Popular Post Urbannizer Posted August 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 24, 2020 https://www.cityfeet.com/cont/listing/office-space-for-lease/1601-sawyer-houston-tx-77007/cs20558794?sk=41a96ea6080143a0a5407c718eeac12e 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouTXRanger Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Looks like a great location! The "year built" lists 2021, will they be able to build it by then? Don't think I saw anything at all last time I was there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Beautiful! Kind of wonder how the office market will be. Could be a tough time to build this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Wow very nice 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 This is really beautiful! It looks perfect for the area and considering it is going in my neighborhood, I am thrilled! I hope this gets built! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crock Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 i cant imagine how cutthroat it's going to be to try to get companies to come here instead of the MKT or Montrose Collective. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 25 minutes ago, crock said: i cant imagine how cutthroat it's going to be to try to get companies to come here instead of the MKT or Montrose Collective. Personally, I prefer here if I am more a traditional business. If I am a small scale office (real estate, ect) I might prefer MKT. It is all about scale. This is the at the foot of downtown. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricarhimel Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 This office space looks really good! The location was picked very well too. However, it must be a tough time to build an office space. The virus hasn’t gone anywhere yet and the pandemic restrictions are just to become stricter again. I am not sure how profitable this project really is. I think in the modern climate coworking spaces are thriving way more than office spaces. Some companies have their own policies concerning physical presence at the workplace during a pandemic. Sometimes it’s not the restrictions enforced by the government but by the companies themselves that prevent workers from working in the office. But working from home has a ton of downsides too. So a lot of people choose to work in coworking spaces in order to get the best out of this situation. I myself also work from a coworking space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted June 11, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 11, 2023 New design: https://view.ceros.com/cbre-strike-team/1600-sawyer-brochure 21 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEES?! Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Wow, that new design is really nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CREguy13 Posted June 11, 2023 Share Posted June 11, 2023 Has Trammell Crow been the known developer for awhile? Awesome design and love the timber 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanize713 Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 Any more movement on this rail line going away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 19 minutes ago, hindesky said: I wish they would just build here. We could use some office here instead of more restaurants and apartments. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 Don’t we have massive office vacancy rates in Houston right now? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortune Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 2 hours ago, jmitch94 said: Don’t we have massive office vacancy rates in Houston right now? Did not stop the office space at Montrose Collective, MKT Heights, East River, or Discovery West. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 On 6/11/2023 at 10:22 PM, urbanize713 said: Any more movement on this rail line going away? Christof Spieler presented this in 2020. Basically, they would consolidate the two rail lines into one right of way and have it pass over where the Fire Department and Arson Division is currently housed. But last time I attended a meeting about that, there was a lot of push back from the First Ward so have no clue if it will ever go forward. First Ward is more concerned about the horns than where the tracks actually lie, oddly enough. https://www.letstalkhouston.org/nhhip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 23 minutes ago, Triton said: Christof Spieler presented this in 2020. Basically, they would consolidate the two rail lines into one right of way and have it pass over where the Fire Department and Arson Division is currently housed. But last time I attended a meeting about that, there was a lot of push back from the First Ward so have no clue if it will ever go forward. First Ward is more concerned about the horns than where the tracks actually lie, oddly enough. https://www.letstalkhouston.org/nhhip And here's a direct link from the city: https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nhhip/docs_pdfs/Connections/33 Rail Relocation.pdf 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79ta Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 13 hours ago, jmitch94 said: Don’t we have massive office vacancy rates in Houston right now? Yes, but also no. I can't find the article that differentiated the new and older spaces so here's one that's close. In any case, new space was almost completely leased out (as @Fortune mentioned) while the older building are sitting vacant and becoming more so as these new projects open. "Houston and Dallas had 18.8% and 17.2% of office space sitting empty at the end of 2022... well above the national average of 12.5%. New York, San Jose, San Francisco, and Chicago had vacancy rates of 12.3%, 12%, 16.4%, and 15.1%, respectively... Houston and Dallas have long lived with double-digit vacancy rates as the result of several booms and busts over the decades as the local oil and gas industry seesawed. Vacancies began surging last decade when a plunge in oil prices roiled local employers in 2014, 2015, and 2016. The pandemic applied more pressure when companies emptied out their buildings and sent their people home... Their biggest challenge is selling tenants on the older space put up during previous booms decades ago. Newer buildings that were built five years ago or less have single-digit vacancy, according to Aguirre, while older space from the 1980s is a much harder sell." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/houston-dallas-lead-the-country-in-office-attendance--and-empty-office-space-125019682.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrainTrak Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 8 hours ago, Triton said: there was a lot of push back from the First Ward As a resident of the First Ward and a member of the First Ward Civic Council, I'm surprised to see this. I personally support the proposed rail consolidation plan 100%, and I haven't seen any effort to oppose it in any of our council meetings. The more density and investment that we see in the area, the more it makes sense to me to eliminate the rail on Winter St and convert it into another rails-to-trails hike and bike path. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 20 minutes ago, TrainTrak said: As a resident of the First Ward and a member of the First Ward Civic Council, I'm surprised to see this. I personally support the proposed rail consolidation plan 100%, and I haven't seen any effort to oppose it in any of our council meetings. The more density and investment that we see in the area, the more it makes sense to me to eliminate the rail on Winter St and convert it into another rails-to-trails hike and bike path. I am a resident of 6th Ward and I think combining rail lines into the center street line and removing winter street line would be absolutely the best thing for the area. Winter Street could be a very nice Street / trail combo like Nicholson is in Greater Heights. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanize713 Posted June 28, 2023 Share Posted June 28, 2023 8 hours ago, Avossos said: I am a resident of 6th Ward and I think combining rail lines into the center street line and removing winter street line would be absolutely the best thing for the area. Winter Street could be a very nice Street / trail combo like Nicholson is in Greater Heights. 100% agree with this. This area needs improved connectivity and a road/trail combo would go a long way to solving this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Triton Posted June 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2023 16 hours ago, TrainTrak said: As a resident of the First Ward and a member of the First Ward Civic Council, I'm surprised to see this. I personally support the proposed rail consolidation plan 100%, and I haven't seen any effort to oppose it in any of our council meetings. The more density and investment that we see in the area, the more it makes sense to me to eliminate the rail on Winter St and convert it into another rails-to-trails hike and bike path. I was there when the city first proposed these plans to the First Ward and Near Northside. I thought it was absolutely amazing. The level of connectivity. It was a top notch presentation and it was exactly what we all needed... from Midtown to far up north. But the push back came immediately at the presentation... the city proposed to connect Dart St Edwards St to Burnett St via a new bridge and then, as we all know, they proposed combining the two railways into a single new bridge that would take some land from UH-D. There were too many people vocally against it all.... from higher traffic down Dart St Edwards St to people worried about crime somehow magically coming across both bridges to disrupt the First Ward. To be quite frank, the people who hate change are usually the ones who show up to these events even though I think the vast majority of people support it. (The yellow line is the new train track) 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 (edited) Considering they are still planning to spend all the money to build a railroad bridge over the North Canal, it seems the proposal of consolidating the rail lines is dead. I don't understand why it would see much opposition, because it would be almost universally better to reroute it, so maybe it was a funding issue? Or maybe, because it would involve realigning the "Be Someone" bridge, the delay of the IH-45 rebuild made it no longer feasible to do this all at once? Edited June 30, 2023 by rechlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 The architect: https://www.esgarch.com/portfolio/sawyer-yards/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, Urbannizer said: The architect: https://www.esgarch.com/portfolio/sawyer-yards/ More on 1600 Sawyer from ESG Architecture's website: This mixed-use boutique office building will be located in the emerging Sawyer Yards district of Houston, Texas. Constructed of cross-laminated timber, this sustainable modern industrial design acts as a bridge between the historic character of the neighborhood and the emerging tech-focused demographic of the working population. The street level will include retail space, and each unique multi-tenant floor plate above shares a central amenity space as well as spacious outdoor terraces. 6 stories; 200,00 RSF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 (edited) On 6/11/2023 at 10:12 AM, Urbannizer said: New design: https://view.ceros.com/cbre-strike-team/1600-sawyer-brochure 2 hours ago, Urbannizer said: The architect: https://www.esgarch.com/portfolio/sawyer-yards/ Additional renderings of 1600 Sawyer from ESG Architecture's website. These are also included in the marketing brochure linked last year. The renderings are by UCharm. Edited April 10 by IntheKnowHouston 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 On 6/11/2023 at 10:12 AM, Urbannizer said: New design: https://view.ceros.com/cbre-strike-team/1600-sawyer-brochure Additional details about 1600 Sawyer from the brochure are below. 1600 Sawyer is a mixed-use office boutique building featuring a mass timber design. The development is from Trammell Crow Company. ESG Architecture is the architect of record. 17, 500 sf of ground floor retail 187, 546 sf of office space 24,000 sf of activated terraces 5,550 sf of rooftop retail space 3/1000 parking ratio Slated delivery: Q4 2025 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 (edited) 3 hours ago, Urbannizer said: The architect: https://www.esgarch.com/portfolio/sawyer-yards/ Parking and rentable square footage details for 1600 Sawyer: Underground - 175 parking stalls Level 1 - 65 parking stalls Level 2 - 160 parking stalls Level 3 - 160 parking stalls Level 4 - 56,356 rsf Level 5 - 49,971 rsf Level 6 - 48,044 rsf Rooftop - 30,323 rsf Edited April 10 by IntheKnowHouston 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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