swtsig

15 hours ago, ekdrm2d1 said:

Class AAA Office.  Would this be a Houston first? Thinking that's just a marketing term, and they actually mean Class AA.

there's no real classification system for office properties - it's all marketing more or less. AA/A+ is commonly used for the newest asset classes, though.

part of the benefit of memorial park now falling under the uptown TIRZ (i believe that's the correct authority) will include much better bike and pedestrian connectivity from uptown to memorial park. i'd assume bike sharing would be a part of that plan.

6 hours ago, s3mh said:

Shit sandwich.  The Alliance Broadstone at least paid some lip service to the historic architecture in the Heights.  This is just generic modern multi-family infill that you can find in Dallas, Washington DC, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix and so on.  I wouldn't be surprised if the design was 100% recycled from another project (or two or three) that has already been built somewhere else.  At least it will front 20th St. instead of 19th.  But Greystar will also build another building where the old bank currently sits.  Knowing Greystar, it will be another boilerplate modern design.  

man houston has really come up the last few years if this is what passes as a "shit sandwich" nowadays. i would've killed @CREguy13 for consistent mf projects like this 5-6 years ago.

carry on.

i count 33 as well but the top floor of the podium and the penthouse floors look to be double height so this should have the scale of a 35-story tower, give or take. although i still preferred the original jenga-style design, this turned out better than what i was expecting. fences are up so hopefully they break ground soon.

it's not bad... certainly better than nothing. one has to assume they're saving the park facing portion for at least a couple of high rises.

there is an apt component to the mkt project behind the existing 5 story structure... not sure if that's what this is or not.

Received confirmation that the distinctive “twist” in the hotel/condo design has been done away with.

Another classic bait bait and switch... Yay houston developers! 

6 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

This rendering looks very conceptual. If they actually had a lease with Target, I think it would be more prominently rendered. I think early renderings of 609 Main showed an Apple store on the ground floor. Let's not uncork the wine bottles yet.

 

i think the phrase "beginning phase of developing" implies they're still in the conceptual phase.

https://product.costar.com/home/news/82261314?market=14

26 minutes ago, AREJAY said:

 

I'm mostly echo chambering what I've heard a few places, but it makes sense to me - he's definitely involved. I'm assuming the "C" is Roberto Contreras 

yes, it's Davis Contreras Partners so yes, Randall is involved.

On 2/19/2019 at 8:41 AM, Timoric said:

What do they call a knife? 

that's not a knife, that's a spoon!

I heard that Hines let the contract expire for this site so this may be conceptual renderings from a new developer. I doubt they're from Hines as this isn't an architect they'd likely use nor would they do all condo. just my educated guess on the last two points.

before everyone gets all excited the mayors office already came out and said there are no current plans for the city to help bring an amusement park to town, only that the mayor would welcome a private developer to do so.

this matches what i was told well over a year ago that midway had acquired the site where andes cafe was located with the intent on building a midrise MF project with GFR. the appreciation of land prices and rental rates in EaDo has been nothing short of spectacular.

midway backed off of the sakowitz site, at least they had as of a few months ago.

Just now, bobruss said:

The initial phase is open. Its the hotel and high rise apartments and this images are of the phase two which was

promised when they were breaking ground for phase one.

This is huge!

but that's not what they're referring to when they say phase I and II. The initial phase of the development was the hotel and apt tower. Phase I as they are referring to it  here is for a 500,000 SF medical office on top of 1700 parking spaces. Depending on floor plates that's about 19-20 stories of office on top of another 6-8 stories of garage plus a floor of retail. Due to the balconies you can see quite clearly that the residential high-rise units are situated above the office component. 

My guess is they'll wait to see how their office leasing velocity is during pre-development while at the same time gauging the multifamily or condo market and make a determination from there. if they think they can lease 1M SF of office or actually get the preleasing they'll build more office and less residential. 

On 1/24/2019 at 5:01 PM, Jan said:

Maybe I’m wrong - sure hope so.  But not liking where memoriak Park is going at all. Not only original weird plan NOT to restore natural thickets and forests - that Ima Hogg revelled in sought to preserve by giving Houston the land.  But also corporate/ pga interests who are usurping and dominating its future now. Money isn’t the point at all— but no talk of revenue sharing either!  A fine property they call it 

 

 if you think cutting down Most of the healthy trees, driving off any birds and wildlife — and expanding golf course for pro players, basically as a donation is anything like ‘undoing damage’ you’re mistaken. We will get prarie and  Savannah  Golf courses to replace Nature - forests,thickets and bayous which stood undefended, (except for save Bayou folks).  Sad Scary and awful. Sorry I didn’t see it coming   Silent spring due to one ‘natural vision’ inadequately tempered by other evidence I would guess then apparently hijacked by PGA?  I know the Kinders are trying to do good but a forest should not be cultivated to a prarie 

 

keep up the good work, Jan!

that might be the lobby for the office component. recall that hanover is moving their offices into this building.

the shops/4hc is far trickier - apparently a lot of the MEPs run along the outside of the structure so just "opening it up" isn't really feasible. as of now it's still somewhat of an unknown but it sounds like their preference is to bring in a real grocer... whether or not they can is another story.

all in all brookfield and gensler have done a great job, though.

i believe he meant "assy gases"... hanover is getting into the wastewater treatment game.

Brookfield is unveiling their plans for Houston Center 1/15, just FYI