jmitch94 2029 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 That is some straight up third world demo right there. 4 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EllenOlenska 1180 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 It reminds me of movies where the machines of sentient and they use other machines. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ross 1478 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 10 hours ago, jmitch94 said: That is some straight up third world demo right there. No, that's second world. Third world would have the second machine holding up another machine, which would sit on top of some sketch bamboo scaffolding. 2 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mollusk 2401 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 It's more stable than it looks... 1 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hindesky 46635 Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 The jackhammer is on top now. At least the guys are tied off. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
danielsonr 389 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Why didn’t they just tear the damn thing down and start over? What, if any, of the architectural elements of the building remain? 8 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post mkultra25 1205 Posted December 22, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 22, 2019 10 hours ago, Ross said: No, that's second world. Third world would have the second machine holding up another machine, which would sit on top of some sketch bamboo scaffolding. 6 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MidCenturyMoldy 621 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 21 hours ago, danielsonr said: Why didn’t they just tear the damn thing down and start over? What, if any, of the architectural elements of the building remain? Tell me about it! I REALLY dislike the hybrid plan they have for this project. Either restore and repurpose the building as it was, or build something totally new. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hindesky 46635 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tumbleweed_Tx 1801 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I'm still wondering why they didn't level this building and start over from scratch because it looks like they would be farther along if they did. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post bobruss 4988 Posted January 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2020 The most interesting and original structure is still in tact on the north end and the south end that has been demo'd had been reworked in a previous time. Once they get a little farther along you'll see more of the original architectural detailing. besides its so great that they are leaving 60% of the original building and repurposing it. Just be patient. I think everyone will be pleased when the whole thing is done. 15 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Urbannizer 44127 Posted January 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2020 Updated website: https://ionhouston.com/south-main/ 27 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
por favor gracias 627 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Thanks for the update, Urbannizer...looks great. I wonder if there's anything substantive (yet) to that taller building in the background of the 3rd picture? 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mls1202 431 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 That second picture looks as if it is a library (pretty sure it's not), but it made me think that a library would do better here than its location on the north-east side of Downtown. I see more pedestrian traffic with residential nearby, and it's location off the light rail would make it ideal. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EllenOlenska 1180 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 44 minutes ago, por favor gracias said: Thanks for the update, Urbannizer...looks great. I wonder if there's anything substantive (yet) to that taller building in the background of the 3rd picture? Yeah. Classic Ghost Tower. 1 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Luminare 6044 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Interesting mix going on. Modernist in terms of structure. 60's chic in terms of interiors. Contemporary design in terms of landscape and ideas. Build it! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mollusk 2401 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 20 minutes ago, Luminare said: 60's chic in terms of interiors. More like 30s deco with the plants someone stole from a Chotchkie's - but it does have flair. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
X.R. 1119 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 What is the time frame on all of this? 10 years? Thats almost impossible to imagine with the way that area is now. I finally know how some of the older members on the forum feel! I like the synergy of this with the montrose collective building. Both incorporating impressive, by Houston standards, amounts of green in and around the buildings. The modernity of these designs almost feel like they are somehow even more modern than the stuff going up in TMC3. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Luminare 6044 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 44 minutes ago, X.R. said: What is the time frame on all of this? 10 years? Thats almost impossible to imagine with the way that area is now. I finally know how some of the older members on the forum feel! I like the synergy of this with the montrose collective building. Both incorporating impressive, by Houston standards, amounts of green in and around the buildings. The modernity of these designs almost feel like they are somehow even more modern than the stuff going up in TMC3. I think part of it is that the new TMC stuff is so large in scale that the details are going to be a bit low-res for now. I'm looking forward to getting more indepth detail info like we now are getting with The Ion. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Urbannizer 44127 Posted January 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2020 4 hours ago, X.R. said: What is the time frame on all of this? 10 years? Thats almost impossible to imagine with the way that area is now. I finally know how some of the older members on the forum feel! I like the synergy of this with the montrose collective building. Both incorporating impressive, by Houston standards, amounts of green in and around the buildings. The modernity of these designs almost feel like they are somehow even more modern than the stuff going up in TMC3. https://ionhouston.com/vision/#timeline The Ion - 2021 Opening South Main Innovation District Phase One - 2023 Completion South Main Innovation District Master Plan - 2030 Completion 17 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
por favor gracias 627 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 10 hours ago, EllenOlenska said: Yeah. Classic Ghost Tower. I'll take it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
por favor gracias 627 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 8 hours ago, X.R. said: What is the time frame on all of this? 10 years? Thats almost impossible to imagine with the way that area is now. I finally know how some of the older members on the forum feel! I like the synergy of this with the montrose collective building. Both incorporating impressive, by Houston standards, amounts of green in and around the buildings. The modernity of these designs almost feel like they are somehow even more modern than the stuff going up in TMC3. Also noticed that with the Medistar Tower that's planned next to the new Intercontinental/Latitude development. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Urbannizer 44127 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 @midtowndweller All posts regarding a gas station/7-11 moved here: 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post lockmat 2291 Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 On 1/6/2020 at 4:43 AM, Urbannizer said: Updated website: https://ionhouston.com/south-main/ The architecture and design for Houston is actually becoming consistently good, imo. At least it's trending in the right direction. This looks very good. On 1/6/2020 at 4:43 AM, Urbannizer said: 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Highrise Tower 33318 Posted January 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2020 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BeerNut 2571 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Rice University Students to President David Leebron and Board of Trustees: Not In Our Name 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Moore713 788 Posted January 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2020 24 minutes ago, BeerNut said: Rice University Students to President David Leebron and Board of Trustees: Not In Our Name I find this annoying. This project displaces nothing. It has almost no effect on third ward as a whole. We are talking about a area that all but sat abandoned the last 25 years and now all of a sudden , they choose to raise the banner? I drive thu that area daily ? What are you displaying? The vacant lots? The rampant homeless ( many of whom are not even homeless but drug dealers who hide among the homeless! ) what exactly are we preserving or seeking to preserve? 17 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mkultra25 1205 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 34 minutes ago, BeerNut said: Rice University Students to President David Leebron and Board of Trustees: Not In Our Name 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Moore713 788 Posted January 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) Rappers Chamillionaire and E-40 plan to line a lucky entrepreneur's pockets with $100,000 to fund their start-up. On Instagram, the pair announced a competition that'll benefit a "minority or woman founded startup," calling for video submissions that details promising pitches. This is what we should be expending our energy on. I would be trying to figure out how to get them to partner with Rice so that there already a place for young black start ups .For those who dont know they are very into Tech startups having already invested millions overs thr years Edited January 22, 2020 by Moore713 14 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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X.R. 1119 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 They had 4 of those rotating concrete trucks parked there early this morning. It seems like they were sending concrete up onto the top of the building since they had one of those daddy long legs-concrete mover that I've seen in pics of other construction sites. They've been moving super quick, rain or shine. They really want to meet that deadline. 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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BeerNut 2571 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 City to negotiate community benefits agreement for anticipated innovation district Quote Mayor Sylvester Turner has pledged the city will strike a deal ensuring that Rice University’s planned innovation district in Midtown provides benefits to the outskirts too, a victory for students and community groups who’d banded together over fears the venture would negatively affect the Third Ward. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moore713 788 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, BeerNut said: City to negotiate community benefits agreement for anticipated innovation district Smh ... Stupidity 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Luminare 6044 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 12 minutes ago, BeerNut said: City to negotiate community benefits agreement for anticipated innovation district Ugh. Makes me want to vomit... This quote tells you everything you need to know right here: Quote Wickerson called the fact young people were able to meaningfully challenge existing systems “empowering.” These kids have officially become cultists. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
houstontexasjack 2358 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, BeerNut said: City to negotiate community benefits agreement for anticipated innovation district “Icken said the city has twice previously orchestrated community benefits agreements, both related to the city’s tax abatement. The plan to negotiate an agreement with the Rice Management Co. is unique in that the school has not asked for public assistance with the development of the Ion, Icken said. The hope is that residents in surrounding under-served communities, like the Third Ward, will benefit in some way“ I hardly see this as a cave by Rice. An agreement that is “to be negotiated” is a playground. At a minimum, there’s a healthy opportunity to extract nondisparagement provisions. I also think, from the quote above, Rice could negotiate support for items it might want, such as abandonment of right-of-way on which the public would get a say, as part of any agreement. Support for the TOD ordinance—all that’s in play. This gives Rice a chance to get some good faith PR. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MidCenturyMoldy 621 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 8:36 PM, Moore713 said: This project displaces nothing. I beg to differ! It displaces the free parking lot where I used to park and then take the train into Downtown! 😁 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Moore713 788 Posted February 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2020 Half a block up the road are apts that 99.9 of residents of third ward cant afford... but this is the line in the sand they want to draw? A project that would transform a dead, abandoned area that become nothing more than a camp site for the homeless and drug dealers?! 11 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheSirDingle 1499 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Lets be honest how much is actually gonna come from the community benefits agreements? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thatguysly 1173 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Such agreements are negotiated to ensure that a developer delivers community benefits, like hiring, inclusion of affordable housing or funding for community programs, in exchange for residents’ support of the project and developments in or near their community, according to the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Third Ward Policy and Program Landscape Report. This main thing I could see helping is the hiring part. If this project displaced houses or other community centers then I get it but this is taking away Sears and surface lots. The benefit is pushing out drug dealers. Though who knows where they will chill now. Fiesta would have been seen as a loss but the new HEB in the Third Ward should help offset that for residents. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Brooklyn173 818 Posted February 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2020 (edited) Some pix from today: And like its namesake, the sign has fallen on hard times. Edited February 8, 2020 by Brooklyn173 14 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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HoustonIsHome 1626 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 I was among the why didn't they just tear the darn thing down and start from scratch crowd until I went past this building Friday and saw how opening the southern exposure let's in so much natural light. It looks like a completely different building on that side but I understand now why it is so much of a frankenbuilding. Makes sense since the area across the street is open Park area for the foreseeable future to have that side opened up. I'm itching to see construction start on other lots. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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HoustonIsHome 1626 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 They should build out patios. That scaffolding makes the building look more interesting 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post CaptainJilliams 1148 Posted February 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2020 I tend to visit several different development forums outside of HAIF, one of which is for the city of Nashville. Now not to get too much into the details, their new mayor has been somewhat anti-development. Recent reports suggested that he may have scared off Microsoft from building a campus in the city. A trusted source from that page posted this information relating to Houston: So I asked a colleague who is much closer to things in Nashville. Colleague said that Microsoft was scared away by Cooper's approach to Asurion. They are looking for an urban campus similar to Amazon. One place mentioned... they're looking at an area in Houston near the largest medical centers there. Their mayor is kicking butt with recruiting. If there's an ounce of truth in this report, my best guess would be they are looking at the Innovation District? Does that sound right? 18 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Avossos 2283 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 hour ago, CaptainJilliams said: I tend to visit several different development forums outside of HAIF, one of which is for the city of Nashville. Now not to get too much into the details, their new mayor has been somewhat anti-development. Recent reports suggested that he may have scared off Microsoft from building a campus in the city. A trusted source from that page posted this information relating to Houston: So I asked a colleague who is much closer to things in Nashville. Colleague said that Microsoft was scared away by Cooper's approach to Asurion. They are looking for an urban campus similar to Amazon. One place mentioned... they're looking at an area in Houston near the largest medical centers there. Their mayor is kicking butt with recruiting. If there's an ounce of truth in this report, my best guess would be they are looking at the Innovation District? Does that sound right? Would be really epic if true. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phillip_white 1913 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 3 hours ago, CaptainJilliams said: I tend to visit several different development forums outside of HAIF, one of which is for the city of Nashville. Now not to get too much into the details, their new mayor has been somewhat anti-development. Recent reports suggested that he may have scared off Microsoft from building a campus in the city. A trusted source from that page posted this information relating to Houston: So I asked a colleague who is much closer to things in Nashville. Colleague said that Microsoft was scared away by Cooper's approach to Asurion. They are looking for an urban campus similar to Amazon. One place mentioned... they're looking at an area in Houston near the largest medical centers there. Their mayor is kicking butt with recruiting. If there's an ounce of truth in this report, my best guess would be they are looking at the Innovation District? Does that sound right? Don't forget about the UT land that's for sale south of the Med Center. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Luminare 6044 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 8 hours ago, CaptainJilliams said: I tend to visit several different development forums outside of HAIF, one of which is for the city of Nashville. Now not to get too much into the details, their new mayor has been somewhat anti-development. Recent reports suggested that he may have scared off Microsoft from building a campus in the city. A trusted source from that page posted this information relating to Houston: So I asked a colleague who is much closer to things in Nashville. Colleague said that Microsoft was scared away by Cooper's approach to Asurion. They are looking for an urban campus similar to Amazon. One place mentioned... they're looking at an area in Houston near the largest medical centers there. Their mayor is kicking butt with recruiting. If there's an ounce of truth in this report, my best guess would be they are looking at the Innovation District? Does that sound right? Now thats some juicy info. I'll be sure to have the popcorn ready if and when they make the announcement. By the way, any way you could elaborate on these other forums? I'm genuinely interested in see what other cities got going on. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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