HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 486

Urbannizer · #**9701** Posted **Jun 18, 2016, 5:39 PM**

Looking forward to the improvements, this image is great!

Twitter1 · #**9702** Posted **Jun 18, 2016, 5:53 PM**

wow! That looks terrific. Thank you for posting.

Urbannizer · #**9703** Posted **Jun 18, 2016, 9:19 PM**

11-story apartment building for N Braeswood at Main

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Texas Medical Center area
Allen Harrison is under contract to purchase about an acre of land off South Main Street near the Texas Medical Center. The developer plans to build a large steel-frame midrise with seven floor of apartments — 186 units — over four levels of parking.

Monarch · #**9704** Posted **Jun 19, 2016, 1:59 AM**

houston has finally acquired its collective groove back. this particular district is going to be gorgeous!

Urbannizer · #**9705** Posted **Jun 22, 2016, 10:04 PM**

More mixed-use heading for Allen Parkway

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Roberto Contreras, president and CEO of Houston-based DC Partners, told the Houston Business Journal he plans to start an approximately $500 million mixed-use development at the southeast corner of Allen Parkway and Gillette Street in early 2018. The 6.01-acre project is expected to feature a luxury hotel, housing, shops and an office tower. Gensler designed the overall master plan layout for the site.

The company, along with Tianqing Real Estate Development LLC, bought the property from HTX Real Estate Partners in a deal that closed in May. Contreras said he could not disclose the cost of the deal.

Contreras said the luxury hotel, the first phase of the project, would have about 150 to 180 rooms and would open around 2020.

Site:

Urbannizer · #**9706** Posted **Jun 23, 2016, 5:51 AM**

Hanover Boulevard Place

27-story residential high-rise begins construction next month.

Urbannizer · #**9707** Posted **Jun 23, 2016, 12:13 PM**

Giorgetti Houston

6-story residential condo building for Upper Kirby by Stolz Partners. 32 units.

Urbannizer · #**9708** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 2:11 AM**

Allen Center Redevelopment

Now underway.

ooooaaaah! · #**9709** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 3:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Hanover Boulevard Place

27-story residential high-rise begins construction next month.

Glad to see they included four high rises that are proposed but don't currently exist.

Urbannizer · #**9710** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 7:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

723 Main to become an AC Hotel by Marriott.

More Details:

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/busi...witter-premium

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Construction will not start on the project until the first quarter of 2018 and take 13 months to complete. About 200 construction jobs and as many as 100 permanent hotel employees will be created by the project, Franks said.

"To be sure, the estimated $44 million project will add more shine to downtown's overall revitalization, which includes new residential towers, hotels and restaurants. Yet, unlike some of the historic structures nearby, the original facade of 723 Main will remain hidden beneath cladding that was placed over it 50 years ago."

The developer is planning a series of improvements in order to turn the building into "modernized" version of what it is now. Those include automatic glass entry doors, new windows on Main and Rusk, canopy replacement and repair and new lighting.

The hotel will have an event space able to house as many as 400 guests for weddings, conferences or civic events. It will be called the Zoe Ballroom, using the name of a silent movie theater that once operated on the block called the Zoe Theater.

Urbannizer · #**9711** Posted **Jun 24, 2016, 7:05 PM**

Aris Market Square

609 Main at Texas

Photos c/o rechlin @HAIF

HSPVA

Hotel Alessandra

Marlowe

Photos c/o hindesky @HAIF

Catalyst

c/o Nole23 @haif

Marriott Marquis

c/o HoustonMidtown @HAIF

glowrock · #**9712** Posted **Jun 25, 2016, 3:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

[B]
609 Main at Texas

Photos c/o rechlin @HAIF

That's funny, I can quite literally see my apartment in this shot! (bottom left, I believe 4th level up from the bottom of the photo)

Aaron (Glowrock)

Urbannizer · #**9713** Posted **Jun 27, 2016, 10:55 PM**

Hanover Blvd Place

30 stories

Urbannizer · #**9714** Posted **Jul 1, 2016, 7:18 PM**

Court of appeals rules in favor of Ashby high-rise developers

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A state appellate court has reversed a portion of the 2014 judgment that would have required developers of the so-called Ashby high-rise to pay damages to residents in the neighborhood near Rice University should they build the controversial residential tower.

The judgment was based on a jury's verdict awarding damages of almost $1.7 million to nearby homeowners in a protracted battle to keep Buckhead Development Partners from building the 21-story tower.

The Chronicle reported in 2014:

The 12-person jury awarded damages to 20 of the nearby households - contingent upon the high-rise being built - agreeing that it's the wrong project on the wrong site. Only those living within about one block of the high-rise were awarded damages.

Urbannizer · #**9715** Posted **Jul 2, 2016, 5:38 PM**

Former Holiday Inn / Days Inn quietly being redeveloped to a Sheraton hotel:

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/h...comment=535109

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Just ran into some guys on site. They had just finished clearing out all the steel from each floor.

Apparently the Sheraton is suppose to be done before Super Bowl with a significant pick up in activity in a couple of months.

Seems like a really difficult timeline to meet, but it was good seeing activity on site. We shall see...

Bailey · #**9716** Posted **Jul 3, 2016, 2:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Court of appeals rules in favor of Ashby high-rise developers

I really don't understand the controversy over this project.

1) we live in a city with NO zoning laws and loose deed restrictions (if applicable)
2) this is project is located way inside the loop...a place which gets denser every single day WITH actual urban/walk-able developments!
3) this project was replacing an apartment complex....it was already established as multi-family use. Its not like this is being built on one of the single family home lots.

The NIMBYs can cry and threaten all they want but they have no legitimate reasons to prevent this project from happening.

Twitter1 · #**9717** Posted **Jul 3, 2016, 11:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bailey

I really don't understand the controversy over this project.

1) we live in a city with NO zoning laws and loose deed restrictions (if applicable)
2) this is project is located way inside the loop...a place which gets denser every single day WITH actual urban/walk-able developments!
3) this project was replacing an apartment complex....it was already established as multi-family use. Its not like this is being built on one of the single family home lots.

The NIMBYs can cry and threaten all they want but they have no legitimate reasons to prevent this project from happening.

Think the problem was traffic? A residential tower will increase the traffic over a mid rise? apartment complex. I could be wrong, not really following.

A traffic study should have indicated things. New driveways, sidewalks, stop signs, and traffic lights would have also been added? As with any new development, it'll bring more traffic.

Best thing to come out of this whole drama ordeal

Bailey · #**9718** Posted **Jul 4, 2016, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Twitter1

Think the problem was traffic? A residential tower will increase the traffic over a mid rise? apartment complex. I could be wrong, not really following.

A traffic study should have indicated things. New driveways, sidewalks, stop signs, and traffic lights would have also been added? As with any new development, it'll bring more traffic.

Best thing to come out of this whole drama ordeal

But it was replacing a multi family apartment complex that already had vehicles go in and out of Bisonnet. If anything, this project is a mixed use design (restaurants at the base) and could actually increase pedestrian traffic.

Urbannizer · #**9719** Posted **Jul 5, 2016, 3:13 PM**

CityCentre Developer Midway Makes a Move on That 136-Acre Former KBR Site Along Buffalo Bayou in the Fifth Ward

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Whatever’s in store for the 136-acre former KBR site along the the Ship Channel at 4100 Clinton Dr., CityCentre developer Midway now looks to be involved. Documents filed with the county clerk’s office near the end of May reveal that Cathexis Holdings recently sold the site to KBRN, an entity connected to Midway through a recently minted corporate partnership (and officially located down the hall from Midway’s CityCentre office.)

And might Midway — which also heads the team that turned failed Downtown Mall Houston Pavilions into GreenStreet, and is developing the Kirby Grove park-and-office-building complex along the banks of the Southwest Fwy. in Upper Kirby — have some big office-shopping-residential-and-park-y plans in mind for this vast property, which lies about a mile and a half downstream from Downtown? A couple of clues are out there:

Midway’s annual report from 2015 mentions plans for a major mixed-use project along Houston’s “historic riverfront.” The KBR site, set amid other historic and current industrial operations, is bordered by about a mile of the northern bank of Buffalo Bayou.

(The Turning Basin, where that same waterway officially takes on the name of the Houston Ship Channel, is less than a mile to the east.) Midway has also been applying for a trademark for a yet-unannounced project called Northbank Buffalo Bayou; the company published the legal notice required as part of that application process just a few days after the KBRN sale documents were signed.

The Best Forumer · #**9720** Posted **Jul 5, 2016, 6:08 PM**

That's a lot of land. Hope they build something nice and grand. After they remove the undesirables of course.