Leaderboard

Hello everyone. This project, the Parcel 1 phase, will break ground before the end of the year (likely within the next couple months). TW is currently finalizing contracts with a general contractor.

https://www.2415westheimer.com/

Some shots of the landscaping and the view.

https://issuu.com/bryan_velastegui_cordova/docs/portfolio_bryan_velastegui_issuu

I can confirm! Been waiting for news to become public or Hindesky's on-the-ground reporting would pull through as it always does. My sources indicate it is taller than 40 floors and that it is planned to be mixed-use, not solely MF and retail... 😎

Exciting news!!! When I talked with the demolition workers, I asked them if they knew what was going to built on this property. They said a 40 story apartment project. I told them no it was going to be a 5 story medical building and showed them the rendering. Turns out they were 100% correct. Just went by after getting my car washed at Mr Car Wash and I spot a sign for "Southern Land Communities" a division of Southern Land Company (not to be confused with Southernland Communities, which sells farm and ranch properties). They are out of Nashville, Tenn and are a developer & construction company Southern Land Communities does indeed develop high rise apartments. https://southernland.com https://www.instagram.com/southernlandcompany/

Marriott Development's Linkedin page posted this render yesterday on the new St. Regis Residences in Houston and linking the Realty News Report article. Can't confirm if this is a 'placeholder' render of an existing St. Regis property or if this is Pickard's design for Houston. That appears to be the Buffalo Bayou bank so I'm guessing this is it. Reminds me a bit of Museum Tower in Dallas, and definitely looks like it belongs in Miami. While I'd prefer more elegance in River Oaks area, I do like this. Especially if this leads to a higher standard of architecture along Buffalo Bayou in the coming years.

https://www.stevenseminelli.com/highrise

This is helping stitch the total east-west skyline together:

https://issuu.com/midway2/docs/230720_east_river_office?fr=sMjM0ZDY2NTEzNDU

Saturday morning was very foggy.

Address: 2360 Rice Blvd. Developer: Oxberry Group Architect: Michael Hsu Information: 3-story mixed-use building comprised of the following: Level 1 - Retail 4,037 SF Level 2 - Office 7,720 SF Level 3 - Residential 8,890 SF

The Laura.

http://thebirdsallresidences.com/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-luxury-hotels-auberge-houston-birdsall/

TMC Helix Park! wow!! 1 Dynamic Way with BCM's logo: Amazing!! The first company signage in the TMC Helix Park campus! Collaborative Building: Two parcels ready for development. Let's go!!! Helix Park Section 2: Helix Park Section 3: Helix Park Section 4: Mixed-Use Garage: The glass facade looks so good!! I hope the rendering we saw for the retail wing around the garage sure gets built. That whole gym setup with the roof top pool and the TMC Helix Park signage looked amazing! Highly anticipated!!

Wow, the building is barely open and already showing off. https://x.com/CFBPlayoff/status/1743452370606899282?s=20

Most of the sidewalks are now open (they are still working on the main entrance area)

Greetings fellow HAIFers, I've been on this forum for over 9 years! My first post here was on May 10th, 2014 in the Hannover Southampton thread: Remember when we were all excited about that project? Incredible how much time flies! As of yesterday, HAIF's very own Luminare, is officially a licensed architect! My first license is in the state of Colorado. But wait, aren't you in Utah? Yes I still am in Utah. That license will come soon, as that and many others require a few more things to take care of which I can follow up on in this thread if people are curious. Yes I do plan on nabbing that Texas license at some point as well! I just wanted to tell this community, thank you. For years this forum was a great home for me to talk to everyone interested in Houston construction, development, architecture, and design (among many others). Thank you for taking an interest in what I'd had to say, whether extremely long word salads about specifics in architecture, to fun meme's, support for the currently discontinued Project Astropolis (which I had to sideline for my licensure efforts and move to Utah), to support throughout this process going back all those years. This forum is an important place, and I hope it continues to remain so in the years to come! Special Thanks: @editor For giving people a place to have these discussions! To the entire mod/admin team! In particular @Urbannizer @Subdude @Montrose1100 @Triton @Highrise Tower @lockmat To all those whom continue to field report, fly drones, investigate, provide information which keeps those in the construction, engineering, and architecture disciplines, and laymen informed. Please continue your great service! I certainly appreciate it! @hindesky HighriseTower @Paco Jones Urbannizer @IntheKnowHouston @cityliving @ChannelTwoNews @trymahjong brijonmang, among many many others as well as the many who post on the more local neighborhood threads! Keep it up! To those whom I've meet in real life! @BigFootsSocks @mollusk @bobruss @brijonmang @Purdueenginerd To all those whom I've had very good, and even not so good conversations with haha. I enjoyed all of them! You know who you are! To those who helped with Project Astropolis before being discontinued! purdueenginerd urbannizer hindesky highrisetower channeltwonews triton subdude brijonmang @BeerNut pacojones. And don't worry for those on that list who were interested but couldn't because of other obligations (same with me) just your interest was enough. Thanks for those who supported. If I left anyone out, I didn't do it on purpose haha! Just let me know! Finally, if you're a young aspiring architect reading this on the forum, and wondering if you really can do it, to be licensed, just know this guy did it! The only person that can hold you back from getting licensed is yourself! Long live HAIF! As for me, I'll continue to post, give my perspective on the industry, post silly meme's, and conversations with any who want to have them! Take It Easy everyone, Luminare, Architect

AIA had a tour inside the building this evening. We got to go to the top (28th floor - event space) and 12th floor (terrace floor), lobby, and new commercial space (restaurant). A couple of pix And their nearest neighbor

couldn't resist :)

Lovett Commercial seeks city council support for proposed convention center hotel - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com) "The proposed hotel project would include a multi-phase, mixed-use development sitting on a 16-acre parcel at 401 Franklin Street. The proposed convention center hotel would be part of Lovett Commercial’s adaptive reuse of the former Barbara Jordan Post Office, which now houses the company’s Post Houston entertainment facility. The hotel would include between 90 and 200 rooms, as well as a 21,000-square-foot convention center facility in the same building, according to a description filed with the city." Agenda Item #70 for tomorrow's meeting of the City Council. Coversheet (novusagenda.com)

It’s Lit!

I'm a little late to the party, but wow!! Amazing renderings and graphics. Hopefully it really does start within the next few months. The new RO logo/insignia is really fancy!! Reminds me of the Rolls Royce logo! I really like the small buildings attached to the base of the residential tower. They look elegant. It appears the jenga style office building was changed. It's now shorter and has darker colors. Whatever works to get it built! Let's go!!

Even more action, they’re digging.

Pagewood and Wile Interests plan to redevelop 10 blocks in EaDo into a mixed use development, including many Houston favorites. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/11/13/pagewood-wile-interests-develop-east-blocks-eado.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

New Design: https://medistarcorp.com/innovation-tower/

https://hoeferwelker.com/projects/project/houston-livestock-rodeo

Here are the renderings from the article. Based on the file names for the photos that were uploaded, we can figure out some of the proposed locations of some of the structures. 908 Live Oak 1005 Hutchins 2105 McKinney 2215 McKinney Parking Garage

If that's the case, then we have an idea of how much of an impact this will make. To the top of the parapet: 430' 7" Top of tower core wall: 424' 10" Machine Room: 413' 11" Top of Roof: 404' 7" 37th Floor: 388' 11" 36th Floor: 369' 11" Office Core Wall: 135' 3" Office Roof Top: 131' 1" Office F&B Level (4): 113' 1" Top of Garage: 69' 7" Figured I'd snap the pages of it in case it ever disappears...

Another week of construction progress at TMC Helix Park! I took notice of the progress on the last Helix Park that contains that winding water feature. The landscaping around Dynamic 1 continues to look better and better! Love the overall landscaping/streets at this campus. One Dynamic Way: Parcel F, site work continues. Helix Park, section 1: Helix Park, section 2: Helix Park, section 3: Helix Park, section 4: Collaborative Building: Two Dynamic Way, unknown building progress; the parcel is now fenced, and the wooden enclosures are being painted gray to match the surface concrete. New section of the bike path behind the building as well!! Looks so good! Bicycles on site!! Parcel A, seems that something is definitely happening here. Probably site work, and water management related. Parcel B: Parcel H is now completely fenced with a TMC3 graphic banner wrap. Also, a whole new street just opened! They were removing the old graphic banner in order to remove the fencing so they could open the road. Progress!! Mixed-Use Garage:

Love this view of this pic that I took of X-Houston with Midtown and Downtown in background.

New design: https://view.ceros.com/cbre-strike-team/1600-sawyer-brochure

https://lamasarcapital.com/projects/

Significant overhaul in the works for a portion of Main St. downtown. This project would permanently remove vehicle lanes from these sections of Main St. and raise the grade of the former roadway to sidewalk level. https://www.houstontx.gov/council/committees/qol/20231025/More-Space-Main-Street.pdf

TMC Helix Park amazes me every week! Just amazing!! One Discovery Way: Unknown path/street: Parcel G is getting a Helix Park curved outline: Helix Park, section 2: Helix Park, section 3: Helix Park, section 4: Two Discovery Way has started?? I see two sets of steel structures being erected. What's this about? Cool, unknown paths: Collaborative Building: Mixed-Use Garage:

Follow the money 😎 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230621980964/en/Portal-Innovations-Partners-with-Texas-Medical-Center-to-Expand-National-Footprint-and-Fuel-Houston-Based-Life-Science-Breakthroughs Portal Innovations Partners with Texas Medical Center to Expand National Footprint and Fuel Houston-Based Life Science Breakthroughs Chicago-based life science VC firm announces plans to expand strategic partnerships with Beacon Capital and ZoE LIfe Sciences to establish lab and office space on TMC Helix Park Campus HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Portal Innovations, a life sciences venture capital firm, today announced its expansion into Houston, Texas, partnering with the Texas Medical Center (TMC) to drive early-stage biotech and medtech startups. The company will operate 30,000 square feet of world-class lab and office space in the TMC3 Collaborative Building within TMC’s new Helix Park complex, a 37-acre mixed-use campus with a focus on therapeutic and diagnostic research. The expansion marks Portal’s continued growth as a national life sciences VC and portfolio development company, expanding its capabilities with support from capital partners Beacon Capital and ZoE Life Sciences. “Houston is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., and home to one of the world’s leading cancer research institutions, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,” said Portal’s Founder and CEO, John Flavin. “It’s critical for us to open in Texas and leverage nearby pipelines from Rice University, UTHealth Houston, Texas A&M, University of Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, and others across Houston’s innovative life sciences ecosystem. We’re thrilled to work with TMC to help grow tomorrow’s biotech and medtech leaders.” Portal’s Houston presence and TMC collaboration will drive innovation for startups in a state that already claims more than 4,800 biotech companies. In addition, Portal will gain access to TMC’s expansive network of healthcare institutions, research organizations, and commercialization resources within a unique and robust infrastructure for startups. Together, the organizations will offer support such as leadership mentoring, life sciences events, venture capital pitch days, and career networking opportunities. "TMC has steadily been building an innovation ecosystem in Houston through initiatives like the TMC Venture Fund, our incubator programs, and our global BioBridge relationships," said Bill McKeon, CEO of Texas Medical Center. “In Portal, we have a partner with a proven track record of leveraging venture capital funding, expert partners, and strong programming to support dynamic, entrepreneurial businesses at pivotal moments of their growth. We look forward to building on our collective expertise and shared vision to further support the breakthroughs of early-stage life science ventures.” Designed to unite healthcare, life science, and business users, TMC Helix Park is anchored by research labs, large-scale commercial spaces, retail, a hotel and conference center, and public green space, all within approximately 6 million developed square feet. Portal will move into Helix Park’s TMC3 Collaborative Building in Q2 2024, actively looking for investments and offering premier lab facilities and development resources to startups between seed and Series B rounds. “We’re excited about expanding our partnership with Portal Innovations and TMC to support the life sciences ecosystem in Houston,” said Fred Seigel, President and CEO of Beacon Capital Partners. “Portal has been at the forefront of breaking into emerging U.S. markets, and Houston represents a prime opportunity to expand our commitment to growing life sciences across the U.S.” Houston is poised to become the leading U.S. life sciences hub, with a flourishing infrastructure that includes major academic institutions, world-class research centers, and a large and diverse talent pool. With its strong focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, Houston is the ideal location for Portal Innovations to continue its mission of supporting and investing in the next generation of life science startups.