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    The Avenida: Redevelopment of Macroplaza Mall to Mixed-Use

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    https://www.costar.com/article/971837798/dallas-developer-wants-to-redevelop-60-acre-houston-area-mall-into-mixed-use-project


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    The Avenida is a 60-acre, mixed-use development that creates a premier district for the community to connect in an active, urban setting. Formerly known as Macro Plaza Mall, The Avenida is the first of its kind in the north Pasadena area and breathes new life into a space with premier retail, local dining, healthcare, class A office, and boutique hotels tied together by an activated central gathering space. The Avenida also features sophisticated, urban residential options and a modern walking trail system around the campus.

    Pasadena is the second-largest city in the Greater Houston metro, but has a surprisingly small-town feel, making it a great place to jumpstart your family or career. You can run into friends or colleagues at the grocery store – yet be in downtown Houston in 20 minutes, or in Galveston in an hour.

    Request For Proposal By The City Of Houston At 800 N. Velasco St.

    in Going Up!

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    https://www.c40reinventingcities.org/en/professionals/sites-in-competition/velasco-incinerator-1624.html
     

    https://www.c40reinventingcities.org/data/sites_134e6/fiche/390/site_requirements_-_velasco_incinerator_houston_-_reinventing_cities.docx_65e7c.pdf

    It is adjacent to North Velasco Street and lies just north of a major east-west thoroughfare, Navigation Boulevard. It is only a mile east of Houston’s downtown core and the Central Business District. A key future development in close proximity to the site is the Buffalo Bayou East Masterplan, a waterfront revitalization plan comprised of multimodal connections, small-scale parks and open spaces that will tie the larger destinations together to create a cohesive network of green spaces and attractions that will reinvigorate Buffalo Bayou East. The site has the potential to be aligned and well-integrated with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s Buffalo Bayou East Masterplan as an integral part in creating a safe, sustainable, and resilient waterfront. 

    The City sees this competition as an excellent opportunity for private actors to help the city develop climate action innovation, specifically in the field of storm and flood resilient infrastructure and buildings. Teams should explore solutions within the new energy economy area such as the provision of lab spaces and energy transition workforce development centers.
     

    Houston is a city that is on a growth path. There has been a trend of densification inside the IH 610 loop. There are no specific zoning requirements in relation to the development of this site. However, constraints due to the former use of the site as an incinerator/landfill, contamination and possible pollution risks will need to be carefully examined. 

    The City of Houston believes the site to be an optimal location for context sensitive design and development that could help improve local environmental quality, provide mixed use development options including housing, retail and co-working spaces, neighborhood amenities such as parks, open spaces, bike and pedestrian infrastructure to improve access and connectivity to highlight the city’s sustainability efforts within a highly visible location.

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    Museo Institute For The Medical Arts In The Museum District

    in Going Up!

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    1 hour ago, hindesky said:

    Dr. Mike Mann eyes next phase of development.

    https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/05/05/mann-eye-institute-museum-district-development.html

    Good to hear the residential tower is still 58-stories.

     

    Now that the Mann Eye Institute's new medical office building has opened in the Museum District, founder Dr. Mike Mann has shared more plans about the mixed-use development it will anchor.

    The institute's new headquarters sit at the corner of Fannin Street and Southmore Boulevard, at 5115 Fannin, across the street from the practice’s former offices. Because Mann maintains ownership of his former offices, his long-term vision for the site is to raze them, making way for a luxury hotel and a 58-story multifamily tower. Hotel guests and multifamily residents will be able to access the office building and the restaurants it will house via a skybridge, Mann told the Houston Business Journal.

    The idea, Mann said, is to create a self-sustaining ecosystem within the development, in which employees working in the office building can live in the apartment tower and medical patients have easy access to the hotel after undergoing surgery.

    “The hotel is really the key to the whole project,” Mann said. “It will allow surgery patients to get back to their hotel room to rest up much more easily because it’s right across the street.”

    However, Mann declined to provide many specifics about the next phase of development, other than to say that the hotel and the multifamily tower will incorporate some of the design elements used in the office building.

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