Houston19514 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Check out the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. Check out OwlSpark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship is.... well.... kind of what I figured. Not bad mouthing it, its more of a competition between any one and everyone. At least that's the take I got from reading their "about" section on the webpage. If this continues to grow in scope and scale that would be great! I hope it does. I think you and I both agree that we need to be able to keep a lot of these types of companies here in town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) Agreed. And I think a lot more is being done by Rice, UH, HTC and others than you are apparently aware of. (and the number 1 thing that would help keep these companies in town is, as I alluded to earlier, more local angel and seed investors, not another building). Edited October 14, 2014 by Houston19514 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Agreed. And I think a lot more is being done by Rice, UH, HTC and others than you are apparently aware of. (and the number 1 thing that would help keep these companies in town is, as I alluded to earlier, more local angel and seed investors). Just found a list of Texas Business Incubators.Austin - 22Houston - 18Dallas/FW - 21 If you took away Rice's 4 incubators then we're sorely lacking. Particularly when you consider the number of people and the number of major coprorations that are located here. The big problem however, is that energy doesn't seem to have the desire to 'incubate" businesses the way tech firms do. When I think of the size of Houston + business capital + two major research universities + largest collection of medical facilities in one single place in the world - and I'm left with a sour taste in my mouth that we're way behind what/where we ought to be at this time in this arena. Hopefully we will continue to see additional investment in this area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) Why would you take away Rice's 4? And FWIW, a simple count of the number of accelerators really tells us little and is far from dispositive as to the relative strengths of the accelerator communities. Agree we're clearly behind where we should be in the medical area. But we are making great strides in that area. Edited October 14, 2014 by Houston19514 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Does Bob Schultz midmain high rise have a tenant or is he building spec, I cant remember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) Why would you take away Rice's 4? And FWIW, a simple count of the number of accelerators really tells us little and is far from dispositive as to the relative strengths of the accelerator communities. Agree we're clearly behind where we should be in the medical area. But we are making great strides in that area. I'm simply saying that without Rice we would have a lot less. Rice Alliance is huge (clearly - they fund a lot of things)... Indeed some of the business incubators listed were... small and not of any real consequence, but Austin having more is a shame. I do hope we can continue to see a rise in the number of new business startups here. I'd love to see the Biomedical side really take off. Goodness knows other cities have a firmer grasp on that area than we do - unfortunately. Edited October 14, 2014 by arche_757 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 The biggest potential for growth is in Biomedical and Aerospace. I do agree that it would be nice to see more startups here in Houston, but I see that as more wishful thinking. We will always have them and will always get more, but that will only be because the size of the city gets bigger and that allows more to come in. Houston is just a different market than the other places you mentioned. It's the symbol of big buisness, big money, big everything! I would imagine that it would be quite intimidating to begin a startup in such high competitive market. Houston is a place where the big fish come to settle down and make a nice little home for themselves lol. I've always noticed that startups will always seek out smaller markets first. It's smart and it allows you to have plenty of room to grow before you make the jump onto the bigger stage. I mean come on, Austin screams startup! It's just the way the culture there is and always has been. Then again I'm not exactly business savvy so maybe I'm wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxtethogrady Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 So what should be incubated? No one seems to have done much with the superconductors and Buckyballs (which WERE invented in Houston), and I'm not sure what else there is in the way of tech that isn't duplicated in other towns. Maybe it's just better to bring in more museums/art galleries/restaurants/theaters/residential blocks. And a grocery; it's a food desert down there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted November 5, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2014 http://www.3003louisiana.com/ 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fkp5 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 This looks very nice. Should be great for Midtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Mid-2015 start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Avossos Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 <img src="https://flic.kr/p/v1wVUY"/>This makes it seem like it's a go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 This and the office portion of mid main would really tie the room together. fingers crossed. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Wow this is exactly what midtown needs right now. Hope they keep the design. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Man but a 3rd quarter 2017 completion date!? When do they plan on starting this thing? Smh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lestat Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Great design, much better than the original! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Great design, much better than the original!Huh? I don't think the design changed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 This and the office portion of mid main would really tie the room together. fingers crossed.Where's the money Lebowski?! Ve need ze money! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTHONYHTOWN Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 not a bad spot if it happens specially one block away from that future residential/whole foods concept at the former social security office location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 The office portion to garage ratio makes it look funny. I also don't like the distance the offices are within the garage perimeter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdog08 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 More class A space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/sarnoff/article/Midtown-poised-for-first-new-office-tower-in-6402458.php 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 One has to wonder whether, with the proposed demolition of the Pierce Elevated, a greater influx of commercial office space will start to move into Midtown. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Construction, however, won't start on the building until about half of it is spoken for by future tenants. Unfortunately, I fear this is a euphemism for "probably isn't going to happen". Last I heard, there were no future tenants for 609 Main, and nobody has announced moving into the soon-to-be-complete Central Square building, either, so things don't look good for yet another office building. I'd love to see this one go up, but I don't put its chances any higher than 6 Houston Center (which I'd already put behind Capitol Tower). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLan34 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/sarnoff/article/Midtown-poised-for-first-new-office-tower-in-6402458.php?t=92d854b045&cmpid=twitter-premium The Midtown building will have a hotel-style lobby, extensive landscaping and a covered colonnade that will provide shelter to pedestrians on all four sides. It will have about 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail fronting Milam and Rosalie streets. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I thought the "pedestrian shelter" on all four sides was the interesting part.. They're going to have to shoo homeless people out from under that awning all the freaking time of it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownproud Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Not going to happen with that occupancy threshold unless something medicine related decides to set-up shop there (it's close to halfway between DT and the med center). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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