Highrise Tower Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 Going quick! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Saw the crawler crane from a distance, went to check it out. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted April 4, 2021 Author Share Posted April 4, 2021 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted May 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2021 Article in the Houston Chronicle about the detention vault. Apartment's hidden amenity? A massive vault to hold stormwater runoff R.A. Schuetz, Staff writer April 30, 2021Updated: April 30, 2021 8:01 p.m. A new apartment complex is going up near the Texas Medical Center. But to see its most unique feature, you have to go down, underground, where a gigantic concrete vault has been built so water has a place to go when it rains. Two hundred and sixty-one feet long and 135 feet wide, it spans nearly the area of a football field and stretches 20 feet deep — large enough to hold 700,000 cubic feet of water, which could fill eight Olympic-sized swimming pools. That’s because the vault is not only offsetting the water that will run off of or be displaced by the apartments. It’s also detaining water for the surrounding 37 acres, which hold another apartment complex and an extended-stay hotel. Before the Barvin Group, an apartment investor and property manager, purchased the property, the site resembled a man-made pond where stormwater would drain from the surrounding area. But property in the area is becoming increasingly valuable, especially for apartment developers looking to serve the 106,000 employees and 30,000 students who work and learn at the Texas Medical Center. So Barvin decided to make the site work — perhaps the first time in the Houston area an existing detention pond has been turned into apartments. “There’s a huge need for housing in this area,” said Derrek LeRouax, vice president of development at Barvin. He stood near the construction site, a block south of the Woman’s Hospital of Texas off of Knight Road, where the 281-unit apartment, Blackwell Med Center, was going up. LeRouax believes that as cities become more dense more developers will begin to look at land that is challenging to build on. “We’re looking for walkable areas and dense locations that are urban and allow for a lifestyle that people want,” he said. “And as we search out those locations, that means that land has become scarce and the easy things have been done.” So what goes into turning a regional basin into an apartment building? The biggest complication is that the site has to be able to drain the surrounding property’s runoff even while the vault is being built, explained Celeste Berger, senior project manager for the development’s engineering firm, Pape-Dawson. In order do that, they positioned the vault next to the existing pond, so that the pre-existing stormwater storage could function while the new storage was being built. Then, when the vault was ready, they rerouted the drains that previously emptied into the pond to empty into the vault. The pond, no longer connected to the surrounding area’s rainwater, dried out and was able to be filled in. Now, when rain washes off the apartments or the nearby properties, it will flow into parking lot drains or gutters and connect to a 6-foot-wide pipe, which whisks it to the vault. There, a 1½-foot pipe leaving the vault allows the water to enter the city’s stormwater drainage system at a manageable pace. As the owner of the building, Barvin Group will be responsible for the vault’s ongoing maintenance. Because of the additional engineering and construction costs of building a 20-foot vault before converting the property into apartments, Barvin Group was able to purchase the property more cheaply than it would have if the site had come without a detention pond. LeRouax said they couldn’t be sure the discounted price was right until leasing begins in April 2022 (he projects rents will begin close to $1,150 a month). But it was enough for them to purchase the site. And the Barvin Group has been confident enough in its ability to implement water management designs to take on another complicated site. That one’s in the 100-year floodplain. rebecca.schuetz@chron.com 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted May 9, 2021 Author Share Posted May 9, 2021 Garage almost done. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted May 16, 2021 Author Share Posted May 16, 2021 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted June 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2021 Via Arch Aerial 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
por favor gracias Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 That's a great view of Houston. Love how green the grass is right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 This looks like it will be a lot bigger than I thought, it's starting to wrap around the garage. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt590 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 What’s the rent going to cost at these units? Will it be close to the local average or are these luxury units that’ll be way more expensive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Brown Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 REVL Med Center: https://www.revlmedcenter.com/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 Now Leasing. The fence was taken down by the sidewalk. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.