The Travis: Multifamily High-Rise At 3300 Main St.

[BeerNut]

 

 

3300 Main is a mixed-use development by PM Realty Group in partnership with AECOM Capital located in the Midtown neighborhood of Houston, Texas. 3300 Main will feature 336 residential apartments, 14,390 square feet of retail space, and 521 parking spaces. The project is strategically located next to the METRORail providing direct access to both Downtown Houston to the North and the Texas Medical Center to the South.

 

So the first thing I noticed was the change from condos to apartments. Why the change?  I think the condos would have added a nice mix to the area.  If the numbers hold that's over 1000 apartment units in 5 blocks.  3800 (320 units), 3600 (363 units), 3300 (336 units).

[Howard Huge]

You're what? lol

Uhhh,happy?

[BigFootsSocks]

Hey guys real talk tho, a plat was submitted today to the Harris Country Clerks office with the title "Main Street High Rise Apartments"

It's not scanned in yet but when it is I'll post it somewhere

Edited January 8, 2016 by BigFootsSocks

[BigFootsSocks]

Update; the survey/abstract this is located in contains Main Street from roughly Leeland, south to around Oakdale

[cspwal]

But that wouldn't include 1111 Main?  That would start at sky house and go south to the museum district...am I missing something?

[BigFootsSocks]

Yeah I doubt it's for this but I saw and just a got really excited and had to tell someone

Edit; so excited I can't even form a coherent sentence

Edited January 8, 2016 by BigFootsSocks

[AREJAY]

Update; the survey/abstract this is located in contains Main Street from roughly Leeland, south to around Oakdale

 

That would put it right where the Museo Plaza is proposed, and coincides with Cranky's post this morning:

 

 

 

 

This is still a possibility. The developer is asking the city to abandon Palm street as depicted in the renderings. The NIMBYs are are starting to band together  

[cloud713]

That would put it right where the Museo Plaza is proposed, and coincides with Cranky's post this morning:

Interesting!

[BigFootsSocks]

Bounded by Travis, Francis, Main, and Stuart. Will update with plat shortly.

[BigFootsSocks]

It's not

[Urbannizer]

Update; the survey/abstract this is located in contains Main Street from roughly Leeland, south to around Oakdale

 

Wha? The block filed in the plat is bounded by main/stuart/francis/travis, which means it's 3300 Main by PMRG.

[Triton]

Isn't this 3300 Main?

Edited January 8, 2016 by Triton

[AREJAY]

It's this one, no?

 

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/29037-3300-main-by-pm-realty-group-336-unit-high-rise/

 

 

[BigFootsSocks]

Yeah. Trying to upload plat but I can't get it to upload to imgur. Plats are really good signs though; plans cannot be approved by the city without a recorded plat.

Mods plz merge

[BigFootsSocks]

Wha? The block filed in the plat is bounded by main/stuart/francis/travis, which means it's 3300 Main by PMRG.

Yeah I know it wasn't this but since we were all dropping bombs in this thread I threw it in here too

[Urbannizer]

Done

[BigFootsSocks]

Thnx fam what a great day we drop a few bombs on the retail district, 3300 Main moving ahead, and Kanye drops a new single

[nospamplz893]

Saw that the for-sale sign is gone and a demolition company van parked on the side on the 2nd of this month. Is the project starting?

[corbs315]

Any news on this one?

[kbates2]

Still in the works and moving forward at this point.

[Triton]

Removing asbestos for demolition!

 

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THE 1967 OCCUPANT of 3300 Main St., which previously housed the city code enforcement office, is currently getting its asbestos removed in anticipation of its impending demolition, according to a reader involved in the work. The structure and its parking lot grounds were bought from the city in 2011 by the Midtown Redevelopment Authority, who later sold it to PM Realty (the developers of the glass-petticoated apartment tower at 2929 Weslayan, who are also currently working on the less-is-more-branded Ivy Lofts tiny condo complexin East Downtown).

What’s going to take the code building’s place, between the new MATCH box theater collection and the Houston Community College buildings to the north on Main St.? The involved reader confirms that the rendering below shows the current design in place along the light rail line; materials from co-investor AECOM say the highrise should hold 336 apartments and 14,390 sq.ft. of retail space:

 

http://swamplot.com/asbestos-laden-mod-code-enforcement-office-now-getting-swapped-for-mixed-use-highrise-on-main-st/2016-07-12/

 

 

[DrLan34]

47 minutes ago, Triton said:

Removing asbestos for demolition!

 

 

http://swamplot.com/asbestos-laden-mod-code-enforcement-office-now-getting-swapped-for-mixed-use-highrise-on-main-st/2016-07-12/

 

 

 

This part was interesting:

 

The reader says construction should start in September after demolition wraps up. The design shown above has put on a few floors (and lost some corners) since the original designs by RTKL were passed around last fall:

[bobruss]

I drove by yesterday and they were indeed hauling debris out to a dumpster.

[Moore713]

Midtown is developing it own nice little skyline 

[enriquewx91]

5 hours ago, Moore713 said:

Midtown is developing it own nice little skyline 

Hope this leads to a combined skyline with downtown, maybe even the Medical Center

[Urbannizer]

Via reddit:

 

It is also going to a be a luxury high rise with about 14 different room styles to choose from.

[Twinsanity02]

This should be approximately the height of the Catalyst downtown.

 

With the Carter and with other highrises in the village and museum district (including the toothy Ashby highrise)  it certainly is going to begin a continuity of skyline from downtown to midtown/museum district/medical center

[H-Town Man]

I'm more interested in the development of walkability and continuity of neighborhoods. A long string of residential highrises won't make a very impressive skyline - Dallas' Uptown has a huge cluster of residential towers and it's not much of a skyline. But to have a Main St. where someone can walk from the bayou to Hermann Park and it be an interesting walk the whole way: that is a dream.

 

[lockmat]

6 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

I'm more interested in the development of walkability and continuity of neighborhoods. A long string of residential highrises won't make a very impressive skyline - Dallas' Uptown has a huge cluster of residential towers and it's not much of a skyline. But to have a Main St. where someone can walk from the bayou to Hermann Park and it be an interesting walk the whole way: that is a dream.

 

 

Couldn't agree more. Houston needs to decide. Do we just want to be a skyline city or are we also going to consider the pedestrian. It can be both. Right now we're still focusing on what the top of the building looks like instead of the first one or two floors.

 

I still feel like for the most part however we're still building a drive-by-and-gawk-at-the-skyline city. I would actually like to dedicate a thread to this topic. There might be one I forgot about it.

Edited July 14, 2016 by lockmat

[bobruss]

I went on a rant last night in the downtown section under Franklin garage that relates to this issue. I want a downtown that

actually functions like a livable neighborhood. Not like a skyline scene for a movie or commercial shoot. Just another skyline facade.

Until we can get developers and city officials to understand its not just about tall cold buildings and apartments that go into making a place where people want to live but needs to function with convenient GFR that provides space for the things people use and need on a daily basis. The idea is about getting these people out of their cars and walking to the store or dentist or a florist.