The Summit At Renaissance Park: Affordable Housing At 12121 Greenspoint Dr.

[hindesky]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Coming-to-Greenspoint-A-77-million-325-unit-16314845.php

The city on Wednesday approved a $15 million loan to help finance a 325-unit affordable housing complex near the Greenspoint Mall, by far the largest project in the city’s Harvey recovery program and one officials hope will help revitalize the area.

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by editor

[Highrise Tower]

Plan Review permit.

[Highrise Tower]

Building permit.

[Paco Jones]

Architect:

Forge Craft

 

Information:

The project will consist of two buildings and a parking garage.  Outdoor amenities include a swimming pool,  play areas (covered and uncovered),  gazebos, community gardens, and a dog park.
 

Building #1

6-story with 168 units for a total of 184,420 SF.  There are also two ground floor retail shell areas totaling 22,765 SF.

Building #2

4-story with 157 units for a total of 134,864 SF. 

Garage

9-level precast concrete parking garage with a total of 558 parking spaces.

 

 

 

 

 

[Spalmer]

I lived in the greenspoint area for 10 years I've seen the best of it I've also seen the worst of it hopefully this will make things good so this is affordable housing I hope that means that there's not too much government housing we know how that works would love to see something happen with the mall it's a shame about the theater that theater wasn't old

[Luminare]

And the award for the Worst Model to be Published/Shared with the Public...goes to...Forge Craft.

At the very least when you show off your model, show a finished one. Seriously, my eyes are bleeding and weeping at the same time when I look at this. I am immediately skeptical of any firm or project that is shown/presented in this way. Its lazy, and unprofessional.

[Houston19514]

On 1/23/2022 at 12:09 PM, Luminare said:

And the award for the Worst Model to be Published/Shared with the Public...goes to...Forge Craft.

At the very least when you show off your model, show a finished one. Seriously, my eyes are bleeding and weeping at the same time when I look at this. I am immediately skeptical of any firm or project that is shown/presented in this way. Its lazy, and unprofessional.

Edited January 31, 2022 by Houston19514

[toxtethogrady]

On 1/21/2022 at 7:33 PM, Spalmer said:

I lived in the greenspoint area for 10 years I've seen the best of it I've also seen the worst of it hopefully this will make things good so this is affordable housing I hope that means that there's not too much government housing we know how that works would love to see something happen with the mall it's a shame about the theater that theater wasn't old

At 325 units, it's a drop in the bucket. Houston needs more affordable units, and they probably should be distributed city-wide, rather than in a cluster. I'm also not enthused about the cinder-block character of the structures; it really is not family-friendly.

[hindesky]

51 minutes ago, toxtethogrady said:

At 325 units, it's a drop in the bucket. Houston needs more affordable units, and they probably should be distributed city-wide, rather than in a cluster. I'm also not enthused about the cinder-block character of the structures; it really is not family-friendly.

Houston Housing and Community Development has 35 projects under construction or in the planning stages. And they are all over Houston.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c48a167c25b34b91aab2aedd56636624?cover=false

 

[Kim Brown]

August street view images:

[Urbannizer]

[Texasota]

I'll forgive a lot of sins for GFR

[toxtethogrady]

Looks like there's some on the second floor, too...

[kennyc05]

It'll be cool if this area gets some momentum behind it!

[toxtethogrady]

On 10/28/2022 at 4:59 PM, Urbannizer said:

Woof-woof....🤐

[hindesky]

[lockmat]

This is what’s under construction there right now, correct?

[hindesky]

25 minutes ago, lockmat said:

This is what’s under construction there right now, correct?

Yes, from 3/28/23, from Houston Housing and Community Development.

[004n063]

10 hours ago, hindesky said:

Yes, from 3/28/23, from Houston Housing and Community Development.

Love the "Hollywood movie set in Mexico, circa 2006" filter on these

[hindesky]

[Montrose1100]

On a different note, the office buildings in Greenspoint have updated Christmas lights (Red & Green LED vs the last 80s bulbs in the city). Cool to see the empty mall parking lot being used for something else.

[hbg.50]

Drove by here yesterday and coincidentally HBJ posted an article.  Apartments are scheduled to be completed later this year.   The mall is in serious need of demolition.   It's an eye-sore from the freeway.

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2024/06/04/greenspoint-mall-affordable-apartment-complex.html

The city of Houston subsidized the $87 million development with $14.9 million from the Hurricane Harvey Multifamily Program. Many residents in the Greater Greenspoint area lost their homes during that storm in 2017, and the apartments are meant to replace some of those

Resident amenities in the two-building complex include a children's playscape, community gardens, sky lounge pool with sun deck, rentable community space, a dog park, fitness center and yoga studio.

Austin-based Forge Craft designed the project.

Construction started in July 2022 and is expected to be completed by the end of the year, according to Lee Zieben, president and CEO of Zieben Group.

Zieben acquired the 12 acres for the apartment complex, along with 5 acres that includes the part of the mall that previously housed Sears, in 2020.

A vacant Sears Auto Center was demolished to make way for the project.

“It's the nicest, newest affordable product in that area of Houston,” Zieben said. “And it is going to be Class A.”

The first floor of the development will be for retail, ideally a fast-casual restaurant, day care or medical offices, Zieben said, adding that the project is designed to have an urban feel.

“Big, high windows on the retail, like you would see in River Oaks District or in CityCentre, pavered walkways with nice pavers, lighted-up walkways,” he said. “There will be nice amenities out front, like pretty fountains, … a green space in front.”

Units are for households that make up to 50%, 60% and 80% of the area median income. As of May 2024, 80% of the AMI in Houston is $53,000 per year for one person and $75,700 for a four-person household, according to the city of Houston.

“Types of (residents) could be police officers (or) teachers,” Zieben said. “A lot of times people, (when they) think affordable housing, they automatically assume it's like low-income, the projects — and it's just not like that.”