toxtethogrady

What Super Bowls? There are rumors SxSW is getting too big for Austin and is looking for additional space...not necessarily in Austin.

I went back and reviewed the original proposal; the design was actually not the greatest even back then. But the nifty sleight of hand with the garage on the first few floors appears to have shrunk the leasable space.

And the name change sucks.

Just threw up a little... 

That's okay, MetroNational is throwing up an office building over at Memorial City.

As long as the exterior lighting features a Bat-signal. To compete with the Williams Tower beacon.

You might not see it because of the forest.

And you won't be able to see the forest for the trees?

I also remember the ZaZa was supposed to be the big attraction. At this point, I think the Alessandra downtown will get built first.

Look - Randall has good ideas, and a dream. Just not great execution.

So does that mean that his plan for 10-story anatomically correct statues of Greek gods and goddesses around the base would be a bit off-putting?

I had forgotten about this one. Too many developments to remember and many times its easy to forget about them if we are not here talking about them everyday.

Yes - in addition to this one, there is Amegy Bank's building on the old Micro Center site. (To say nothing of Skyhouse, the Davis condo and all the projects on the other side of the freeway). 

Lower income residential is exactly what downtown and the nearby areas need. Something catering to the $2500 to 3000 a month crowd.

You guys are a bit rich for my blood. High end in downtown Fort Worth can be had for $1800 a month.

couple pics of the HEB

IMG_1096 by Not.Larry.Dierker, on Flickr

 

IMG_1090 by Not.Larry.Dierker, on Flickr

 

The apartments are directly behind (south of) the HEB

Looks like the Tom Bradley International HEB.

So does anyone want to spill the beans on SSP?

Remember that City Hall's a little backed up on the permitting process and there are labor shortages affecting construction. So a delay might be expected.

seems like we heard something about this a little while back in another thread.. a mixed use development is supposed to go here i thought? or maybe we were just speculating. i think it might of been discussed in The Kirby Collection thread?

The brochure just outlines the parcel, but the Kirby Collection is not a bad guess. Otherwise, it's going to be six floors of apartments on two floors of parking (isn't everything these days?). 

2017's a long 12 months. Any idea when it would start?

You realize bury is an engineering firm and not an architecture firm, right?

Actually, given their name, I thought they were undertakers.

But I like this building.

That could get a little cramped. We'll see what gets wedged onto that unused acre.

just some updates.. Market Square Tower/Block 35 is now U/C. Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites is also technically now U/C i believe. we have more info on the midtown office tower.. also 3400 Montrose is U/C.. to name a few. im sure there are others but those are a few i noticed.

 

Is it my imagination or has this list lost a couple of projects? There used to be 40. Any word on the MIA's? 

Exactly what I was thinking, dated design, good concept. If Houston wants light rail to be worth it, the stations should be surrounded by development that people want to explore and not suburban shopping centers with a sea of parking.

 

Okay, suburban shopping centers WITHOUT a sea of parking. All I know is the developments around the DART stations all seem to be apartments on retail with a parking structure nearby, and they seem to be doing well.

Hope it looks nice and starts soon.

I actually like the name Tampico Heights and I was raised in Northside Village and still reside there.

Apparently other residents hate the name Tampico Heights; Houstonia magazine caught all kinds of grief when they used that name to describe it.

How many units? The new development map says 518, but just saw somewhere else that's now 560.

Let's see - 560 units on two blocks. That's 280 apiece. Unless these are small units, we're talking about something with as many residence as the Skyhouses. So maybe it really is 20 floors?

If they're starting in March 2015, they'll have only 21 months to get the project done before Super Bowl weekend. That's cutting it close.

I also have the nagging suspicion they will ditch a few of the more high-end architectural frills to keep the cost within budget.

Northside, er, Tampico Heights, was already in the crosshairs. This just happens to be a nice big expanse of cleared flat-as-a-pancake.

Some of the information in the brochure looked a bit dated, and there were odd errors throughout (Giorgio Barlenghi?). I'm curious that HFF had to push that hard to get a partner for a development with a Wal-Mart and a Marriott onsite.

But some of the proposals intrigued me. The two separate office towers proposed on Post Oak Boulevard, none of which are in the database? Awfully quiet promotion for two buildings, each exceeding 300,000 sf in space. I also see the Apache Tower is advertised as 900,000 sf of development; that's bigger than the Capitol Tower downtown, and that's 35 stories. The Randall Davis residential property is on the same block as the Skyhouse; I think one's going to top out before the other starts, and the individual units in the Davis property will be smaller than the units in the Cosmo or the Belfiore. Also, where's the Westcreek property map? 

The Russian judge gives that a 10.

Like what?

The NRG regional headquarters isn't enough?