HOUSTON | Latitude Med Center & InterContinental Hotel | 423 - 244 FT | 38 - 22 FL

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Developer: Medistar Corp. & Greystar
Architect: HOK & Preston Partnership
Type: Hotel (375 rooms), Apartments (357 units)
Location: 6750 Main (Texas Medical Center)
Construction Timeline: 2Q 2016 Start Date - 2018 Completion

Originally Posted by Prime Property

Texas Medical Center to get New Hotel

This HOK-designed hotel and apartment building is planned for a site on Main Street in the Texas Medical Center.

The full- service hotel will have about 250 rooms, a large percentage of which will be suites catering to medical center guests needing long-term stays, and approximately 40 to 60 apartments, according to TRC Capital Partners, an affiliate of the Redstone Cos., which will develop and own the property with Houston-based Medistar Corp.

HOK’s Roger Soto designed the building, which also will have as much as 20,000 square feet of meeting space.

Construction is expected to start in by year-end at 6750 Main. The group said it is evaluating hotel brands and operators.

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/...d=businesshcat

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9/27 by larrydierker on HAIF

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This project now includes a 32-story, 400-unit residential tower!

http://medistarcorp.testwebsiteserve...houston-texas/

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The article says Downtown, but this is for the Texas Medical Center.

http://www.bxtx.com/construction-pre...ton-tower.html

Originally Posted by BXTX

Medistar Defers on Downtown Houston Tower

The Houston Planning Commission agreed on Thursday to a request to defer the partial replat of a proposed downtown tower building.

Medistar Houston Medical Center Ltd., the developer, still has an incomplete package, according to the city staff report on University Place First.

At present, the site is a 1.4-acre parking lot located at the corner of Old Main Street and Travis Street. The replat process is being handled by Vernon G. Henry & Associates Inc.

At yesterday's meeting, staff requested and was given a two week deferral to allow time for the applicant to provide revised information "before noon next Wednesday." The revisions must include a revised landscape/site plan, elevations and renderings.

"All submitted pictorial documents must be consistent. Provide information regarding parking count, unit count and mix and floor plans for proposed uses. If tehre is a proposed canopy along Travis Street that encroaches into the 10-foot building line, provide revised variance request."

Architectural designs have been a joint effort of HOK, The Preston Partnership, Kimley-Horn, and Kudela & Weinheimer Landscape Architecture.

While the project's case file name is University Place First, it is also known as Greystart Multi-Family Residential|Medistar Hotel.

Medistar Corp. was seeking a variance for the building line of 15 feet from the curb, rather than 25 feet to allow pedestrian canopies at the building entries that would project 10 feet.

This is a proposed high-rise building that would stand immediately across from the Texas Medical Center. It will include a hotel in the eastern portion of the building facing Main Street and an apartment complex in the western portion, adjacent to Travis Street.

A garage entry for both will be on Old Main Street. Parking for each use will be separated within the structure and each use will fully satisfy the parking required for that use individually.

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Replat approved by the Houston Planning Commission. The apartment tower consist of 25 levels of living units on top of 9 levels of parking.

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Replat approved by the Houston Planning Commission. The apartment tower consist of 25 levels of living units on top of 9 levels of parking.

This came from a speaker at the meeting, the final agenda has elevations and shows the apartment tower at 38 floors & 413 feet.

The hotel is 22 floors, 243 feet.

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Guess who showed up to the site -- that's right, an excavator!

By OkieEric on HAIF

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That means the money to build this showed up...

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Official height figures from the FAA:

Proposed Case for: 2015-ASW-7289-OE

Structure Name: Point M4

Structure Height: 423

Proposed Case for: 2015-ASW-7342-OE

Structure Name: Point H2

:Structure Height: 244

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Utility work going on for the project:




c/o OkieEric on HAIF

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Ascent Med Center is the name for the residential high-rise, 376 units.

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/...IfnU#rows:id=1

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Exclusive: Peek inside a luxury hotel in the Texas Medical Center

Plans are well underway for a luxury hotel housed in the heart of the Texas Medical Center.

Houston-based Medistar Corp. and TRC Capital Partners, an affiliate of The Redstone Cos. of Houston, have entered a joint venture partnership to develop a 357-room hotel at 6750 Main Street, in the central portion of the Texas Medical Center. The hotel will stand at 21 stories and include 20,000 to 25,000 square feet of office and meeting space. Restaurants will occupy the hotel's first floor.

Details of the hotel branding weren't disclosed, but the brand is a "nationally and internationally known hotel," said Kelly Lindig, vice president of development and acquisitions at Medistar.

Lindig said groundbreaking should kick off at the beginning of the second quarter, and the hotel should be complete in the second quarter of 2018.

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Exclusive: Houston real estate companies partner on luxury med center apartments

A luxury, 375-unit apartment complex is coming to the Medical Center, and it's sharing its real estate with another high-profile project in the area.

Houston-based Greystar is partnering with Houston-based Medistar Corp. to develop a luxury apartment complex on the same acreage of land as Medistar's 357-room hotel at 6750 Main Street, in the central portion of the Texas Medical Center.

Construction should kick off in the next 60 days, and the project should deliver in the first quarter of 2018, said David Reid, Greystar' senior managing director of development. Greystar is the general partner and the developer. Medistar is the limited partnership. Atlanta-based The Preston Partnership is the architect, Hoar Construction was tapped as the general contractor. The project's cost wasn't disclosed.

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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...300211943.html

Ascent Med Center will be professionally managed and developed by Greystar. The community will offer a variety of one and two-bedroom floor plans and three-bedroom penthouses ranging in size from 349 to 3,767 square feet of living space. The well-appointed interiors will include stainless steel appliances, modern cabinetry, quartz countertops with tile backsplashes and wood flooring in living areas. Apartment homes will feature nine to eleven foot ceilings, spacious walk-in closets and spa-like bathrooms.

Residents will enjoy a rooftop terrace that features an infinity pool, a spacious sun deck, lounge seating and spectacular 360 degree views. Premier concierge services will be available to assist residents with reservations, securing event tickets and completing errands such as picking up dry cleaning. Additional amenities will include a state-of-the art fitness center with cardio and strength equipment, an executive business center, bike storage, car charging stations and valet parking.

Hoar Construction will serve as general contractor for the project. Construction is expected to begin by March 31, 2016.

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Site now fenced off.

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Work has begun! Excavators and heavy equipment moving around.

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The crew will dig 17 feet below ground.




c/o bobruss

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IMG_9549 by RJ Taylor, on Flickr

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Proposed Case for: 2016-ASW-6631-OE

Structure type: Crane

Structure height: 330

Work Schedule: 07/23/2016 to 08/26/2017

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Intercontinental-branded hotel to rise in Texas Medical Center

The hotel portion of a two-in-one hotel and apartment development in the Texas Medical Center will be anIntercontinental-branded hotel, which speaks to the ethnic and geographic diversity of the medical center's clientele, the hotel's developers told the Houston Business Journal.

U.K.-based InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (NYSE: IHG) will open its 21-story, 353-room Intercontinental Houston Medical Center in late 2018. The hotel, which will share a lobby with a Greystar apartment development dubbed Latitude Med Center, will include 11,800 square feet of meeting space, a 7,800-square-foot ballroom and more. The joint apartment and hotel project, located at 6750 Main St., is being developed by Houston-based Medistar Corp. and TRC Capital Partners.