OkieEric

Website will be SouthMainBuilding.com (currently forwards to Allen Harrison main site)

I saw the sign and was hoping for a rendering - surely we'll get something when they break ground, which will apparently be soon

Another small step - an Arch-Con Construction sign is on the fence now stating it's a construction site.  There appears to be some dirt work but it's hard to differentiate it from the Project Brays work, at least from Main St.  This seems imminent but no building permits that I can find.  I can't find any renderings, either

The lot is now fenced off

I know there has been a lot of vacant land in this area up until recently, but the neighboring single story storage facilities seem like such a massive waste of real estate.  Discount mini storage (9419 Buffalo Speedway) alone has about 5 acres of land.  Unfortunately, this stretch of South Main is littered with them

Turner, Fertitta now back "collaborative" approach with UT, UH, Rice, TSU, and A&M

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Turner-Build-the-data-institute-on-UT-s-land-11121076.php

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/houston/article/Turner-Fertitta-endorse-data-center-plan-call-11122792.php

I don't see any official news on this one yet, but another plan review permit was issued in late March and today they had some sample brick facades sitting out there.  Kind of hard to differentiate what might be happening here from all of the Project Brays work around this site, but I take this as a positive sign

On 5/26/2016 at 5:43 PM, bobruss said:

Stopped by the site this afternoon and talked to the crew chief. He said that they were excavating the site to 17 feet below ground. 

He also said something that was very interesting. He said that once this project is finished there is talk  that the hotel just north of this site  

will be demolished and a sixty six story tower will take its place. Nice rumor. Images of the excavation will come when Brijonmang downloads for me.

Walked by the site today and noticed the neighboring Best Western signage has been removed / covered up.  Still saw some cars parked in the below ground garage but noticeably fewer cars on surface lot

Welp, I hope this doesn't screw things up

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-Medical-Center-CEO-tapped-for-University-of-10984934.php

5 hours ago, Urbannizer said:

Update: A request has been made to abandon the dead-end stretch of N Braeswood.

 

http://swamplot.com/n-braeswood-dealing-with-abandonment-issues-as-saint-nicholas-school-preps-to-move-south/2017-02-21/

 

 

 

Is street abandonment a long process?  Just curious as to the motivation to do it now when the school isn't moving until 2018.  Does a developer typically have to reveal anything regarding the plans as part of this process?  Just thinking back to Museo Plaza and the plans to abandon Palm.  I suspect there won't be much push back from the community on this one

I love seeing more density around Rice Village, and at least their other projects look decent.  Too bad about the scrapped Randall Davis project on Shakespeare...

9 minutes ago, HoustonMidtown said:

 

Esther

Leanne

Ursula

Kay2

Vishen

Tyson

Sporty

+

Seamus

Cookiie

Ricardo (not buying it, dude)

Lara

Hastings (not quite as sure)

The problem is, the people are actually interacting in threads and will probably even comment on this list...but it's just weird

25 minutes ago, mkultra25 said:

 

I had assumed that admins/mods had the ability to view the originating IP addresses for posts. I believe this is the case in the free version of Invision's board software, so it ought to be in the paid version as well. 

Surely there is a way to track the IPs.  These all appear to be the same person as they have very similar writing styles - generic questions, 2 line responses, etc, etc.  All of these "people" (including Ricardo, above, who enjoys threads about coffee) have joined since late October.  Just checked "new content" and the vast majority of posts are the same typical crap.  Hard to use the forum when that's happening even in the middle of the day

Edit:  Just read the "Happiness is..." thread.  Please make it stop

These BS posts are seriously discouraging me from checking the site, as "new content" is pretty much the only thing I click on here.  It's so strange that they read semi-legit but are on topics that none of us give a crap about.  "How Do You Like Your Coffee?"  Seriously?

We need some new #$% projects already

Much better, hopefully that's the actual rendering

One of those "plan review fees" was issued for AHC South Main yesterday.  Not sure how meaningful that is but it appears this is still progressing

Same here, I've read a few stories but don't really buy it.  We're on the fringe of what I'd consider walkable (little over a mile).  I would think someone willing to fork down $1000's per night on a rental and the tickets themselves wouldn't necessarily be all that concerned with walking, but who knows

If you search airbnb for Super Bowl weekend (I put 2/3 to 2/6) you see prices all over the place, with some "hopeful" people putting $2K+/night, some nowhere near NRG.  Not sure how to quickly figure out if that's actually working for anyone

1 hour ago, Urbannizer said:

Trucks and some equipment on site now.

 

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Private-development-set-to-capitalize-on-Med-9228798.php#photo-10940668

 

 

There's been some equipment there for a while as they've been using it as the base for the Main St repaving.  That job has been surprisingly stagnant for a while as it is certainly not done but I haven't seen them actually pave anything in weeks

I swear I've read some terrible reviews on that existing Residence Inn - or maybe it's Moody Manor? - but glad to see it will be gone.  It is certainly nowhere dense enough for the value of that land.  Also glad for some confirmation that the new tower is going in

Interesting to see a possible grocery store mentioned since one (Kroger) is literally right next door

Are the 71 new stations on a map anywhere?  The only map I can find is the one where they were trying to solicit input for potential locations

This has looked pretty much dead, but a ton of permits (including building permits for parking garage and tower) were issued yesterday

No pics, but the crane was going up today - 'bout time!

On 8/2/2016 at 0:48 PM, august948 said:

It's now the Kush Wendy's.  We have a new landmark!

This situation is getting a bit ridiculous...  They've moved across Main from the Wendy's, but night and day there are 30+ people just hanging out in a mob, doing lord knows what.  I drive by every morning, and they are up and at 'em by 8 a.m. like some scene out of the "Walking Dead."  Is it legal to just loiter like that?  I suppose it's about as good a spot as any for them to just hang around but it's a shame it's right off of Main St

Looks like it was sold to "GBL Developers LLC" in late July, 2015.

The address for GBL Developers on the HCAD account (1400 POST OAK BLVD STE 150) is linked to Interfin

From the Bayou, also showing Project Brays work starting up through TMC:

FWIW, both the original article and a follow-up from mid-April about Allen Harrison mention that this project as well as the one in the Heights should break ground this summer