bobruss Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 This is such an improvement. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MidCenturyModMan Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 May I ask what type of drone/camera system you are using @phillip_white? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 17 hours ago, MidCenturyModMan said: May I ask what type of drone/camera system you are using @phillip_white? DJI Phantom 3 Pro with integrated 4k camera. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted December 13, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2016 Demo down to the foundation. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Urbannizer Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 http://www.chron.com/business/real-estate/article/PMRG-closes-on-Midtown-multifamily-site-10832895.php Houston developer PMRG has closed on a Midtown site where it plans to build hundreds of luxury apartments along the light rail line. The company said construction will begin "in the near term," but offered no other specifics 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 Did this one grow in height? A subscriber-content article from the HBJ has it at 40-stories. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/01/23/brokers-trio-of-record-breaking-real-estate-deals.html Quote PM Realty Group purchased a 1.15-acre site at 3300 Main St. in Midtown. The Houston developer plans to build a 40-story, 336-unit apartment tower on the site. PMRG closed on the land in late December, after also struggling to find capital partners amid the energy downturn. The developer demolished a former city of Houston code enforcement building on the site last year, and hopes to start construction on the apartment project this year. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietstorm Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Is the rendering still the same? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctaf Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Is this the one that's supposed to be going up across from the pearl Whole Foods (the Courtlandtt I think)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 No this one is going to be on Main street next to Match and catty corner to the CVS on Elgin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 (edited) If you look at the rendering you will notice the rail lines on the bottom right corner and the large protruding awning is the front of MATCH, which I believe is at the corner of Mcgowan and Main. Just to remind those naysayers that the rail wouldn't bring any development. What do you say now? Edited January 27, 2017 by bobruss added text 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllenOlenska Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 If I'm recalling my Dante correctly, the third circle of hell is rail-naysayers constantly being pursued by trams. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietstorm Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 From today. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted January 29, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2017 The Mariner House, directly across from Lake Midtown, coincidence or prescience? 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdog08 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 On 1/27/2017 at 9:33 AM, bobruss said: If you look at the rendering you will notice the rail lines on the bottom right corner and the large protruding awning is the front of MATCH, which I believe is at the corner of Mcgowan and Main. Just to remind those naysayers that the rail wouldn't bring any development. What do you say now? Not a naysayer, but Midtown's development has been strange. Western Midtown, along Bagby and W Gray to the North got developed before we started significantly filling in the pieces along the rail in the last 2 years. A boutique hotel would go great along this stretch of the rail. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Im speaking to the overall development up and down Main from downtown through the Med center. A boutique hotel would be great and Im sure one will come along. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 Looks like the 40-story count was bogus. FAA filing for the crane shows construction will begin in the coming months. https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=336840964&row=12 Quote Structure Type: Crane Structure Height: 369' Work Schedule: 10/02/2017 to 04/01/2019 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 I'll take it. Hey its a skyscraper in Midtown. It will be the first skyscraper in Midtown, and it tightens the Downtown -TMC link. I have no doubt its going to happen, just faster than I thought. If we gat the Caydon and the project being considered for the Museum district at the San Jacinto and Southmore intersection, then Katy, bar the door. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 18 hours ago, Urbannizer said: Looks like the 40-story count was bogus. FAA filing for the crane shows construction will begin in the coming months. https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=336840964&row=12 Hopefully they didn't go Randall Davis and cheapen the design down too much. I'd rather see it 3 stories with GFR than 30 stories without GFR. Looks like they chose to reduce the scale and build sooner rather than wait longer for the market to come back. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Awesome! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reporter Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 22 hours ago, H-Town Man said: I'd rather see it 3 stories with GFR than 30 stories without GFR. Not me. GFR isn't everything. I think its high time Midtown started to develop a real skyline of it's own and a "beautiful" 3 story building wouldn't cut it for me even if it had the greatest GFR in Texas. Don't get me wrong, I want it to have GFR too, but not at the expense of this building doing whatever it can to help connect the DT and TMC skylines. Even if it isn't 40-stories, a 369' building in Midtown is significant and I hope this is the beginning of a trend. This and the 3 high rises proposed across from the Midtown park superblock will go a long way in making my own personal midtown dreams come true. If enough of these high rises take off, the GFR will come organically out of necessity anyway. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, Reporter said: Not me. GFR isn't everything. I think its high time Midtown started to develop a real skyline of it's own and a "beautiful" 3 story building wouldn't cut it for me even if it had the greatest GFR in Texas. Don't get me wrong, I want it to have GFR too, but not at the expense of this building doing whatever it can to help connect the DT and TMC skylines. Even if it isn't 40-stories, a 369' building in Midtown is significant and I hope this is the beginning of a trend. This and the 3 high rises proposed across from the Midtown park superblock will go a long way in making my own personal midtown dreams come true. If enough of these high rises take off, the GFR will come organically out of necessity anyway. In my experience introducing out-of-towners to Houston, they are most frequently impressed by our skylines, but wonder at our lack of walkable neighborhoods. So my personal wishes for Midtown are to have a walkable urban neighborhood first, skyline second. That means GFR, especially on Main St. If Main St. becomes walkable, it will attract much more development to Midtown long term, including highrises. The hope is to create a unique environment, a "there" there, otherwise there is nothing to attract highrise dwellers there rather than Montrose Blvd. or West Gray or Post Oak... But neither of our opinions is right or wrong, nor do they likely matter. Edited July 7, 2017 by H-Town Man 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 I've never had one visitor mention "walkable neighborhoods" to me. I have show dozens of people around town, and they mostly remark on how green the city is and how many restaurants we have. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 5 minutes ago, gmac said: I've never had one visitor mention "walkable neighborhoods" to me. I have show dozens of people around town, and they mostly remark on how green the city is and how many restaurants we have. I guess we inhabit different social circles. Many of my visitors were from cities that have walkable neighborhoods, so this was something that made an impression on them. I've also always hated it when I've been in conversations elsewhere when Houston was brought up, and someone said, "You can't get by without a car there," and I wanted to tell them they were wrong, but couldn't. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reporter Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 (edited) Why would someone who lives in a city with a walkable neighborhood want to visit another city that's exactly like where they came from? All my visitors hate walking anywhere. They just want to be chauffeured around town (by me). I'm only interested in my own personal vision for Houston. Your visitors can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico. Just kidding. Edited July 7, 2017 by Reporter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 2 hours ago, H-Town Man said: I guess we inhabit different social circles. Many of my visitors were from cities that have walkable neighborhoods, so this was something that made an impression on them. I've also always hated it when I've been in conversations elsewhere when Houston was brought up, and someone said, "You can't get by without a car there," and I wanted to tell them they were wrong, but couldn't. They weren't part of my social circle. To be fair, most of them weren't from huge cities, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 My visitors are chauffeured in big black limos when they come to Houston to visit. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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