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41 minutes ago, Lux said:

So we still have time to grab popcorn and snacks before the movie begins in earnest :)  What a cool project!!  Surely the 8 year timeline is to fully build out the entire TMC3 campus and OST bridge to the UT campus.  I’d expect individual research buildings and parking structures to activate at their earliest opportunity.

The B1M should do a show on TMC^3.   

1 hour ago, X.R. said:

Is this going up fast or is this just me? It seems like they went from no crane and minimal site work to crane, pillars, and extensive site work in about a month? And thats with people being off for Easter. And the second building starts in August? Really incredible to see something like this really, actually happen and so quickly.

I think you are spot on.It's going up fast. Probably will finish before block 387 or 100 Crawford.

On 4/18/2021 at 7:31 PM, hindesky said:

I hope like hell that this is not the final product for a sidewalk, it has just enough room for 1 person and looks to be about 30" wide. If someone were to encounter another person, someone is going to walk on the street or in the grass while trying not to get killed by a car. This is on the north side sidewalk on W. Dallas by the mid rise portion of the Hanover Autry Park.

I say it be named the Barney Fife memorial sidewalk, since he would be one of the few to comfortable walk on it.

2 hours ago, Avossos said:

Does that mean it’s starting in 1.5 months!?

I read it as 1.5 months minimum time or 1.5 months +30 days maximum time. But you are in the ballpark with your estimate.

I remember when the Shamrock was demolished. That was sad. 

7 hours ago, kennyc05 said:

Highrise buildings going up all over the city. Our city is a beast!

Beast is good, beastly bad. At least according to the Brits, old chap.

Nice to read something about Houston besides floods and freezes. Houston has become quite beautiful which would have sprouted hoots of derision 30 years ago. Our museum of art is a gem. 

7 hours ago, Urbannizer said:

https://group.skanska.com/projects/251099/1550-on-the-Green

 

 

 

 

Are there more than one rendering? If so which one is the most probable?

16 hours ago, Urbannizer said:

https://www.ojb.com/project/autry-park#

 

I see why Texasota praised this so much. It is beautiful.

13 hours ago, BeerNut said:

Probably trying to position themselves as THE luxury apartments downtown before Brava opens.

There appears to be an escalating arms race in luxury apartments. Expecting Brava or someone else to up it to a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce Phantom driving you to your luxury apartment where in the lobby a world class pianist is playing on a Bosendorfer Imperial or Steinway Grand Piano. Just saying.

1 hour ago, hindesky said:

Looks like a new floor per week.

On 12/12/2020 at 6:51 PM, Brooklyn173 said:

Taken today while the Security Guard shouted that I wasn't allowed to take a picture of the building. Apparently correct regarding copy write laws - who knew? - but a curious marketing decision.

 

Back in 2001 my wife and I were in a busy government building in central Siberia. I was writing down some information displayed on a giant Public map. A security guard came over and told me I had to stop because that was not public information.  Hundreds of public people were going in and out of the public building. Go figure. Nevertheless I stopped. IMy wife and I were averse to jails, especially ones in Siberia.

1 minute ago, Triton said:

You've never danced in this Kroger before??

Can't say I have. That Kroger or any other Kroger, or HEB. Guess I missed out on something. Must of had a great sound system.

Why is this Krogers called "disco Krogers"?

Here's somethings which may be used for vanity. Houston was the 2nd fastest growing metro from 2010 to 2019 in the US growing at an annual average of 127,300. We were the fastest for over a decade until, I believe, 2014 when DFW passed us. Austin is also growing fast , for it's size, but only 56,800 per year.

We also have some of the most buildings going up after NYC and Toronto if Emporis is accurate. And think of all the great things being built at the Med Center, Downtown,Uptown, and Buffalo Bayou areas. Not bad for a city which doesn't get fawning media.

5 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

What have they proposed? That would be sad indeed.

Never mind, I see it now. Sheesh, tall buildings are about all that Houston has going for it from a scenic standpoint (as opposed to hills, lakes, clear streams and waterfalls, etc.). This was only a matter of time given Austin's trajectory the past ten years. Hopefully at some point Houston can build tall again; Hines seems resigned to building 47-story buildings for eternity.

 

 

I also want a few super talls going up. In my opinion they would look great in the empty lots near where Skanska's Discovery West is going up. Neverthess  I am very very happy over the numerous highrises constructed in the last decade in downtown Houston.  All those surface parking lots and one ugly parking garage-gone. 

1 hour ago, Lux said:

Road milling machines currently filling up dump trucks on the west side of William C Harvin Blvd.

I thought it was customary in "groundbreakings" to have several well dressed  people holding shovels who look as if they haven't actually used  a shovel for work  in years ( if not decades). When did that happen?

54 minutes ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

suits are dumb in Texas where it's 100° and 100% humidity at midnight. In places like NYC and London where a hot summer day is 70°, they're ok.

The majority of people prior to the 1960's lived in the northern parts of the US where wearing suits is fine. Here in Houston prior to AC I can't imagine how people survived in suits during our 6 month summers. With AC its no big problem anymore as long as your indoors. 

Does anyone know if there is anything similar to the TMC³ design? If not this may become Houston's iconic structure.

5 hours ago, monarch said:

^^^ combine this absolutely gorgeous SKANSKA development with our forthcoming first W HOTEL... atop the houston first building... discovery green is slowly turning into a downtown urban masterpiece.  these new prospective developments shall turn the discovery green district into a downtown urban tourist destination.  HOUSTON, WE CAN NO-LONGER FIND A PROBLEM...

Any news on this?

With this and High Street residential (block 98) the views from the park, sidewalks, and hotels are going to be greatly enhanced. Now if only blocks 252,275, and 292 would go from surface lots to several highrises of the 50+ storey height. Icing on the cake. 

14 minutes ago, Texasota said:

What do you mean by "classified as residential or office"? Do you mean building codes, or what? Zoning doesn't apply here of course...

Parking requirements? Given the location, I believe they are zero regardless of use. 

I'm referring to a colloquial classification ( if one exists) for mixed use buildings. I suspect there isn't one but seeing if anyone knows for certain. As for parking requirements, didn't mention that.

Any idea when groundbreaking is scheduled? One other question of a trivial nature. When a building is mixed use which I understand means residential/office/ and commercial I suppose it cannot be classified as residential or office. Is the classification based on the percentage use?

1 hour ago, hindesky said:

One is upside down.

You guys win the Adrian Monk/Sherlock Holmes/ Nero Wolfe award. I missed it.

Are the Tennison Lofts adjacent to this building open? Seems like that is one choice piece of real estate: excellent views of the downtown, nearby park and bayou, theater district and restaurants within walking distance,  and now this development.