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1 hour ago, Highrise Tower said:

What are the odds that Tillman Fertitta uses his resources to make gambling legal in Texas? He now owns a whole campus in Uptown. Perhaps, one day, a casino will be built on his campus?

As I always say, I wish Texas would use the taxable revenue to build more infrastructure, etc.  Legalizing gambling would bring lots of money to the state.

I had the same thought when he purchased the property by Memorial Dr, it was right around the same time Mark Cuban sold some land to Las Vegas Sands Corp for a potential casino in Dallas. Seems like they are just waiting for the opportunity to come to build them.

Couple of recent headlines here, new office lease along with an expansion of operations into Houston.

Orsted opens a Houston office downtown. 3/6/24

https://www.power-technology.com/news/orsted-opens-new-office-in-texas/

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Orsted has opened a new office in Houston, Texas, US, adding to its existing presence in the state. The clean energy producer has an office in Austin with 115 employees, and it owns and operates eight energy projects in Texas that collectively produce 2.4GW of electricity, with an additional 1.2GW of solar projects under construction.

Melissa Peterson, vice-president and head of Onshore and P2X Americas at Ørsted, said in a press statement: “We’re excited to bolster Ørsted’s presence in the Lone Star State, which is already home to nearly a dozen of our clean energy projects. Houston is the ideal location to base our growing Power-to-X operations, especially due to the existing energy workforce that will be needed for the engineering, construction, and operations of Ørsted’s future facilities.

“Expanding our footprint in Houston is a testament to our commitment to decarbonizing the most hard-to-electrify sectors and our continued growth in Texas and throughout the Gulf region.”

Jera and Exxon Mobil are cooperating on their production of hydrogen and ammonia. 

https://lngprime.com/asia/jera-plans-to-buy-stake-in-exxonmobils-baytown-hydrogen-project/108213/

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Jera said on Monday it had reached a project framework agreement with the US energy giant to jointly explore the development of the hydrogen and ammonia production project.

Under the deal, the two firms will explore Jera’s ownership participation in the project and Jera’s procurement of about 500,000 tonnes annually of ammonia produced by the project for demand in Japan.

ExxonMobil is currently developing what it says would be the world’s largest hydrogen production plant at its Baytown refining and petrochemical complex east of Houston, Texas.

The plant is slated to have an annual production capacity of about 900,000 tonnes of hydrogen and annual production capacity of more than one million tonnes of ammonia.

Jera said the project aims to start production in 2028.

6 hours ago, ChannelTwoNews said:

Tourism, as an economic sector, actually seems to be doing pretty well based on the previous year.

Houston sees big tourism gains in 2023 thanks to Astros, Beyoncé (houstonchronicle.com)

"About 51 million people visited Houston last year, according to early projections from Houston First, the region’s destination marketing organization. That’s an increase of more than 5% from the 48.7 million Houston welcomed in 2022, itself a bustling year for tourism as “revenge travel” took over after two years of pandemic lockdowns and social distancing.

The numbers suggest that when it comes to tourism, the city’s recovery from COVID is complete, said Michael Heckman, president and CEO of Houston First."

Could be good for more hotel development, hopefully that would finally bring the higher end brands to town. With St Regis and Ritz Carlton coming in with condo developments, would seem like they are one step closer to bringing in their hotels.

I saw that and thought it may be for Chevron, would that be the same land they have aquired? 

Decided to open a new a topic for the Timberloch Tower site since the old one was locked. I ran into these renderings from the Howard Hughes successlivesherehhc website. Not sure if it was posted before but I noticed it was a recent upload on google images. The renderings look great, there has been quite a decent amount of leasing activity in The Woodlands, leaving me to believe they could be planning to build more. Looks like it could be huge campus for an HQ relocation.

https://www.successlivesherehhc.com/texas/

3 minutes ago, Highrise Tower said:

I have questions about Houston's Life Science/Biotechnology sector.  Not sure if this is the right thread to discuss it.

Why doesn't Houston's biotech/life science sector take off? It's a perfect idea considering the Texas Medical Center is right next door.  I've heard people talk about politics. Most of the life science hubs are located in Democrat-ran states. I've also heard people say Houston's big medical center is non-profit, where biotech is venture capital and for-profit. It's a different type of business, where Houston is lacking.

* There are billions being spent in the TMC right now.  However, it's the already established Houston hospitals.  Different than recruiting life science companies from Boston to build a new tower.

See this HBJ cover:

Its a good point and anything that relates to Houston's economy goes. I never understood this at all either, I didn't understand how we lost arph-h to Dallas either, I was sure we were going to win the competition considering how the medical industry is a Houston special. I always felt like Houston always lacked the vision other cities have but I can tell we are starting to turn that around. Honestly don't think their is an answer to why they are not coming, but I do think it has to do with the US economy as a whole. Could just be that right now is just not the time, a lot of companies are running things tight right now. However with that being said there has been light activity in the least.

Thought a thread about economic activity in Houston and its surroundings would be interesting. Mods feel free to merge if there is an existing topic. 

JETI (Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Act) has just recently launched to replace the Texas Enterprise Fund and just a couple of days after Summit Next Gen LLC submitted a request for economic incentives to develop the world's largest Ethanol Plant to Jet Sustainable Aviation Fuel Facility in Galena Park. The link to their application:

https://assets.comptroller.texas.gov/open-data/jeti/J0001/J0001-summit-galena-app.pdf

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ALDEN, Iowa and DES PLAINES, Ill., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Summit Agricultural Group announces the creation of Summit Next Gen, a sustainable aviation fuel production platform that will revolutionize the global aviation industry by providing a scalable supply of low-carbon jet fuel. Summit Next Gen will utilize Honeywell's (NASDAQ: ) processing technology to convert ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Through the project, Summit Next Gen creates an additional market for low-carbon ethanol producers and advances the sustainability g

Another project to the west in Brookshire is a solar panel manufacturing facility by Waaree. 

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-waaree-invest-1-bln-texas-solar-panel-factory-2023-12-21/

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Dec 21 (Reuters) - India's top solar panel maker Waaree Energies (WAAN.NS), opens new tab on Thursday said it would invest up to $1 billion to build a factory in Texas to take advantage of soaring U.S. demand for clean energy.

The announcement is the latest major corporate commitment to solar manufacturing since passage of U.S. President Joe Biden's landmark climate change law last year which offers subsidies and tax breaks for clean energy projects.

 

dia's solar manufacturing industry is growing rapidly and just beginning to use its know-how in the United States, with both countries looking to build a clean energy sector to compete with China.

Waaree said that by 2027 its planned Brookshire, Texas facility will be one of the largest solar factories in the U.S., with an annual capacity of 3 gigawatts (GW) of panels when it opens in late 2024, then expanding to 5 GW.

I spy light rail in one of the renders…

I just found the actual thread, can a mod please merge

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/2370-mixed-use-development-coming-to-montrose-1001-westheimer/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-611605

If this is the new design it is such a tease in height, could easily be the new tallest

The tower on parcel 1 looks sort of like the new Hanover River Oaks. 

*Bump* pictures finally working

Historical Downtown Renovations Completed for the first phase.

Theres been a ton of new proposal since the last update.

Midtown 

Casa 159

AM Tower

Vento

Villa Nahah

Atloft

MUV

Infinity

EPIC Plaza

IQON

Olimpica 2

Bambu Urban Center

Avitat Joy

LIFE Santa Elena

Vistas del Pedegral

Mixed-Use Santa Tecla

On 9/14/2018 at 11:50 PM, SkylineView said:

New lighting... and it pops!  Photo doesn't do it justice.

http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/SkylineView/media/image1_zpszkzmwigv.jpeg.html

 

I can't get content to post properly on the site... if you can pull this out of purgatory and into the thread, please do. 

Pic by me.

*like* pretty cool angle

I really wish they could still incorporate some palm trees on the ground floor, most of these developments are placing them on podiums now. Not to mention we've been losing some due to new development.

On 8/12/2018 at 4:21 AM, CrockpotandGravel said:

Why do you always start threads in this forum about projects that have been in discussion for months in their designated forums? ALWAYS.

You knew about this already. It was already confirmed in the BLVD Place forum where this is going in months ago.
 

 

Mods, please move and merge this thread with the BLVD Place thread in Going Up. This addition to BLVD Place has been discussed in the BLVD Place forum since the beginning of the year.

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/6106-blvd-place-hanover-towers-apache-hq-news-pictures

Its not that serious.

A few new proposals 

Humana Medical Center

Alta 510

Office Tower for Colonia Escalon

Deportiva Tower

Premier Residences

Foresta 

Porto Elit

Paseo Alto

Roble Condominiums

Hotel Cifco

Awesome, can't wait to see more 

I have never seen so many angles of Houston in a single video, well done.

Houston will be launching its own version of SXSW in 3 days, its called THIS. (The Houston Innovation Summit) Hopefully this brings a lot of money into the city like SXSW does for Austin and attracts other companies. 

http://thehoustoninnovationsummit.com/?utm_content=61838346&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

from the link above

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This October 21-28, Houston's tech community unites to bring you THIS: The Houston Innovation Summit. Launched as an annual event for Houston innovators to connect, ideate, create and celebrate together, #THIS17 takes a new spin...

Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath amplified many of Houston's most complex problems. To surface challenges and identify how we can turn them into opportunities for insight, innovation and impact, #THIS17 invites you to participate in discussions, design-thinking sessions, workshops and social events to ignite the problem-solving potential of Houston's innovation ecosystem for long-term recovery.