Popular Post yaga Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2017 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bizjournals.com_houston_news_2017_11_17_exclusive-2Dmedistar-2Dto-2Ddevelop-2Dhealth-2Dcare-2Dtower-2Din.html&d=DwIFAg&c=Nwf-pp4xtYRe0sCRVM8_LWH54joYF7EKmrYIdfxIq10&r=blKN8VopvORAS0wfhRwbytKy3LX7VRXXkSGAZ5grTVE&m=oKU_5Ug6V8IJKYixwlZLicFxT7bwrDWZ7k3QPqzFwBI&s=uDs1_LFkk24xzLzhNZ31xvHRCcLU97r55jO4sstW_H0&e= New Design: http://media.bizj.us/view/img/11203455/innovationtower.jpg 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AREJAY Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2017 Details from the paywall article: roughly 25 story right across the street from the dual hotel-multifamily development the company is currently building (Latitude @ 6750 main) skybridge to Latitude break ground in Q2-Q3 2018 in talks with several healthcare systems, both local and out-of-town to occupy tower retail and restaurant on ground floor 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 16 minutes ago, AREJAY said: Details from the paywall article: roughly 25 story right across the street from the dual hotel-multifamily development the company is currently building (Latitude @ 6750 main) skybridge to Latitude break ground in Q2-Q3 2018 in talks with several healthcare systems, both local and out-of-town to occupy tower retail and restaurant on ground floor More height in the TMC! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2017 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 "roughly" 25 stories - rendering attached is roughly 31-32 stories. hoping it's the latter. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 19 minutes ago, Urbannizer said: NICE! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 This will replace the Best Western? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 ^^^ something to SMILE about...... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CREguy13 Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 5 minutes ago, Triton said: This will replace the Best Western? Correct. "The project will take two years to build, Hourani said. It'll sit at the site of the Best Western at 6700 Main St., which Medistar bought around 2006 or so, Hourani said. Medistar will demolish the hotel in the second or third quarter of 2018; the construction will coincide with the tower's groundbreaking." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitter1 Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 wow! Looking good 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Knew the parking lot had a limited future but that was fast. TMC is an awe inspiring place. It grows by leaps and bounds. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitter1 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 35 minutes ago, Twinsanity02 said: Knew the parking lot had a limited future but that was fast. TMC is an awe inspiring place. It grows by leaps and bounds. Almost like Post Oak/San Felipe! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OkieEric Posted November 18, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2017 http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3566986 I don't completely understand the height of this thing - one of the renderings in the article above make this appear taller than the Latitude 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Office floor to ceiling heights are almost universally taller than residential. Love they height but the massing of the overall development looks a bit crazy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Houston is somewhat eccentric. I do not mean that as a put down or to suggest our city puts on "weird" airs of attempted hipness like other cities. It just is a tough city to label and its layout reflects it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitter1 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 1 hour ago, OkieEric said: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3566986 I don't completely understand the height of this thing - one of the renderings in the article above make this appear taller than the Latitude wow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 3 hours ago, OkieEric said: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3566986 I don't completely understand the height of this thing - one of the renderings in the article above make this appear taller than the Latitude I see potential for a good LIGHT UP FEATURE!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 This is the site that the construction foreman for Latitude said was going to be a sixty story tower. I guess he was right about the site getting developed but not the height. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 7 hours ago, bobruss said: This is the site that the construction foreman for Latitude said was going to be a sixty story tower. I guess he was right about the site getting developed but not the height. Do they own the surface lot next door? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 10 hours ago, CrockpotandGravel said: Another rendering of Medistar's New Medical Tower, located at 6700 Main Street, the home of the old Best Western hotel in the Texas Medical Center. From the press release: And the site of Medistar's New Medical Tower at Texas Medical Centerhttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medistar-announces-development-of-major-medical-tower-at-texas-medical-center-300559059.html There goes their view of downtown but I like the density! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 This article says 33-stories http://realtynewsreport.com/2017/11/20/medistar-developing-33-story-medical-tower-on-main-street/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 A 33 story office tower has the potential to become the tallest building in the med center (not including the multiple spired buildings. This thing should be in the 500 foot-to-the-roof range). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 On 11/17/2017 at 9:01 PM, KinkaidAlum said: Office floor to ceiling heights are almost universally taller than residential. Love they height but the massing of the overall development looks a bit crazy. What is crazy-looking about the massing of this development? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Having high end hotel and apartment windows 10-15 feet away from office windows. Living in a fishbowl. Not for me. Also, the office tower is going to wipe out northern views... which happen to be TMC/Hermann/Downtown views. Most people who rent top floors a pay premiums tend to do so for the view. In my ideal world, I'd have put the office tower on the Southern lot. Just seems counter-intuitive to build it this way. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 8 hours ago, Urbannizer said: This article says 33-stories http://realtynewsreport.com/2017/11/20/medistar-developing-33-story-medical-tower-on-main-street/ I agree and it looks connected. I was just remembering a job foreman for the Latitude telling me they were going to tear down the best western after the Lat. project and build a 66 story tower. They obviously are designed as a group, and the transition from Latitude to the office tower is very well done. I guess the side street is going to be part of the transition. I wish he had been right about the number of floors. As KincaidAlum said this should be very close to the tallest in the Med center. If you haven't driven east on Holcombe or Braeswood from Buffalo speedway its a nice view and definitely adds height and scale to the southern end of TMC. Thats something that gets overlooked sometimes in these discussions. Its not just the height of a building but what it does to the skyline. The infill that adds texture, layering, density , while creating so many interesting juxtapositions. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 3 minutes ago, CrockpotandGravel said: From Houston Business Journal this morning: Medistar's planned 550,000-square-foot health care tower in the Texas Medical Center may undergo some design changes. For now, the building's 25 floor-plates will each contain 25,000 square feet of space. But Medistar officials are mulling reducing the number of floors and instead widening each floor-plate to contain between 32,000 square feet to 35,000 square feet of space. Once the building's design is finalized by the end of 2017, it could contain 20 or 21 floors. Luckily, there's plenty of room to expand the hotel, said Medistar CEO Monzer Hourani. The street-facing curvature of the building might also be straightened out in the redesign. The new design would better cater to the needs of doctors and health care users, Hourani said.https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/11/21/medistar-mulls-design-changes-to-its-550-000-sf.html 20 to 21 floors? ughhh. Well, I'm sure blocking the northern view had something to do with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 The rendering shows 25ish floors on top of an 8 floor parking garage over GFR. I'd assume the 20-21 floors is atop of the 9 floor podium, right? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Loopnet listing has it at 27 floors. http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/6700-Main-St-Houston-TX/11022113/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 They need to put out a new rendering then because this one show roughly 33 floors. Mas o Menos! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CREguy13 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I know there is an existing forum for the Medistar office project, but Wow. This would have a huge impact. Houston-based Medistar Corp. is expected to begin construction on its next tower in the Texas Medical Center area around the end of the third quarter of 2019, according to a press release from Houston-based Transwestern. Transwestern Executive Vice President Justin Brasell and Senior Vice President Lisa Bovermann are handling health care leasing for the project, dubbed Innovation Tower, per the release. Plans for the medical tower first emerged in November 2017. However, as expected, much has changed since then. Phase 1 of Innovation Tower will contain 476,500 square feet of medical and life science office space above a 1,700-vehicle parking garage, per the release. There will also be retail space and a penthouse-level restaurant and lounge. The building is outside the bounds of the Texas Medical Center, which restricts for-profit businesses from operating in nonprofit hospital complexes, Medistar CEO Monzer Hourani told the Houston Business Journal in 2017. The development of Innovation Tower's second phase will depend on market demands. Phase 2 could include 410 luxury high-rise residential units or additional medical, biomedical and life science office space, per the Transwestern release. Eventually, the tower is expected to be 48 stories and 1.6 million square feet, per the release. Innovation Tower will be built at 6700 Main St., the site of a SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western that Medistar bought around 2006 or so, Hourani told HBJ previously. The tower will be connected via a skybridge to Medistar's joint hotel-multifamily development across the street. The Intercontinental Houston Medical Center at 6750 Main St. opened earlier this year, and the attached Greystar apartment development, dubbed Latitude Med Center, at 1850 Old Main St. welcomed its first residents last summer. “Once completed, Innovation Tower will be the first Class AA tower in the Texas Medical Center offering world-class building amenities to create a distinct live/work/play environment,” Transwestern’s Brasell said in the release. “Innovation Tower will be an iconic building and great complement to the Texas Medical Center." Information about the architecture firm and general contractor were not immediately available. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Same project? Its certainly grown in scope since then! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) I am not sure if I have read this correctly... Are there phases to the tower? Will the 48 story tower break ground this fall? Edited January 29, 2019 by Avossos 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AREJAY Posted January 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) rendering Edited January 29, 2019 by AREJAY 16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 merged with the existing thread 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 29 minutes ago, Triton said: Edit: Or just edit and add the rendering in before my post....? Ok.... Chill. I fat fingered the img tag and fixed it a couple seconds later. Take my internet likes, I don't care. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 wow that’s awesome 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 11 minutes ago, AREJAY said: Chill. I fat fingered the img tag and fixed it a couple seconds later. Take my internet likes, I don't care. Oh ok, no worries. Just one second there was only the rendering I posted and then two so it was really confusing at first. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSirDingle Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Should be going up around the same time as the mixed used development at 7200 main? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Oh, say it's so. So what is Phase I and what is Phase II in the rendering? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxConcrete Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Avossos said: I am not sure if I have read this correctly... Are there phases to the tower? Will the 48 story tower break ground this fall? My interpretation of the article in the HBJ is that the initial phase will not be 48 floors, and it sounds like they will add height as market conditions warrant, which of course could be never. Quote Phase 1 of Innovation Tower will contain 476,500 square feet of medical and life science office space above a 1,700-vehicle parking garage, per the release. ... The development of Innovation Tower's second phase will depend on market demands. Phase 2 could include 410 luxury high-rise residential units or additional medical, biomedical and life science office space, per the Transwestern release. ... Eventually, the tower is expected to be 48 stories and 1.6 million square feet, per the release. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) The initial phase is open. Its the hotel and high rise apartments and these images are of phase two, which was promised when they were breaking ground for phase one. This is huge! Edited January 29, 2019 by bobruss 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJilliams Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Awesome looking tower, I hope it gets built! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Just now, bobruss said: The initial phase is open. Its the hotel and high rise apartments and this images are of the phase two which was promised when they were breaking ground for phase one. This is huge! but that's not what they're referring to when they say phase I and II. The initial phase of the development was the hotel and apt tower. Phase I as they are referring to it here is for a 500,000 SF medical office on top of 1700 parking spaces. Depending on floor plates that's about 19-20 stories of office on top of another 6-8 stories of garage plus a floor of retail. Due to the balconies you can see quite clearly that the residential high-rise units are situated above the office component. My guess is they'll wait to see how their office leasing velocity is during pre-development while at the same time gauging the multifamily or condo market and make a determination from there. if they think they can lease 1M SF of office or actually get the preleasing they'll build more office and less residential. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdog08 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) I assume the office is the big chunk and they'll build the apartments on top (skinny chunk)? Edited January 30, 2019 by kdog08 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, swtsig said: but that's not what they're referring to when they say phase I and II. The initial phase of the development was the hotel and apt tower. Phase I as they are referring to it here is for a 500,000 SF medical office on top of 1700 parking spaces. Depending on floor plates that's about 19-20 stories of office on top of another 6-8 stories of garage plus a floor of retail. Due to the balconies you can see quite clearly that the residential high-rise units are situated above the office component. My guess is they'll wait to see how their office leasing velocity is during pre-development while at the same time gauging the multifamily or condo market and make a determination from there. if they think they can lease 1M SF of office or actually get the preleasing they'll build more office and less residential. I wouldn't argue with you. My original info was from the foreman on the original building. I stopped by just before they started digging in the ground, and when I asked he elaborated. He was the one who told me about a 60 + story in the plans. Always appreciate your insight! Edited January 30, 2019 by bobruss 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1.6 million square feet in a 48 story building. 609 Main is 48 stories and has just over 1.07 million square feet. The base must have a large volume for this building 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 43 minutes ago, Twinsanity02 said: 1.6 million square feet in a 48 story building. 609 Main is 48 stories and has just over 1.07 million square feet. The base must have a large volume for this building The base looks thicc in the rendering. 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Beautiful tower but I got my eye on that first generation Lamborghini Murcielago 😍 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, jmitch94 said: Beautiful tower but I got my eye on that first generation Lamborghini Murcielago 😍 I think there’s an Aston Martin begins it...and a minivan heading the other way. Odd mix, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibletrees Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 46 minutes ago, houstontexasjack said: I think there’s an Aston Martin begins it...and a minivan heading the other way. Odd mix, lol. Soccer mom heading home after taking her kids to the Houston zoo. Fancy cars being driven by rich surgeons. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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