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Thankfully it is!

 

I think even those of us who are the strongest supporters of "tear it down" would agree that Downtown Houston has far too many empty lots.

 

I wonder if Ziegler Cooper is the architect (yet again) on this residential highrise?  They seem to have that corner all to their selves in this town.

I love Zieglar Coopers work, they seem to do a good job with every design.

28?! Bussssssssst! If half of those go up HAIFers will be fainting. At the same time, I'd like to know his definition of a high rise. Although 14 5-stories would still be pretty cool.

Wouldn't this be adding a little more that a 1/3 of highrises there?

This is the first we've heard of thisl project, isn't it?

First time bro. Downtown is getting dense, I am surprised to keep seeing new things proposed.

Apache tower mentioned on Bisnow, saying the are being worked on.

http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/the-future-of-uptown/

 

 

Cushman & Wakefield executive vice chairman Tim Relyea (here to the right of Harvey's Joe Cleary) says Uptown's greatest challenge is itsproduct age and supply constraints—it's in danger of being a feeder market to Downtown and West Houston. Companies in the submarket want to stay, but they also want state-of-the-art facilities, which is forcing some to relocate. (Tim reps BG Group and says it would've stayed in the Galleria if there was a cutting-edge building for it to go to.) He believes the market needs to get some new product in the ground tostay relevant. Tim represents two companies who are sticking around through new development, Apache and BHP Billiton.

Sounds like the architecture firm for the new One Allen Center facade is Michael Gaertner, the same firm behind the new JW Marriott (806 Main). Kirksey was behind the design for Five Allen Center when it was proposed at 50-Floors, that has changed now.

Thank god. I am sorry but I would rather pick a design over where the architect is from.

Kirkseys work is mostly.......BORING. I would like Pichard Chililton or HKS architects to be the ones behind the project. 

^My guess is: Kirksey or Morris, heavily leaning towards Kirksey.

Oh no, NOT KIRKSEY!

Todays Creepypasta

Bizjournals:

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/11/happy-retail-tenants-could-slow.html

 

PM Realty Group has plans to turn a long-standing strip center in Montrose into a mixed-use development, but prosperous tenants in the location are not prepared to close their doors just yet.

 

The Houston-based real estate company purchased the 2.14-acre block at Montrose and Westheimer earlier this year with the knowledge that the tenants, Half Price Books, Spec’s, Papa Johns, 3-6-9 China Bistro and Jack in the Box, had long-term lease agreements in place.

 

At this point, they are in negotiations in the tenant buyout phase, and design plans for the new structure are not finalized.

“We knew, going in, it would tie us up for at least seven to 10 years,” said Wade Bowlin, executive vice president with PM Realty Group. “If we could work out a way to get the property sooner, mixed-use would be our intent.”

 

PM Realty Group did not share early design plans, but several sources confirmed the mixed-use structure could include residential with retail on the ground floor.

 

The Half Price Books in the strip, at 1011 Westheimer, takes up 8,000 square feet, and sales were up 14.5 percent in October from the same month in 2012.

 

The company said it has yet to make a decision on whether to stay in the current center after construction is complete or move to another location.

 

“We are in conversations and negotiations with them (the owner),” said Kathy Doyle Thomas, executive vice president. “We are talking amicably about it, and they really want us to stay. But we would have to move out for a couple of years, and we haven’t made that decision yet.”

 

Bowlin said the project could still be years away, and if at some point the company is unable to buy out the groups there, PM Realty will begin to lease the vacant space in the strip.

Speaking of this area what happened to the Wetheimer + Montrose strip center where Half price Books and Specs holds down the whole center. What ever happened to the purchase. Wasn't someone talking about redeveloping that major piece of property into a West Ave. type mixed use project? Maybe with the news of this Hanover project it will spur on the other development.

Does anyone know any more about that. Thanks!

 

Hanover has really jumped in feet first. The Galleria area, two projects in the village and now this, besides a few more I know I'm leaving out..

That is going to be turned into a mixed use projects. The developer is PM Realty Group. Just announced today.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/11/happy-retail-tenants-could-slow.html

Notice those rusty-looking three-piece steel sculpture thingies they have scattered about?  Those also show up in the 5 Allen Center rendering.  Probably they are supposed to indicate that the buildings are all part of Allen Center.  One would never know it from the architecture.  

Yea, I noticed it too. lol. I think also that they are adding a new parking garage (in the first rendering on 5 Allen Center thread) 

I read this off Strategic Advisory Group.

http://strategicadvisorygroup.net/mixed-use-development-pasadena-tx/

 

 

SAG is assisting the Pasadena Second Century Corporation and the City of Pasadena, TX with understanding the development potential of underutilized land surrounding the Pasadena Convention Center & Fairgrounds Complex.  The site area encompasses over 200 acres.  Our services included researching similar-sized communities nationwide to gain an understanding of what other suburban locales offered.  The study is focused primarily on hotel, restaurant, retail, water park, amphitheater, and theme parks and understanding the supply, demand, pricing and financing factors that impact their feasibility.

I believe I joined September of last year but I have been lurking for 3 years. I was searching for Earthquest Adventures at the time and found a thread to here. I never bothered to make an account and then I kept noticing that there were renderings I couldn't see because I wasn't signed in. So I made an account and wa-lah it worked. 

Looks like they eliminate one of the bridges between One and Two.

 

Is this an actual plan or just a proposal?

It's status is,"on the boards." Proposal.

I bet this would start sooner if it were indeed 20 floors. Also each glass blanding might represent 2 floors, who knows.

you think so? i was wondering if they shortened it AGAIN. the scale might look like that because of the perspective, but i agree it definitely looks taller than 20ish floors.

I think so because the most recent article says 35 floors.

Looks like 20-something floors.

Yea but its scale looks comparable to 3 Allen Center. It's either going to 40 floors or 35 floors,

Not exactly a new concept.  This is something similar in London!

 

http://goo.gl/maps/0sXwr

They are also already doing this in Istanbul

Kirksey also designed something like this for the City of Houston, 

Its in this video..

Odd. The architecture firm that I had been talking about when it came to recladding One Allen Center was a Houston based firm... not Odell. Still impressive designs no matter what!

The status says,"on the boards." I am guessing the architecture firm has not been picked yet.

Yeah I saw that too, didn't expect the redevelopment plan to be that large!

Agreed, I am really impressed with Allen Center design. They are adding in retail, widening side walks, etc.

Very nice! Can you give us a link?

Also if you keep looking, I think you'll find the renderings to Allen Center renovations.

Very nice! Can you give us a link?

Sure thing

Renderings released 21 hours ago

http://www.odell.com/portfolio/category/on-the-boards-2/

that one looks so much better. 

Here is the thread to that...

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/26859-3400-montrose-old-10-story-building-at-montrose-hawthorne/#entry440430