Sky-guy Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 (edited) I got bored so played with scetch up/google earth. Is this the future of uptown? (by the way, nothing is exact) Edited November 2, 2013 by Sky-guy 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaderJF Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Nice, but you forgot a few towers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Belfiore and 3600? Post oak, the phase 2 of the complex bbva is part of. Though idk when the latter is getting off the ground. What else are you referring to that may be done by 2017? Thanks for the mock up, uptown is going to look a lot different in just a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky-guy Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Ill try to make an updated version. whats 3600? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 It's not 3600, I think it's 2200 or something but I forget. The 30 story mixed use tower designed similar to bbva compass, that's supposed to go on the lot next to bbva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky-guy Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 cloud713, the closest I could find to what your talking about is this: But that's part of the uptown park development, so it isn't near the bbva tower... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 nah i think that was just a conceptual rendering of what could be done with the site. its called The Perennial, right next to 2200 Post Oak (BBVAsbuilding)no idea if/when its supposed to start though so it may not be finished by 2017. (its the tower on the right, BBVA is on the left) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sellanious Caesar Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 cloud713, the closest I could find to what your talking about is this: But that's part of the uptown park development, so it isn't near the bbva tower... What building is this? It's huge. Did it get cancelled or is it still proposed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 (edited) What building is this? It's huge. Did it get cancelled or is it still proposed?http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/28426-uptown-park-converting-to-high-density-mixed-use/here is a link to the thread. unfortunately it seemed to be just a conceptual idea for what could be built there, not whats actually being built. i believe they will sell the land next year and then its up to the new owners how they want to develop it? it was a neat looking tower though.. hopefully whatever they come up with makes a decent impact on the skyline. Edited November 3, 2013 by cloud713 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylineView Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 This is pretty slick. The Astoria looks a little large to me (2nd row of photos, right hand side). I believe it is only 4 stories higher than the Astoria, though that is just a nit-pick. Nice effort! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Otto Mation) Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 ✈ concord⁹⁷⁷ has added a photo to the pool: © Curt Littlejohn / ✈ concord⁹⁷⁷ / aviationcolorsMore Photos at Houston Click here to view this photo at the HAIF Photo Pool on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Otto Mation) Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 ✈ concord⁹⁷⁷ has added a photo to the pool: © Curt Littlejohn / ✈ concord⁹⁷⁷ / aviationcolorsMore Photos at Houston Click here to view this photo at the HAIF Photo Pool on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Looks like that phase 2 of the bbva complex might start sooner than I thought. It's gables post oak mixed use tower thread in going up. May be the tallest tower of all the new ones on post oak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Interesting stuff from BisNow's Future of Uptown: Uptown Houston District CEO John Breeding (speaking to our 350 attendees) says development is booming in his submarket across all property types. Residential is the bulk of construction, with over 20 multifamily high-rises in the works. There are eight hotels in discussion that would add 2,000 rooms, with four planning to break ground next year. (It's a good time to be in the mini soap business.) There's 2M SF of office development in the pipeline. TxDOT is reconstructing the 59/610 interchange starting in 2017 and ending 2021, and John says his district's $190M mass transit plan is more than just transportation improvement; it'll remake Uptown. Fun fact: Uptown is the 14th-largest business district in the country. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Interesting stuff from BisNow's Future of Uptown: Uptown Houston District CEO John Breeding (speaking to our 350 attendees) says development is booming in his submarket across all property types. Residential is the bulk of construction, with over 20 multifamily high-rises in the works. There are eight hotels in discussion that would add 2,000 rooms, with four planning to break ground next year. (It's a good time to be in the mini soap business.) There's 2M SF of office development in the pipeline. TxDOT is reconstructing the 59/610 interchange starting in 2017 and ending 2021, and John says his district's $190M mass transit plan is more than just transportation improvement; it'll remake Uptown. Fun fact: Uptown is the 14th-largest business district in the country. Wow. Then that would be around 28 highrises in either residential and hospitality + 4 or so office highrises. Sounds like a boom for sure. But I doubt more than 6-8 of those residential towers get built (if that many). And egads... 4-5 years of construction on the recently reworked interchange by TxDot?! See... you people who want new freeway work don't see the neverending madness that is TxDot and its horribly lengthy construction time frame. And only 190 million for transit, I wonder what we will get for that small amount of money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 28?! Bussssssssst! If half of those go up HAIFers will be fainting. At the same time, I'd like to know his definition of a high rise. Although 14 5-stories would still be pretty cool. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowerSpotter Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 28?! Bussssssssst! If half of those go up HAIFers will be fainting. At the same time, I'd like to know his definition of a high rise. Although 14 5-stories would still be pretty cool. Wouldn't this be adding a little more that a 1/3 of highrises there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Just did a quick count off of Bing. Looks like there is somewhere between 79-90 highrises inside the "Uptown" area. I missed a few (I know) but only counted 10+ floor buildings. So that's about 1/3 (like you said) which is a huge growth in the whole area! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowerSpotter Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Woah I hope all this development will spur a supertall at somepoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 And egads... 4-5 years of construction on the recently reworked interchange by TxDot?! See... you people who want new freeway work don't see the neverending madness that is TxDot and its horribly lengthy construction time frame. My understanding is that TxDot works on a pay-as-you-go system so that it doen't have to take on debt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I thought they only get bids from General Contractors and select the lowest bid (probably also the slowest), and the contractor plays the old game of "Change Orders for a Fool" and submits change order after change order until they make more money than originally quoted [but maybe I'm mistaken? This may be only what happens to the City of Houston?]. Hopefully the length of time wil be because they will work on only 1 segment at a time (and not the whole enchilada) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 That probably goes on as well. My point was that they only do what they get money for from the State in a particular year, so if the State doesn't allocate it doesn't get done that year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 ^Ah yes. Of course. I was missing the forest for the trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I fully understand and support their reasoning on this, but it does suck that projects seem to go on forever. I was on 35 south of Waco last month and it was under construction. Seems like that segment of I35 from Waco to Austin has been under construction ever since at least the mid-80's. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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