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    Guadalupe Plaza Park At 2311 Runnels St.

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

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    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/houston-clean-energy-artwork-arch-of-time-riccardo-mariano-2335103


    A new public artwork called the Arco del Tiempo, or Arch of Time, will generate clean energy for Texans still rebuilding from the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

    City officials in Houston have accepted a proposal from German architect Riccardo Mariano for the massive, futuristic installation developed with the Land Art Generator, a nonprofit that seeks to advance renewable energy-focused public art.

    Mariano said he expects the arch, when completed, to be covered in solar panels that will generate 400 megawatt-hours of electricity per year—about what 40 Texan homes consume.

     

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    Downtown Redevelopment Authority plans to launch a Commercial Real Estate Conversion Program

    in Downtown

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    https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/office/houston-office-conversions-are-picking-up-but-not-as-much-as-they-could-be-119567

    Central Houston, the organization that helps ensure the center city and Houston’s urban core remain vital and progressive, hopes to be part of the solution. It  commissioned AECOM to perform a downtown office-to-residential conversion feasibility study late last year. The results are expected this fall, Central Houston Chief Operating Officer Allen Douglas said.

    "The kernel of information that we're really driving for here is, 'In the question of a conversion, what's the capital stack gap that a building that’s currently an office building needs to address when it moves from office to residential, or office to hospitality, or office to institutional?'" Douglas said.

    The study is examining three specific office buildings downtown, which he declined to name. The aim is to understand the costs to convert a building, which differ depending on the building size, the floor plate and the aspirations of the lender and the building owner, he said.

    "Any kind of program that helps to incentivize that has to take into account all of those different aspects in a way that is equitable and pays fidelity to the fact that public dollars are being used," Douglas said.

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    UT Research Park Complex Developments

    in Going Up!

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    UTHealth Houston School of Public Health breaks ground on a building that embodies the education, research and practice to keep Texans healthy

    https://www.uth.edu/news/story/uthealth-houston-school-of-public-health-breaks-ground-on-a-building-that-embodies-the-education-research-and-practice-to-keep-texans-healthy

    The most prestigious school of public health in the state and fourth-largest in the country, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health will break ground on a 10-story, 350,000-square-foot tower in the Texas Medical Center that underscores the school’s mission of health promotion and disease prevention, sustainable access to affordable health care with improved outcomes, and training the next generation of leaders in public health sciences.

    “This new, state-of-the-art facility will serve as a platform for our students, faculty and staff – allowing them to transform the lives and health of our communities through public health education and research,” said Giuseppe Colasurdo, MD, president and Alkek-Williams Distinguished Chair at UTHealth Houston.

    The design of the new building, with an estimated cost of $299 million, embraces sustainability with plans for rainwater harvesting for irrigation, abundant natural light, access to greenspace, an upper-level terrace, holistic teaching garden, and building automation programming.

    Located in the Texas Medical Center’s Helix Park, it will house state-of-the-art research laboratories and distance-learning technology, an auditorium, teaching kitchen for its dietetic interns, collaborative spaces, and classrooms in support of the school’s broad range of disciplines including epidemiology, genetics, nutrition, health policy, data science, and health promotion.

     

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    POST: Mixed-Use Development At 401 Franklin St.

    in Going Up!

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    On 5/8/2023 at 6:56 AM, ChannelTwoNews said:

    https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/05/05/lovett-commercial-frank-liu.html

    "But they’re ambitious. Tell us about why you saw an opportunity in creating the Post Houston entertainment complex and now this art and music education campus.

    I’m going to get a little emotional. My younger son, Frank Jr., passed about a year and a half ago. Both Kirby and Frank see the world a little bit differently. They came up with the name Post Houston both because it was the old post office but also because the idea was “post-Houston,” meaning the next stage of Houston.

    The road was very hard from the time we bought the post office building in 2015. There was the oil and gas situation and then Covid. But we are happy with the momentum.

    Because both boys were always really into art — my younger son was very much a musician — they wanted to create an interesting, creative campus for Houston.

    How has leasing been at Post Houston?

    Well, the office market is a challenge. We have a lot of momentum on the food front. The food hall has pretty much filled up, and we have some more sit-down-type restaurants coming in.

    But it’s been tough. Construction costs have gone through the roof. No one can get a loan right now. So, pretty much everything you see at Post Houston, we put up.

    It’s very entrepreneurial. Pretty much all these restaurants in the food hall have to do is bring their pots and pans. But in that way, the owners reflect the demographics of the customers, very entrepreneurial and reflects the startup scene.

    Financially, it's been tough, but people seem to like it. And I'm getting many, many people from different parts of the country, different parts of the world coming to check it out."

    I don’t have access to the article, but it sounds like future phases aren’t happening anytime soon.

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