Popular Post Urbannizer Posted September 3, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted September 3, 2015 Museo Plaza http://www.pjararchitects.com/#!museo-plaza/cem1 http://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb83fc_c5a07eb34c1548a6850a68a9fbd1d37b.jpg http://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb83fc_fb35ae21ca1d4f098072a639d010e989.jpg http://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb83fc_c7c3a0bf00b14d31ba6114197739aec0.jpg http://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb83fc_e822247a181e45c9b682c976f1afd538.jpg http://static.wixstatic.com/media/eb83fc_75ed31ef756044bc86a07f87c989f2e8.jpg 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 Oh gee, this sounds like enough to split the post above into its own thread: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/A-legend-returns-slightly-shorter-6482739.php And Ritchie and Dasigenis have another project brewing in the Museum District. Stay tuned. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 Moved from "Houston: Potential" to Going Up. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 (edited) For real?? Edit: This area is going to be such a cluster of activity with Hines complex going up next to this and the larger MFAH campus in the works. Edited September 4, 2015 by Triton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Yikes! I love it if it is for real! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 (edited) - Edited July 9, 2019 by Timoric 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Yes, please! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 this is pushing 50 stories...That skybridge, is that a first for a Houston Resi-tower? That thing must be 40 stories tall as well. hines' new montrose/upper kirby apt has a sky bridge. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Ok,don't do this to me Urbannizer, I can't handle another Bank of the Southwest, Shamrock, Chevron Tower right now, too down in the dumps with the oil bust. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I'm just gonna pretend like I didn't see this topic. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 This will be great if there is some traction to this project. Looks like surface level parking, a Whitney bank, the Mann eye institute low rise, and an abandoned car wash currently occupy the lots. It'll really add towards connecting the DT and the med center skylines 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Ok,don't do this to me Urbannizer, I can't handle another Bank of the Southwest, Shamrock, Chevron Tower right now, too down in the dumps with the oil bust. THIS. This is enough to give any of us a sticky spot in our underwear. Urbannizer: What scoop do you have that encouraged you to move this into the ''Going Up'' section? Is this imminent? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllenOlenska Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 This has been such a good morning. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 AYFKM? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 (edited) I have thought about what might be a good project to go up on that Whitney Bank site when walking by it for the last several months.....this is past my wildest dreams. Edit: if this is "brewing," I'd love to see a more formal announcement about it. Edited September 4, 2015 by houstontexasjack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 This is a little hard to believe today. I hope it comes to fruition , but like many of you I wonder who, what, and why. It appears that the tower will be right across the street from Lawndale Annex on Main Street, if I'm reading this correctly. Great find Urbanizer, but please give us a little more meat. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 may we please change the name to MUSEO TREASURE? we've been searching for something like this forever in houston. an absolute masterpiece.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 THIS. This is enough to give any of us a sticky spot in our underwear. Urbannizer: What scoop do you have that encouraged you to move this into the ''Going Up'' section? Is this imminent? The tidbit of info given by the Chron that mentions the architects have something in-development for the Museum District; their website showing renders of a development in the Museum District -- is enough to place it here. Swtsigs post is also reassuring. If this is indeed what's planned by them, I think it's more of "Will this be able to get out of ground anytime soon, if so, w/o being drastically being scaled down?" Interested to know who's behind this. In this render they have a placeholder for The Southmore, which shows this is fairly recent. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfastx Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 THIS would be a game changer for this area. Whoa. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 This came up via google search: He is currently working on a 54 story tower in the Houston Museum District 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparrow Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Complete speculation here, but if I were a betting man, I'd say Hines was the force behind this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparrow Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 This came up via google search: Don't forget the rest of the cached quote that says with a "200 room hotel and retail lifestyle center on 3 full city blocks". 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Wow! Love it. I was in this area yesterday previewing some open houses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 (Internal voice) "don't get you hopes up, don't get you hopes up...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 (edited) The tidbit of info given by the Chron that mentions the architects have something in-development for the Museum District; their website showing renders of a development in the Museum District -- is enough to place it here. Swtsigs post is also reassuring. If this is indeed what's planned by them, I think it's more of "Will this be able to get out of ground anytime soon, if so, w/o being drastically being scaled down?" Interested to know who's behind this. In this render they have a placeholder for The Southmore, which shows this is fairly recent. We'll, just think of all the "cancelled" projects we got back from the 2008 financial crisis. If this tower doesn't come this time around, maybe we'll get in the next boom (possibly 2018 based on CBRE forecast). Edited September 4, 2015 by Triton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Wait...what? Wait what? What? Thats not bad looking at all. I would like to see more finalized stuff. It still looks a little too conceptual to just jump in, but this is what you call mixed use! This a wonderful start though! Definitely now on my most anticipated! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sellanious Caesar Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I see the Museum District is constructing a nice skyline now. The Carter will look stunning on its completion, it's near the freeway too, so will look high-class for all to easily see. The Hotel ZaZa area has a nice cluster too, I notice with TMC to the south and the Mosaics along 288, that high rises are developing all around Hermann Park. Houston's infill is amazing to watch. Hope this happens, Museo's 54 story tower instantly becomes to Museum District what the Transco Tower is to Uptown (just obviously on a more micro level to Transco, and Museum District on a micro level to Uptown). Oh BTW before I forget, I notice lots of those cute cutting edge condo "semi- towers" at 8-12 floors sprouting up in Museum District and Midtown, so there is hope for continuity in a potential future skyline spanning from DT 2 TMC after all. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Regarding conceptualizations that have already picked out city blocks, such as this project... It is assumed that the developers have been in talks with the current land owners? Or is this as much of a surprise to them, as it is to us, to see a new tower concept on their property? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanize713 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Museo = Museum in Spanish. Since this includes a hotel and residences, is this our iteration of the Live Aqua hotel? That announcement was made in June when details were not yet available other than the Chicago version would be 82 stories. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Museo = Museum in Spanish. Since this includes a hotel and residences, is this our iteration of the Live Aqua hotel? That announcement was made in June when details were not yet available other than the Chicago version would be 82 stories.That would be amazing/much more reassuring that it will get built, lol. But I don't think an Aqua live would have all the other components spanning the other 2 blocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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