A few of those things are off. 13 has already started, and 12. It was my understanding from a few months back that a new office tower will not be built on that site, instead the Houston club building will be preserved and restored. But it won't surprise me one but if a developer destroys yet another piece of Houston's history instead of developing a vacant lot.

Bike-sharing program kicks into high gear
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...ar-4181173.php

Camden, Midtown piece together plans for long-awaited Superblock downtown development

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=29.74...h&z=18&iwloc=A

Boom! Now this is a major step for Midtown having the largest vacant block developed, that is right next to a light rail station at the northern end. The Midtown Management District will likely build the park with underground parking, think a smaller Discovery Green. Per the article:

Finally the land around the light rail is starting to be developed in a meaningful way. Thousands of apartments have been developed in the western portion of Midtown along Bagby and W Gray, hopefully with this and the Pearl apartment going up we've turned the corner.

I think they will tear down that ugly suburban strip mall too on that superblock, at least I hope they will. With the addition of that park it will really help out the area along the light rail line.

I made a google map with the locations/links etc. I still have some on the west side I need to add.

link: http://goo.gl/R2K8g

Yes that land is either owned by Midtown or Camden.

My niece is moving from downtown Denver to Houston for a new job. We went downtown today at lunch time to explore the streets and tunnels and look for apartments.

There were ZERO available units at the Humble Tower or Hogg Palace and only studios at the Rice Lofts. One Park Place had a few units available, but they were large two bedrooms.

Will someone PLEASE finally convert the 3 building Texas Company block into apartments already!!?!?!?!

Great work! Seems it's concentrated in Uptown, Greenway Plaza, and north Montrose.

Shasta, look at Houston House, I'm sure they have units available.

Article about the new Energy Tower III
 

New Air China flights to Beijing! :cheers:

nice!!

Did you look in EaDo? I have a friend that has a warehouse that rents out condos if yall are interested. Its right across the street from last concert cafe.

The new(ish) Hines tower on Main St, BG Group Place, just secured another lease bringing occupancy to 92%. Not bad for a building built speculatively.

Uptown Not Waiting for Light Rail, Planning Bus System Along Post Oak Instead

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I think this is a very practical solution to the lack of funding for the near future construction of light rail. It will show us if the congestion of the Galleria area will overcome the bus stigma. I think it can if it does in fact connect to the park&ride lots as shown in the above picture. Downtown does pretty decent with its bus usage among commuters so I think connecting those two proposed transit centers to the HOV system so buses can go to and from the core to the 'burbs.

So sad that this city can't get a competent rail system, but I guess this is better than nothing. Traffic here is worse than I remembered.

This is where Houston lags behind other major cities. I know how much this city relies on the oil & gas industry, but damn, our public transportation needs to get better. I always envisioned a rail system that would go into some of the suburbs of our city in the future, but I can't see it getting done when they can't even agree upon things within city limits.

I do think the line from downtown to Reliant is competent, and the new lines being built will be fine. But as an outsider, I'm totally perplexed that the city doesn't already have lines to both airports, to the suburbs, and to areas like Uptown. I feel the same way about Austin, which is way behind. Somehow Dallas got way ahead.

The issue is you and many others perceive having a lot of rail or more rail as automatically being advantageous. Quality of the line is just as important because there are quite a few lines that under-perform.

With that said, all Texas cities are pathetically behind in terms of the % of people using transit. Houston in particular has had incompetence and corruption ruin its plan.