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Just for fun here’s my uneducated guess on how this is developed. 
 

Red= Multi-story Apartments & Hotel (mix-use)

Yellow= 2-3 story stand alone building with some restaurant/bars/entertainment 

Green= 2-3 story buildings w/ More Restaurants/Bar/entertainment & New team store. 
 

Red & Green buildings open and integrate into the open space courtyard for dinning and game watching on the big screen. Might be too much courtyard space here but I won’t get too picky. 
 

We have more space to develop here than the Colorado Rockies had but less space than the St. Louis Cardinals have. I’m really looking forward to seeing what he comes up with. 

5 hours ago, tigereye said:

Definitely mixed use. 
 

The question I have based on this  article pertains to the following statement. 

 

 

Surrounding MMP? That could actually happen. We know the Astros also own the plot of land at 1701 Prairie (by CF gate) that was formerly a halfway house (now demolished). Could they have additional plans for that plot as well? There’s a sizable chunk of green space across Crawford St behind the roof that combined with the Prairie lot, gives them a lot of space to work with. And since it’s next to Heritage Park, that would make a great location for an Astros Hall Of Fame building. 

I’ve always liked this idea by you. Combining that lot at CF and the wasted green space would be pretty cool.  But now that we know for sure (have know for a while now) that the ballpark village will be where home plate bar used to be, idk that it would make sense to build something similar and pull game day traffic away from the ballpark village. The hall of fame building would work on the grass but building something on that empty lot would have to make more financial sense IMO- Unless he only owns the small parcel that the old halfway house sat on and not the whole block. I can definitely see an Alexan style apartment on that whole block with some GFR at the corner. 

4 hours ago, phillip_white said:

The statements by Crane specifically mentions developing three sides of the stadium:
Area around Union Station
Homeplate Bar & Grill
Parking Lots near the freeway after 45 is below ground level

It makes sense to start with the southern lots near Homeplate and end with the parking lots.

I hope you’re right, but where does he actually mention that HE will redevelop any area besides the old home plate and bar grill/church parking lot? 

Will this have a rooftop bar?

2 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

This picture made my day. I have not generally liked this building so far, as I fear the march of glass and concrete into the Historic District. But at ground level, this is pivotal for downtown Houston. We have not, since before World War II, seen a Class A office building that devoted such attention to the ground level, sidewalk experience. Texas Commerce Tower had ground floor retail as a nod to Main Street, but it was in the parking garage building. BG Group Place turned a cold shoulder to Main. 609 Main has ground floor retail but it's sort of an afterthought architecturally; the emphasis is increasing but it's not really there yet. But this building (1) sharply differentiates the first two floors from the rest of the building, (2) puts the retail on the best street frontage, Texas Avenue, (3) makes the office entrance secondary to the retail - a total revolution for downtown, and (4) adds a canopy as a significant architectural component, in the tradition of the Rice Hotel, acknowledging the climate and the needs of pedestrians, i.e., people who are not necessarily tenants of the building (!). I mean, you literally have to go back to the days of the Gulf Building, 1929, to see this kind of recognition of the street and the public domain in a Houston office building. Obviously the Houston Center reno gives similar attention, but that's a renovation. This is the most premium product from the most premium developer in Houston. A century has gone by and the circle is complete; an era has finally ended, a new one has begun.

 

How in the world was this allowed to happen? I still don’t understand it. 

1 hour ago, KinkaidAlum said:

I say no to expansion. TDECU is larger than Cincinnati's stadium and basically the same as Baylor and within 10,000 of TCU, Kansas, K State, and UCF. Expansion talk should only happen after 4-5 years of season sellouts. 

UH needs to finish the press level with more suites (there's room for 4-6 more suites) and add more chair backed seats. I'd like to see the entire lower bowl outside of the student section with chair backs and most of the 200 level. The biggest need is to add ramps to get to the upper deck and add restrooms and concessions on that level. The stairs are a brutal climb.

They could also work to add better landscaping around the stadium. There’s way too much concrete in and around the stadium. Maybe paint the UH logo on ground of the gates leading into the stadium? Something. 

1 hour ago, TheSirDingle said:

With the recent conference realignment news, and acceptance for that fact, I went dinging around for some of the old TDECU 60k renderings and plans. I'm hopping in the near future there's going to be a need to expand the stadium, although this should be a given if they're competitive in the BIG 12.

Also, does anybody have any other renderings of the expanded stadium; or just old renderings in general? 

Are these actual renderings or photoshop from the web?

1 hour ago, Luminare said:

I'm surprised nobody has either gone to the city or city official or planner hasn't seen that block of electrical substations and has said....you know what maybe its time we as a city move that to....i don't know maybe between Toyata and the US59? Maybe that would look better?

Dead horse here but that would make such a cool spot for something. 

Hmmm maybe Gotham pizza?

Another angle of the somehow overlooked tower

1 hour ago, BEES?! said:

The self-guided virtual meeting is online now. You can submit comments until 11:59 pm on 8/31.

Here is the link

I was really happy to see all the new stations being taken into consideration, and REALLY excited to see the proposed Franklin station- very smart of them to tie it into Amtrak/POST. I wonder if someone at POST/Downtown tossed their hat into the ring on that one? If so, that’s pretty brilliant, especially with the future extension to the HSR station, connectedness to Uptown, that will all really help that project. 

The Aquarium within walking distance of the station as well. Whatever happened the the Aquarium expansion into that empty lot?

Looking at this I’m actually disappointed in the development around MMP. 

34 minutes ago, Nate99 said:

Quotage for bumping a rendering...

Can’t remember is there a retail spot in this one?

So is the latest rendering final?

On 7/2/2021 at 10:46 AM, arche_757 said:

This view has changed only a little since 2001!  A shame Ballpark Place never was realized 😂 😂 

I thought I was the only one that remembered that lol. I tried finding the rendering again a while back with no luck. 

Looking at the 3D exterior rendering, that side of Discovery Green facing Embassy could use a face lift.  

5 minutes ago, H-Town Man said:

Are you saying reposition this building or tear it down? It's a pretty nice Mod.

It honestly doesn’t do much for me. I know there was some recent work done do it but at the very least some GFR would be nice. 

2 minutes ago, hindesky said:

They own the green colored lots, this was created by @TheSirDingle

Thanks! This is why we need sticky posts within threads. 
 

The little quarter purple block angers me lol

This one hurts the most. Can’t see something better than what was planned going here. 

3 hours ago, Twinsanity02 said:

 

And don’t they own the half block on the Marrow lot?

 I would love for 1001 Preston (County tax office) to come available. Fronts Main Street and is basically a dead zone for that side of Main. 🤞🏼

Another chance to extend the skyline 🙂

I would love NRG to have anything decent around it. 

Not the best pic but they had the lot with Khyber blocked off. Sampling?

On 1/5/2021 at 1:40 PM, nate said:

Looks like Rice Box found another location after their University & Greenbriar deal failed.

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My buddy said he saw this building being demolished. Wasn’t the original plan to be renovated? I believe they’ve been renovating the inside for a while. Anyone know what’s up?