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Old Posted Sep 24, 2016, 5:55 PM
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Post HTX has so much potential!
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What might the scale of the Post HTX development be? I haven't really been following it so I'm just curious as to how many buildings there might be, and whether or not this may produce tall buildings
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Old Posted Sep 24, 2016, 7:00 PM
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Mixed-use development, including event space. Whether or not they have high-rises may be mitigated by their commitment to preserve the original building but it is a very good location.
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I think it's likely we'll get some high-rises out of this as they maintain the existing building. Very prime site in Downtown so it should be utilized well. This quote has me very excited!

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"We want to showcase Houston in a new light by working with architects and designers around the world who are on the cutting edge of innovative ideas of how cities will function in the 21st century,” says Liu, Jr.
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7-story, 245-unit complex underway at 611 Shephard in The Heights.



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Just out of curiosity, since people here tend to be in the know regarding Houston development plans. Are there any plans to replace/re-develop the hideous Amtrak train station on Washington Ave? I know the Intermodal Transit Center was cancelled years ago, did they have a contingency?
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Post Oak Market

Northwest Mall near the 290/610 interchange will become a mixed-use development. The site is also being considered for Houston's high-speed rail station.

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The site currently houses major and local retailers alike, including Palais Royal and Foot Locker. Levcor is currently working on a redevelopment plan to turn the project into a mixed-use, grocery-anchored development. Space is currently available at the site for short-term leasing.

Post Oak Market is an upcoming planned mixed use development on Levcor's Northwest Mall site. The project is currently in touch with key anchor tenants, which will inform the overall project development. The project will include hotel, residential, office and retail development within a dense, urban environment in the heart of Houston. Post Oak Market will promote walkability and new urbanism design principles, as well as the densification of Houston's urban core.

Post Oak Market will be located at the confluence of seven major thoroughfares in Houston - I-610 W, I-610 N, US 290, I-10, Hempstead Rd, 18th St and N. Post Oak Rd. The 290/I-10/I-610 interchange, at which the project is located, is undergoing a massive ~$3 bn redevelopment plan to improve connectivity and traffic flow, and will be completed in late 2017. In addition, discussions of the proposed high speed rail from Houston to Dallas is expected to have a station in the site's immediate area.

Further, the site is located minutes away from major Houston residential and commercial regions, including Galleria / Uptown (<10 min drive), the Greater Heights (<10 min drive), Spring Branch / Spring Valley (<10 min drive), Memorial Villages (10 min drive) and Downtown (10-15 min drive). Being at a critical interchange, Northwest Mall also has excellent access to and from Northwest and West Houston highly populated sub-regions Katy and Cy-Fair.
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[QUOTE=Urbannizer;7573720]Post Oak Market

Northwest Mall near the 290/610 interchange will become a mixed-use development. The site is also being considered for Houston's high-speed rail station.


The previous projects associated with these guys aren't very impressive. Strip malls and Marq E. Hopefully, this is their first attempt to upgrade their resume and do something more like CityCentre/River Oaks District without being as high end (assuming it would have to be).
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The previous projects associated with these guys aren't very impressive. Strip malls and Marq E. Hopefully, this is their first attempt to upgrade their resume and do something more like CityCentre/River Oaks District without being as high end (assuming it would have to be).
Levcor initially planned to sell the property to a developer, but once talks began of a HSR Station near the site they pulled it off the market.
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Rendering is out for The Midtown, a 26-story, 380 unit apartment building.

http://www.wylieassociates.com/proje...ment-building/

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New Apartment Building Including:

– Outdoor Pool, Fitness Area, and Club/Meeting Area

– 14,000 SF, Shell Retail Space

– 208,200 SF, Parking Garage
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Rendering is out for The Midtown, a 26-story, 380 unit apartment building.

http://www.wylieassociates.com/proje...ment-building/





Wow.. that's nice!
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Astrodome renovation project gets approved

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The Harris County Commissioners Court on Sept. 27 voted unanimously to take the first step in a roughly $105 million plan to put the Astrodome to use after years of sitting vacant.

The commissioners voted to approve spending $10.5 million to draw up the plan that would create parking under the dome, the Houston Chronicle reports. That cost would be paid for by the county’s general fund, hotel taxes and parking revenues, and the design process is expected to take about a year.

The underground parking plan was proposed earlier this year and met with less resistance than many previous proposals.

By raising the Astrodome’s floor to ground level, it would create more than 500,000-square-feet of rentable space. The 9-acre space would also be air conditioned. The project would create 1,400 underground parking spaces, and funding sources could include parking fees, rental fees and tours.

The project “would result in a ground level surface for potential development. … Specific proposals for this project will be brought to Court for approval in September,” commissioners court documents from June stated.


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I've been saying for years that midtown needs more towers... it's about time this is happening.


Also.. the astrodome thing seems like such as waste... such a let-down. ugh.
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Midway plans 'transformative' project east of downtown

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One of the city's most prominent developers on Wednesday will give investors a look at early plans for the former KBR site, a 147-acre tract with water and skyscraper views that could be transformative for the traditionally working-class East End.

"This is generational real estate," Jonathan Brinsden, CEO of Midway, the company behind CityCentre and other high-profile projects, told the Chronicle in an exclusive preview of the project. "It will shift the center of gravity of Houston's urban core toward the east."

The abandoned office and industrial complex offers an opportunity most developers only dream of — a huge plot of mostly vacant land, a blank canvas on which to design and build a community for thousands. Specific details are still being determined, but it ultimately could be as large as 8 million square feet of shops, offices and entertainment venues. Over time, the investment could reach the billions.

Midway, which is developing the site in a joint venture, will discuss the project during its annual investor conference in the high-end hotel on the grounds of the company's CityCentre development in west Houston. For comparison sake, the new project could be as large as four CityCentres combined.

Keeping in mind the amount of planning and marketing yet to be done, and acknowledging the current challenge developers have financing large-scale projects during the energy downturn, Brindsen said he is taking a long-term view. Midway hopes to start on the project within a couple of years, building it in phases over perhaps a decade and a half.




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I didn't realize most of the KBR campus was gone. I worked in one of the taller structures in the 70s. My Dad worked at that campus for about 30 years until he retired in the 80s.

When I worked there, the surrounding area was extreme ghetto, although not particularly dangerous. It was just extreme poverty. Much of the slum housing is long gone (but not all) and there are a few nice developments in the vicinity. The bayou setting could eventually be quite nice for a major development.

Even in the 70s, the view of downtown was great. If people will move that close to the Ship Channel, it will probably be successful. The stigma will have to be lifted from that part of the city, though.
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Downtown's Aloft hotel goes modern for millennials

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As the second Aloft in Houston, the downtown property is scheduled to open Oct. 4 in the 1913 former Stowers Furniture building, a property that sat empty for years as developers tried to pitch it as a home to retailers and office tenants.

With a tech-savvy mandate, the new hotel will have systems like keyless doors that can be opened with a swipe of a smart phone.

Aloft even has its own special language. Guests will hear "lift" instead of elevator, "WC" instead of restroom and "tactic" instead of conference room from its employees or, rather, its "talent."

The property's 168 rooms will have weekday rates of between $249 and $269 and between $149 and $169 on the weekends.










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