KinkaidAlum Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Ugh... that needs to come back to me and get off the ground. I love it so much I want to take it behind the middle school gym and get it pregnant. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtNsf Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 2 hours ago, wxman said: This was the original rendering... Thanks so much ! Yes, I remember now how exciting it was, and hopefully will be again whenever they finally get going on the tower part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 3 hours ago, KinkaidAlum said: Ugh... that needs to come back to me and get off the ground. I love it so much I want to take it behind the middle school gym and get it pregnant. ^^^ oh my @KinkaidAlum that's some imagination that you have there...... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nole23 Posted February 19, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2017 http://onemarketsquarehouston.com/ 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Nice to see a little GFR. I'd also be down for a Houston version of Tom's to occupy the space (the diner used in Seinfeld where one side of the store front just says "Restaurant"). Good milkshakes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 This is terrible. It's bad enough that downtown is littered with open-air garages but allowing for one to go up on Market Square Park shows just how far we have to go as a city. Yeah, I know that there are plans to develop around it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 46 minutes ago, KinkaidAlum said: This is terrible. It's bad enough that downtown is littered with open-air garages but allowing for one to go up on Market Square Park shows just how far we have to go as a city. Yeah, I know that there are plans to develop around it. Yep. Hopefully they're just leaving a blank slate so that when the tower is built, they can cover it in a matching facade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
democide Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Agree, same as what Skanska did with Capitol Tower, they're doing here. They will surely post up images of the tower to be built for phase two, to help advertise the site for future development. Again, as they did for Capitol Tower, and for Six Houston Center for that matter. https://tsdrsec.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedoc/sn86546914/ROA20150624172745/2/webcontent?scale=1 I counted 11 stories, so that means it will be 41 stories? Sure hope it's taller, as in, 50 floors tall like it was originally. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoninATX Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Not excited about a new parking garage going up, but atleast this will have GFR. Also excited to see that there is still hope for One Market Square, I have high hopes one day that this tower will be built. Houston we can't let DFW have all the fun, now can we. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 (edited) 9 hours ago, JoninATX said: Not excited about a new parking garage going up, but atleast this will have GFR. Also excited to see that there is still hope for One Market Square, I have high hopes one day that this tower will be built. Houston we can't let DFW have all the fun, now can we. I wouldn't say DFW has had all the fun. We've had *multiple* actual office skyscrapers built here including Main Place and 609 Main. We've got just as many 20 and 30 story buildings under construction or about to begin construction, if not more, than Dallas including Tillman's building, the med center hospital towers, Kirby Collection, Blvd Place, Allen/Gillettte condo tower, Marlow, Marriott Marquis and 3300 main just to name a few off the top of my head. I don't even know the last time Dallas erected a Class A office skyscraper with meaningful height in their downtown core. We've erected two 40+ story building in the last few years with at least one other one, Capitol Tower, coming out of the ground next month. This tower tho is definitely sexy as hell and absolutely needs to happen. I just hope the likes of 6 Houston Center doesn't take the wind out of this sail. Edited February 19, 2017 by wxman 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 I like the look of the "updated" version a year back that was made out of cardboard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Not sure if it was posted but the site is name One Market Square with garage lableled as Phase 1. EDIT: Just saw tweet above. Edited February 23, 2017 by tigereye 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Subdude Posted February 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2017 On 2/18/2017 at 6:17 PM, Nole23 said: http://onemarketsquarehouston.com/ This is just crap. Why are they giving a pretentious name like "One Market Square" to a freakin' parking garage? Is this really the best they can come up with for what could be one of the best locations downtown? 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, Subdude said: This is just crap. Why are they giving a pretentious name like "One Market Square" to a freakin' parking garage? Is this really the best they can come up with for what could be one of the best locations downtown? Could not say it better myself. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post phillip_white Posted February 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2017 9 minutes ago, Subdude said: This is just crap. Why are they giving a pretentious name like "One Market Square" to a freakin' parking garage? Is this really the best they can come up with for what could be one of the best locations downtown? More like One Park-It Square... 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Wait, so all this will ever be is a parking garage? Or will "phase 2" be a tower? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Supposedly, there will be a tower on the northern half of the block, but no one seems to know for sure what it will be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Looks like best case scenario is that in 5-10 years we get a Market Square Tower type of building next to our generation's Kim Son Garage. It's lame. Don't blame the developers because this will be a cash cow but why would our city allow this? Isn't Market Square a historic district? What's the point if it is? Eh, I take it back. Blame the developers too. This was one of the most prime locations downtown and they opted for this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 This block is outside of the historic district, likely because it was vacant when the district was created. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 They should at least paint a facade of old buildings on the back of the parking garage that faces the park, sort of like the garage at Pease and Milam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) or at least put some vines on it. the city should pass an ordinance that if you build a parking garage you either have to put a facade on it, or you have to put vines on it. Edited February 23, 2017 by samagon 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enriquewx91 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 On 2/19/2017 at 6:32 PM, wxman said: I wouldn't say DFW has had all the fun. We've had *multiple* actual office skyscrapers built here including Main Place and 609 Main. We've got just as many 20 and 30 story buildings under construction or about to begin construction, if not more, than Dallas including Tillman's building, the med center hospital towers, Kirby Collection, Blvd Place, Allen/Gillettte condo tower, Marlow, Marriott Marquis and 3300 main just to name a few off the top of my head. I don't even know the last time Dallas erected a Class A office skyscraper with meaningful height in their downtown core. We've erected two 40+ story building in the last few years with at least one other one, Capitol Tower, coming out of the ground next month. This tower tho is definitely sexy as hell and absolutely needs to happen. I just hope the likes of 6 Houston Center doesn't take the wind out of this sail. Wait Capitol Tower is being built after all? I'm late to the party apparently 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 3 hours ago, enriquewx91 said: Wait Capitol Tower is being built after all? I'm late to the party apparently Yeah its supposed to start next month 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 A tower similar in appearance to Aris Market Square on the north side of the block would be quite nice. Market Square would be a nice pocket of residential in Downtown. Maybe Treebeard's could finally open up on weekends. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I was there last weekend and there was a lot of foot traffic, and Barnaby's was open. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CREguy13 Posted February 24, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2017 (edited) I like that they are building the garage. More parking to support all the surrounding businesses and bring more people to the area. Didn't tear anything down and improvement from a surface lot. Edited February 24, 2017 by CREguy13 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 On 2/23/2017 at 5:07 PM, houstontexasjack said: A tower similar in appearance to Aris Market Square on the north side of the block would be quite nice. Market Square would be a nice pocket of residential in Downtown. Maybe Treebeard's could finally open up on weekends. I would love to see a tower that's respectful to the historical district too (International Tower looked awesome, but it would of been out of place on Market Square Park IMO), but since this block is outside the district, and from the garage proposal, I don't have high hopes. I wish the garage was brick with vines growing up trellises for screening over the open sections. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I'm almost always in favor of garages over surface lots but not on this block. An empty lot is an empty slate for something amazing. A brand new 10 story garage with a small retail space is a detriment. Plus, this thing is bat s#!7 ugly too. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 17 hours ago, cloud713 said: I would love to see a tower that's respectful to the historical district too (International Tower looked awesome, but it would of been out of place on Market Square Park IMO), but since this block is outside the district, and from the garage proposal, I don't have high hopes. I wish the garage was brick with vines growing up trellises for screening over the open sections. I suspect the developer wants to keep their aesthetic options open for what ends up getting built on the other side of the lot. In the interim, I also think a translucent covering with a mural facing the park would be neat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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