Triton

I have a real good friend who is moving into this complex. Should be able to take a few pictures inside and show how nice it is.

Funny but the top floor  terraces on the right side of the renderings were cut back to one door wide instead of a door and window wide. Plus no Garage entrance to parking on that side---Wonder why?

I actually believe this rendering is from another side. Just wanted to give a general comparison between the rendering and the actual development.

What's up with the spec apt? Or cheap house - can you give me the cross streets of said southern lot?

Edit: Latest photos of this project are on the second to last page.

So is the southern lot on schedule for development as well?

Well, at this point, it is clearly only a test site to check the facade and design. But I guess I completely forgot that they own the lot in the first place!

I gotta think there is more going up this year than went up last year, even if the things started last year, it LOOKS like more is going up this year than last, I wonder if this will be the best year since say 1985 or 1986 when the last deliveries hit the market before the 35 percent vacancy rates and the empty Phoenix Tower article near Greenway Plaza in the New York Times -  if the metric is total square footage, total commercial construction value, or something along those lines.

Based on all the economic reports I've seen for Houston, they indicate that based on the trend lines the city will peak in construction from late 2014 into somewhere late of 2015. Now of course, trend lines aren't always correct. Price of gas can plummet and skyrocket. The Fed's quantitive easing can have some impact. Quickly rising home prices can put a damper on all the single-family construction. However, single-family construction is well below the historical norm. Annnnnnyway, I think the Houston area can support a couple of more years of good solid construction, but anything after that and you could be dealing with a Spain-type situation of overbuilding... that's well off into the future. 

Chart at historical residential construction:

They closed off the lot again, this time with chains. The only side with barrels now is the side facing the Marriott Marquis.

The billboard there says nothing.

We needed better pics of this:

I guess I forgot that they also own the southern lot as well?

Surprised better pictures haven't been posted yet:

Is this even Houston? It's becoming more amazing!!

People don't realize just how urban Houston really is. The area that shocks me everytime is seeing just how urban the Museum District is when driving down the Spur 527 or Highway 59.

ThirdCoastRyan takes some really beautiful shots of the Houston area. Definitely a good person to follow on Flickr if you have an account. 

From that angle it reminds me of the design for new Ford dealership showrooms.

so is phase II on the vacant grass lot? that would be great if so.

Yes.

http://swamplot.com/a-new-main-st-apartment-complex-moves-on-to-phase-2-before-its-even-complete/2014-05-05/

From the cam

That must have just been launched! I've been searching "campus vue" on google every week. 

So if they are going to tear down the building on the west side, it makes me wonder how long the east side building will be able to last.

Edit: Whelp! This apparently is so brand new that the email hasn't even been setup yet. I got a postmaster error indicating the email address doesn't work.

Do those building in the background exist?

No, they are just put in there. I guess to give the rendering a downtown setting. Not sure why you just wouldn't use the real thing.

I just don't think the rendering is 100% accurate. The colors that are being applied don't match the colors in the renderings that we've seen. Unless whatever they are applying isn't the final product...

I sure hope that this will have an urban design, but I'm a little nervous looking at their current projects. They all look like the generic suburban hotel except for the Downtown Holiday Inn renovation and the Galveston hotel.

I highly doubt it will look urban. Think of it like the Holiday Inn Express on the eastern side of downtown on Bell St.

Hmmm thought they were past that stage...

Driving over the Waugh bridge towards this thing, it is surprisingly small compared to the other buildings in the area. I'll try to take a picture next time I'm biking there to show what I'm talking about. 

Wow, it looks like a new garage!

There's A LOT of activity going on there today. You can also hear a lot of "rumbling" going on inside... not sure what it is. They have the fences open at the garage, the front, and even on West Gray.

Sorry for the image quality! I noticed it when I was driving home and so I decided to come back around for another pic:

THEY ARE TAKING DOWN THE EXTERIOR BRICK NOW! 

Surveying team is on site. You can probably see them in the 609 Main webcam.

Good catch.

Does UofH still have a master plan to someday shut down Cullen to bridge the gap between the campus and the stadium? I thought they always had the idea to make a promenade down Cullen or something similar to it.

From what I've been told, that is still in the works but is many many years away. The idea is to improve Cullen now rather than wait for the street to simply get worse. Uofh is all about image at the moment. The master plan is to shut down that portion of Cullen between the stadium and the rest of campus, build future classrooms and housing there, and eventually have an interior bus route closed off to public traffic and have it circulate around the entire campus.