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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
The building is around 830 ft tall.- 1,170 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
the prime contractor has not yet been selected. they also have a ways to go on finishing design. I think that a first quarter 2014 start is a bit too ambitious.- 1,170 replies
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Chevron will be 800-850 ft tall. I have no idea on Hines.
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Marriott Marquis: GRB Convention Center Hotel At 1777 Walker St.
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The Hotel Tower.- 2,096 replies
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One Market Square: Proposed Office Tower For Block 43 - 800 Preston St.
tangledwoods replied to lockmat's topic in Downtown
This rendering is beyond optimistic. The reason they have been hiding it is that there is no way in the Houston tenant market that this thing will work financially. The location isn't great and the design is way to expensive. I wish these guys the best but this thing will never break ground looking like that. As a side note, this rendering doesn't even show you how complex the facade design really is. There are more curves going on than this image shows.- 989 replies
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Marriott Marquis: GRB Convention Center Hotel At 1777 Walker St.
tangledwoods replied to Subdude's topic in Downtown
This project bids to subcontractors tomorrow, so we should see activity start to pick up.- 2,096 replies
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M5250: Gables Multifamily At 5250 Brownway St.
tangledwoods replied to houstonfella's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
They now have a leasing website up: http://www.5250aptshouston.com/5250-houston/- 169 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
The problem with exterior features is all related to the cost of curtain wall. About 5 years ago the bottom fell out of the glass market and something called unitized curtain wall started to become the norm. Unitized curtain wall has a ton of benefits beyond traditional stick built glazing including: (energy performance, structural performance, keeping water out performance). Once unitized systems became the standard, it became cost prohibitive to do anything else in the spandrel portion of the facade. We can use metal panels, stone, etc but in order to keep cost down they are typically glazed into the curtain wall. Combine that with the fact that there are less than 10 proven unitized designs on the market right now leads us to the era of "the boring glass box" Architects are fighting this like mad but they are up against significant challenges from developers (cost). We are seeing products start to compete but this glass box trend is going to be around for a while.- 1,170 replies
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The Astoria: Condominium High-Rise At 1405 Post Oak Blvd.
tangledwoods replied to wxman's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
I am now hearing that the BHP tower (on the site of the old 24 hour fitness) will be breaking ground before thanksgiving. Uptown is booming!- 988 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
Where did people get the 60 floors number from? Everything that I have heard has placed it between 40-50 floors....- 1,170 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
They will move forward this year on construction from what I have been hearing.- 1,170 replies
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Here is another article on the project. This thing is starting to get more and more interesting. It sounds like the tunnels are going to get a big boost from this project. http://houston.culturemap.com/news/realestate/06-01-13-progress-historic-houston-club-building-gives-way-for-a-gleaming-new-giant-office-tower/
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1900 Yorktown: Multifamily At 1900 Yorktown St.
tangledwoods replied to Golyadkin's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
The demolition of the old art institute building is almost complete. They now have a website up for the new apartments. It looks to be 7 or 8 stories. www.1900yorktown.com- 15 replies
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The Astoria: Condominium High-Rise At 1405 Post Oak Blvd.
tangledwoods replied to wxman's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
I have a dumb question, it seems that Astoria and the McDonald's are sharing a pretty small site. Just south of this site are some crappy 2 story apartments. Why isn't that parcel being redeveloped.... or is there a plan in the works that we don't know about.- 988 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
HOK is the project architect, and Pickard Chilton will be the design architect.- 1,170 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
I am starting to think that King Owl and I have the same sources! I can tell you that the Architect has been selected and this will be a tower built specifically for Chevron. Word on the street is that this project will be their response to the Exxon project so I think we can expect this to be much nicer than your typical spec office building.- 1,170 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
I was referring to Chevron.- 1,170 replies
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
tangledwoods replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
I am pretty confident with my intel the only thing I haven't been able to get firm on is a start date, but everything I hear leads me to believe we will see it break ground in the next 12 months.- 1,170 replies
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Last I checked, the Skanska project has 5 tunnel connections. Also I think we should all remember that Linebeck, Skanska, and Hines are all chasing the same group of potential tenants. I think we will see one of the three go in the next year maybe two if we are lucky. Now the good news is that there is a 50ish story tower that will beat all 3 of these out of the ground.
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They really made a big mistake with the green glass on this job. From what I am hearing the tenant brokers are really hating on this building. It sounds like the cut a ton of corners to get this thing built per BBVA's demands and it will probably cost them tenants. The Skanska building is looking much better than this chunk of blah.
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M5250: Gables Multifamily At 5250 Brownway St.
tangledwoods replied to houstonfella's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
Do they have a leasing website up yet? I have looked but cant find anything. I would be curious to know how much they are going to want for these units.- 169 replies
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3009 Post Oak: Office Building At 3009 Post Oak Blvd.
tangledwoods replied to swtsig's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
The CBD and Galleria are very different markets with very different rental rates. Anything that gets built in the CBD will not be influenced by the glass boxes going up in the energy corridor or Galleria. -
3009 Post Oak: Office Building At 3009 Post Oak Blvd.
tangledwoods replied to swtsig's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
I drove by yesterday and saw that there is a crawler crane on site now. This will be the crane that does the erection on the precast portion of the garage. -
The Astoria: Condominium High-Rise At 1405 Post Oak Blvd.
tangledwoods replied to wxman's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
And to think you million dollar condo will come with a free special feature, always smelling like french fries...- 988 replies
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3009 Post Oak: Office Building At 3009 Post Oak Blvd.
tangledwoods replied to swtsig's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
It Looks like they just picked up their first tenant: http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2013/01/west-loop-tower-gets-first-tenant/ Does anyone have some construction update shots? The curtainwall should be done soon right?