lockmat Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 (edited) This seems like it could be an old/outdated/or dead project since it still mentions mayor Brown, but it has renderings of Discovery Tower and OPP and mentions a May 2009 purchase. Anyone know anything else about this? http://www.globalcenturydev.com/files/HoustonHB5.pdf (this file is separate and does not include the images below...it's for marketing) Edited May 2, 2009 by lockmat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 (edited) Whatever this is, I hope its dead already. The buildings in those renderings are ugly. Edited May 2, 2009 by UpuPUp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Eh, it might be ok. I like the different shapes a bit. I doubt they end up looking all pastel. Another rendering that needed some styling before release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 This seems like it could be an old/outdated/or dead project since it still mentions mayor Brown, but it has renderings of Discovery Tower and OPP and mentions a May 2009 purchase.Anyone know anything else about this?This was never realistic in the first place. Nobody has control of that much land on so many contiguous blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photolitherland Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 It looks like some 9th grader got hold of sketchup and just made something up really fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 It looks like some 9th grader got hold of sketchup and just made something up really fast.lockmat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 lockmat?ya got me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Fail. I've seen better AutoCAD work from 8th graders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatesdisastr Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 This is something that should go in midtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 (edited) . Edited May 5, 2009 by Jax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 .?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Oh wow look what happens when you don't view HAIF for a while...I don't know why everyone is dog-piling this project. I think they go with the Hilton Americas & the other proposed Convention Hotel/Buildings on the other side of Disco Green. The smaller component (with the church tower) looks good up close. This along with everything else planned in that area (if built) would really connect the skyline, spilling into the East End. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 HAHAHAHA I live under one of those renderings. Over my dead body! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Oh wow look what happens when you don't view HAIF for a while...I don't know why everyone is dog-piling this project. I think they go with the Hilton Americas & the other proposed Convention Hotel/Buildings on the other side of Disco Green. The smaller component (with the church tower) looks good up close. This along with everything else planned in that area (if built) would really connect the skyline, spilling into the East End.Because not only do the renderings suck, but the project proposal is impossible; it cannot happen; it will not happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Because not only do the renderings suck, but the project proposal is impossible; it cannot happen; it will not happen.Surely there must be something we can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) Surely there must be something we can do.There is not. Concentrate your psychic energies elsewhere. Edited May 24, 2009 by TheNiche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) Oh wow look what happens when you don't view HAIF for a while...I don't know why everyone is dog-piling this project. I think they go with the Hilton Americas & the other proposed Convention Hotel/Buildings on the other side of Disco Green. The smaller component (with the church tower) looks good up close. This along with everything else planned in that area (if built) would really connect the skyline, spilling into the East End.If only we lived in a country that didn't have property rights.Meridian is not going to sell. I am not going to sell. Sorry about your precious project, but its virtually impossible to use eminent domain in Texas for private purposes and I don't really care that you think bulldozing my house would be good for connecting the skyline! Edited May 24, 2009 by kylejack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 There is not. We must not give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 If only we lived in a country that didn't have property rights.Meridian is not going to sell. I am not going to sell. Sorry about your precious project, but its virtually impossible to use eminent domain in Texas for private purposes and I don't really care that you think bulldozing my house would be good for connecting the skyline! OMG! Is your house responsible for an incorrect skyline? Seriously, I don't think you have anything to worry about for quite some time. This project looks like an amateur fantasy. The other convention hotel in front of GRB seems to be more likely possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Because not only do the renderings suck, but the project proposal is impossible; it cannot happen; it will not happen.So what? One can still enjoy looking at it...If only we lived in a country that didn't have property rights.Meridian is not going to sell. I am not going to sell. Sorry about your precious project, but its virtually impossible to use eminent domain in Texas for private purposes and I don't really care that you think bulldozing my house would be good for connecting the skyline!Move to Ashby or Afton Oaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 No, I like being two blocks away from Thiem Hung, two blocks from downtown, one block to Meridian, a few blocks from the Toyota Center. My friend and I walked to the Astros game today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 This seems like it could be an old/outdated/or dead project since it still mentions mayor BrownNote that it doesn't mention him as mayor, but rather former mayor, and Chairman of their partnership, which was started in 04.Haha, they think they can get Meridian to sell for $70 per square foot. You'd think they'd go ask and get laughed out the door before drawing up these plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Note that it doesn't mention him as mayor, but rather former mayor, and Chairman of their partnership, which was started in 04.Haha, they think they can get Meridian to sell for $70 per square foot. You'd think they'd go ask and get laughed out the door before drawing up these plans.you sure are taking this imaginary project personally... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 you sure are taking this imaginary project personally...I don't know what gave you that impression. Im just saying its not going to happen. What they suggest is impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff8201 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Surely there must be something we can do.There isn't. And stop calling me Shirley.Also looks from the top view like they're trying to spell something out... I see strange E's an O, a U... some other deformed letters I cant really put my finger on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 There isn't. And stop calling me Shirley.Also looks from the top view like they're trying to spell something out... I see strange E's an O, a U... some other deformed letters I cant really put my finger on...I see that too... it spells "Land here". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 There is not. Concentrate your psychic energies elsewhere.I am. I've been sitting outside your place for the last 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 I am. I've been sitting outside your place for the last 2 hours. ...ok. I'm not sure whether to be disturbed or gracious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 ...ok.I'm not sure whether to be disturbed or gracious. Grateful. Would you happen to have any lemonade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Grateful.Would you happen to have any lemonade?No. Would you settle for Tang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 ^^^Perhaps the single greatest exchange in HAIF history.^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 ^^^Perhaps the single greatest exchange in HAIF history.^^^I know, I know... You're laughing about the Tang. Any time anybody mentions the word "Tang", whether capitalized or otherwise, a jumbled series of laughter and pig-like snorts inevitably follows. But you'll have to excuse me for being poor at present and having to cover up the flavor of tap water that tastes like the Neches River for the first several hours (that is, until it's had the opportunity to off-gas, at which point it tastes decent). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 No, no, no. I am laughing at the entire exchange between you and awac. It just cracked me up, though admittedly, adding a reference to Tang made it all the better, since it is virtually unheard of these days. Remember, I grew up during the moon landings. Tang was huge back then. Today, I never see it.Anyway, I still appreciated the exchange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 A Mr. Nip wants to build a 1000 room hotel directly across the 59 from the George R. Brown. The financing will be coming from wealthy Chinese who, by investing at least $500K, will receive green cards. It would be much cheaper to just swim the river but that method has been overdone... http://www.globalcenturydev.com/Investment.html (powerpoint by clicking "Conceptual Project Plans". http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/print-edition/2011/02/11/houston-backs-downtown-convention-hotel.html Sounds pretty ambitious but apparently the mayor is backing the idea and Lee Brown is working for the group. The rendering shows 15 contiguous blocks that Mr. Nip owns and it proposes a pedestrian bridge connecting the hotel with the Conv. Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Sounds good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Yay, please do it! I don't have much room for visitors in the house, and everyone bitches about staying downtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 The rendering shows 15 contiguous blocks that Mr. Nip owns and it proposes a pedestrian bridge connecting the hotel with the Conv. Center.Dan Nip does not own or represent the owners of the properties on the fifteen contiguous blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Hate to raise the dead but according to Swamplot, this very same project (w/Lee Brown as chairman) is all of a sudden alive ...and picking up steam. http://swamplot.com/mayor-to-mayor-parker-indicates-browns-east-downtown-green-card-hotel-project-would-qualify-for-tax-breaks/2011-02-11/#more-25804 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Not exactly a new proposal, was discussed about 2 years ago with some crazy renders. Topic's alive again...http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/20203-convention-center-hotel-east-of-59/page__gopid__380124#entry380124 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 The financing will be coming from wealthy Chinese who, by investing at least $500K, will receive green cards. It would be much cheaper to just swim the river but that method has been overdone... Please elaborate. Not sure I understand your point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 No, no, no. I am laughing at the entire exchange between you and awac. It just cracked me up, though admittedly, adding a reference to Tang made it all the better, since it is virtually unheard of these days. Remember, I grew up during the moon landings. Tang was huge back then. Today, I never see it.Anyway, I still appreciated the exchange.Whatever happened to Florence Henderson? She was a hella good gal, and an accomplished actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livincinco Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Dan Nip does not own or represent the owners of the properties on the fifteen contiguous blocks.The articles seem much more focused on the two blocks that the hotel would actually be built on which sounds much more realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Please elaborate. Not sure I understand your point. Not much to elaborate on, it was simply a relatively weak attempt at humor...paying 500K for a green card when they could just cross illegally like "normal people", but there's no green card with that method. Better to invest big bucks for good return plus get green card (I think I read that on a fortune cookie once). And I see this already had its own topic. Next time I'll do a search first. And I misstated about Nip owning the 15 blocks according to The Niche. OK, anything else, people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 Wow, so one of our long-shot online found renderings actually has some breathe to it?! LOLAnd if all those blocks are developed, it seems like the proposed pedestrian corridor would be a really good idea considering it's location in which there is no through way b/c of the convention center.Should we also be taking their other listed projects serious, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Somehow I dont think that this is the only area of houston that qualifies... how often to they check to see if other areas now qualify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houstonian4Life Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 This will be great for the area. Downtown sorely needs more hotels plus this is another step in the right direction for east downtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 This will be great for the area. Downtown sorely needs more hotels plus this is another step in the right direction for east downtown.There was another old thread on this that had street-level views of this same proposal, a more asian-themed hotel. I really loved those renders in that thread.... Ive searched both East End, Going Up, and Downtown forums but cant seem to locate the old thread. Anyone recall this? If found, please repost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Not exactly a new proposal, was discussed about 2 years ago with some crazy renders. Topic's alive again...http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/20203-convention-center-hotel-east-of-59/page__gopid__380124#entry380124Posted this on the other thread in Going Up....There was another old thread on this that had street-level views of this same proposal, a more asian-themed hotel. I really loved those renders in that thread....Ive searched both East End, Going Up, and Downtown forums but cant seem to locate the old thread.Anyone recall this?If found, please repost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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