rsb320 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 They're constructing the parking garage first before wrapping wood-framed apartment units around it. This is very common.Good, that will give them somewhere to park during the rest of construction and they can get their cars off Travis. I think one of the Camden Midtown properties is built this way and the other one has parking on the north end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 The construction workers need to get their parked cars off Travis in the morning during rush. A tow truck was running off with one of the cars this morning. That'll teach them. Read the signs!I haven't paid that much attention to the construction as I zip by, but I do recall a lone concrete stucture in the middle of the property that looks like the ramp to a parking garage. It struck me as odd. I'll pay better attention in the morning.Prolly one of them modular sort of buildings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 I just browsed through this entire thread and didn't see any renderings or links to a rendering. Do we even know who the architect is?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Prolly one of them modular sort of buildings.This is not going to be modular construction. Camden doesn't build or manage that kind of crap. Ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 This is not going to be modular construction. Camden doesn't build or manage that kind of crap. Ever.do NOT rainbow up LTAWACS pity party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 I feel bad for LTAWACS though... Hey LTAWACS look: http://www.deathclock.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 They're constructing the parking garage first before wrapping wood-framed apartment units around it. This is very common.I got a better look this morning. Even though the actual parking structure is positioned on the south side of the property, access to it will be permitted from within the complex. I guess this helps keep the hoodlums out. They have poured some of the slabs for the apartment buildings. Just in passing, it was my impression that they are not at a very high elevation. Is this area prone to flood. Oh, wait, where am I. Nevermind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totheskies Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Are there going to be any retail developments to accompany this? I was just up in Dallas this weekend, and as I drove around (mostly in the uptown and Oak Lawn areas) two names seemed all-too familiar... Camden and Post. LOL it was like Camdenville right next to Post City! But what I really love about the uptown area is the systematic integration of street-level retail. No big surprises (i.e. random surface parking lots, swaths of un-kept and run-down development), simple predictable city blocks. I would never want to trade Houston's randomness, but as we continue to revive the city's urban feel, we must build sustainably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wernicke Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Are there going to be any retail developments to accompany this?Nope... no retail. I have a feeling this project will be boringly similar to Camden Midtown. But still, it will keep adding to Midtown's developing "neighborhood" feel... albeit, judging from the recent spat of break-ins at the Calais, a relatively crime-ridden neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 This is not going to be modular construction. Camden doesn't build or manage that kind of crap. Ever. That is good to hear. do NOT rainbow up LTAWACS pity party Just what do you mean? I dont know what these things look like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Nope... no retail. I have a feeling this project will be boringly similar to Camden Midtown. But still, it will keep adding to Midtown's developing "neighborhood" feel... albeit, judging from the recent spat of break-ins at the Calais, a relatively crime-ridden neighborhood.Camden Midtown is over ten years old. This one will be newer, shinier, taller, more expensive boring stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Camden Midtown is over ten years old. This one will be newer, shinier, taller, more expensive boring stuff.Is this the same one as the Ziegler Cooper rendering I posted a few months back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Is this the same one as the Ziegler Cooper rendering I posted a few months back?I'm not absolutely positively 100% sure, but think that Camden Travis and Camden's superblock are different projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 (edited) I'm not absolutely positively 100% sure, but think that Camden Travis and Camden's superblock are different projects.I'd guess that would be the case. Half of the undeveloped block across from Camden Travis (which may or may not be the Superblock project someday) that started with the one trailer now has been completely cleared out and filled in with more trailers and equipment and the fence has been blacked out. I'm guessing it's the staging area for the Travis project for the forseeable future. Edited November 26, 2008 by ChannelTwoNews 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian0123 Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I took some pictures of this today. I didn't realize that this place was going to be so large... @ Milam near Tuam @Travis near Dennis @Travis near Dennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Yeah, this along with the construction taking place two blocks over on McGowen @ Fannin really makes that section of Midtown seem a lot more busy than it had over the past couple of years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Has the construction at McGowen @ Fannin started yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) Ran into this rendering while poking around the Chron archives: It just MAY have SOME retail or something at the base perhaps; either that, or this is just the rendering for the leasing office/complex gym/etc. The design is....typical of what's been going up around Midtown; not exceptional, but somewhat tolerable. Link to story where render was found: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/busine...ff/5546743.html Saaay, any word on the Post Midtown expansion? Wasn't that already underway, or has that been mothballed for a while? Edited January 31, 2009 by UrbaNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Ran into this rendering while poking around the Chron archives: It just MAY have SOME retail or something at the base perhaps; either that, or this is just the rendering for the leasing office/complex gym/etc. The design is....typical of what's been going up around Midtown; not exceptional, but somewhat tolerable. Link to story where render was found: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/busine...ff/5546743.html Saaay, any word on the Post Midtown expansion? Wasn't that already underway, or has that been mothballed for a while? I'm getting a red X here and at the link. Is anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midtownuser Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I'm getting a red X here and at the link. Is anyone else?link and picture work for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Saaay, any word on the Post Midtown expansion? Wasn't that already underway, or has that been mothballed for a while?I won't divulge any details, but Post Midtown Phase III isn't going to break ground any time in the immediate future. It's still on the drawing board, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 I won't divulge any details, but Post Midtown Phase III isn't going to break ground any time in the immediate future. It's still on the drawing board, though.Where would Phase III be located? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 i would be thrilled with camden if that was an accurate rendering... fairly classical architecture with ground level retail is what midtown needs. whatever increases pedestrian traffic in the area 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Where would Phase III be located?On the vacant land immediately east of where W. Gray converges with the one-way Gray and Webster streets. Post was also trying to get the City of Houston to abandon the O'Neil Street ROW in that area so that their parcels would be more useful, but was running up against some opposition from the local city councilwoman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 link and picture work for me I get the red x at work and home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieEric Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I get the red x at work and home Same here 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Same hereme too, a little frustrating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 maybe someone who is really really really nice can do a print screen and then paste it on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midtownuser Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 hi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 hiThanks for the pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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