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    Drewery Place: Multifamily High-Rise At 2850 Fannin St.

    in Midtown

    Posted

    On 6/20/2020 at 12:25 PM, TheSirDingle said:

    Caydon website: https://caydonproperty.com/us/properties/residential
    Link given for view property: https://caydonproperty.com/us/properties/fitzroy-residences-houston-condos

     

    (pardon me for the low quality snip)

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    Looks like they also updated their listing on the website. It seems to be a condo tower paired with a Kimpton hotel, and has the same street level rendering looking at the garage level as before.

     

    The Condominiums will start from $300k, and will range from 1-3 bedrooms (bathrooms are currently unknown but we can assume it's the same as the bedrooms). They'll also range from 560 sqft to 2000 sqft. That's all I can really get from the website listing.

     

    For the view property link it ask me to put in my email, name, and phone # if you want to know more about the development (guess they'll send me a link in the future). This in turn puts you on a VIP list that allows you to be one of the first people to visit their sales office. 

     

    $300k for 560 sqft...yowza!

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    Parkside Residences: 43-Story Residential High-Rise At 808 Crawford St.

    in Downtown

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    1 hour ago, wxman said:

    Nice edition but will be cloaked from view from all sides of downtown except the east side. In-fill is still good tho.

     

    You might be pleasantly surprised driving in from 45 North. I think it's going to stand out almost as much as the Hess Tower and help fill the gap between it and the Marriott Marquis.

    41 minutes ago, Montrose1100 said:

    Best kind, such a small and weird lot. The views from the units looking north will be super sweet.

     

    Great use of the small plot of land they have to work with.

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    M Square: Mixed-Use Development At 3200 Post Oak Blvd.

    in Going Up!

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    2 hours ago, gene said:

     

    haha! SAME! i would be with family or friends driving on 610 and look over and say wow i want to live by that building and in that part of town and yep...for 24 years now i have lived in the best part of town in my opinion :) (and as a bonus the condo i bought 2 years ago on the same street i have lived on for 24 years has a view of the Williams Tower from my living room and bedroom!)

     

    That's awesome...congrats!

     

    The Transco Tower is like Houston's compass to me...when I see it, I know I'm close to home.

     

    I grew up in Kingwood, and had been downtown and the Astrodome/AstroWorld area several times, but never really knew about the galleria area until I was about 12 or so. It seemed so much more vibrant at the time (late 80's/early 90's). I knew that everything I need would be close, and all the restaurants gave me so many options.

     

    Back then though, downtown was a dead zone. I love where I'm at, and it's perfect for me location wise...but I'd actually rather live between downtown and the Museum District these days.

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    M Square: Mixed-Use Development At 3200 Post Oak Blvd.

    in Going Up!

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    47 minutes ago, Montrose1100 said:

    The 901' Williams Tower will still command it's presence in the Uptown area for a long time. The only thing to come remotely close in height would have been the new Chevron Tower, Downtown. At a height of 859' and +$100 oil, even if next door, would allow plenty of crown height and circling lighthouse light room.

     

    Who knows if/when the project will be built at the current height. It's good to get some density on this side of the Galleria since the gap between the Williams Tower & the ugly condo towers along 59 is wide.

     

    This will fill the gap in this area if it goes forward, no doubt...as would the Chevron Tower for that part of downtown had it been built.

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    M Square: Mixed-Use Development At 3200 Post Oak Blvd.

    in Going Up!

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    I actually like the older rendering that looked more like a few 20-35 story towers. It had a better design IMO, but it stayed in its lane.

     

    One thing I love about the Transco/Williams tower is how it stands alone. It's so dominating. It's such a beautiful and defining building for the area. Its presence is complimented so well by its design. I'll never forget the impact it had on me the first time my dad drove us by it when I was a kid, and as we went down Westheimer, I remember thinking "this is where I want to live when I grow up." And sure enough, here I am to this day.

     

    This would be a nice building in another part of town (Upper Kirby area comes to mind), but it would at least somewhat diminish that commanding presence of the Transco/Williams tower moving forward. Although we've all seen worse (looking at you right up the street, Mercer), this design is nothing special.

     

     

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    Parkside Residences: 43-Story Residential High-Rise At 808 Crawford St.

    in Downtown

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    47 minutes ago, wxman said:

    Bottom right by far outshines the others but it’s a moot point. The building, despite being 42-stories, won’t even reach the height of Hess Tower next door which itself is hardly noticeable on the skyline. It’ll be good for infill but that’s about the extent of it. It’ll hardly be a staple of the skyline. Welcome addition tho!

    It will be about as tall as the Hess Tower, and the view coming in from 45 North will be extended northward from the Hess Tower. It'll definitely fill a void from that angle.

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    Midtown Retail Development

    in Midtown

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    4 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

    This is ridiculous. This lot had the opportunity to really connect the area surrounding the Whole Foods and spur new development where those empty shopping centers are. We waited all this time with proposal after proposal for a damn drive thru restaurant. 

    Maybe if we stare at the circles long enough, we'll "feel" connected to the area

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    Highway 59 - 610 Interchange Partial Rebuild

    in Traffic and Transportation

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    On 2/11/2020 at 2:46 PM, BigFootsSocks said:

    I heard a comment that the contract is 3 years ahead of schedule on this, which sounds like a lot until you remember the original project scope was for over 9 years 😬

    For reference, 23 miles of the widest freeway in the world (the Katy Freeway) was built in less time than that.

     

    I don't see how they get away with these kinds of time frames, tbh. This is one of the busiest intersections in North America. I mean...wtf?

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    The Allen: Mixed-Use Development At Allen Parkway & Gillette St.

    in Going Up!

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    1 hour ago, citykid09 said:

    Coming into the city from the Bryan-College Station area (29 to the west loop), it never fails, someone in my family or a friend that I'm riding with will always say  "Wow look at downtown (referring to Uptown). It never fails. I would prefer them call it the Galleria instead of Downtown. I always point over to the East (direction of downtown) while its still visible from the freeway and tell them "That is downtown."

     

    About eight or nine years ago, my mom came here from VA with her friend, who to my understanding had never left the Richmond, VA area his whole life (I think he's around 75 years old). My mom used to live here, so she knew about our multiple skylines, but I just remember that they stayed at the LaQuinta Inn on 610 near what is now the Amegy Bank building, and we were about to go to Ninfa's on Navigation. I remember her friend asking where it was, and when I told him it was near downtown, he looked around at all the buildings in the Galleria area and said "this isn't downtown??"

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    The Allen: Mixed-Use Development At Allen Parkway & Gillette St.

    in Going Up!

    Posted · Edited by por favor gracias

    7 hours ago, LBC2HTX said:

    I get it, it's like referring to the entire area in Santa Ana / Costa Mesa around South Cost Plaza as "South Coast".  My specific peeve is when people say something like "I'm in the galleria" or "I live in the galleria" when they mean the area not the mall. But i'm just weird like that. 

    Carlin fan?

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    Ion District In Midtown

    in Going Up!

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    8 hours ago, X.R. said:

    What is the time frame on all of this? 10 years? Thats almost impossible to imagine with the way that area is now. I finally know how some of the older members on the forum feel!

     

    I like the synergy of this with the montrose collective building. Both incorporating impressive, by Houston standards, amounts of green in and around the buildings. The modernity of these designs almost feel like they are somehow even more modern than the stuff going up in TMC3. 

    Also noticed that with the Medistar Tower that's planned next to the new Intercontinental/Latitude development. 

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    Midtown Retail Development

    in Midtown

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Triton said:

    Interesting... Wonder how they got that number then....maybe including the nearby parking garage?

     

    The way Wikipedia worded it was "The JPMorgan Chase Tower, formerly Texas Commerce Tower, is a 305.4-meter (1,002-foot), 2,243,013-square-foot (208,382.7 m2),[3] 75-story skyscraper at 600 Travis Street in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States."

     

    Sounds about right for Wikipedia.

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