TheSirDingle Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Woah that new garage is going to be massive. Also like what they're doing with classrooms/studios on the older garage; looking pretty good. looking into the future this campus is going to be unrecognizable. Especially when they build the law center, moody redevelopment, tech annex demo/construction, etc. Going to be an insane next decade for UH. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 23 minutes ago, TheSirDingle said: Woah that new garage is going to be massive. Also like what they're doing with classrooms/studios on the older garage; looking pretty good. looking into the future this campus is going to be unrecognizable. Especially when they build the law center, moody redevelopment, tech annex demo/construction, etc. Going to be an insane next decade for UH. That older garage you're talking about is brand new, just opened for the fall semester. They just haven't finished the buildings on the south side yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSirDingle Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) 10 minutes ago, hindesky said: That older garage you're talking about is brand new, just opened for the fall semester. They just haven't finished the buildings on the south side yet. I know it's just an older garage compared to the new one they're digging rn Edited November 18, 2019 by TheSirDingle 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted November 18, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2019 https://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2019/november-2019/11182019-lawbuilding.php Quote The University of Houston has received a significant gift from The John M. O’Quinn Foundation to support the UH Law Center and construction of its new state-of-the-art building. In permanent recognition of the gift, the building will be named the "John M. O'Quinn Law Building." An accomplished attorney and philanthropist, the late John M. O’Quinn was a UH Law Center alumnus and one of the university’s most enthusiastic supporters. The foundation bearing his name has donated more than $16 million to the UH Law Center, a significant portion of which supports the naming of the law building. “John would be incredibly proud to know that his name was on the building of this dynamic law school where he started his journey in the legal profession. John often talked about how the Law Center was best at preparing him and others for the real world of law and how he envisioned a state-of-the-art facility for the law school. I know he is smiling from above today,” said Rob C. Wilson III, president of The John M. O’Quinn Foundation. The new John M. O’Quinn Law Building will reside in the northeast corner of campus between University Lofts and the current law center facility. The $90 million facility is designed to enhance the educational experience while also serving as a hub to engage and serve the public, providing opportunities for greater interaction on the local, national and international level. Construction is scheduled to begin in summer 2020 and fundraising efforts continue. 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSirDingle Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 http://thedailycougar.com/2019/11/20/goodbye-satellite/ Quote The UH System Board of Regents last Thursday approved to close the Satellite on April 30, 2020 and replace it with a new dining center... Of course, students may not be surprised by the development, considering the flooding issues and the flurry of new dining options in the last few years — including the food trucks and delivery robots. Rosie Ashley, program director for Auxiliary Services, confirmed the Satellite is being shut down for these reasons... The Auxiliary Retail Center will begin construction summer 2020 and will be completed by summer 2022, according to a UH System Board of Regents meeting on Nov. 14... “The plan is to ultimately fill the Satellite in and put the new center there,” said Jim McShan, senior vice president and senior vice chancellor of administration and finance, at the meeting Their vision for the eventual center, which the Auxiliary Services website refers to as a “Food Hall,” is grand and expansive... Ashley said the design process is still in its early stages...The project has a budget of $35 million, approved by the Board of Regents RIP Satellite. Looks like flooding finally took its toll. Auxiliary Services website link (Has quite a few retail plans for UH Main, such as the food truck park) : https://uh.edu/af-auxiliary-services/uh-dining-vision-plan/retail-dining-vision/#plan22 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas911 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 $16 million from an alumni of the Law School. Just like I said, they should be the easiest college to fundraise. That new rendering is at least more interesting than the first one. Still not that great, but better. Bravo UH Law! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 (edited) The parking lot about to become the new Law School building. Prefab concrete parking garage. Figured when I saw the crawler crane it would be prefab. Edited November 25, 2019 by hindesky 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted November 25, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 25, 2019 Who wishes they had these when you were in school? 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 From Vaughn FB.... Our project team at the University of Houston recently began structural precast erection on the Parking Garage 6 project - one day ahead of the milestone start date! Despite an incredibly wet fall, our team put in countless hours pumping water in the rain and working weekends to make up missed days. Thank you to our entire team, and congratulations! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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samagon Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 soil samples were being collected from the law parking lot yesterday morning. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 On 12/22/2019 at 4:21 PM, samagon said: soil samples were being collected from the law parking lot yesterday morning. Strange that I only found two obvious core samples in the whole parking lot. Seems like they would take a whole lot more but I'm no expert. Found a few surveyors wooden stakes for the new Law building. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Saw this from the link @Urbannizer had on the Rotary International hotel, is this a new build? https://www.dpr.com/projects/conrad-n-hilton-college-of-hotel-and-restaurant-management 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 2 hours ago, hindesky said: Saw this from the link @Urbannizer had on the Rotary International hotel, is this a new build? https://www.dpr.com/projects/conrad-n-hilton-college-of-hotel-and-restaurant-management Correct. It will be a renovation and several additions of the existing hotel. Was announced in March of last year. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 On 5/28/2019 at 9:12 PM, ekdrm2d1 said: I went over and walked the site today. It was surprisingly pristine. I went in behind the big new sign announcing the site on MLK across from the park. I went all of the way back to the feeder of the freeway on the far east side and then cut back north to the bayou and back to MacGregor Park. The ground was pretty much high and dry, and as far as standing water, I came across none. I did'nt see any presence of anyone living in the area, no litter, but I saw very little wild life. There was a stand of palm trees in the center of the property and I thought maybe U of H. had dumped them years ago, and they've grown. There were lots of toppled trees, that had rotted quite a bit. I didn't walk into the south end of the tract towards OST, and it looks a little denser and possibly a little lower lying. I just checked the one area today. Oh they have tagged a lot of trees with red and blue ribbons. I think these were to be torn out, by the size and types of threes that were tagged. Thought I'd pass along for those that were curious. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Latest update for this site. I saw photographs of a pair of Eagles that have been living on the southeast corner of this tract amongst the dead trees for many years. That would be the spur and OST corner for anyone who might be a birder or just curious about seeing Eagles in Houston. Actually, I saw the Eagles at Rice Stadium back in 94. Sorry different Eagles. The best, was Pink Floyd, at Rice stadium, when a T.Storm was barreling down on the concert from the north. The lightning was really pretty amazing and brought a whole new meaning to special affects. Sorry I digressed. The people that live in the area say that they see them regularly early in the morning sitting up in the tops of the trees. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, bobruss said: Latest update for this site. I saw photographs of a pair of Eagles that have been living on the southeast corner of this tract amongst the dead trees for many years. That would be the spur and OST corner for anyone who might be a birder or just curious about seeing Eagles in Houston. Actually, I saw the Eagles at Rice Stadium back in 94. Sorry different Eagles. The best, was Pink Floyd, at Rice stadium, when a T.Storm was barreling down on the concert from the north. The lightning was really pretty amazing and brought a whole new meaning to special affects. Sorry I digressed. The people that live in the area say that they see them regularly early in the morning sitting up in the tops of the trees. If only we could get a couple of Eagles to live on the UH campus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 On 11/24/2019 at 9:38 PM, hindesky said: Who wishes they had these when you were in school? Has anyone been caught riding on them yet? 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 11 hours ago, bobruss said: Latest update for this site. I saw photographs of a pair of Eagles that have been living on the southeast corner of this tract amongst the dead trees for many years. That would be the spur and OST corner for anyone who might be a birder or just curious about seeing Eagles in Houston. Actually, I saw the Eagles at Rice Stadium back in 94. Sorry different Eagles. The best, was Pink Floyd, at Rice stadium, when a T.Storm was barreling down on the concert from the north. The lightning was really pretty amazing and brought a whole new meaning to special affects. Sorry I digressed. The people that live in the area say that they see them regularly early in the morning sitting up in the tops of the trees. If eagles are nesting there, then the trees can't be cut. That happened in The Woodlands in a couple of places. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 That was my concern. I haven't actually seen the live birds, but there are several photographs and eyewitnesses who say they've been there for a long time. Another woman said that they sometimes stayed in a tall pine tree in her yard and she loved that until she saw the side of the house and ground below their roosting area. She said they had to power wash her wall and the dead carcasses of fish and entrails that they dropped were disgusting. She lives across O.S.T. from the area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtNsf Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/17/2020 at 9:50 PM, august948 said: If only we could get a couple of Eagles to live on the UH campus. Yes, this. Plus have Houston's one and only Don Henley back home ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 UH Law Center receives gift from local law firm, renames career services center Enlarge A rendering of details of the new Law Center. SHEPLEY BULFINCH By Laura Gillespie – Reporter, Houston Business Journal 5 hours ago The University of Houston Law Center has received a significant gift from Houston-based law firm Porter Hedges LLP. The gift, for an undisclosed amount, will name the new law center’s career services office the Porter Hedges LLP Career Services Center, according to a press release. Porter Hedges has a number of Law Center alumni, including Partner Joshua Wolfshohl. The law firm was founded in 1981 and also has an office in Oklahoma City. "As a Houston-based firm, we have grown with the city over the last four decades and welcome an opportunity to give back to its premier law school," Wolfshohl said in the release. "We join the Law Center by investing in the students who will continue to leave their mark in Texas, across the country and around the world." At the Law Center, the career services center connects students and employers, while also hosting career panels, networking events, workshops, mock interviews, job fairs, recruitment programs and an electronic job bank. “This donation to our school allows us to build a superior career services center attractive to both employers and students,” UH Law Center Dean Leonard Baynes said. “More importantly, it is an investment in our students, staff and administration who, along with the broader UH Law community, are working every day to make our school the premier law school in Texas.” In November, the John M. O’Quinn Foundation gave an undisclosed amount to the Law Center. As a result, the new building will be named the John M. O’Quinn Law Building. The new building will stand on the northeast corner of the campus, between University Lofts and the existing law center. The building will cost $90 million and is scheduled to begin construction in summer 2020. It's being built partly because of the frequent water damage the old Law Center building suffered during heavy rainfall. Boston-based Shepley Bulfinch is the architect on the project, while Dallas-based Austin Commercial will serve as the builder. Both have Houston offices. The John M. O’Quinn Foundation is “one of UH’s most generous financial benefactors,” a press release stated, and O’Quinn’s name is already on the O’Quinn Law Library, John M. O’Quinn Field at TDECU Stadium and the O’Quinn Great Hall in the UH Alumni Center. The foundation also gave $3.5 million to the new UH College of Medicine for startup costs and scholarships. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angostura Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 12:11 AM, hindesky said: Love that zero-foot building line. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post KinkaidAlum Posted February 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 13, 2020 Big news today. The medical school got initial accreditation. Fist class of students will start in July with philanthropic gifts covering full tuition. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Parking garage is almost finished. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 UH College of Medicine, New Law Building and Hilton Hotel Expansion breaking ground this summer: http://thedailycougar.com/2020/03/04/college-of-medicine-campus-construction-projects/ 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 On 2/12/2020 at 1:00 PM, hindesky said: Wow...the new garage looks massive compared to the existing garage. Is that just a camera illusion? In the right bottom corner it looks like they've built a retaining wall. Is that area going to be for water detention? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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