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New design for the hotel, finally moving forward.

A new luxury hotel will soon break ground in the Woodlands, providing much-needed rooms and meeting space for business travelers visiting the area.  The Howard Hughes  Corp. (NYSE: HHC) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, The Woodlands Development Co., will soon break ground on a 303-room, luxury hotel at Waterway Square overlooking The Woodlands Waterway. The cost of the project was not disclosed.

 

The hotel, unofficially known as "Waterway Square Hotel," will also include 24,000 square feet of meeting and special event space, a fine dining restaurant and second level pool deck and bar. The Howard Hughes Corp. is in the process of finalizing negotiations with the brand name for the hotel.

The entire project is expected to be completed in mid-2015. The design architect is Elkus Manfredi Architects of Boston. Architect of record is Houston-based Gensler. A contractor has not been named.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2014/02/new-luxury-hotel-coming-to-the-woodlands.html

Taken about an hour ago by me.

Yep, around the same size as 3 & 4. 350k sq ft.

I can confirm it as well, there is a new crane up towards the Northeast side of the property. There had been rumors of two more buildings being added as they still needed additional space to continue consolidating offices.

CityCentre Five to break ground later this month:

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2014/02/citycentre-office-tower-to-break-ground.html

2/10, from the facebook page.

Breaking ground later this month.

well that is interesting. there is no way the development rendered is anywhere near 1 million+ sq ft though. maybe 500,000.

edit. they said it has 75,000 sq ft of retail space. there is no way even the 500,000 sq ft estimate i threw out is possible for a 13 story tower (2 of the floors being part of the retail), thats footprint doesnt even take up half of the block.

Learned today that its 510,000 square feet. Unless the project recently grew in size, the description I quoted in my original post is for a different development.

What he said. You can actually see the excavator for the Fingers apartments near the center. This one is supposed to go up in Q2, but they may be starting early...? My theory though is that they are simply taking soil samples for the engineers.

Yes just soil samples, usually done a few months before construction. They pulled up the pavement last month.

Ground-level. 2/5 by Tottottotito2 on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/people/116993823@N04/

http://www.houstontx.gov/citysec/agendas/2014/Feb0414.pdf

This article notes the project as one of the developments underway for the area.

http://blog.chron.com/urbanpolicy101/2014/01/scott-street-corridor-coalition-needs-to-be-restarted/

2/7, GreenStreet FB page:

Registered for LEED certification on on Feb 4th. 637,988 sq ft.

http://www.gbig.org/activities/leed-1000039080

The size of the building is 406,600 square feet.

Any idea whether it's on the East or West side of 6? I wouldn't think a project of this size wouldn't fit on the East side, so I'm assuming it's on the West.

Grisby is a cut through for morning commuters, and if this project is where i think it is, it's going to cause a huge backup in the AM.

Regardless, This is a good start for a somewhat delapitated and underused area.

The West side, some screenshots of the site from the Planning Comission Agenda.

^ The plans call for the building to be renovated and converted to apartments, not for it to be taken down. Nate even tells us what the crane is being used for...it's pretty clear that you didn't read. I was being serious because I was giving out a warning.

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Why are they dismantling this building to build a new one? As if Houston is running out of space. Stupid.

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Another development for west Houston by Transwestern. Mostly office buildings but I'm guessing this project will come with some other use as well. Located at Highway 6 and I-10. Munoz Albin is the architect.

• Two, 6-Story Office Buildings (one pictured)
• 14-Story Office Building
• 16-Story Office Building (pictured)

Millennium Tower II, 22-floors

The Millennium Tower in Westchase is getting a long-awaited sibling. The owner of the building has started a second on 3 adjacent acres at 10353 Richmond. Millennium II will have 417,000 square feet of high-end office space and a 1,780-car parking garage.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/sarnoff/article/Westchase-tower-stands-alone-but-that-s-about-to-5216169.php

The architect says that no particular architectural style has been chosen and the renderings are very loose and schematic. Which means the final design can be different than what we are seeing right now.

Another view of the apartments.

I don't know the location for this one.

Hwy 6 at Grisby, pretty far out but something new for that area. 

Retail is coming with this one.

http://www.meekspartners.com/elan-memorial-park?c=T24tVGhlLUJvYXJkcw==