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ClutchCity

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  1. Awesome video and great find! That is a prime spot so I wouldn't be surprised if this is going up in the next year or so(or sooner then that since it looks like the ad was put together 6 months or a year). I like the conceptual rendering that looks in the 60 story range but don't think we'd be getting anything like that!
  2. They already seem to be picking up speed after taking a little while to take the roof off. I was also thinking that once they ground it down and got it closer to the base that they can get some more equipment in there to finish it quickly. Also any chance that since the Texas Tower is where a portion of the garage will be(guessing that would require less excavation/prep) that they can start excavation of the core office section even if there's still 10 or so floors left to dismantle by March?
  3. ^That's too bad, was hoping they'd start sooner rather than later, since they will probably do that 38 story condo tower shortly after. This is still a great project either way.
  4. Urbannizer you're incredible at finding out all this information! Great job and keep it up. :] Do you remember what thread Hoothrewpoo gave us an estimate on the size on? I don't remember exactly but I thought she estimated 300-400k. Pretty close! Would be nice to have more insider information from her, plus we need an update on how the 2nd Chevron tower's deadline was affected by their recent decisions. Sorry for rambling!
  5. Awesome news! Sorry for jumping the gun, I've just passed by the site 5 or 6 times since the ground breaking ceremony and couldn't tell that any real progress had been made! Good to hear things are preceding, just can't wait for the crane to go up and this thing to start going vertical.
  6. I'm as excited as the next guy for this thing to get started so what's the deal? It looks like very little has happened since they announced ground breaking. I may just be impatient, but they keep yanking our chain!
  7. Is it still going to have the rooftop pool depicted in this bisnow? The Texas lazy river is the best thing ever! http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/convention-district-makeover/
  8. Exciting times. First Montrose, now Kirby looks like it has multiple opportunities to get some decent high rise development. While the described project sounds like 2 ~20-30 towers, a 50+ story tower along Kirby doesn't sound too outlandish. I mean this is Houston, expect anything. I can't wait to see how these areas evolve in the next 5-10 years! We're going to need metro to do more than just reimagine their bus routes with all this increased density though.
  9. Odd that they would name it Skyline if it were short. Sounds like something you'd name a nice 2 tower project. However Houston has shown names are meaningless by marketers calling the SkyHouse in Westcreek, "River Oaks", etc. So midrise that can look at the skyline(if they can see over the highway and parking garages(; ) sound about right. Anyway to find out who the developer is?
  10. http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/748-put-down-those-butts/ I noticed it also. Things seem to be coming together.
  11. And from what the HBJ reports this is supposed to break ground in April with the Marquis? They lump them together, but that is great news that they are getting things together so well! http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2014/01/30/houston-first-ghcvb-talking-about-best-strategy.html?page=all
  12. Some very interesting information regarding the parking garage north of the convention center in the article, "On the block north of the convention center would be a 2,000-car parking garage and office space. Above it, a pad site would be built for a future hotel." While it will probably only be enough office space for Houston First Corp to house some of their operations, it is nice that the included it in the plan. Icing on the cake that they are going to build it to accommodate a hotel addition once the market dictates we need hotels completely encompassing GRB. Interesting that TC didn't do something similar with the 16 story parking garage they're currently constructing. Regardless, the Convention District is the most exciting part of downtown with new development popping up almost every week it seems!
  13. I noticed yesterday that a truck was dropping off some heavy equipment, thought about asking about it but knew someone would pick up on it! Great investigating, so midrise apartments it is?
  14. That is 2 Shell Plaza, not 1 Allen Center. I guess they are revamping it after Shell pulls out!
  15. Well all the projects listed under current downtown development map add up to ~3200, but if the rumors of the 2nd Alliance residential on main, the 38 story phase 2 of the Texaco, the possible(but unlikely there just seems to be too little info) residential building behind Hess, and Block 100 behind the Marriott Marquis(sorry for bringing it up so much) we could be looking at 4000+ units which is very impressive. It's amazing how much residential development is possibly coming to downtown! In regards to this tower, it looks pretty slick but not anything real amazing from the other 20-35 story resi tower renderings floating around(most notably Hines). I think it's cool it got a little height bump even if it is one floor and I think it's not a bad thing it looks similar it just seems to be the architecture of this era.
  16. When I passed by the site today there was a lot people and machinery moving rebar and digging up the parking lot. Good to see these Downtown projects get going!
  17. Is there really a chance this is taller than 35 stories? Would be pretty cool, although I'm interested in how all these towers might affect Market Square if they are all built.
  18. Looks like a building on the lot is going down pretty soon. Hopefully construction begins promptly once they clean up the debris! http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-la-quinta-downtown/2014-01-13/ Edit: Beat by Urbannizer haha
  19. Yea I had a feeling this was Déjà Vu. All I can do is hope with you that it's just a confusion of similar sounding companies, but if Chevron picks up shop and goes North that would be a death blow to Downtown's office market until at least the end of the decade. 2.5 mil sq ft from the Enron towers, 1.4 mil from the renovated Exxon building, and 1 mil(albeit state-of-the-art) sq ft from Hines and that sounds like a recipe for a very slow office pipeline downtown. and here I am holding out hope that Chevron will choose downtown, which might in turn induce more demand for space similar to how the Woodlands was affected by Exxon's campus. Pipe dreams just like the 102 story tower I guess haha
  20. Is Hines thinking of doing any office/multifamily(/hotel) mixed use towers rather than the primarily multifamily/retail or office/retail developements they have been doing. It is interesting to see Midway talk about how they like to have three components in a project but I can't recall Hines giving it a try. Not saying they should though, Hines seems to be doing perfectly fine how they currently operate. Just a little curious!
  21. Or you could be a real estate reporter like Houston19514 suggested the other day! I mean the last HBJ weekly article I got from was a cut and paste of GHP's 2014 regional job forecast presentation. I mean it's $100 a year and that's the best they can do! You could do a much better job Urbannizer. Swamplot seems to be the bottom of the barrel now just posting whatever will get the most knee jerk reactions, and Nancy never follows up on a project so they either die and no one knows about it or they are just miraculously done(unless it's Exxon then it's aerials for days). You're information is always a lot better, Urbannizer.
  22. Thank you Urbannizer! Now everyone can calm down again haha. The Eado station apartments have not struck again!
  23. Not surprising though. I was thinking they'd target Uptown but River Oaks is pretty close. Probably going to get the different roof design.
  24. Unfortunately it didn't show up in the newest downtown update although there the information from Central Houston makes it sound like this project(Camden's) will be 2 12 story towers with 2Q '15 and '17 groundbreakings. http://downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2014-01-07/Downtown_Real_Estate_Update_2013-4Q.pdf http://downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2014-01-06/140102_Current_Projects_11x17.pdf
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