Originally Posted by photoLith (Post 5699869)

http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...d/c187d02f.jpg

This is going to be a huge development that from the looks of it will be fairly urban, unlike a lot of the gated off suburban styled apartment complexes in the area.

Originally Posted by YakuzaIce (Post 5699987)

Looks like the site is about 240k sqft. At 6 stories this could have quite a huge number of units in it. Did the fenced in area take up the whole site between Peveto and Eberhard?

The website has a higher resolution rendering. Seems like it might be 4 separate buildings with fenced courtyards between them. Though they may connect along the back. Certainly a step in a positive direction compared to their mostly gated Jackson Hill building on the other side of Memorial.

Originally Posted by lockmat (Post 5697041)

From what I've heard online (and possibly read) is that lenders are scared of oil boom/bust aspect of Houston. They are requiring a higher percentage of preleasing.

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady (Post 5700520)

Anyone know anything about the two buildings Shell has on the drawing board?

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady (Post 5700520)

Amusing. New York's economy has been hobbled for the better part of three years, yet they seem to be enjoying a building boom (or at least plenty of speculation). Eve Dallas, which is overbuilt, seems to be experiencing something of an upturn.

Anyone know anything about the two buildings Shell has on the drawing board?

Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady (Post 5700514)

Why are they even holding a design competition? We all know its going to be some box fugly building.

Originally Posted by vjhe (Post 5700865)

These days, starchitecture is just too expensive - unless you're doing a museum.

Originally Posted by photoLith (Post 5681467)

I seriously dont understand why they are so up in arms over that like 20 story building. Every time I see some uppity douche with one of those stop Ashby highrise bumper stickers I just want to punch them in the throat because it seriously makes no sense why they are so against it. I mean, theres tons of mid rise residential towers all over the city and they live in the city, so get over it. And their little cartoon of the highrise makes it seem like its a 600ft tall building or something. What are they so against? The possible shadows it will cast? Why do they care, most of that neighborhood is covered in trees and the ground is usually shadowed by them anyways.

From the article above...

# If you nevertheless succeed in constructing this project, we will not stop our opposition, and we will take every lawful action available to us. It is important that you, your investors, and your construction and permanent lenders understand this.
# We will picket your leasing office. Not once or twice, but at all times it is open.
# We will identify your tenants and send regular communications to them at their units and their places of business to let them know that they are not welcome in our neighborhood.
# When your tenants walk in or through our neighborhood, we will let them know that they are not welcome.
# We will challenge the permits for your restaurant tenant.
# We will boycott your restaurant and encourage our friends and neighbors to do the same. We will appear at your tenant’s restaurant and demonstrate our opposition to their presence in our neighborhood.
# If your restaurant tenant has other locations, we will boycott and appear at those locations as well.
# We will appear at the homes of the owners, investors, and chef of your restaurant tenant and demonstrate our opposition to their presence in our neighborhood.
# We will post unfavorable reviews of your restaurant tenant on dining websites.

How about we form an pro Ashby highrise group and picket these assholes houses and tell them they arent welcome in a changing city and can piss off to Tulsa or something. Some of the above stuff is like borderline stalking and harassment.

Some other things they might as well add to that list would be... we will show up at your houses and places of business and key your cars and spray paint your windows to show our opposition; we will also be forced to break your gas lines leading to your houses or condos and be forced to light molotov cocktails to show our opposition to this highrise.

Originally Posted by weatherguru18 (Post 5700951)

The link doesn't work. What is Shell planning on building?

Originally Posted by vjhe (Post 5700865)

These days, starchitecture is just too expensive - unless you're doing a museum.

Originally Posted by JManc (Post 5700940)

But that reason has been used in Houston for the last 15-20 years. As a whole, Houston's recent history of architectural designs have been mediocre AT BEST. It seems minimalist, boxy, "as cheap as we can get it", "anything that even RESEMBLES ANY form of flash is the equivalent to drowning puppies ", has slowly but surely become part of Houston's culture; and this started before the current economic downturn, and before 9/11.