride map cause it's still up to find.

I think this garage is expected to serve the several large buildings they want to build around it so it makes sense to me I feel. I don't think metro rail is extensive enough yet to say the average person who works there can get around on it exclusively.

Is it just me, or is it ironic that a project that's always flogging its environmental/new energy/futurist visions in public is building a parking garage next to a light rail line?

leasing info up on loopnet https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3800-Washington-Ave-Houston-TX/25321303/

I wanted to create a thread for this healthcare facility medical office building. The multicolored glass facade reminds me of Museo Plaza.

With this news, it has to be dead right? This is where the station was going in. Damn!

Needs neon accent lighting.

Amegy & Aspire had a Hannover baby. I dig it. It's nice filler. Certainly cleaner and not cheap looking like most of the stuff we get. The views from the higher and south facing units will be amazing.

That used to be a bank building, before PP bought it. One of my brothers in law used the bank that was there for his business. Looking at some records, it was originally East End State Bank, and changed its name to Enterprise Bank at some point, and then was merged into Sterling Bank. The original subdivision that building sits on was called Suburban At some point after the acquisition by Planned Parenthood, the property was converted into a condominium.

I feel like so many of these 30-ish story residential high rises look the same. It’s not grand but it’s not ugly. I just sort of feel so-so about most of the shit that has gone up in uptown/downtown. No?

All but 2 houses had the "Tower of Traffic" signs in their front yards on the Wroxton Ct. which is directly south of the build. But they need to update the sign to say Langley and not Ashby.

Project Name: Us Living W. Alabama Architect: Preston Partnership Information: 13-story residential building. 9 Levels of residential over 4 Levels of parking. 385 units totaling 372,211 S.F. A total building area (garage not included) of 387,801 S.F. Garage has a total of 518 parking spaces. There is a 2,838 S.F. makerspace/art room with a 894 S.F. outdoor terrace at Level 3. Outdoor amenity terrace including pool, yoga lawn, zen garden, fire pit and grilling area totaling 16,634 S.F. at Level 5. Fitness, solarium, kitchen and dinning, bar/pub, and meeting spaces also at Level 5.

Main Street Tap & Grill closed at 4002 N Main St (I think sometime this year). The property was for sale in October with an asking price of $2,200,000. Listing: https://www.crexi.com/properties/696807/texas-restaurant-building-for-sale-in-the-heights Flyer: Link The Meteor, a cafe from Austin, will operate its business on the property. The Meteor is an all-day cafe with a focus on Roman-style pizzas. It's also a coffee shop, wine bar, and bicycle shop. I think this will be well received, especially by residents living in close proximity. Previous tenant Main Street Tap & Grill was considered a nuisance for noise, trash, and violence, according to many in the neighborhood. More about the Meteor here: https://espressochampagnechainlube.com https://austin.eater.com/2019/10/4/20898840/the-meteor-cafe-natural-wine-bar-bike-shop-open-south-congress-austin-photos

Many more buildings. https://iondistrict.com/#section-11

I'm interested to see what they do for the playing surface. I know NRG has hosted CONCACAF matches and other "friendly" high end exhibitions, so they seem to have solved the "trays of green mud" approach used a few years back with the Texans.

2 Immaculate innings in the same game by 2 Astro pitchers against the 3 same Ranger players. Probably a feat that will never be done again. Immaculate innings are way more rare than No Hitters with only 105 Immaculate vs. 316 No hitters. https://www.mlb.com/news/immaculate-innings-c265720420 https://www.mlb.com/news/luis-garcia-phil-maton-throw-immaculate-innings-for-astros

Project Name: West Loop (interim name) Address: 4411 West 12th Street Houston, TX 77055 Owner/Developer: Resia (formerly AHS Residential) Architect: Gensler Information: 12-story residential building with 503 units. Total building size of 476,772 SF. 8-story parking garage.