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that's pretty darn cool

interesting that there's another as of yet unannounced development poised for Steele St.

1 hour ago, Sic'EmBears said:

Here's a rundown of health food grocers in DFW and Houston metros:

 

Central Market

• DFW - 7 (with completion of West Village and Preston Hollow locations)
• Houston metro 1

 

Natural Grocers

• DFW - 7
• Houston metro - 0

 

Sprouts

• DFW - 19
• Houston metro - 7

 

Trader Joe's 

• DFW - 9
• Houston metro - 5

 

Whole Foods

• DFW - 16 (with completion of Frisco location)
• Houston metro 10

ya none of those can compete with the stranglehold HEB has in Houston.... and that's not a complaint.  WF and CM are great when you want to splurge but for day to day shopping the hybrid HEB's that populate Houston are second-to-none. TJ's is great bc its so damn cheap but still not a great everyday grocer IMO since they lack so many items.  luckily i can walk to HEB, TJ's and WF from my house.

On 11/29/2016 at 3:03 PM, Sic'EmBears said:

Central Market to open two more Dallas locations:

 

The first location will replace the Albertsons West Village in Uptown.

 

Project Location

 

The second location will replace the Sun Fresh at W NW Highway and Midway in Preston Hollow, less than a mile from the Central Market-HEB division office.

 

Project Location

 

When open, there will be four Central Markets in Dallas, and seven in DFW.

crazy to think that all of Houston has one sole CM. i've always wondered why they never built more - the one here has been continuously slammed for 10 years.

3 hours ago, Dustin said:

Well let's just hope the construction takes longer than the demolition.

 

I like Whole Foods, but there has to be more than just that as a draw for an apartment complex to commit to that area.

ya, who wants to live near the intersection of midtown and montrose?

new to houston?

2 hours ago, nativehoustonion said:

Very nice but the train will wake people up around 3AM.

quiet zone hombre.

i like it as well... it's far from tacky. can't please everyone i guess.

awesome development.

apparently CP has a 6 month no compete which sucks.  that said it's not hard to envision him back at 610 afterwards.

ya i think we've reached taco critical mass at this point. let's focus our attentions elsewhere.

they're saying the right things with regards to how it should be developed - historical focus, multi-staged development, mixed income, focus on the bayou. i'd love to finally see something truly innovative for houston on this site. we don't need any highrises here, or at least no more than one or two, and if they do choose that route they better not be beige stucco boxes - they need character. drawing inspiration from dumbo and the meatpacking district is promising.

also didn't know harrison stayed on board but that makes sense... he would've lost money on an outright sale and his plan was always long term.

here's hoping for the best. midway was a real opportunity to develop a transformative project here.

ya i don't know what that comment is supposed to mean but i dig the church. Houston is severely lacking in grand, historic looking churches and while this is grand on the scale of st. mark's on woodway it's a good looking church.

this thing looks hideous.

On August 26, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Subdude said:

 

Third rendering down - to the left of the bluish-gray Doubletree Hotel - is that the mythical 5 Allen Center we see?

Dont be totally shocked if it makes a surprise comeback.

3 hours ago, Subdude said:

Wasn't this idea first mooted about a decade ago, back before the financial crisis?

not sure but Hines has been involved for a few years now.

19 hours ago, Luminare said:

 

No. This is pretty good pricing for a project like this. I've been on projects for large high schools that price at $145 mil. and they are enormous. They were also masonry. From the renderings it looks like they are going with much better and much cheaper contemporary materials. The scope seems like something that would be at around $500 mil.

I think $500m might be a little on the low side for what's shown but probably not too far off. i'm not privy to a lot of estimating but ground up construction for class A+ office is probably in the $500/rsf vicinity, condo/mf maybe $200-$250/sf (not as certain) - excluding land costs. I think you could definitely get 2 high rise residential and a 10-12 story office for $500m, a 4th tower is probably stretching it.

19 hours ago, Texasota said:

Well, this is absolutely terrible in terms of its street frontage. It's a fence surrounding a driveway surrounding a tower for the wealthy. It's a suburban design replacing a charming, unique block of businesses. 

true but this isn't even on a major thoroughfare so what difference does it make? this is literally plopped down in the middle of a residential area - it's not like there was a great deal of pedestrian activity although losing the neat businesses there is somewhat of a loss. had this been on westheimer i would feel differently but it isn't.

edit: this block was actually under contract to the morgan group a few years back but they backed out.

love this redesign significantly more than the original renders. between this, 3400, and the colombe d'or redevelopment this stretch of yoakum/montrose will have a different feel in a few years.

Galleria site makes a ton of sense and is a very logical location... good job, astro.

Awhile back I had heard that four seasons had been in discussions with Tillman on his project. I wouldn't think RC would have an interest in his. 

JV between Loews and Redstone allegedly.

always err on the side of caution amigo... if someone wanted to figure it out they probably could. tanglewoods is right, many of these projects have NDAs attached to them.