bachanon

Excellent pictures!!!  I hate to follow those, but I snapped a couple for wxman today too.

......the last one is from the new nordstrom's construction site.  you can see a remaining wall from sears on the lower left.

it looks like the only possible retail space is at the waterway level, or at street level above facing the waterway.  the parking garage doesn't appear to have any retail space on woodloch forest or waterway avenue, like the parking garages do at 24 waterway, 1501 lake robbins, the marriott garage. is it possible that the land is too valuable or the need for office space too urgent to save space for retail?

thanks for sharing lockmat!  it looks a little too much like the bbva building in the galleria.  add to that swtsig's comment, and i'm not too excited.

sears is totally gone.  they are getting ready to start building the new nordstrom's.

there is a new rendering floating around for 10 waterway.  apparently, it's been in houston business journal.  i haven't come across a digital copy.  i saw it at the economic outlook conference last month.  has anyone seen this new rendering or have a copy?

A 150,000,000 dollar office/hotel project for Plano?

http://www.graniteprop.com/wp-content/themes/granite/images/property/pdf_files/news/DBJ%2012_4_12.PDF

yep.  plano is huge.  almost 300,000 people.  i found a 150,000,000 office building with hotel about to be built......way out of the woodlands' league (for now )

there are two other locations near anadarko on the south side of the waterway that do not appear to be owned by the woodlands development company.  office building are planned to go their, but i do not know who owns them.  it would not be a surprise to find that anadarko does.

It's the Fort Worth of Houston---or looks like it anyway.

after a quick check: ft. worth's CBD contains 9.9 million square feet of office space; the woodlands development contains 7.9 million square feet of office space.  although not an apples to apples comparison, the whole of the woodlands' office space will come close to the size of downtown ft. worth in the near future.

i'm imagining a twenty story tower to the right of anadarko II (10 waterway) and a 40ish story tower (rumored to be on the east super block) in between anadarko I & II from this perspective.  not to get off topic, but with that view i thought it worth mentioning.

i was taking a picture of the sears demo (yay nordie's).  anadarko I & II are in the background.  this was taken earlier this week.

maybe the building is going to open the tunnels to street level in a way we have not seen before?  two level retail that opens street level and at the tunnel level would be perfect.

Clearly a sign that Apple is relocating their entire workforce to Houston and that this is the first of many buildings planned.

hahahaha!  smiling is fun.  it's my favorite.  any retail on street level will be nice.  who knows.

This site has more renderings. Not as flattering from the side. http://www.coydavidson.com/office/hines-new-houston-office-tower/

there is a downloadable brochure at the link above.  i like the building much better now that i can see the other angles.  ten stories taller please!

excellent!!

i get it now.  texas is to the far left and runs between the rice and the new structure.  the building opens up to main street and the building directly across the street (the empty flat spot in the foreground) would have blocked this view and is; therefore, removed for the view point.

eastern views of downtown just keep getting better.

the location in the rendering makes the on the same side of the street as the rice; whereas, block 69 is across the street from the rice.  am i wrong?

no doubt this release is motivated by a potential client or clients.  i wonder if the release of the rendering to bivens would have any effect on potential competitors?  

mr. bivens says it "may be taller" than 41 stories.

HELLLLLLO!

anadarko I & II

some great pictures!  thanks for sharing.  it's kinda funny, i see more people on the sidewalks in the woodlands than in your pictures of montrose.  was it a weekday during the day?

across from research forest lakeside, next door to hughes landing.  cb&i expansion follows their acquisition of the shaw group for $3 billion.

http://impactnews.com/articles/woodlands-township-approves-abatement-for-%2435-million-cb%26i-expansion/

http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2012/07/30/cbi-acquires-shaw-group.aspx

coming into dallas from the north or west is a completely different experience, however...........