monarch Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 great illustrations. props for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 the hanover tower, look's incredibly well constructed. seems like it was built to last forever. just saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I was hoping the facade would have remained white/off-white. They look tan/beige now. That colored cheapened the already cheap look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylineView Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 2014 05 23: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky-guy Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Amazing pictures as usual, SkylineView! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky-guy Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 It's only a matter of time before the east side of Pist Oak has towers as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Cranes 2014.05.25 4570-2 by ThirdCoastRyan on Flickr 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golyadkin Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 (edited) They started taking down the crane at the Hanover tower yesterday. Sorry for the hazy picture, it was right after the rain had stopped. It's only a matter of time before the east side of Pist Oak has towers as well As someone who lives on the east side of Post Oak and who's view would be seriously blocked by one, I really hope it's a LONG time. Edited June 1, 2014 by Golyadkin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 http://www.scb.com/apartments/post-oak 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylineView Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 (edited) 2014 06 07: Edited June 7, 2014 by SkylineView 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Skylineview's photos look like a rendering, crazy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 http://www.scb.com/apartments/post-oak EEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!! GHOSTS!!!!!! It's not even finished and it's already haunted!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 2014 06 07: Hopefully the Apache HQ gets built and will be added to this view in a few years. The Whole Foods and Pinkberry will be nice additions to the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) Wasn't able to take a pic, but True Food Kitchen on the north side of the building seriously looks ready to open any time now...signs up, furniture in and lots of activity... Edited June 9, 2014 by gene 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Hopefully the Apache HQ gets built and will be added to this view in a few years. The Whole Foods and Pinkberry will be nice additions to the area. If it doesn't get built, it looks like a great spot for a game of croquet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchFan Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 EEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!! GHOSTS!!!!!! It's not even finished and it's already haunted!!! I know! He looks like one of the ghosts from the "I see dead people" movie ... the one in which the ghosts don't know they are dead and continue their daily activities! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 h/t beliefnet.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 i'm sure we knew this already but i totally forgot...have we always known Apache is planning to build two towers? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Woo! Another tower!And yeah, the BLVD Place plans have had 2 Apache tower footprints in it's plans for a while, though I haven't heard anything about it. I just assumed it would be a placeholder plot for future expansion of Apache. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golyadkin Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Whatever happened to the talk that Apache might opt for selling the land back to Ed Wulfe and instead buy some land out on the Energy Corridor for their HQ instead? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaderJF Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 By Javi Kawai on Flickr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 This tower is turning out to be one of those rare cases where the building looks better than the rendering! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Fernz, I was think the same thing. Drive by it this week and thought "well damn...she looks good!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylineView Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 2014 06 28: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 i've had my doubts about this building. seeing it in person last week changed my mind. the original rendering and even the pictures above do not do it justice. it's really nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=By1pOs6feuU 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=By1pOs6feuUThat's going to be a nice pool deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatesdisastr Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=By1pOs6feuU Jurassic Park music... come on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Money Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The more I see it, the more I like this building Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The motion of the camera looks like it was shot from an elevator. If not, those are some smooth panning skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 was that a DRONE doing the flying and filming sequence? ...how very impressive / futuristic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Has the fence with black tarp always been up around the apache site? I saw someone messing with something to secure part of it as I drove by a minute ago.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Has the fence with black tarp always been up around the apache site? I saw someone messing with something to secure part of it as I drove by a minute ago..It's been there for a long time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Lol. Didn't think it looked new, just thought it was odd some dude was messing with part of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 True Food Kitchen in the new BLVD Place opens July 29th...they have a job fair going on now! Also while i dont have a photo, they put the "Whole Foods Market" large letters/signage up in front of the building/on top of the entrance...really cant wait to have this open just a block north west of my office and a block south east of my apartment! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylineView Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 2014 07 19: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mab Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 In December they will open a similar concept called Peska in BLVD Place in the Galleria/Uptown area. When customers walk in to the upscale Peska, they will see a 16-foot-long ice case displaying fresh fish from around the world. A "seafood sommelier" will take them to the display and guide them through the market catches of the day, helping them pick fish for their meal. The fresh fish on ice, unusual for an upscale Houston eatery, gives Peska what the restaurant world calls a point of difference. "Within the last few years we've seen the Houston restaurant scene become transformed," Diego Ysita said, and in a city where dining standards are high, it helps to offer something a little different. Emily Durham, president of Houston-based Restaurant Connections, a market consulting and real estate brokerage firm, agreed that a one-of-a-kind restaurant can have an advantage in Houston's highly competitive restaurant environment. Ideally, she said, a new-to-market concept should be easy for the public to understand. If it's so different that it needs explanation, it can be a challenge. For example, she said, restaurant customers had to be educated when tapas first came to Houston. Sometimes an out-of-the-ordinary restaurant does best in a particular neighborhood, she said. For example, Underbelly is on Lower Westheimer in Montrose, home to a number of cutting-edge restaurants. Underbelly - a farm-and-ranch-to-table restaurant with a butcher, in-house curing and more cuts of meats than most restaurants - might not thrive in every area, she said. Nothing may ever be completely new under the sun, of course, including Peska's fish display on ice. For example, J&J Seafood in southwest Houston also has a fish market and kitchen, but it is more basic, and mostly a to-go operation. Chris Tripoli, president of A'La Carte Foodservice Consulting Group, who helped tweak the Peska concept and provided operations assistance, had to venture outside Texas to find another high-end seafood market/restaurant and found one in Las Vegas, he said. Peska will be more international than the La Traineras in Mexico, Tripoli said, and the menu will include Mediterranean, European and Latin American flavors. Fish will be flown in from places as distant as Italy, Spain or Alaska and as close as the Gulf of Mexico. Customers also will be able to order off the menu and to buy whole fish by the pound to go. The 6,000-square-foot restaurant will be at the corner of San Felipe and Post Oak Lane in Phase 2 of BLVD Place, and have a bar and patio. The Uptown/Galleria area has become a restaurant hub, said Ed Wulfe, chairman and CEO of Wulfe & Co., developer of BLVD Place. "Restaurants bring energy to a retail center," he said. Phase 1 of BLVD Place has two - RDG & Bar Annie and Table on Post Oak. Phase 2, under construction, will have five restaurants, and Wulfe said Peska is among three that have been announced. The others are True Food Kitchen, opening at the end of July, and North, opening in late fall. Whole Foods Market also will open a grocery there in early fall. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/retail/article/Restaurant-hopes-to-hook-customers-with-5632132.php#/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mab Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Whole Food signs are now up! Sorry for bad quality photos but hope you enjoy!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 no problem, regarding the photos mab. we appreciate them. props for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 https://www.flickr.com/photos/124965704@N04/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mab Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 http://www.blvdplace.com/Downloads/BLVD_retail_Plans.pdf site plan show some new additions including -2 story Verizon store -Elaine Turner -Styungbar-Resolute Fitness -SOZO Sushi-The Boardroom -Facade -Posh Salan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 8/2 by Russell.hancock on a Flickrr 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 nice picture. is anyone else a little put off by the plain vanilla podium parking garages on buildings such as randall davis' cosmopolitan? i realize that this is the norm, but i do see developers and architects going for a little less profit in exchange for good design, on occasion. too bad davis isn't of the latter sort. his faux facades are a guilty pleasure of mine, i wish he would be all in or not at all. it ruins the building for me; i wouldn't consider living in that building because i would hate parking in the ugly box my condo was resting on. it would piss me off each time i came home. does that make me shallow or just refined? i guess the ugly box will be mostly unnoticed after all of the additional buildings are up; plant some pine trees or giant bamboo around that thing please. with my rant out of the way; back to reality, we can expect more downsized or diminished designs with construction costs through the roof. i think that the building industry is having difficulty getting things built on time, labor shortages, material availability,etc. as long as constructions costs are high, design and flash will take a back seat. sad but true. houston's transition to higher density is truly fascinating. it would be interesting to see if there is photo documentation of the transition of manhattan island from single dwellings, to multi-storied buildings, to high and mid-rise. the higher density transition taking place in and around the loop is a rapid cultural shift that may be quite significant historically. houstonians will be a different breed altogether in 10-15 years. it's amazing and fantastic....and we are documenting it here on haif. haif will be a boon to anyone wanting to research houston's boom in the 2010s. uptown is but one focal point of houston's rapidly changing city-scape. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richfish Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) I went to True Food Kitchen for brunch Sunday (really great place) and explored the BLVD Place building a bit. Holy cow they still have a lot of work to do, both on the Whole Foods and all the other surrounding stores. The enclosed area to the far left (as looking straight at the building from Post Oak; where the proposed Verizon is to go) still has dirt floors on the first level. I have no idea why they're taking so incredibly long to finish this place up, Wolfe is really dropping the ball. Edited August 11, 2014 by richfish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 That's not WHole Food's fault, more so the contractor. I'm sure they're just as mad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richfish Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 That's not WHole Food's fault, more so the contractor. I'm sure they're just as madI'm sure it's Wulfe's fault. I heard rumors some high end restaurents declined to move to BLVD place due to the extremely slow construction progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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