803 Fannin Garage: Parking Garage At 803 Fannin St.

[Urbannizer]

Demo permit issued to remove the canopies on site.

 

77002

2017/01/19

DEMOLITION

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803 FANNIN ST

DEMO BLD/NO SEWER DISC

[j_cuevas713]

Thank God! lol

[Urbannizer]

What was this before it came to be a parking lot? The description mentions an explosion occurred here.

 

July 1986 Downtown Houston by ArchNME610, on Flickr

[Nate99]

Also - looks like they are closing off the adjacent lot (and a lane on Fannin) for the garage build...

 

[rechlin]

Yesterday they fenced off the parking lot.  Today they started taking down the canopies and power-washing the graffiti off the side of the building.  Looks like the garage might be about to go up!

 

 

 

[nate4l1f3]

What were the details on the garage again?

[lockmat]

4 hours ago, nate4l1f3 said:

What were the details on the garage again?

 

It's just a garage, I think. No retail or plans for a tower on top.

[Random]

Today I noticed the parking lot at Franklin and Rusk (adjacent to Le Meridien) was fenced off and the ground was being torn up.  Any idea what they're doing there?

[Urbannizer]

On page one and nearly the exact same thread title

 

 

[rechlin]

Canopies are now all gone and pavement is being removed.  I may have to set up a second webcam to monitor this too!

 

[flatline]

On 12/3/2016 at 8:54 PM, Urbannizer said:

13-story parking garageeeeh

 

http://www.virtualbx.com/construction-preview/24375-houston-13-story-parking-garage-being-drawn-for-federal-district.html

 

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Houston (Harris Co.) - Gensler is developing designs for a 13-story parking garage in downtown Houston's Federal District.

The facility owner will be Regency Main Parking LLC of Houston.

The project site is directly beside the Central Station Capitol EB (Red Line) light rail on Rusk Street. There is already a multi-story parking garage immediately adjacent to the project site; that is the 1110 Rusk Garage. 

 

For what it's worth, "Regency Main" is the entity to whom tenants in 712 Main/The Jones cut their rent checks.  I'm speculating they are building the garage to provide tenant parking.

[Urbannizer]

On 8/17/2017 at 1:57 PM, flatline said:

 

For what it's worth, "Regency Main" is the entity to whom tenants in 712 Main/The Jones cut their rent checks.  I'm speculating they are building the garage to provide tenant parking.

 

Looks like you're right. Midway & Lionstone are listed as the developer for the parking garage. See #7

 

https://www.downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2017-08-08/170810_Development_Map__Renders_11X17.pdf

[Nate99]

13 stories is a big mofo of a garage.

[UtterlyUrban]

2 hours ago, Nate99 said:

13 stories is a big mofo of a garage.

It will have its own Rush hour for the upper floors.

 

my word, if you park in 13, it will take longer to get to the street than from the street to your hypothetical house in the heights!!!

[hindesky]

[rechlin]

They've dug it down pretty far, exposing some old basements, photo taken yesterday:

 

 

And today they started drilling some piers or something and putting in some concrete:

 

[rechlin]

Looks like this garage is getting a subgrade floor.  In the upper right corner, they've already excavated a dozen feet or so, put a thin concrete layer on the dirt, and are now prepping rebar for the foundation.  They are continuing excavating to this level elsewhere, so it doesn't appear to just be for a crane base.  The holes they drilled a week ago have now mostly been filled with steel beams that are 20 or more feet long (some, mostly longer ones, are seen on the left side), with the wood attached to them to hold dirt back as they continue to dig.

 

[urbanize713]

anyone able to find renderings on this?

[rechlin]

I have added another webcam, so this one will monitor the construction of the garage, with a photo taken every 5 minutes or so.  You can view it here:  http://webcam.rechlin.net/garage/

 

Sample image from today:

 

 

[hindesky]

Asked a worker about this site and he said it will be a 13 story precast using a crawler crane to construct it since tower cranes don't have the capacity to handle the precast pieces.

 

[rechlin]

They are almost done pouring the foundation, and now for whatever reason they covered it back up with dirt.  Also, they are finally above ground level now:

[cspwal]

9 minutes ago, rechlin said:

now for whatever reason they covered it back up with dirt

 

"Quick quick cover this up before anyone notices!"

[rechlin]

Finally a rendering:

[cspwal]

Are those retail spots along Fannin?

Also that block next to the train platform is going to be such a dead block.  Any ideas on what the city/downtown management district could do to liven it up?

[Texasota]

well, the opposite block face will be fine. 

 

That's the real shame to me. One side if the street will be one of the nicest buildings in the city; the other side will be ...this.

 

Hopefully those are at least retail spots though.

[H-Town Man]

If driverless cars ever really live up to their promise, this block could be a great redevelopment opportunity. Until then it's a turd in the swimming pool, except for the Meridien.

 

[hindesky]

Looks ready for a crawler crane.

[hindesky]

The crawler crane is being assembled to install the precast pieces.

[hindesky]

Crawler crane is finished.

 

[hindesky]

Precast is going up.