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Seems we now have the *checks notes*, tallest 6 sided building in the world.  

This honestly looks great, chase tower always needed some more green around it. Also like the addition of the conference room, and lobby retail. Seems like they're also renovating the sky lobby.  Definitely a great remaster of the big boy. 

3 hours ago, HNathoo said:

There was some type of liner where the garage is going to be built. Hopefully it’ll break ground soon. 

Sounds like it will. 

Holy crap this is huge!

This should be the phase where the towers start popping out. Hoping we get some new renderings pretty soon, or a model like the ones they've been showing. Going off of phase 1's marketing, it should be soon. Also the pedestrian experience will sky rocket with these utterly massive projects.

Anyway, Allen parkway is going to be a huge high rise corridor after these developments are finished. It's gonna be awe-inspiring. 

Rest of the planning commission information: 

Nice massing diagram. Also I saw some floor plans for the site on the agenda, might have to clip em from the PDF.

Hot damn, Right by eado navigation too. Loving the D E N S I T Y, although the parking lot could be cut though. Overall, the building looks pretty decent, and will be great infill for the area. 

3 hours ago, jgriff said:

The brochure seems to be gone. Did they already take it down?

 

Edit: just noticed the “updated” brochure was in a post from 2.5 years ago.

This is the brochure I was talking about. Urb posted it on may 30 2019. It as some pretty niffty information on the retail part of phase 2. 

https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/HfejZiCczGBuu1yZeTDh7L7gZ0Uz9h0MXiQNohf_wXU/document.pdf

21 minutes ago, cloud713 said:

Any new info on this? My buddies father said they had started doing bids on this and that the financing was lined up?

Haven't seen anything on construction, but I did find a new rendering on the 3200 post oak section of the McNair website: https://imgur.com/gallery/ZThocxu

On 1/5/2018 at 10:19 PM, Urbannizer said:

Updated brochure..still list the 40 story tower as starting soon. 

 

 http://regentsquarehouston.com/wp-content/uploads/GID_RegentSq_Bro_US_A4.pdf

That retail packet you posted on page 23 looks like it had an updated version of this drawing (although a little cut off that is). 

It seems to reflect the current ground plan and renderings of phase 2 pretty well, and also shows an additional high rise. It seems like those models shown on page 23 looking at regent square from allen parkway might be close to the final, if not the final plan. Hopefully there's no more changes to it, because I like the plan we have. 

article: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/metro-bus-red-light-upgrade-BOOST-houston-15093723.php#photo-19105394

The digital signs are going to be pretty cool, and the other improvements add so much to the service.

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The 54 Scott and the 56 Montrose/Airline routes will be the first put to the test of as part of Metro’s “Bus Operations Optimized System Treatments” — aka BOOST. The corridors will be decked out with spruced-up bus stops and shelters, bike racks and better sidewalk and trail access where practical. Digital signs at bus stops will give real-time information about when the next bus is coming.

Image of some of the improvements provided:

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About the new change lights ability:

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Some of the most striking improvements, however, will be less about what riders can see and more about the technology that will provide buses an advantage by communicating with traffic signals. That could in some locations give the bus extra time to make a changing green light, or hurry through the red-light cycle to decrease the time the bus spends at an intersection...
 

Metro hopes to make trips faster by putting GPS devices or beacons on buses that communicate directly with traffic lights along the route.

 

“It allows us to take full advantage of what we can do,” said Andrew Skabowski, Metro’s chief operations officer. “It gives you a lot more freedom and a lot more ability.”

 

The beacons, also used by fire trucks and ambulances, alert so-called smart traffic signals as they approach. The traffic signal recognizes the beacon on the bus and knows which direction it is traveling and how far away it is.

 

If the light is green and the bus is on pace to arrive, the signal could keep the green active a few seconds longer to allow the bus to pass through.

 

In the event a bus arrives at a red light, the signal could quicken the cycle so the bus gets a green light a little sooner.

 

“Both ways, it gets you a little extra green,” Skabowski said.

 

This might be the medical school crane?

Crane Permit: https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=441437082&row=11

Structure Type: Crane 

Structure Name: Tower Crane

Structure Height: 170 ft or 51.8 m 

Work Schedule: 08/01/2020  to  02/01/2022

20 minutes ago, jmitch94 said:

What is the Discovery tower? 

It's the block 98 tower was at one point called discovery tower 

List of high-rises currently under construction:
1. The Preston: 549 ft and 46 floors

2. Texas Tower: 735 ft and 47 floors

3. Discovery Tower: 468 ft and 42 floors

4. Camden Conte tower 2: Unknown but probably 264 ft and 21 floors

5. TAMU Innovation mixed-use 1: Unknown but it's 30 floors ( might be in the 400-500 ft range)

6. TAMU Innovation mixed-use 2: Unknown but it's 19 floors 

7. The Allen main tower 1: 478 ft 11 inches/ 34 floors (Paco Jones clutch)

8. The Allen office tower 2: Unknown but looks to be 22 floors 

9. The Allen tower 3: looks to be around the same height as the office tower so probably 22 floors

10. The Allen tower 4: Looks to be around 18-19 floors

11. RESIDENCES AT LA COLOMBE D'OR : 393 ft and 34 floors (basically done but hey makes list look bigger)

12. The Driscoll at River Oaks: 345 ft and 29 floors

13. Hanover square phase 1 Residential Tower 1: 254 ft and 22 floors

14. Hanover square phase 1 Residential Tower 2: looks to be 27 floors so around 320-340 ft

15. Hanover square phase 1 Office Tower: looks to be 20 floors and around the same height as resi 2

16. Gables Westcreek: 173 ft and 15 floors

17. Bowen River Oaks: 286 ft and 25 floors

18. Holiday Inn Express: 171 ft and 14 floors

19. 1660 Post Oak Blvd: 453 ft and 40 floors 

20. Booner Manor 5318 Crawford St: 159 ft so probably 13-15 floors 

21. 3300 Main St: 351 ft and 29 floors

22. Blossom Hotel Houston: 202 ft and 16 floors

23. Centennial Tower: 511 ft and 29 floors

Let me know if I missed anything!!!

Also there's a lot of planned ones that are likely going to break ground soon, so hopefully we can add to this list soon. Some of these planned one are developments like innovation tower, TMC^3 hotel/residential, and a lot of the Regent Square towers. 

On another note if everything doesn't completely go to shit, there might be around 10+ 150m+ towers going up in the next couple years. As the sea of midrises and lowrises take over inner loop Houston.

If they are expanding the ground floor, wonder how high and far they're going to do it. Hope it's something akin to the Texas tower retail, that would be a great addition to this part of Downtown. 

Hoping we get some sort of information soon, especially considering it might be a major renovation to the tallest tower in Texas. 

It honestly feels like Hines is changing this whole area by itself, it's insane how much they're adding. 

You know it's almost to the end of May, I wonder if we can find some schematics for this development floating online? Wonder if Skanska has any development reports coming up sometime soon?