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Project was registered with TDLR this morning: Project Name: 1661 Tanglewood Location Address: 1661 Tanglewood Start Date: 4/28/2023 Estimated Cost: $204,000,000 Scope of Work: 3 level underground parking garage, 34 level condominium tower, MEP systems, and associated site work and interiors. Square Footage: 603,733 ft 2 Design Firm Name: Jackson & Ryan Architects

The first sign of construction! Minor digging on the curb facing San Felipe.

My friend who is a traveling surgical tech took this today while at St. Joseph Hospital. These are my pics.

One Discovery Way: Unknown Street: Unknown street connecting-entrance to another unknown street: Two Discovery Way: Tower crane base for the 2nd tower crane for TDW: Helix Park new section: Helix Park middle section: Helix Park end section: Collaborative Building: Mixed-Use Garage:

Levit Green Boulevard: Unknown road paved fast! Landscaping!! Retaining wall in the back of the property:

A new marketing property flyer was released. Now using the term Bio Manufacturing. I wonder if this is in relation to the announced TMC BioPort Bio Manufacturing Campus?

Part 2, See the first set of pics on page 5, they were too many for one post.

Going fast!!

City of Houston Public Works on site!

Giant mural in progress.

exciting for Montrose and Houston for sure!!! this has been a long time coming...i truly hope they keep some art installations or make room to have some kind of rotating art in the medians or "something" to keep the Montrose of old alive 🙂

Going up against the old signage:

https://braunenterprises.com/property/900-w-34th/ Braun redevelopment. This will be next door to the Prose on Brinkman apartment complex mentioned elsewhere.

All kidding aside, this is always going to be a battle. Humans like to build next to rivers and bayous for functional and aesthetic reasons, but rivers hate to stay in their banks. They meander. So this project will progress and we'll gain new bayou trails and nice views because we have the technology to do so, but there will be consequences. Bulkheads and embankment maintenance will be needed and there will be changes to the sediment deposition that no one can predict. But I'm all for this project, do it. Just keep in mind that building along a bayou is never a one-and-done proposition. We should expect that there will be failures and that things will need to be redone from time to time. As a geoscientist I'm saying that the need to redo things in the future is a foreseeable event that needs to be planned for and budgeted. The need to make future changes are not "failures" per se, but rather just a cost of doing business. So don't be surprised or too harsh on the developers when something big or small detaches and slides into the bayou during a high water event. Anyone who thinks that this can be prevented 100% is either an over-confident engineer and/or lacks a healthy respect for the power of water and nature to reshape our landscape.

Speaking of the Rustic, every time I drive by its got a fairly good crowd. Just goes to show you that it wasn't a bad location like some had suggested.

More glass on building and added height.

https://montrosehtx.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Monstrose-Blvd-Presentation-12-7-2022.pdf

Mural in progress.

Tree mulching machine.

Building Concrete Solutions a division of Tellepsen is the concrete contractor. http://bcshouston.com

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/12/11/imperial-sugar-land-mixed-use-development.html Developer plans to repurpose Sugar Land's Imperial Sugar property into walkable, mixed-use district Now Houston-based boutique real estate firm Puma Development is proposing to repurpose the Imperial Sugar property, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 90 and State Highway 6, into a walkable mixed-use district. The preliminary plan is to include experiential retail, entertainment, restaurants, multi- and single-family homes, offices and park space while conserving the historic sugar company buildings.

Flags going in.

I love that they’re doing these murals. Some of them are insanely cool.

Tower crane has been taken down.

FAA filing for the 42 story tower was entered ~1 month ago. Hopefully they'll approve it soon, but FAA still seems to be working through some late-October filings. 449', start of construction "12/5/2022" (ASAP) with an estimated finish date of October 2025.

Not perfect (a bit ambiguous on where bikes are supposed to go between 59 and Dallas), but definitely a nice upgrade. Montrose and (especially) Westheimer really need to have wide, high-quality, continuous* sidewalks. *continuous as in, continues at sidewalk grade across the street at intersections with side streets, like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/5M4KnAehYXjBc5tc8

The property was deeded to Rice University in 1978 by the Houston Post Hobby Shadyside.pdf

When owned by the Hobbys, 2 Remington was Lot U, Shadyside, a 5.178 acre lot. It's since been split into 2 lots, with addresses of 2 Remington and 2 1/2 Remington. Before the Hobbys bought it, it had been the home of Joseph Cullinan, a founder of Texaco. Oveta Culp Hobby had the home demolished in the early 70's, supposedly after a deed restriction fight with the HOA. The property was given to Rice University in 1978 by the Houston Post Company, the actual owner of the property. Rice sold the property in 1983, and it apparently had issues with default after that, before those issues were resolved. There was a prior thread on this property

From N. Main St at Fulton St.

Beautiful Fall evening along the Buffalo Bayou.

Architect - https://abeldesigngroup.com

is this where I mark myself safe from having to see the Embassy Suites when I'm at the GRB or Rustic? .

A reliable source tells me the major renovation of McNair Tower 1 is delayed. Meanwhile, they are moving ahead with a new Health Sciences Building and parking garage. New TDLR TABS registration: https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Project/TABS2023006873

East River 9 is awesome. The food looked great, drinks were good and the view was incredible.

That last one really shows how far the city has come since that notorious late-70s parking desert photo. Still a ways to go, but man. For reference:

A thread about this building was the first thing I ever posted on this forum, which was the second-ever internet thing I ever signed up for, in 2005, when I was in 11th grade. Now I am 34 and on the same forum I am still seeing pictures of this POS. When are they going to blow it up.

In light of the map title, I suggest we now refer to this project as "Big BeRT." Also, it should be the Yellow Line.