HOUSTON | Development Thread II

[Urbannizer]

Texas Medical Center Research Campus

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/h...mpus/?p=516348

[N90]

I like the DNA strand design. The double helix pathway is a nice touch for the project.

[The Best Forumer]

A doubly twisty tower(s) would have been much much much more appropriate.

[N90]

Originally Posted by The Best Forumer

A doubly twisty tower(s) would have been much much much more appropriate.

I was thinking double helix DNA strands for the crosswalks like in the rendering but 6 single RNA strand towers instead of those mid rises, and a small park with a cardiovascular pump waterfall at the end of the double helix DNA pathway.

[Urbannizer]

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/n...ground-on.html

Originally Posted by HBJ

Upscale senior living community breaks ground on expansion

A high-end senior living facility along Woodway Drive broke ground Nov. 9 on a major expansion project valued at $72 million.

The project will add 183 units and space for 200 more residents to the campus, known as The Buckingham, on a recently acquired six-acre plot of land. The expansion is slated to be completed in 2017 and will create 80 new jobs.

[JManc]

The UT System bought 300 acres near Buffalo Pt (about 3 miles S of the TMC) for a massive research center.

[Dariusb]

Just curious but about how many highrise projects are there under construction or planned in Houston?

[DBGHouston]

Originally Posted by Dariusb

Just curious but about how many highrise projects are there under construction or planned in Houston?

These are currently under Construction: Name/Floor Count

•609 Main at Texas 49
•Capitol Tower 35
•Market Square Tower 40
•The Post Oak 35
•BHP Billiton Tower 30
•Arabella 34
•Marriott Marquis Convention Center Hotel 30
•Methodist Inpatient Hospital 17
•Aris Market Square 32
•Hilcorp Energy Tower 23
•Le Meridien Hotel 25
•Catalyst 28
•3400 Montrose 30
•Astoria 25
•Belfiore 26
•The Kirby Collection Residential Tower 25
•The Southmore 25 construction
•Amegy Bank Headquarters 20
•Hotel Alessandra 21
•Energy Center V 18
•Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center Expa... 16
•SkyHouse Main 24
•The Vantage 21
•The Carter 20
•One Grove Street 16
•The Ivy 17
•Phillips 66 Headquarters Tower [2] 15
•Phillips 66 Headquarters Tower [1] 15
•The Wilshire 17
•1885 St. James Place 15
•The Kirby Collection OfficeTower 12
•Hampton Inn / Homewood Suites 14
•West Memorial Place Building 1 12
•Hanover South Hampton Tower 2 12
•Hanover South Hampton Tower 1 12

There are 80 other projects on the drawing boards. You can see both of these lists under the City Database section here on Skyscraper Page...click on "Houston" and then you can see the individual lists by headings including "under construction" and "proposed."

[DBGHouston]

Crane is up for Hotel Alessandra on Fannin...

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[ooooaaaah!]

I see some activity next door to Hanover residential tower in Blvd Place. Construction crew has been parking there and maybe they are doing soil testing? I believe the plan is to have a hotel/residential high rise on that spot.

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by ooooaaaah!

I see some activity next door to Hanover residential tower in Blvd Place. Construction crew has been parking there and maybe they are doing soil testing? I believe the plan is to have a hotel/residential high rise on that spot.

Sweet! Great to hear something is going on there. Here's the site plan for BLVD Place -- I assume it's the area in the center along Post Oak Lane? Any pics of the activity?

[Urbannizer]

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/n...nd-on-new.html

Originally Posted by HBJ

University of St. Thomas breaks ground on new Center for Science and Health Professions

The University of St. Thomas in Houston’s Montrose area held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Center for Science and Health Professions building on Nov. 12.
The four-story, 103,000-square-foot facility will include research lab space, classrooms, gathering/study spaces and computer labs. Construction is expected to be complete in the summer of 2017.

[Urbannizer]

The Annex

5-Story Student Housing Project for UH. Leasing office for Campus Vue is currently on site so work may not begin until construction on that project wraps up.



http://www.domusstudiogroup.com/#!the-annex/c1xea

Located a block from the University of Houston campus, this 147 bed project has the scale of a boutique hotel. Sharing amenities with the adjacent project allowed freedom in the design. The Annex makes use of the small footprint by stacking three stories of wood frame over two stories of parking. Unit types include efficiency and micro units to maximize the use of the space with convertible furniture - beds fold up behind the sofa and movable partitions allow students greater flexibility with the space.

[Urbannizer]

The Vantage






http://houston-texas-us.blogspot.com...-tx-77030.html

[ooooaaaah!]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Sweet! Great to hear something is going on there. Here's the site plan for BLVD Place -- I assume it's the area in the center along Post Oak Lane? Any pics of the activity?

Here are some pics. The equipment has moved around the lot.

[CLTNC]

It looks like Houston always have a lot of construction going on. I watch a few office tower being built in the late 70s and early 80s.

When you fly into Houston it looks like 7 different cities.

[Urbannizer]

http://www.chron.com/business/real-e...witter-desktop

Originally Posted by Chron

Galleria office site snapped up for future development

A Houston real estate company developing a 40-story residential building downtown has purchased a 3-acre site near the Galleria for what could be another luxury tower down the road.

An affiliate associated with BMS Management and Woodbranch Investments acquired 4600 Post Oak Place early this year for an undisclosed amount.

The inner-loop site between Post Oak Boulevard and San Felipe houses a three-story office building constructed in the 1970s. The property is in an area rife with new development, including a Gables apartment complex and an office building under development for Amegy Bank.

A new building could be residential or office, but there are no immediate development plans.

"It's not the right time," said Philip Schneidau, president of BMS Management.

[The Best Forumer]

Hopefully something tall will come out of this.

[DBGHouston]

From Montrose Management District website New Redevelopment Project Planned for East Montrose by Ray Lawrence | November 17, 2015

...Fred Sharifi, founder of SFT Investments, is planning an impressive new project, redeveloping a number of nearby commercial properties with new retail, office parking space. He is hoping to bring in some daytime activities to balance out the area’s evening crowd. The preliminary site plan (above) and three-dimensional concept (below) show the existing restaurant/bar buildings (A and B) and the prospective new structures in the early stages of the new concept. Fairview runs east and west through the center with north/south streets Morgan, Taft, Mason and Genesee depicted from left to right.

[Urbannizer]

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/n...woodlands.html

Originally Posted by HBJ

New mixed-use project slated for The Woodlands

Houston-based Wulfe & Co. will soon develop a more than 40,500-square-foot mixed-use space in The Woodlands, at the entrance of the East Shore neighborhood.

Located at the northwest corner of Grogan's Mill Road near the intersection of Woodlands Parkway, the two-story development will be known as East Shore Place. It will include more than 17,000 square feet of space for retail on the first level and 23,000 square feet for Class A office space on the second level.

The center will also include a four-story parking garage and space for a two-story restaurant, according to plans released by Wulfe & Co. Currently, 18,280 square feet are available for lease.

Construction on the development is slated to begin on the project in early 2016, the Houston Chronicle reports.