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Got to chatting with a lady tonight at the bowling alley who works for Anadarko. We were chatting about the new tower and what not and how the Anadarko corp. just dominates the Woodlands skyline. She mentioned that the talk of a 3rd highrise across from Lake Robbins is in serious discussion. She didn't have specifics but she said to be looking for it in the next few years. Interesting eh?

So the third tower would go up right across the water from the new tower ?

thats OVER 34 stories.. heh.. how tall is the tallest building around BLVD Place?

On the BLVD Place project plans I believe it says 33 stories.

Which one is memorial point?

Its the 16 story 400,000 sqft building proposed for the site of the First Baptist Church parking lot of off I-10 close to the 6-10 intersection.

That may actually be the design of the building, IMO opinion it does resemble the building in the last renderings released of BLVD Place.

Even in this rendering the other two buildings in the back ground have the same motif.

So that brings Hines number of proposed buildings in Houston to 7.

Office

1) 609 Main

2) Project Alpha

3) Memorial Point

4) 2229 San Felipe

Residential

5) Apartment mid-rise on Westheimer (Cafe Adobe site)

6) Museum District high-rise

7) Downtown high-rise

Under Houston Neighborhoods there is a sub-forum titled The East End.

ive heard a few rumors that this building will be bought by Chevron for a potential corporate headquarters relocation in the next 5 years, and either joined into Chevrons campus with a large podium-like structure on the parking lot between Exxon and Chevron, connecting the two, or torn down all together and Chevron builds another building. what do you guys think is the likely hood of this?

I was just about to ask the same thing. I really hope they aren't going to tear the building down. Renovating it sounds good but not tearing it down. Also, if this is true will they buy the building from shorenstein or lease it ? Also why don't they just build a tower on the block with the day care ?

I agree if the Devon tower was built here people would be complaining that it is boring and shaped like a box.

Exciting to see a rendering of this building. It will be great to see it rise.

I hope it gets built like that.

Looks nice, hopefully it will be built like the rendering.

Here are some links to some recent interviews with Ryan Mccord about Generation Park:

Also Ryan Mccord spoke about Generation Park at a recent Bisnow conference :

http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/greg-and-chip-to-head-hendricks-berkadia/

"McCord Development prez Ryan McCord agrees you can build a better mouse trap. He's planning something really innovative for Generation Park's first office tower. He says it'll be a first for Houston, but we can't hear more about it until this fall. In other Generation Park news, Ryan announced he has proposals out for two 1M SF fulfillment centers."

Not on a corner at all. Southwest side, second lot south from the corner.

So is it going on the land surrounded by Barnes St, Hartman St, & Waugh Dr . . . Or Waugh Dr, Raymond St, South Heights Blvd, & Barnes St?

Always nice to see a new high rise proposal, I hope it comes to fruition. 

PM Realty Group is building a office building in Westchase, It will be 300,000 SQFT( 6 floors with 50,000 SQFT floor plates). It will be completed towards the end of 2014.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/06/pm-realty-group-starts-on-westchase.html

"Alliance Residential Co. is planning to develop a five-story, 207-unit apartment complex south of downtown for the block bounded by Bell, Leeland, Main and Fannin. EDI International is the architectural firm."

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Houston-s-apartment-boom-focuses-on-urban-scene-4619878.php?t=445cfc44ffb05374ef

Latest Renders:

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/537f8331e4b08eeb11e2760f/55e9fab0e4b0d36ec99dd6a2/55e9fcace4b0a39300d61dfa/1441397932957/Final.jpg?format=1200w

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/537f8331e4b08eeb11e2760f/55e9fab0e4b0d36ec99dd6a2/55e9fcabe4b0ad0bfed754e7/1441397932228/Final+Image.jpg?format=1200w

Another article about the project:

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/06/moody-ramlin-to-begin-work-on-new.html

oil/gas companies owned the land that became the woodlands (mitchell energy) and kingwood (exxon i think). exxonmobil needed the infrastructure that springwoods developed in order for exxon's new campus to get off the ground. the same could be true of 2,175 acres; 2,175 acres which is just down the street from where a planned extension of the hardy toll road will come out (south loop 336 in conroe).

Oh ok so it would be more of a investment, like them developing it into a master planned community. Not necessarily just a campus head quarters.

If this is true, that they are trying to purchase the site, I wish they would have purchased the KBR site or the Hardy yards site.

The area is booming, though...and it has SO much more potential than drive thru fast food restaurants and banks IMO.

Do you think this McDonald's is "what's best" for this location?

I would love to see the McDonald's site, the drive thru banks, and all the single story shopping centers up and down Post oak be redeveloped into multi-story mixed use complexes and highrises. But reality is its not up to me. It's all up to the market and the owners of these properties. For the owner of the McDonald's site the McDonald's is the highest and best use for them. If it wasn't they would have sold the entire site and wouldn't have bothered with constructing a new one.

heard a rumor that that of the boy scouts' five offers for camp strake in conroe, just north of 1488, that two of the offers are from shell and chevron. minor league baseball has been publicly reported as having made an offer as well. although shell and chevron have popped up in rumors about a woodlands tower, downtown towers, and i think something was in the paper about shell expanding at a current location, they must be reviewing many options. a second large energy company just north of the woodlands would make the woodlands town center "bookended" and the center of a growing new city center.

has anyone else heard the same?

What would a oil/gas company do with 2,175 acres ?

The old apartments lot is currently on the market.

Yes, it has been on the market for quite some time.

Just because there are empty lots nearby doesn't mean there is or isn't demand for SOMETHING. There are a number of things we...I'm sorry...THEY can do with that land that would make it more productive than this lone McDonald's. They could put a gym or something like the old 24 hour fitness that closed across the street there with it, or perhaps some shops like a book store, or a souvenir shop, or a nice barber shop or a cigar/smoke shop (especially if it meant they could get rid of that hideous Zone D' Erotica @ 610 and Westheimer), or it could be mixed-use...there are a number of ways to get more use out of this location. Shit, you could feasibly put a museum here."

There is a demand there ... A demand for a McDonald's that's why it is being built there. Why do you think the things that you stated have more of a demand then McDonald's? I mean the gym went out of business, if there was that much of a demand for a gym it would still be open but it closed because there was demand for a office building to be built on the site. A book store, I don't think new book stores are in great demand anymore. A souvenir shop, this is houston. A museum, it's uptown not the museum district.

There is so much more that we can do with this land at this location.

Is there ? Like what ? There are huge vacant lots not to far from this site that just sit vacant and have been for quite some time. There is even the older apartment building behind this building that could be redeveloped. So apparently the demand in that area isn't that high and this is the best and highest use the owner has for the site.

It would be nice too see 10 Waterway, the residential high rise, or the planned hotel break ground. Or maybe the 40 story rumored commercial building. I believe there was even talk about Shell building a 45 story building. 

Looks like the second office building in this development will start construction this month. Sounds like it will be identical to the first office building. 8 stories 197,000 square feet.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/06/more-cranes-headed-for-the-woodlands.html