aarosurf Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Eye sore? Are you talking about the empty grass field? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Yes, the huge empty fenced off lots. While it prepared folks going into downtown for the many surface parking lots, I would have preferred to see Allen House there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Yes, the huge empty fenced off lots. While it prepared folks going into downtown for the many surface parking lots, I would have preferred to see Allen House there.Yea they might as well have left Allen house there until it really needed to be torn down and collected rent up to that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnmcbarnacle Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Yea they might as well have left Allen house there until it really needed to be torn down and collected rent up to that point. I'm sure the developer would agree with you, hindsight being 20/20, but this place was torn down in the summer of 2007 and whatever financing they had to move forward vanished. That whole liquidity crisis/Lehman collapse/Dow at 6500/recession event put the brakes on lots of things. At least this "eyesore" was a nice open field instead of a rusting hulk of steel a la High Street on Westheimer. The fact that this one is still going forward, and that they have gone forward with the Sovereign, backs up what these developers have always said -- they have had this property for a long time and are committed to it long term in the future. In the list of ambitious projects from 2006-2008, BLVD Place is one of the few that resembles its pre-recession self. Time will tell on Regent, but the signs point to them sticking to the original vision. I'd rather they do that, at the expense of a vacant lot for six years, than throw something up like High Street. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) Yea they might as well have left Allen house there until it really needed to be torn down and collected rent up to that point. Trust me on this...the initial plan was to begin construction on Block A and Block B a few months after they demolished the Allen House. A design change, and then the 'great recession', set their plans back and they started construction (apartment tower) on another block. They just revised their strategy but their initial plan was to start building sooner then later. Edited October 31, 2013 by shasta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJxvi Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I just mourn for those that were truly inconvenienced. Those who had to drive by and look at it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I just mourn for those that were truly inconvenienced. Those who had to drive by and look at it.God bless those poor souls. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I just mourn for those that were truly inconvenienced. Those who had to drive by and look at it. The ones that were inconvenienced would be the ones who had to move out due to demolition though correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 sarcasm, slick vik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 8-storey mixed-use building - retail ground and 2nd floor, condominium units 3rd floor and above http://www.carlogoportfolio.com/regent-square-building-2.html 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 (edited) beautiful classic architecture. If the rest of their projects are to this scale it will be a pedestrian paradise - at least in a three to four block radius. http://www.windsorcommunities.com/why-windsor/windsor-cares-recognition.aspx ^^^^^ Not news breakings, but at least we know where to keep an eye out. Edited November 11, 2013 by lockmat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uscats35 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 When is phase 2 starting? I thought it was to be later this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I've been told 2015 or 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Alamo Drafthouse, Regent Square http://ownersresourcegroup.com/in-development/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Finally, some signs of life. Is that a parking garage behind it? Where is the rest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 One strange thing is that Comcast is installing in the leftover allen house building. What's the point if it's going to be torn down soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 They have a ton of open land to start other portions on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 In 10 years Houston will be quite different from what it is today. Regent Square + the other 3-4 walkable mixed-use "districts" will help transform Houston into a more walkable town and one where people will engage with the outdoors more often. Quite exciting! I'm glad that RS is moving forward, The Allen House was a realatively affordable and decently kept up place that close in, besides that - my parents met there many years ago when it was far more fashionable. Gone, but something better in its place... which is all we can ask for in most of the tear-down circumstances in this town. Sadly it isn't always the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 In 10 years Houston will be quite different from what it is today. Regent Square + the other 3-4 walkable mixed-use "districts" will help transform Houston into a more walkable town and one where people will engage with the outdoors more often. Quite exciting! I'm glad that RS is moving forward, The Allen House was a realatively affordable and decently kept up place that close in, besides that - my parents met there many years ago when it was far more fashionable. Gone, but something better in its place... which is all we can ask for in most of the tear-down circumstances in this town. Sadly it isn't always the case.In ten years we will be lucky if there is anything being built on those empty lots Regent Square created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 ^Seems like they are moving forward. 2008 was a bad year nationally for construction, so anything that started that year was basically put on hold or canceled. Regent Square wasn't cancelled, but put on hold. If in 10 years that property hasn't developed, then someone else will have come along and bought it and developed something else. Far too valuable of land to NOT do anything with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 If in 10 years that property hasn't developed, then someone else will have come along and bought it and developed something else. Far too valuable of land to NOT do anything with it.Agreed, although one would think that this land is too valuable not to do anything with for more than 7 years as well. Hopefully the developers get their act together . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 In the background, there's a new model of Regent Square over at The Sovereign's leasing center. It looks to be different from the overall plan we've seen. Someone should go check it out and take some pics for us. :-x 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Sweet. The leasing center off of Dunlavy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 did that photo come from bisnow? who took it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Sweet. The leasing center off of Dunlavy? Yep. did that photo come from bisnow? who took it?It's from The Sovereign's facebook page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 darn it Urbannizer! I'm still at work. Go recon >.> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I have tomorrow off before I move to my new office on Monday. Unless someone else wants to go, I don't mind swinging by...? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I think the new design is the flat table in the foreground. Oh wait, that's been the design for the last six years . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I can't believe this topic / development has been active since early 2007. That's like a couple of lifetimes ago. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamHouston Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I can't believe this topic / development has been active since early 2007. That's like a couple of lifetimes ago.No joke. We bought a house across from the vacant lot three months after the announcement. Lived there for six years. Moved again. Still vacant. Great views of downtown though for those six years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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