brijonmang

Hines must not know how to play this real estate game on a professional level...

Ha, I'm not critiquing their competence in the real estate market at all.  I think we all know how successful they are.  Just saying this is an amateur rendering.  It's a large part of what I do so that's what stuck out to me.

Where's the rendering?

.....in your post 

What a poorly rendered master plan.  If I were to do that for one of my clients I'd get laughed out of the meeting.

 

 

I would think that traffic might be a problem on game days though.

I don't think this will impact traffic much at all come game days.  I have been to probably 30 games and have never had issues with traffic before a Dynamo game.  Not saying closing off the block will help at all but most of the traffic is coming from the highway side anyway.  I like the design and location and expect more to follow suit.

I haven't seen the most up to date land plan but the last I saw there will be commercial and retail plots along 1093 as well as an apartment complex at Canal and 1093.  Lakes of Bella Terra will also be occupying some of that space with new housing.  Katy Gaston is being extended south and east to meet with Bellaire Blvd from where it ends right now at Bellagio Drive.  

Also, at some point in the future they are going to realign the Katy Gaston light so that it runs straight into Lakes of Bella Terra instead of having that odd configuration they have now.

Some photos from yesterday.  

What does this mean?  Are you LTAWACS?

Meaning "signed". 

Stupid.  Should have built this in Midtown.

S/

LTAWACS

Wayne putting Cloud 713 on blast!  Don't bite the hand that feeds, Ed!! 

Never mind.

So people don't have to dig back:

http://oxblue.com/open/SkyHouseApartments

By the way, there are only 10 (or nine, I couldn't see the camera clearly) stories left.

And for the dallas haters:

Sky house dallas recently broke ground.

I'll make it even simpler.  Here's a photo from this morning.  Working on floor 16 now.

nah im talking about the blue one north/northeast of the Hanover tower. it looks like its got a slight crescent shaped bite taken out of the right side, along with a small protrusion outward on the left of the north side of the building.

I'm not 100% but I thought there were renderings of that floating around a while ago...maybe a year or so ago.  Anyone remember that one?

Drove by yesterday.  They already have a lot of the rebar for the foundation and first levels of columns in place.  I will be able to get pictures of this one as it goes up.

Thanks for getting all these pictures...an engineer might have to chime in here but this is the same thing they did with the Skyhouse downtown.  Had a rig drilling while simultaneously pumping concrete into the hole.

Friday reminder to get your picks in!  Don't wait till it's too late!

True, but the model is just crude foam, nothing detailed.

I am not an architect, so I can't say for sure, but with that kind of model I'd think it's more conceptual...at this point.

This.  Model doesn't really bring any legitimacy to the design.  It is cool to look at though and the project would be something totally new for Houston.  I think adding some color to it would make it more appealing but that's probably due to my ADD.  I start to lose focus as soon..........oh look a shiny thing

The last I saw this parkway mentioned, it didn't make a full loop. It was more of a north-south corridor from Cypress to south of I-10.  

Interesting...If only the Mercer could have taken advantage of this technology.

The view from the street...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty cool, thanks for sharing.  These are views that hadn't been available for over 60 years.  Cool perspective that *hopefully* won't be around for too long.

Article on Swamplot regarding viewing options...

 

Fire Department release:   "[T]here will be no ‘safe viewing site lines’ to observe the implosion."

 

http://swamplot.com/you-can-watch-the-macys-implosion-but-you-cant-stand-here/2013-09-19/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+swamplot+%28Swamplot%3A+Houston%27s+Real+Estate+Landscape%29

HA!  The fire department thinks they know my definition of "safe viewing"??  You can tell them to watch for me...  I'll be the guy BASE jumping with a GoPro.

Why is the start date so far in the future when other projects like Hermann Place were just announced and already about to start? Think it's to give 609 Main some time to get off the ground so Hines doesn't have 2 projects starting at the same time?

I doubt it, Hines is a very large company and at any given time has multiple projects under construction all over the place.  I would think it has more to do with where they are in the design/development stages.  We've already seen a couple of different versions in just a few weeks which leads me to believe that they are still working out the design.  It takes it a bit of time to then finalize construction documents.

The other projects were much further along development wise before they went public I'm sure.  Hines also has a lot more hoops to jump through with it's location vs projects like Hermann Place.

Wow so you have a camera obscura in your car at all times?

There is one - http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/28768-mid-main-—-mixed-use-development-for-midtown-3600-main/#entry434625

I believe he was waiting for confirmation before he started the new thread.  Urbannizer was the one who started the thread you referenced. 

I'm on board with this project.  Looks like a definite improvement and adding more residences along the rail line has got to be an easy sell for the young crowd that will most likely be filling these units up.

This is my week! I can feel it!

Just kidding I suck at this again.

Natalie is a friend of mine.  I think she will really enjoy it in Chicago.

Moar renderings.

Here's the best part, another apartment tower is planned, and International Tower is 46-floors.

 

Rendering porn! Thanks for the info Urbannizer.  And that other apartment tower is news to me.  Looks like Market Square is really starting to make a return on investment.