HOUSTON | Development Thread II

[Urbannizer]

New renderings of Camden Conte Phase I

[JManc]

Originally Posted by AviationGuy

I like it, but I liked the original exterior better.

So do I. For being almost 50 years old, it has managed to remain timeless. It definitely needed modernization though. I'm sure interior severely dated.

[toxteth o'grady]

Another day, another crane. This time for Richmond-Timmons:

4/18 by DRUTH at HAIF:

[Urbannizer]

New rendering for Arabella:

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady

Houston's hotel building boom will see it surpass Dallas in terms of number of available rooms, based on construction already in the pipeline. More rooms are proposed but may be backburnered for a while:

STR reports US hotel pipeline for March 2015

Not that anyone in a Houston thread cares, but that list only considers the top 25 markets. If all markets were considered Austin would be #2 behind NYC with over 9,000.

http://nreionline.com/hotel/demograp...owth-us-cities

And yes, I won't let the screen door hit me in the ass on my way back to the Austin sub-forum.

[The Best Forumer]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

New rendering for Arabella:

Oh? Where is this one going?

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by The Best Forumer

Oh? Where is this one going?

On Parcel D. An official announcement for the project will be released soon.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

New rendering for Arabella:

Terrible rendering. Does not give you any perspective of where this building is going. The uptown area looks nothing like this.

[toxteth o'grady]

Originally Posted by Hill Country

Not that anyone in a Houston thread cares, but that list only considers the top 25 markets. If all markets were considered Austin would be #2 behind NYC with over 9,000.

That's a lot of rooms. Is there a convention center in the mix?

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady

That's a lot of rooms. Is there a convention center in the mix?

No. Just a Helluva lot more tourists than there used to be. Plans to expand the convention center are in their very early stages and are years away from fruition - even if they do happen.

[texboy]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

On Parcel D. An official announcement for the project will be released soon.

That Target and its parking lot are looking real ripe...

[JManc]

Originally Posted by texboy

That Target and its parking lot are looking real ripe...

No one better touch that Targ-ey. It's the only store around there!

[Urbannizer]

Photos by Hindesky on HAIF - 4/19

Broadstone Skyline





Dolce Midtown



Farb Montrose



Elan Heights





The Hampstead



Hermann Park Residences

[toxteth o'grady]

Two trends reported by HBJ: despite February, Houston is still a good real estate market for home sales. And don't expect construction costs to come down anytime soon.

[Urbannizer]

The Shops at Houston Center: A ~250 million dollar renovation is planned according to a forumer on HAIF.

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/h...s/#entry498271

[Urbannizer]

Fertitta's new tower to offer a wealth of luxury

rom his spacious office on the top floor of his Uptown headquarters, Tilman Fertitta will have a bird’s-eye view of this area’s newest flashy real estate development: his own.

The 10-acre site, one of the rare, largely undeveloped parcels off the West Loop, will include a glistening multiuse tower with 240 luxury hotel rooms and suites and, for the highest-rolling guests, a private elevator to whisk them to a 4,000-square-foot “Chairman Suite” with its own fitness center.

The tower also will feature 11 floors of “boutique” office space catering to elite tenants who can afford the pricey space and such perks as chartered helicopter or jet service from a private fleet owned by the developer or luxury car service. Office workers staying late will be able to order a New York strip from the steakhouse just a few steps away.

Fertitta’s latest high-profile project, to be called The Post Oak, combines much of what the billionaire restaurant and casino magnate has become known for over the years: restaurants, hotels and expensive cars.

Gensler is providing master planning, architecture and interior design services for the project, which is scheduled to be completed by late summer 2017, and Tellespsen is the general contractor. Work preparing the site for development has already started.

Full article: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/busi...#photo-7864294

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Houston Chronicle

Massive I-45 project would remove Pierce Elevated

A massive reconstruction of Interstate 45 through most of Houston would topple one of downtown's most frustrating barriers - the Pierce Elevated - and move the freeway east of the central business district.

Perhaps just as importantly, transportation officials are designing segments of the new or combined freeways as depressed roadways, meaning local street traffic flows above them, similar to U.S. 59 west of Spur 527. East of the convention center and between Cavalcade and Quitman streets, the space above the freeways could be developed as open green space or a park-like setting.

Full Article: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...ce-6217572.php

[Monarch]

^^^ should all new downtown highway prospectives come to light of day, this development shall be spectacular. wow!

[toxteth o'grady]

I don't see how they're going to merge 45 and 69 downtown without creating a huge bottleneck. They would have to stack the two roads, which would make undergrounding them all the more difficult. Looks like billions of investment resulting in no change in traffic congestion.

[toxteth o'grady]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

The height of 35 stories and completion in 2017 really caught my eye. Can this be the same Fertitta who complained last summer that development costs were too high in Houston?