toxtethogrady

This town can't build apartments fast enough to meet demand. I still have to bet that there's room for the 38-story tower to go up sooner rather than later. The Marquette (er, Catalyst) starts out of the ground next week.

If that design survives.

I think the stretch of 59 from the downtown spur to Kirby is the most attractive section of freeway in Houston. 

The greening of the freeways make it much less harsh and is a pleasure to the eyes.

The trees along the West Loop appear to be gaining height and starting to provide some screening of the neighborhoods. They've just planted trees along I-10 from downtown out to 610, and it already looks nice. Where they've done this it's been a good thing.

For Houston, yes. It just depends on how strong demand is. Right now, the city is good for 24,000 apartment units a year.

They are calling it "The Carter?"  Seriously?  

Seriously.

Okay, it's not quite the Unstoppable Sex Machine...

The previous unit count was 309 in a 40 floor building, or slightly more than 7.5 per floor. Unless there's a density increase, the floor count would have to be 40 atop 12 (or beside 12).

Incidentally, the initial rendering of the building appeared to be 23 atop 9.

We don't have renders of the EaDo, either. We may just have to wait.

I didn't think there was room for all that side-by-side on the site. But it could be...

If somebody didn't describe this one wrong.

This one is now described in at least real estate summary as a 40-story building atop a 12-level parking podium. Any clarification?

Incidentally, that downtown inventory mentioned Block 98 - 40 floors of residences on a 12-level parking structure. Is that a misprint?

The last time I looked, Houston had 36 highrises over 10 floors under construction. Calgary is pretty close to that number, but I think Houston's ahead.

Toronto is just off the charts, and some of the highrises under construction are fairly tall. I'm not sure what's encouraging that growth.

Maybe this weekend. Allowing the crane to go up in early November.

Another five level wonder...

Costco Downtown! There is a precedent for this kind of redevelopment in DC, and their lot charged for parking.

So they want to claim part of the setbacks. How often is that permitted to happen?

ConocoPhillips claimed a similar size piece of Energy Towers III, IV and V.

In addition ExxonMobil picked up a large block of space in Hughes Landing in the Woodlands.

And drinking Gallo?

Is it 4 levels below grade or 4 levels of parking below the apartments themselves? I can't imagine a good reason why a developer would want to dig four levels into the gumbo for a parking garage when it's cheaper to build up rather than build down.

I've forgotten, but it's not a small piece. So are the corporate campuses the other oil companies are building.

Skyline North by marclongoria, on Flickr

Talk about your basic industrial blue and white...

No, that's been repurposed.

I thought nobody was building malls in the US anymore.

Ive always thought that, what a HUGE waste of prime A1 real estate, those MMP parking lots.

 

Yeah, but people coming to the games have to have some place to park.

I hope that this development won't keep Gables from moving foward with their Post Oak tower. Hopefully they will both be built.

Today's BisNow mentions a residential tower as part of the Galleria expansion. I'm not sure whose that will be, but they seemed pretty definite it will be built.