Howard Huge

Id like to take a minute to thank the Novare Group for titillating us all with the new towers and speed which they are deftly gracing us with.

The Novare Group: "We don't f*** around."

I think it would look good at the corner of Bissonnet and Ashby.

Winner ^

Broadstone Midtown "Phase II" on the boards.

Im gonna need more info than that.

Beautiful

Sweet jesus. Better late than never!

Indeed.

For all the trash ppl talk about mayor parker, the residential incentive is one of the best things to ever happen to downtown houston.

Literally taking decades of dirt, dust and bum urine off this beauty. I've been Swoooned

Fixed it for you!

He is being serious and I tend to agree. This project, and the Hines Residential, will do MORE for downtown than 609 Main (or even BP Place) ever could. You can go ahead and print that and come back in 5-10 years

A vibrant residential component will bring synergy to downtown....a pedestal office tower that empties out at 5PM and is closed on the weekend is limited on what it can bring to downtown.

Of course a true downtown should have a mix of both but YES this project is definitely a game changer. it symbolizes downtown as a residential neighborhood...a title downtown started to lose in the 1920s/30s.

^ Gets it.

haha, another fellow skyline aficionado.

I was thinking the same thing as bob, cloud

Game changer! ^

HAIF, I am disappointed in you guys.

TWO PAGES of yall taking this TROLL'S bait? Cmon, yall are smarter than that....

First of all, did you all forget, just a couple of pages back that wxman (who is the woodlands biggest champion and promoter, to the point of outlandish exaggerations, one of the few making the baseless claim that pretty much ALL of "Big Oil" is relocating to the woodlands/conroe, and also a downtown/urban hater, check his posts) got all BUTTHURT that we said the woodlands was in the boondocks (which it is). Butthurt to the point that he cussed us all out and Urbannizer had to edit/delete the posts (thanks urb).

....So now, to exact his revenge on all you Downtown Houston, city slicker, Inner loop, skyscraper loving posters who called his precious woodlands "the boonies", he posts this made up story about "a guy i know, who knows this guy, who cousins sister in laws dentist went to school with the neighbor of this extremely rich guy who i "had to squeeze information out of" and it was so difficult to get this information (which he explicitly states is NOT FACT and ALL HEARSAY to cover his lie when it is exposed as a bunch of hogwash when chevron actually builds the tower downtown, which they have all but guaranteed they are) it was like "pulling teeth". Why would a bunch of speculation nonsense and possibly false hearsay be such a "big secret" anyway? Dumb.

Anyhow, all you guys need to relax, Chevron has said as recently as a couple weeks ago that the tower is still a go, just delayed until 2015, and THAT IS FROM THE HORSES MOUTH, so until CHEVRON says otherwise, this project is still happening.

Thanks for the link. Kinda weird that the description ("3 level podium and 22-level room tower") does not match the rendering (5-level podium and approximately 24-level room tower).

In the grand tradition of Houston, yet another scaled back project

I'm wondering what the rents are as well for Post. There's a lot of land available still in midtown, and it seems like the bars/resturaunts would rather build new than lease at Post...

speculation

I know the post was actually doing so well they raised everyones rent exponentially and just about everyone except for Farrago stayed put. Farrago didnt leave because of bad business, they were doing quite well financially, they just refused to pay the new ridiculous rent.

I could have sworn I remember swstig alluding to this happening, and that it indeed will be another future tower to consolidate Chevron downtown.......swstig?????

YESSSSSS!!!!

Density! ^

I lost my six-pack and need to get my beer gut back.

Lol, i see what you did there

Ive been riding the north line like a madman lately, you gotta check it out!

Anybody have any new years resolutions?

I wanna lose my beer gut and get my 6 pack back.

Anyhow, I hope you all were safe and had a great night, happy new year!!

Sweet!

Awesome video. Are you a metrorail operator?

Burnett station at around 2 am, man i am so in love with this station!

Well, you have less ridership when you run trains in old ROW cause that's not where the people are.

What you describe are short term problems that resolve themselves long before the rail line becomes obsolete.

I wish the rail were in a subway in high traffic areas like the TMC though, and hopefully the consider separating portions of the line when they become a bigger problem.

I wish ALL the lines were subway, but hey, when youre in a city as anti-rail as Houston, you take what you can get.

So we have the Savoy, the old Central Bank, the Texaco building, and the new JW Marriott... I NEVER would have imagined all of these buildings being revitalized all at once... And then you include the new contruction in progress, this is leaving me speechless to say the least

Now if only Days Inn was next....

Awesome find! The skyline view orientation from the top used in the 4th buildin picture is completely wrong

I noticed that