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Not that I really get hyped about this stuff anymore - but they launched it a couple of weeks back.
Yes, the skyline is there, but there are multiple video walls so tons of things could be there really.
Some of the photos of the skyline look generic of the "western wall". The aerial one for the morning shows looks nice though.
Sounds like they have a desk for all but the 6 & 10 PM newscasts. Standing during the newscasts I guess is en vogue again.
Something about it gives me vibes of a phone store. Not nearly as bad as Channel 39's set about 10 years back, but close.
https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2024/02/kprc-2-new-2024-studio-standing-room.html
mikemcguff.com: KPRC 2 2024 studio - photos and more details
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Profile of Larry Callies & the Museum from Houston Landing.
Black Cowboy Museum reveals the true origin of Texas cowboys (houstonlanding.org)
Found this bit about the move to Kendleton interesting.
"Fort Bend County Parks and Recreation has allocated nearly $9.4 million of its 2023 parks bond toward the redesign, $2.7 million of which is dedicated toward the Black Cowboy Museum, according to McCoy.
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Ship Channel Bridge on tollway nears milestone for work (houstonchronicle.com)
"Almost two years from completion, the first phase of the Houston Ship Channel span is becoming more noticeable to drivers on the existing bridge. Even more work will become obvious over the summer, but not without another thing tollway drivers are used to seeing: lane closures."
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Not to be confused with Bayland Park at Bissonnet and Hillcroft.
Precinct 4 Website: Burnett Bayland Park (harriscountytx.gov)
Madres Del Parque Facebook: Madres Del Parque | Houston TX | Facebook
Master Plan Website: Burnett-Bayland Park (harriscountytx.gov)
"Harris County Precinct 4 and Commissioner Lesley Briones has begun the Burnett Bayland Park Master Plan. The Master Plan will transform Burnett Bayland Park into an iconic experience for all to enjoy. It is a collaborative community initiative, and the project team wants to hear your ideas for the future of the park.
The Master Plan process will include the voices and input from key stakeholders and the surrounding community. There will be stakeholder meetings, community workshops, presentations to area groups and organizations, informal touchpoints and a survey. This is scheduled to take place from summer 2023 through Spring 2024."
Chronicle Editorial from January in favor of the upgrades.Briones wants Gulfton to get a 'signature' park like Hermann. Why not? (houstonchronicle.com)
"Burnett Bayland Park lies within the city limits, so one might wonder why the county, rather than the city, is spearheading a project of this scope. Briones’ answer: “My philosophy as commissioner is I am going to serve all of my precinct.” (About half of her Precinct 4 lies within Houston or other municipalities.) She reached agreements with former Mayor Sylvester Turner’s administration for the county to take over maintenance and operations of Burnett Bayland Park, Bayland Park in nearby Sharpstown and Freed Park in eastern Spring Branch."
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"Construction will start soon on the first phase of the Sharpstown Trail and is expected to be complete by the fall, according to Houston Parks Board president and CEO Beth White. Her nonprofit is building a 1.8-mile-long, 10-foot wide concrete path along the north-and-south easement, which runs parallel to South Gessner Road, and it will stretch from Beechnut Street to Sands Point Drive – with plans to subsequently expand the trail to the north and south."
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"The building sits along the northeastern edge of Hermann Park and is part of Tema Development’s master plan for the 6.8-acre site it owns there, which also includes One Hermann Place, at 1699 Hermann Drive, which was completed in 2016, and the 32-story Two Hermann Place, at 1661 Hermann Place, which is still under construction."
Um... who wants to tell the reporter about the HMNS-contracted parking over there?
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"Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH) broke ground on the highly anticipated Village Green at Bridgeland Central on Feb. 26.
The 70-acre mixed-use project is adjacent to the Grand Parkway and bound by Bridgeland High School Drive, Bridgeland Creek Parkway and Summit Point Crossing. It's part of the 925-acre urban core of the 11,500-acre Bridgeland master-planned community in Cypress.
Village Green will be anchored by an H-E-B grocery store spanning more than 100,000 square feet, which is scheduled to open by the end of 2024. Additionally, the mixed-use project will include more than 28,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space slated to be complete in spring 2025."
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"A 40-year-old apartment building in the Museum District is wrapping up an extensive renovation project that converted the building into condominiums.
Houston-based Tema Development Inc. began retrofitting The Parklane into condos in 2020, deciding the time was right to allow the building to serve the purpose it was originally designed for."
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Flyer for Meow Wolf's Houston location... Based on the star in the graphic, the city is now located somewhere west of Victoria and southeast of San Antonio. Kenedy or Floresville maybe?
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"Houston-based Midway has broken ground on what will be the latest addition to its booming CityCentre mixed-use development in west Houston.
As the Houston Business Journal first reported in November, the new CityCentre Six office building will be at 903 Town and Country Blvd.
When it is completed in 2026, the new building will include 308,000 square feet of office space, which will sit atop a nine-level podium parking structure. The building’s ground floor also will include about 12,000 square feet of retail and dining space.
Midway also confirmed Feb. 23 that the previously unnamed anchor tenant for the building will be Dow Chemical, which leased 65% of the building for its Houston Dow Center. The Dow Chemical Co. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Michigan-based Dow Inc. (NYSE: DOW), which has a major presence in the Houston area."
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Figured I'd updated this since there was no specific thread for 500 Jefferson.
John Quinlan purchased this building from WP Carey in 2017.
He sought to get a historic designation from the city for it in 2021 due it's design attributes and contributions to the downtown area over the years. The document is worth a read and does have some good period construction photos and schematics.
Wondering if he will sell and/or do another JV with DeBartolo ultimately like he did with Elev8 and Three Westlake.
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Houston’s Intuitive Machines touches down on the moon (houstonchronicle.com)
"A Houston delegate is once again on the moon.
Intuitive Machines’ uncrewed lander made history Thursday as the first privately owned spacecraft to touch down on the lunar surface. It was also the first U.S. vehicle to accomplish this in more than 50 years."
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"In the new site plans presented to the committee, the convention center building itself will no longer encompass lot E at the southeast corner of Memorial Drive and Hotel Street along Interstate 30. It instead would have a footprint of about 130,000 square feet on the southern half of the former Dallas Morning News property on Young Street, where a parking garage currently sits. It is unclear whether the city plans to acquire portions of that property.
The facade of the new convention center will remain the same, Fleming said, but the footprint has been modified due to requests by the Texas Department of Transportation to use a flyover bridge for Union Pacific Railroad construction and staging space for dirt and equipment for construction on Interstate 30."Previous plan
New Plan
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Why more Houston offices aren't being converted to housing (houstonchronicle.com)
"Developers seeking historic tax credits must be prepared to jump through several hoops, which takes time. For example, CMI Development plans to transform the 1.2 million-square-foot former Exxon skyscraper at 800 Bell in downtown Houston into a mixed-use project with hundreds of apartments. Although CMI has been working for more than a year to get the tower, completed in 1963, designated as historic, the time-consuming process is a necessary step to defraying the costs, which include of asbestos remediation.
And any developer buying an empty tower for a conversion must be able to cover costs including insurance and taxes while the building isn’t generating revenue."
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Why more Houston offices aren't being converted to housing (houstonchronicle.com)
"Quinlan, in partnership with DeBartolo, has begun work on Three Westlake, a 311-unit apartment conversion of the 19-story former BP tower in the Energy Corridor. Quinlan bought the property for $21 million, after the lender took a a $67.4 million loss on the loan, he said.
There weren’t a lot of lenders active in the market, said Ed Kobel, president of DeBartolo, but the firm found a bank willing to provide a construction loan.
“It was super hard, but the project is so compelling, we got it done,” Kobel said. "
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Why more Houston offices aren't being converted to housing (houstonchronicle.com)
"For example, Cameron Management unveiled plans more than a year ago to convert the Esperson complex, two older office towers on Travis Street, into a mixed-used project with apartments, coworking and offices. On paper, the downtown buildings would work well for a conversion. They’re in a desirable location and have narrow floorplates allowing enough light for residential units. Cameron invested nearly $4 million into studying and planning a conversion. But the estimated cost to construct 100 units is about $50 million, about $20 million more than expected, said Dougal Cameron, president of Cameron Management.
As credit markets tightened over the year, Cameron hasn’t been able to secure favorable financing. Traditional lenders are “out of the game,” he said.
The towers, built in the 1920s and 1940s, are old enough to qualify for federal and state historic tax credits, but Cameron is wary of the strings attached."
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RIP Robert Reid - Even after he had retired, he still seemed to have a lot of energy. Loved listening to him on 1560 The Game when he was on their shows.
Robert Reid obituary: Former Houston Rockets star dies at 68 (houstonchronicle.com)
"Robert Reid — who played 10 seasons with the Rockets, including as a key member of the franchise’s first two NBA Finals teams — died Monday at 68 after a battle with cancer."
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Soar to High Heights: The Allen, AIA Houston
AIA Houston Tour, 2/28 from 5-6 PM
"The Residences at the Allen tower has redefined the skyline along Allen Parkway. The tower soars 42 stories overlooking one of Houston's most popular recreational areas - Buffalo Bayou Park.
Join us for a tour of The Residences at the Allen with developer DC Partners and project archtiect HOK.
The new mixed-use development includes a hotel and coondominum tower, a 22-story office building and 62,000-square -foot retail pavilion. The Residences at the Allen luxury condominiums on upper levels have individual balconies with plunge pools. While the retail pavilion has smooth organic curves resembling a spaceship will be home to an expansive gym and high-end Mexican stakehouse Toca Madera."
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Intuitive Machines moon lander on track for Feb. 22 landing after engine burns | Space
"But the lander will soon be put to the test. "Odysseus' largest challenge to date," officials added in the update thread, will be "lunar orbit insertion," which is expected to take place Wednesday (Feb. 21). The engine firing will put Odysseus in orbit around the moon in preparation for landing the following day, Thursday (Feb. 22), at 5:49 p.m. EST (2249 GMT)."
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Preparations under way for Houston to host seven 2026 FIFA World Cup games – Houston Public Media
"Leah Mastaglio is the Assistant General Manager at NRG Park. She said the stadium needs fewer renovations in preparation for the World Cup than others.
“We’ve been having meetings and technical site visits with FIFA,” she said. “Last month was our latest one, and from all the technical departments that spent the entire day with our team here at NRG park, the overwhelming comment back was, ‘There’s not much more that we need to do.'”
Mastaglio said some renovations will need to be done later on along the line. This would include adding a grass field to the stadium and removing some seats to make the field larger.
Chris Canetti is the President of the Houston 2026 World Cup Bid Committee. He said all stadiums with matches will need to do some work to meet FIFA requirements.
“One of the reasons why I think Houston was awarded a FIFA World Cup (match) was because this stadium is already in such good shape as it pertains to those standards,” he said."
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“We have been working on pads/ramps for the mobilization of large cranes to remove the center span,” he said. “As soon as we complete the pads, the cranes will be able to begin mobilizing. We anticipate the project being done by late summer if not sooner.”
Demolition began in August. The steel from the bridge will be recycled, and the $207,987.50 credit will be given to to the Department of Transportation."
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How $100M turned a vacant Houston office into luxury apartments (houstonchronicle.com)
"In the end, the team salvaged much of the building that otherwise would have wound up in a landfill, said Ed Kobel, president of DeBartolo.
“It’s a labor of love,” said Kobel. “In a strange way we’re sort of carving off this ugly-ducking building and turning it into something that adds values to the city.”
-Behind the paywall, there are some decent graphics showing the changes to the floorplates that happened during the conversion process. Don't know how to link those though.
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Brazos_Town_Center.pdf (newquest.com)
The renderings indicating there was a Raising Cane's coming had reverted back to the original design days after it was shown in the leasing documents.
Since then, though, the document has been fairly drastically updated design wise. The emphasis appears to be leaning into promoting the development of the space around the movie theater into what is being stated as "mixed-use" (in about the loosest possible terms, IMO). The previous space earmarked for "Pickleball/Entertainment" has shifted to a space that simply says "Proposed Entertainment" with a stage - separate from the greenspace near the movie theater with its own stage.
Why that emphasis? A few tidbits from the document may show the way.
In the face of such expected growth, it's not that much of surprise they might be trying to slowly start densifying sections of this space.
It's also the first time I've seen the seemingly inevitable link between the Fort Bend Parkway and Spur 10 between Pleak and Needville on any map. Best of luck on figuring that out in reality.
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New Quest is working on leasing the former Taco Bueno space
Rice University Campus Developments
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Rice University's Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall breaks ground - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
"Rice University celebrated the groundbreaking of its new 83,000-square-foot, $76 million Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall on Feb. 29.