HOUSTON | Development Thread II

[DBGHouston]

Apart from the duplicate listing for Kirby Grove, amazing list of "under construction." This makes 28 buildings and over 500 new skyscraper stories in Houston:

• 2929 Weslayan 39
• BHP Billiton Tower 30
• Hanover Post Oak 29
• 1111 Travis 23
• Astoria 25
• Energy Center IV 22
• Energy Center III 20
• SkyHouse River Oaks 25
• SkyHouse Houston 24
• Noble Energy Center 2 20
• 3737 Buffalo Speedway 18
• Samsung Tower 18
• Energy Tower IV 17
• Kirby Grove Tower 16
• The Sovereign 21
• 2229 San Felipe 18
• Kirby Grove at Levy Park 16 DUPE
• Azalea Court Tower 17
• Phillips 66 Headquarters Tower [2] 15
• Phillips 66 Headquarters Tower [1] 15
• Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan 12
• West Memorial Place Building 1 12
• Southwestern Energy Headquarters 10
• Hyatt Regency at Galleria 14
• Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor 14
• Hanover South Hampton Tower 2 12
• Hanover South Hampton Tower 1 12
• Towne Centre I 10
• Five Chasewood 10

It seems like the time to add the headstone for the Texas Tower is now, as it is just a memory like the rest of these:


• Sheraton Lincoln Hotel
• Houston Main Building
• Southwest Tower
• National Standard Building
• Shamrock Hotel
• Lamar Hotel
• Great Southern Life Insurance Building
• Electric Building
• Macy's Downtown
• YMCA Downtown
• Montagu Hotel
• Ben Milam Square
• Medical Arts Building
• Methodist Hospital Diagnostic Clinical Ctr
• Mayfair Hotel
• Anderson Mayfair Hotel
• Texaco Building Annex
• San Jacinto Building
• Jefferson Davis Hospital
• Crowne Plaza - Texas Medical Center
• Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Galleria
• Veterans' Administration Hospital
• Travis Tower Garage
• Cenikor Building

[toxteth o'grady]

Originally Posted by TowerSpotter

Yeah I'm guessing it has to do with keeping up with the other guys. If so those stripmalls on Post Oak Boulevard are totally doomed for re-development.

Kenny & Ziggy's demolished? Heresy!

[N90]

Originally Posted by DBGHouston

Apart from the duplicate listing for Kirby Grove, amazing list of "under construction." This makes 28 buildings and over 500 new skyscraper stories in Houston

29.

The second Millennium tower is under construction in Westchase. It's 22 floors. It's not on the database for either proposed or under construction. It's been under construction for over a month now I think. BTW there's another building under construction next to it and one across the freeway between Sam Houston and Rogerdale where that 6 story corporate building with the pond/lake in front of it.

[Urbannizer]

Right off the top of my head - Belfiore, Marriott Marquis and Air Liquide Centre towers are missing from the list. Samsung Tower is pretty much complete, same for the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and some of those floor counts are incorrect.

[N90]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Right off the top of my head - Belfiore, Marriott Marquis and Air Liquide Centre towers are missing from the list. Samsung Tower is pretty much complete, same for the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and some of those floor counts are incorrect.

Sheikh Zayed
Samsung Tower

- 2

Air Liquids I
Air Liquids II
Marriott Marquis
Belfiore
Millennium II

+ 5

The new total UC is 31.

[toxteth o'grady]

Some of the UC's don't have cranes yet, so technically still on the proposed list. 609 Main has a crane, but it's being used for demolition. Keeping that list updated over the next several months is going to be challenging indeed.

[N90]

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady

Some of the UC's don't have cranes yet, so technically still on the proposed list. 609 Main has a crane, but it's being used for demolition. Keeping that list updated over the next several months is going to be challenging indeed.

Urbannizer's pretty good at keeping track. He's added everything to the development map. http://devmap.io/cities/houston/developments##401

BTW Urbannizer, is it possible to add the new international terminal at Hobby and the new Terminal B and Mickey Leeland International terminal at IAH to the development map? The renderings for the new terminal at IAH are amazing FTR.

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by N90

Urbannizer's pretty good at keeping track. He's added everything to the development map. http://devmap.io/cities/houston/developments##401

BTW Urbannizer, is it possible to add the new international terminal at Hobby and the new Terminal B and Mickey Leeland International terminal at IAH to the development map? The renderings for the new terminal at IAH are amazing FTR.

Sounds good, I'll also add the Galleria redevelopment to the map.

[toxteth o'grady]

Interesting map. I didn't see the Halliburton campus expansion(two 8-story buildings on Beltway 8 near the airport), but it's pretty comprehensive.

[N90]

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady

Interesting map. I didn't see the Halliburton campus expansion(two 8-story buildings on Beltway 8 near the airport), but it's pretty comprehensive.

I'm trying to think of anything that may not be on there but it seems to have it all. I'll check HAIF and my posts here to see if there's anything else missing.

Edit: Research Forest Lakeside might be the only thing left. I think it has nearly half a dozen to a dozen buildings 6-8 stories in its blueprints.

[Dariusb]

Doesn't Houston have more skyscrapers in the city limits than Los Angeles?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady

Interesting map. I didn't see the Halliburton campus expansion(two 8-story buildings on Beltway 8 near the airport), but it's pretty comprehensive.

Thankfully Urbanizer, for the most part, focuses on urban development that will have an impact on the core of the city. We don't need to know about every office park or garden style apartment complex that are a dime a dozen developing on the fringes.

[N90]

Originally Posted by Dariusb

Doesn't Houston have more skyscrapers in the city limits than Los Angeles?

No.

[Dale]

I've spent quite a bit of time in LA and the thing that always strikes this highrise-buff as odd is how few highrises it has for such a gargantuan city.

And Houston has even fewer ?

[rellott]

Want a snapshot of Houston? Read this:

http://news.rice.edu/2014/04/24/a-ci...nsportation-2/

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Cory

Thankfully Urbanizer, for the most part, focuses on urban development that will have an impact on the core of the city. We don't need to know about every office park or garden style apartment complex that are a dime a dozen developing on the fringes.

Yesssss, I also feel like most small suburban developments should not be mentioned here.

[Double L]

Originally Posted by N90

No.

Houston has 50 skyscrapers in it's city limits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ngs_in_Houston

Los Angeles has 34 skyscrapers in it's city limits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...in_Los_Angeles

[glowrock]

Originally Posted by Double L

Houston has 50 skyscrapers in it's city limits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ngs_in_Houston

Los Angeles has 34 skyscrapers in it's city limits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...in_Los_Angeles

Since when is 400 feet an official number for the definition of a skyscraper?

Besides, there are multiple clusters of tall buildings all over the Los Angeles region, especially in places like Glendale and Long Beach, just for a few examples.

Aaron (Glowrock)

[Double L]

Well it's wikipedias definition.

Care to provide your own numbers by your own definitions?

[toxteth o'grady]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Yesssss, I also feel like most small suburban developments should not be mentioned here.

The two Halliburton buildings are taller than the apartment wrap-arounds and closer in than the Exxon Mobil campus. But that one's been a quiet project. Halliburton's not blowing a horn over it. They both appear to have topped out.