Highrise Tower Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 There was discussion about this 1.87-acres of land in the Hanover River Oaks thread. Fresh on Loopnet, listing created yesterday. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2801-Kirby-Dr-Houston-TX/21177891/ Approximately 4,500 SF building with three drive-thru lanes on 1.87 acres of land.In the highly desirable Upper Kirby District between Westheimer Rd and Richmond Ave. Available January 2021. Will consider dividing building. Do not disturb occupant. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 The bank is now fenced. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted February 16, 2022 Author Share Posted February 16, 2022 The project, a five-story 100,000-SF building will have Class A medical office space and ground-level retail, according to the Newmark real estate firm, which is marketing the development to be built at 2801 Kirby Drive at Kipling Street. https://realtynewsreport.com/clay-developing-kirby-drive-medical-mixed-use/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Belongs out in Katy. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2801-Kirby-Dr-Houston-TX/24780871/ 6 1 2 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrohip Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 When we were looking at condos in 2018, we looked at 2727 Kirby. We weren't fans of the building, so it didn't matter, but one of the things our realtor warned us about was this little square of land. He said something will be built one day, and you may not like it next door to your condo. Five stories isn't bad, I think the units start above that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Please tell me this is fronting the street 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 13 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said: Please tell me this is fronting the street 🤦🏽♂️ We can only hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 18 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said: Please tell me this is fronting the street Best guess from the renderings is that the end of the building fronts Kirby, but not in a particularly good way. Let's hope this project fails and fails fast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 How are developers so damn stupid? The back street is perfect for drivers to access parking. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amlaham Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) I don't want to give anyone nightmares......but based off that LoopNet listing, it looks like the first picture is "north facing" meaning it faces the highrise, and the bottom picture is "south facing" meaning it faces Kipling St...........meaning..............the garage is facing Kirby.......do we call the police? Edited February 16, 2022 by Amlaham 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) Well, the good news is, the building includes ground-floor retail and is supposed to have an "on-site full-service restaurant." Hopefully, this rendering needs some tweaking. (Personally, I wouldn't put too much weight and how they represent the siting in the rendering. We've all seen renderings with the wrong city in the background. That parking structure is bad enough behind the building (again, we need to adopt regulations on the appearance of parking structures, and yes, this is another case where eliminating the parking requirements would accomplish nothing with regard to the ugly parking structure - it proposes to offer 4 spaces for every 1,000 square feet, well above the current city parking requirements). I am not believing anyone would propose to build this with the parking structure fronting on Kirby. https://www.nmrk.com/insights/press-releases/newmark-to-lease-new-class-a-medical-office-development-in-upscale-houston-neighborhood Edited February 16, 2022 by Houston19514 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted February 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2022 Ok I feel a bit better about this. The building fronts the street with no driveway from Kirby. 14 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 (edited) Van and Sons Drilling is doing core drilling so this is going to start construction at some point. Edited December 21, 2022 by hindesky 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 More core drilling. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 (edited) Building demo permit. https://www.nationaldemolitioninc.com Edited April 17 by hindesky 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amlaham Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 I feel like we should expect to see a different rendering than the one listed above; since the building layout and the building rendering don't correlate with each other......hopefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 National Demolition placed their company sign and are installing the construction netting. They said they will start next week.He said they are from the Cypress area. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 They only have the front portion of the lot fenced off which made me wonder if they don't own the back parking lot but HCAD shows they own the whole thing. The back lot is used daily by someone that seems to be the used by people living at and contractors doing work for the 2727 Kirby condos. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Building is gone and the concrete parking area should be next. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted May 11 Popular Post Share Posted May 11 (edited) Exciting news!!! When I talked with the demolition workers, I asked them if they knew what was going to built on this property. They said a 40 story apartment project. I told them no it was going to be a 5 story medical building and showed them the rendering. Turns out they were 100% correct. Just went by after getting my car washed at Mr Car Wash and I spot a sign for "Southern Land Communities" a division of Southern Land Company (not to be confused with Southernland Communities, which sells farm and ranch properties). They are out of Nashville, Tenn and are a developer & construction company Southern Land Communities does indeed develop high rise apartments. https://southernland.com https://www.instagram.com/southernlandcompany/ Edited May 11 by hindesky 18 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CREguy13 Posted May 11 Popular Post Share Posted May 11 7 minutes ago, hindesky said: Exciting news!!! When I talked with the demolition workers, I asked them if they knew what they was going to built on this property. They said a 40 story apartment project. I told them no it was going to be a 5 story medical building and showed them the rendering. Turns out they were 100% correct. Just went by after getting my car washed at Mr Car Wash and I spot a sign for "Southern Land Communities" a division of Southern Land Company (not to be confused with Southernland Communities, which sells farm and ranch properties). They are out of Nashville, Tenn. and are a developer & construction company Southern Land Communities does indeed develop high rise apartments. https://southernland.com https://www.instagram.com/southernlandcompany/ I can confirm! Been waiting for news to become public or Hindesky's on-the-ground reporting would pull through as it always does. My sources indicate it is taller than 40 floors and that it is planned to be mixed-use, not solely MF and retail... 😎 27 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I was wondering why they took down the rendering of the proposed Medical Building, this is why. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 That's gonna block 2727 views :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amlaham Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 7 minutes ago, kennyc05 said: That's gonna block 2727 views :( Yeah, but 2727 Kirby already has unobstructed views to the north/ west/ east so I think they'll be fine. I'm sooo excited about this! This would be the tallest building in the area (I feel like it will eventually shrink to about 20-30 floors which is still fine IMO), it would have amazing 360 views of all of our skylines! Uptown/ Greenway to the west, TMC to the south east, Downtown/ Midtown to the north east, and Allen parkway to the north (considering they build tall enough). Wishful thinking, they build a mini observation deck at the top 😅 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityliving Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) Hopefully all this excitement about a 40 story building at this site is TRUE, and not all just hype about what a worker at a site said. I will be disappointed if it’s not true.😡 Edited May 11 by cityliving Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) Man I hope this is true because that medical building was trash. SLC builds some really nice developments. Edited May 11 by j_cuevas713 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 3 hours ago, hindesky said: Exciting news!!! When I talked with the demolition workers, I asked them if they knew what was going to built on this property. They said a 40 story apartment project. I told them no it was going to be a 5 story medical building and showed them the rendering. Turns out they were 100% correct. Just went by after getting my car washed at Mr Car Wash and I spot a sign for "Southern Land Communities" a division of Southern Land Company (not to be confused with Southernland Communities, which sells farm and ranch properties). They are out of Nashville, Tenn and are a developer & construction company Southern Land Communities does indeed develop high rise apartments. https://southernland.com https://www.instagram.com/southernlandcompany/ Based on the ownership address from the HCAD data that you posted on 4/26, it definitely is a match for Southern. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I hate that another building is gonna cover 2727 I like looking at that building driving down Kirby 😵💫 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyDriveKid Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) Amazing! As with Colombe d'Or and the Montrose Hanover, though, it is bizarre to me that in a city as sprawling/unzoned as Houston developers place high rises immediately next to one another... Still very excited, though! As the name suggests, I have always been a Kirby stan, and the medical office building was such a disappointing addition to a block with a ton of densifying potential. I also wonder whether/hope they will site the residential portion toward the east/back of the lot to avoid directly blocking both building's views (somewhat like what the Colombe d'Or did). Edited May 11 by KirbyDriveKid 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I'll take a street lined with mid/high-rises all day. Hopefully more properties along Kirby will continue to redevelop, I'm personally waiting for HEB to make a move 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 28 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said: I'll take a street lined with mid/high-rises all day. Hopefully more properties along Kirby will continue to redevelop, I'm personally waiting for HEB to make a move H-E-B on the ground floor topped with a “super midrise” form factor. Develop Kirby into an urban canyon. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 As I told the story once before, one of my co-workers who lives and works in Baytown came to visit a distant relative's restaurant at the Arrive complex across the street. When I asked him later where it was located he said it was downtown not realizing that Kirby street isn't actually downtown. All suburbanites consider anything inside the loop as downtown. This will make it seem more like downtown. 4 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrohip Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 On 2/16/2022 at 9:13 AM, astrohip said: When we were looking at condos in 2018, we looked at 2727 Kirby. We weren't fans of the building, so it didn't matter, but one of the things our realtor warned us about was this little square of land. He said something will be built one day, and you may not like it next door to your condo. Five stories isn't bad, I think the units start above that. Makes my realtor look pretty smart in hindsight! One of the things we love about our current condo bldg is the lack of developable land around it. It's rare to find a building that is unlikely to have much built directly around it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 Wowowowow. Very exciting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 (edited) 7 hours ago, kennyc05 said: I hate that another building is gonna cover 2727 I like looking at that building driving down Kirby 😵💫 Edited May 12 by hindesky 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 15 hours ago, houstontexasjack said: H-E-B on the ground floor topped with a “super midrise” form factor. Develop Kirby into an urban canyon. Or at least the local version of Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 No height filings in the past 60 days on this area that I can see, though I haven't run an FAA radius search for prior documents. Either the approval is more than 60 days old, or Southern is flying under the radar, or they're not planning to start construction immediately. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 2 hours ago, strickn said: No height filings in the past 60 days on this area that I can see, though I haven't run an FAA radius search for prior documents. Either the approval is more than 60 days old, or Southern is flying under the radar, or they're not planning to start construction immediately. I don't know of any reason to think construction would be starting immediately. I can't find any building permit applications either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post editor Posted May 12 Popular Post Share Posted May 12 17 hours ago, hindesky said: All suburbanites consider anything inside the loop as downtown. Heck, even people not from the suburbs don't know where downtown is. I know someone who lives in Rice Military, and thinks she lives downtown. She says, "I love living downtown because of my view." To which I ask, "What is your view of?" "Oh, the downtown skyline." When I told her that if she can see the downtown skyline she doesn't live downtown she got unhappy. 4 hours ago, strickn said: Or at least the local version of Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard. Not a bad goal. It assuages the car fans, and scratches the density itch at the same time. 2 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 (edited) On 5/11/2023 at 6:05 PM, hindesky said: As I told the story once before, one of my co-workers who lives and works in Baytown came to visit a distant relative's restaurant at the Arrive complex across the street. When I asked him later where it was located he said it was downtown not realizing that Kirby street isn't actually downtown. All suburbanites consider anything inside the loop as downtown. This will make it seem more like downtown. No it's mostly people who live in those East side suburbs that say anything inside of loop is downtown man a lot of those people are dumb as hell 🤦🏽♂️ Edited May 13 by kennyc05 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 I dont think the east side has the market on dumb. Thats a little snarky. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 20 hours ago, editor said: Heck, even people not from the suburbs don't know where downtown is. I know someone who lives in Rice Military, and thinks she lives downtown. She says, "I love living downtown because of my view." To which I ask, "What is your view of?" "Oh, the downtown skyline." When I told her that if she can see the downtown skyline she doesn't live downtown she got unhappy. Not a bad goal. It assuages the car fans, and scratches the density itch at the same time. Or put another way, linear density ticks the checkboxes for investor appetite, experiential walkability, and getting a breather from the vertical without walking more than a few blocks away 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aachor Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 On 5/11/2023 at 2:35 PM, kennyc05 said: I hate that another building is gonna cover 2727 I like looking at that building driving down Kirby 😵💫 I've always thought 2727 was one of the uglier high rises in the city. To each his own, I guess... 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Excavator is gone, I guess they will wait to remove the concrete parking lot. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 On 5/11/2023 at 6:05 PM, hindesky said: As I told the story once before, one of my co-workers who lives and works in Baytown came to visit a distant relative's restaurant at the Arrive complex across the street. When I asked him later where it was located he said it was downtown not realizing that Kirby street isn't actually downtown. All suburbanites consider anything inside the loop as downtown. This will make it seem more like downtown. Unfortunately you are correct. I've lived in the suburbs of Houston >40 years. Most folks think anything in the Loop is downtown including TMC. As a former worker at the TMC I found it irritating. When even my children use the suburban terminology after numerous times of correcting them, I've given up. I think what may add to the confusion are the numerous clusters of highrises within (and just outside) the loop. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 Eh, in some ways it's a convenient shorthand for knowing what a person's context/perspective is, especially if they give you a blank look when you try to be more specific (Rice Village, Montrose, "Downtown" Downtown). I do think there's value in talking about the city proper/inside the loop + uptown/the historic city/whatever as a distinct thing, and Downtown is easier for people than even "inside the loop" (which is maybe too restrictive anyway). It's annoying, but I understand why it happens and I'm not sure what the best alternative would be. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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