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Agreed. Hopefully the city and TxDOT converge on their ideas for segment 3. I really do think the city's vision for segment three has the ability to strengthen the urban core of Houston to an incredible degree and give it the ability to become one of the premier urban areas in the country. The new development all of the new parkland would spur is just crazy to think about. http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/east/public-meeting-east-side.pdf http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/north/Public Meeting_North Side_Final Rev.pdf http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/west/presentation-west.pdf http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/midtown/public-open-house-midtown.pdf

It's my understanding that Mayor Turner is against the design of segments 1 and 2, but mostly approves of segment 3 albeit with some modifications. In a presentation to the H-GAC, the city even proposes to move forward now but make the slight changes (mostly parks/greenspace, connections, etc.). https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/docs_pdfs/Commissioner Ryan - NHHIP - Letter & Technical Appendix.pdf https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/docs_pdfs/TPC Presentation April 2020.pdf

Here's a great silhouette of the launch site. The tall object on the far right is the Launch Integration Tower and the tall object in the center is the third test booster. Orbital Launch Mount stacking (from Elon's Twitter page).

Thales Alenia Space and Axiom have signed a $130 million contract to build the pressure vessels of the first two modules of Axiom's station. Thales Alenia built the pressure vessels for most of the American side of the ISS. This is the key piece of the release. At a minimum, Axiom's campus has to be ready in the first half of 2023, so we should see more movement on their buildings soon! https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/press_release/thales-alenia-space-provide-first-two-pressurized-modules-axiom-space

I would just go a block north to the trail. That's the most pedestrian-friendly entrance to MKT anyways.

Are segments 1 and 2 necessarily linked to segment 3? Based on Mayor Turner's letter to Commissioner Ryan (which was based on community feedback) and many comments here, in general, people seem to be okay with and even supportive of just segment 3. After seeing the schematics for segments 1 and 2, I think it bulldozes way too much of the community. My personal opinion is that segment 3 moves forward and smaller improvements are made to segments 1 and 2. Hopefully TxDOT and Harris County can settle the lawsuit by moving forward with segment 3 but redesigning and significantly reducing the number of lanes required for segments 1 and 2.

Sharp looking facility for Intuitive Machines! Can't wait to see what Axiom's facility will look like.

JSC is building a new Emergency Operations Center to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane. The facility will house primary and redundant hardware for command and control. This will be the home of the center's hurricane rideout team.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/cy-fair/transportation/2021/06/15/texas-central-signs-16b-construction-contract-for-high-speed-rail-project/ $16 billion contract signed with Webuild (former Salini Impregilo) for the design and construction of Texas Central's high speed railway. No word on financing from what I've seen so this just seems to be an updated version of the $14 billion design-build contract signed a couple years ago.

And the latest anchor tenant has been announced! Intuitive Machines will build a $40 million, 125,000 sf facility on a 12.5 acre lot. This will represent an expansion from their space in the HASC. It's a great to see another Houston born and grown company as anchor tenant at the spaceport. https://communityimpact.com/houston/bay-area/development/2021/06/10/breaking-intuitive-machines-expanding-in-houston-spaceport/

Anyone have info on this? Currently owned by Meldi Construction. The metal building and slab has come down and out. The two houses to the south are now vacant. I'm hoping for a neighborhood bar.

Here's what the facility will look like The Houston Spaceport is really becoming a hub of activity, another major tenant will be announced this month and will build a 125,000 sf facility to support 250 jobs. In addition, a new EDGE center is being planned. With the unnamed development, Axiom, and Collins, 1500 jobs will be created at the spaceport. https://communityimpact.com/houston/bay-area/development/2021/06/02/houston-spaceport-to-one-day-house-new-larger-training-facility/

Showroom is now empty.

The Bayou Greenways 2020 project as a whole had a $220 million budget. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cynthialescalleet/2019/05/30/bayou-greenways-2020-linking-parks-adding-trails-transforming-underused-land-by-houston-waterways/?sh=6196ae175e78

It appears the tuition revenue bond bill died in committee in the Texas Senate. This would've given Texas A&M, MD Anderson, and UT Health $90 million each to support construction of their buildings at TMC3 (among many other university construction projects). These buildings were planned prior to inclusion in HB 1530 so they'll still move forward using PUF money, most likely. https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=HB1530

I think the project will move forward in full. The lawsuit by the county and USDOT's pause are just lip service. Segment 3 is already starting. The section south of Midtown is on track for construction next year. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/Metro-set-to-spend-millions-to-make-sure-I-45-16118744.php The section for the east side of Midtown is labeled as in active procurement on TxDOT's website. https://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/division/debt/strategic-projects/alternative-delivery/nhhip-seg3.html

The City of Seabrook is in the process of developing a plan to develop the Old Seabrook District into a "Livable Center". Looks like the consensus is either stay the same or more development. Hoping to see this develop into a more urban area. That part of town needs an urban center to give the community as a whole a gathering place instead of just endless suburbia.

It appears this is still moving forward. The master plans have been approved by League City and I created a patchwork map of them. PDF has better resolution. LC_HugeDevolopment.pdf

True Anomaly is great! The name initially intrigued me because it is space themed (the last of the 6 Keplerian orbital elements). They have a lot of Belgian style beers if I remember correctly, so they add some diversity to the Houston craft beer scene.

Having a mountain in our city is not something I'd see as worse by any measure.

I'm so sorry for seemingly spamming this thread but this is my industry area (which I'm obsessively passionate about) and I think I'm bringing new information in each time. Let me know if I should post less! From the Community Impact, a map of the new developments at the Houston Spaceport. That third anchor tenant could be announced next month! In January, Intuitive Machines, a smaller company already at the spaceport will send it's NOVA-C lander to the surface of the moon. https://communityimpact.com/houston/bay-area/development/2021/05/22/the-future-of-space-city-houston-spaceport-growing-as-officials-draw-attention-to-industry/ Additionally, a space-focused economic development organization, TexSpace, has been founded to help bring more space companies to the Galveston Bay Area. Hopefully they are successful and lead to a lot of redevelopment in the Clear Lake area (maybe even some urbanization???). https://www.texspace.org A small company called Venus Aerospace is relocating to the spaceport from California. Their goal is to design and build a hypersonic aircraft traveling at Mach 12. https://communityimpact.com/houston/bay-area/impacts/2021/05/07/impacts-roundup-spaceplane-developer-coming-to-clear-lake-and-more-aerospace-news/ Lastly, the new NASA administrator, former Senator Bill Nelson, this week began lobbying Congress for $11 billion out of the infrastructure bill. Of this, $5.4 billion would go to construction and renovation projects at NASA field centers. I expect Johnson Space Center to be a big winner as it is one of the largest and most important NASA field centers and has quite a few asbestos-filled, aging buildings. So stay tuned on that, if the bill passes, hopefully we see quite a bit of construction and renovation at JSC in the next few years. https://spacenews.com/nelson-uses-chinese-mars-landing-as-a-warning-to-congress/

Adding a streetcar and using the outside lanes to widen sidewalks is my dream.

Phase 1 (preliminary design) Design was approved at the city council meeting this week. This should finish in 10 months. With Phase 2 (final design and real estate acquisition) Design finishing in 2 years. https://houston.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=22421&MeetingID=484 https://communityimpact.com/houston/heights-river-oaks-montrose/environment/2021/05/20/houston-oks-11-million-contract-for-north-canal-project-design/

More details (compilation of Houston Chronicle and Houston Business Journal articles): Collins Aerospace: Collins (through their Hamilton Sundstrand subsidiary) will be building a $25.6 million 120,000 sf manufacturing and office building to be complete by the end of 2022 on 8.4 acres with a 10,000 sf spaceflight startup incubator. This will have capacity for 250 employees and will be used for manufacturing life support systems for civil spaceflight (I'm speculating that they have an agreement to provide ECLSS for Axiom's space station). The city will own this facility. Collins has a right of first refusal option to purchase an additional 8 acres within 3 years. Axiom Space: Axiom will be using $4 million of airport system money and a memorandum of agreement to begin design of their complex. This will be a $120 million, 430,000 sf facility that will include high bay, hangar, flight development and testing, office, and astronaut facility space on 22.5 acres with a right of first refusal on another 9.8 acres. The airport system/city are expected to provide financing later this year for the rest of Axiom's facilities which will begin construction in late 2021 or early 2022. The city will own this facility. Below are progress pictures of their space station. And their assembly plan: Next anchor tenant: A third major anchor tenant is expected to be announced soon. Great quote here from City Council Member Abbie Kamin: “The fact that we are revitalizing the space industry here in Houston is remarkable, that we’re bringing business, we’re bringing jobs and space exploration back to Space City.”