Moore713

Going to have to change the name since it no longer rumored ..lol

Given the design of it , I am impressed it will look this good. if houston keeps turning all are building into giant glass.. were going to get call from the other cities that we are blinding them..lol

Again it is not about creating GFR at every building , but these alinments of building do create a rare chance in Houston to develeop a strong retail core even how close they are to each other

If you fancy yourself a new urbanist, you must clamor for GFR in EVERY building. You must also demand rail everywhere, and condemn freeways and suburbs. It is the mantra. Unfortunately, most new urbanists...or wannabes...cannot actually tell when ground floor retail is useful and when it is not, so they demand it in every building, even when the building is not in a walkable area.

 

The naivete is not yours, but theirs.

It not about being a new urbainist anything it about creating a econoimc zone in a CBD that has been attacked for lacking a unified retail or Entertainment district. So if you are going to find a place to squat a number of hotels all within walking distance of each other you actually create a rare chance to develop a strong commerical district..with DS green actting as your ancor.. since a number of polls show that most people do not like to venture more than a mile from  there their hotel when walking. A strong retail in the area is a plus not a minus when going for tourist dollars

Second no one said jack about freeways and understand they have their place and purpose(most new urbanist as you call it) only beef with it is that instead of being a balanced transit system it is a sevely lopped sided one where far to much tax payer dollars are paid toward it with far to little return(we have been expanding highways for the last 30 yrs and still traffic is getting worse not better)

Third funny you went after rail notice all the major construction is happening along the rail lines, main st, rusk

yeah really dont care as long as it removes one more god awful parking lot from DT 

I hope ground floor retail is part of the plan.. you could really create a active zone .. even if its not I am for anything that removes one more parking lot and this will remove two ..if I am looking at my google map correctly

send out the nimbys

Lat news feed I read was dated march 2013 , and hey had decided that instead of moving 800, they would move only 400, dont know if thats big enough to justify a new tower, but like someone said if they do  build a new tower it would mean they are planning bigger things than a office for  400. just not ready to talk about.. remember when exxon was planning to build the woodlands campus they denied the rumors at first, then they would,nt comment, they they finally came clean.

There's also the 23 story tower by Hines that will replace the Macy's building.

When was this

The Houston bust of the 80's left a kind of mental scare on the developers in Houston . Hines himself he stated as much in a interview we he said"in the 80,s Houston over bulit and then the market fell out". This is why so many of them are dragging their feet. Dispite most experts saying the one who gets their office off the ground first will automatic decrease the demand for the others.

In the rendering on Swamplot, clearly that is Downtown Atlanta in the background. Was this building proposed for that location or one like it?

The website says Houston

Dont you people watch the metro board meeting on saturday mornings that come on the hcc channel ..lol  I do they where talking about  the need to sell off land they had no  current use for

I'll try to post pics later tonight but it only takes a small sliver out of my view and will eventually block my view of the Pavillions Tower, not a big deal since now I'll be able to look at other folks balconies.

You will prob see far more interesting things anyway..

The more Hines focues it energies on projects like this and other cities the more doubt I have they will build anything downtown.....

My guess: The top is secretly going to be the eye of sauron in mordor. 

 

Never going to happen the city leadership would kill it for being to cool

A guy in this thread makes it sound like they don't know anything about the plans...

 

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/27972-greystar-to-build-luxury-apts-near-woodland-heights/

Everyone I talk to said they had no I dea, there has been no emails. no letters sent out.. they just started moving the office employeesto the main office  at corprate

This is total B.S they did not say jack.. I found it strange when I went to renew- my  lease the woman was like oh don't worry just pay month to month.. in fact they moved the rental office offsite .. Why do they toy with people ..instead of saying "hey  you might have to move were negotionng   to sell the property

they have a website//  google midtown match.... last I checked which was a week ago they were at 54% funding

http://www.matchouston.org/

Aren't the DT tax breaks there because developers aren't stumbling over themselves to build residential downtown? I would guess the obsession with putting it in on Bissonnet is that there's higher demand in the area and they can make more money. Nothing strange about it.

.. most of the resdients in DT houston are at or just below their max occupy rate.. in fact is considered under served.. there is a chart on DT houston page which shows the occupy rate of each residental units

Really I dont get why they dont take advange of the DT residential tax breaks being offered ..why are they so obessed with putiing it in a area they cleary not wanted .. strange

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2013/04/developers-announce-plans-to-reinvent-houston-pavilions/#11079-4

Why deal with the headace, just take advange of the DT tax BREAK !!

Chevron.

 

The only thing I know about the Hines Tower, is that there are 3 different tenants looking for half a million square feet (each) of Class A space in downtown, and Hines is in a race to supply space to one of them. Of course, that didn't come from Hines directly, so it's probably more speculation than anything.

You would think all this so called demand would light a fire under them... Some of these companies have had plans on the board for years and yet they still seem to drag their feet. 

Wow, what an awesome thing to log in and see. In one of those renderings, the building looks to be significantly taller than MainPlace. Is that accurate? 41-stories should make it SHORTER than MainPlace...even with the slant, yes?

They said 41 but they have not ruled out  something taller. I take the compares as them getting it serious thought

what t linbeck building ?