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  1. What am interesting looking property. I'm going to have to look up the story behind it
  2. How many more floors for this one? I thought it was 8 but it looks like they already went passed that.
  3. Well for me names are easier to identify the project. I'm not too good at putting a face, or facade, to an address. Even common ones downtown. So names helps me out. This particular name, thought I do not care for. Doesn't sound catchy.
  4. He must've had his red cap on too tight.
  5. That's a money shot of the city right there. You and HiNDeSky and the others on here catalog this city's changes so well
  6. Although I agree, I could also say that there was also a lack of demand to build around the area that would become Disco Green and yet look how those lots have fallen. But that's a lot of wishful thinking as there will be no capping of the freeway in that area
  7. I'm loving it. More residential and taking off old hotel space off the market opens up opportunities for new hotels
  8. Yeah, Texas Tower or 609 Main could easily have been 2 additional supertalls for Houston had they added residential/hotel components. Wouldn't have taken a lot of units to get there either. 300 units and either tower would be part 1000ft. Texas tower would have been a beautiful super tall. With high vacancy rates downtown and the office market not so hot, I don't see Houston cracking 600ft unless it's a hotel/residential combo. Austin's UC super tall is only slated to have 700sq feet of office space compared to Texas Tower's 1.2M. Houstons tallest, Chase has 2.2M, and 1.8M at Wells Fargo. Even 609 Main has well over 1M sq feet of office. Austin's super tall will only have 352 residential units. Less than the 373 at Brava. A Texas Tower/ Brava combo could easily have been 1300 ft tall, but I guess that would have exceeded FAA restrictions? Still I could easily see two 1050ft floor buildings on Texas Tower and Brava sites had they been mixed use.
  9. Rice should go big in the next phase and build a 50 floor hotel/ condo tower. 28 floors of condo/student housing, 8 floors of hotel, 2 amenity floors on 12 floors of parking, the ground floor of which with retail. That would make their project more attractive to business. Redoing a grocery store, a department store and building a garage has been all low key. It's surprising that there y have had the success they have had.
  10. Although I get where you are coming from, but I think this is a substantial step up from what it was and what's around it. We have prime lots in downtown and midtown getting these types of housing, so to demand a more urban development on a field across the way is to much for me to ask. Across the bayou is no Jersey City. Let's build up residential density with units like these and if there is great demand then better developments may follow. But for now this project has grown on me. I like how the area is changing.
  11. It's grown on me too. I like that Houston is putting land adjacent to bayous to higher use. It makes for a more unified core. Not sure what generations passed thought when they had those things like massive concrete channels, but the combination of projects like this and East River with the bayou parks and bike trails these areas look more like extensions of downtown rather than areas that needs to be kept away from downtown at all costs.
  12. With such a convenient location, buildings this size should be filling in Midtown, not the lil garden style donuts and the townhomes they are still building
  13. I like it. Looking at all the empty space around it, this area needs more love.
  14. I mean the old garage was ugly, but we should be cheering on walkable spaces and TOD in high transit oriented spots. Not only is this lot (1) downtown and (2) on a rail line it is (3) on a rail line for the DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER. It should be the hub of transit for downtown. Why on earth would SIX FLOORS OF PARKING be a good thing right on the rail line. The huge Amegy Parking lot right on the north bound rail platform is already embarrassing enough. The rail stop at the Star is the same, two massive parking structures right on the rail stop and there's more examples. It's hard to complain about the garages that predate the rail, but new massive parking garages on a railline called the Downtown Transit center? I know that there isn't much going up downtown right now, so any news seems like good news, but no matter how much lipstick they put on this pig it's still going to be a pig. This area has the most residential units downtown and with the residential conversions it is set to get more. So it is disappointing that such a prime spot gets a development that doesn't add to the walkability of the area. To add insult to injury they have the setback facing main. At least the Transit center building got it right and located the buses on the backside away from main. This development most likely will look like a big old garage with a suburban setback right on the crossroads of transit downtown.
  15. Reading about this on Metro's website this sounds like an awful project. From the sounds of it this is mainly going to be a parking garage and staging area for metro police. Ridemetro.org says this will be 6levels of parking, again fronting a rail station. Why do we always get excited over a huge parking garage adjacent to a rail stop? There's a reason we don't have a proper rendering yet. This is a garage being replaced by a bigger garage.
  16. This area is such a scary dividing downtown and midtown. Crossing fingers that something tall enough to unite both areas gets built.
  17. It is amazing. Houston is due for a boom. Last one was about 2005-2015ish. So about 10 years ago. Houston built so much outside a boom period, Imagine the density it can create in the next boom. I am especially loving the mid rise residential like this one and especially the Modera ones. I think the Modera type ones are the new thing for Houston like how the garden style wraps dominated. The one ingredient that the City needs to jump on immediately is public transit for this area. I have been wishing for rail down Allen Parkway then Down Kirby then across University to TMC for decades. It's so disappointing to see the green and purple lines to nowhere when a loop through the westside of downtown would be killer. So many businesses and developments have gone up now that my fear is they will say that it is too late and that construction will be disruptive and it will hurt business like the Red Line did downtown. But rail near (doesn't have to be those particular streets) Allen Parkway and Kirby would have produced awesome TODs. It would be by far the most urban spot in Texas.
  18. This building is just getting outta the ground and already has a sexy presence. This building should be 10 years old by now and maybe with other siblings scattered throughout the frame of those wonderful pics above
  19. Afton Oaks on Richmond doesn't bother me as much as on Westheimer. That Westheimer wall strikes me as hostile to the senses. Afton Oaks on Richmond is more open and just seems like a natural break in the urban sprint on Richmond. Montrose to Afton Oaks is a nice stretch of Urban Development and a nice change in pace. Many cities have these pauses in the fabric. To me it keeps it from being monotonous. But yeah, this building plus the University line might make for a pleasant commute.
  20. I love this pioneer building. Hope Richmond and Westheimer gets lined with em within the loop. Richmond seems to be gaining a little bit of an edge over Westheimer. I drove down all the way Richmond and did the reverse up Westheimer a few days ago and I noticed Westheimer has wider setbacks and narrower/ less consistent sidewalks. Outside the loop Westheimer has huge setbacks. I never realized before how less urban the street facing parking on Westheimer makes it feel.
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