HOUSTON | Development Thread II

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Luxury apartments to break ground on former frat house site near University of Houston

Developers will break ground later this month on a new private luxury apartment building close to the University of Houston's main campus.

The project, named Tower 5040, will have 147 units with a mix of one-, two- and four-bedroom options. The eight-story building will rise on a 1.49-acre site near the intersection of Wheeler Avenue and Calhoun, where a former fraternity house used to be.

In 2015, the Sigma Chi International Fraternity closed its chapter at UH after it was suspended for alleged hazing earlier that year, the campus paper the Daily Cougar reported. In 2016, the fraternity house was torn down.

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Sugar Land: Future Fluor Corporate Campus Takes Shape

Sugar Land (Fort Bend County) — Fluor Corporation is nearing completion on its development plan for a 50.3-acre corporate campus that will include four multi-story office buildings, parking structures, retail and restaurant amenities, park land and recreational facilities.

During a September 11 meeting between the architects and the Planning and Zoning Commission, Zachary Christenson of the Houston office of HOK said the project will house up to 3,500 employees.

The four office buildings vary in size from 79,000 square feet to 169,000 square feet. They total 484,000 square feet of office space.

In addition, there will be about 150,000 square feet of amenity spaces in the form of a fitness center, a 10,000-square-foot day care center, retail and restaurant venues, a company cafeteria and back-office functions.

The tallest proposed building will be seven stories. The other office buildings gradually step down in massing, being five, four and three stories in height. The campus is located to the southeast of the University Boulevard/Lexington Boulevard intersection.

Fluor is a multinational engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and maintenance company with headquarters in Irving, Texas. It’s had a location in Sugar Land for 36 years.

The development plan was approved in general form by City Council in 2013, but the land has sat vacant these past five years. In May, Fluor announced its intention to proceed and divided the land into three reserves.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by llamaorama

This means there is a chance to tear out the viaduct from Allen parkway to the 59 interchange and rejoin downtown to midtown. Right now it’s a grodey parking area/homeless camp under the elevated structure. This is also why I don’t like a high line park. Get ride of the ENTIRE thing. Make the downtown blocks seamless with midtown, with the corner of the 4th ward,etc. save the money and use it to make streets elsewhere across the city less ratchet and make people will actually walk places.

That whole area is a blight and they would also have to get rid of the bum magnets; the bus stations, McDonalds and other spots where vagrants congregate. I have a friend who just bought a condo over there and it's in a nasty area but you can tell at some point, it will all be redeveloped.

[thatguysly]

Originally Posted by JManc

That whole area is a blight and they would also have to get rid of the bum magnets; the bus stations, McDonalds and other spots where vagrants congregate. I have a friend who just bought a condo over there and it's in a nasty area but you can tell at some point, it will all be redeveloped.

The greyhound and McDs are just areas to be. The homeless population won't go anywhere because there are a lot of outreach centers in Midtown. As long as those exist the homeless will be in the area.

But to just tear down and build doesn't solve the problem, it might move it a little but it doesn't end homelessness. If you really hate seeing homeless people then the real solution is improve schools, don't ignore mental illness, help with drug rehab, improve outreach, find shelter and jobs. Of course some people don't want help but overall help from childhood through now is needed.

[Twitter1]

Originally Posted by thatguysly

But to just tear down and build doesn't solve the problem, it might move it a little but it doesn't end homelessness. If you really hate seeing homeless people then the real solution is improve schools, don't ignore mental illness, help with drug rehab, improve outreach, find shelter and jobs. Of course some people don't want help but overall help from childhood through now is needed.

This is Texas after all. Don’t think we want to “help people”.

[JManc]

A lot of these people simply don't want help. Some do and some are mentally ill but many are just vagrants and hustlers that don't want any structure.

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East River: Demo underway at the old KBR site.

http://swamplot.com/last-kbr-warehou...ws/2018-10-17/

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The District

Caydon's next phase for Midtown to break ground by late 2019

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/...apartment.html

By late 2019, the developer will break ground on its mixed-use project that, along with the residential high-rise, will span about three city blocks when complete.

The Australian developer is eyeing the Museum District, Montrose and Midtown for future projects.

[llamaorama]

Woah!

I really hope one day there is a continuous urban corridor with a skyline down the red line joining downtown and the med center.

[jtown,man]

Originally Posted by thatguysly

The greyhound and McDs are just areas to be. The homeless population won't go anywhere because there are a lot of outreach centers in Midtown. As long as those exist the homeless will be in the area.

But to just tear down and build doesn't solve the problem, it might move it a little but it doesn't end homelessness. If you really hate seeing homeless people then the real solution is improve schools, don't ignore mental illness, help with drug rehab, improve outreach, find shelter and jobs. Of course some people don't want help but overall help from childhood through now is needed.

You can move homeless outreach places to poorer neighborhoods. Not an area between downtown and midtown, two booming areas. It makes zero sense for the city and city government not to want to cash in on the growth.

[Wattleigh]

The Midtown

View from the 11th floor, c/o 'thebigham1' on r/Houston

[Dariusb]

^That's a beautiful, dense shot!

[Dariusb]

Originally Posted by llamaorama

Woah!

I really hope one day there is a continuous urban corridor with a skyline down the red line joining downtown and the med center.

That'd be one helluva future skyline shot!

[chris08876]

Hopefully 1600 Louisiana picks up. Shame to see layoffs occurring with Chevron. That's one project I'd like to see rise.

Are you guys seeing a strong office market outside of the core or city-limits? In the burbs in other words. It always stinks if its the case to see all of that office space not being within the city limits.

To think that those sprawling 4-5 floor office complex could of been skyscrapers. And square footage is high for a lot of them.

[llamaorama]

I have no idea what the numbers say.

Anecdotally, Houston seems to build plenty of office in the core and city proper. Right now a 700+ foot office tower is under construction downtown, block 5. In this decade, there has been 609 main, BG Group Place and Hess Tower in downtown, and 1500 Post Oak Boulevard in uptown. In the same time frame, there haven't been any big office skyscrapers to change the skylines of Dallas, San Antonio, Minneapolis. Denver recently built its first big office building in decades.

A lot of growth has happened in the metro too, but I think the important thing is that the city does well regardless. I would think kind of people and companies that want to be downtown aren't going to be the ones who want to be in The Woodlands and vice versa, and having both options strengthens the region as a whole. The more people who work in the core, the more demand for city living IMO. All of these big developments are just a couple blocks from the metro red line too.

[DBGHouston]

Midtown Updates

3300 Main: ground floor columns near completion, parking ramp rises

Caydon Midtown now 2850


Forbes Magazine Oct 18, 2018 Cynthia Lescalleet


Midtown Houston's First Apartment Tower Is First U.S. Project For Australian Developer Caydon

Australian-based private developer Caydon appreciates the potential in Houston's park- and rail-friendly Midtown. Since snapping up a block for an apartment tower three years ago, the company subsequently acquired two adjacent parcels for future pieces of a mixed-use development to occupy the three blocks assembled.

The first project out of the ground, a $200 million, 27-story residential tower with ground-level retail, is Caydon's first U.S. project. It's also the first high-rise apartments in the chute for a redeveloping area in the urban core featuring several mid-rise residential properties.

Now half-complete, the new tower – named "2850" for its address on Fannin Street – held a sneak peek tour of what's to come: 27 floors, 357 units, a half-acre amenity level with pool, fitness center, separate yoga studio, outdoor kitchen and gathering space and a "backyard" for those who feel they may have missed out on having one by choosing to live up instead of spread out. The top floor features a 4,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor sky lounge for residents' use

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cynthia.../#61323736478b

3300 Main (foreground) Caydon 2850 (background)
Crews at both buildings on a rainy Saturday.

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[gclass]

^^^ the CAYDON PROPERTY GROUP seems to be loaded with UBER ambition. this is indeed a good thing for HOUSTON!

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Houston: Texas Sterling-Banicki Receives Design-Build Contract for Spaceport

Houston (Harris County) — Texas Sterling-Banicki JV LLC this week was awarded a design-build contract valued at more than $18.8 million by the Houston City Council to bring infrastructure to the Houston Spaceport at Ellington Airport.

Tuesday’s council vote is the culmination of a selection process that began with a June 2017 solicitation by Request for Qualifications. Four firms were short-listed. The other firms considered were Griffin Partners Inc., Burns and McDonnell, and Boyer Inc., according to city records.

In a prepared statement after the vote, Houston Aviation Director Mario C. Diaz said, “Phase 1 is an important first step toward our final vision for the Houston Spaceport. With more than 600 acres of land available for lease at the location, the Houston Spaceport is primed for development, and with vital infrastructure in place, momentum for this exciting project continues to build–much like our future partners will with these key assets already in place.”

Needed infrastructure to be addressed includes interior streets, storm water drainage, water and wastewater lines, power and communications duct banks, and gas service lines. The Spaceport Infrastructure Design-Build project will take place in two phases–Pre-construction Phase and Design Services and Construction Phase Services.

A 90-acre site at Ellington has been set aside to develop Phase 1 of the Houston Spaceport master plan, which is part of the Houston Airport System (HAS). The objective of Phase 1 development is to provide a home for a spectrum of aerospace related industries and disciplines in order to accelerate key engineering activities:

Component and composite development and fabrication
Space vehicle assembly
Zero-gravity scientific and medical experiments
Microsatellite deployment
Astronaut training and development
Space tourism

Houston Spaceport is the tenth spaceport in the United States to be licensed as such by the Federal Aviation Administration. It is expected to benefit from its proximity to the NASA Johnson Space Center. The HAS and NASA entered an umbrella agreement to collaborate in a number of areas intended to help the port grow a commercial space flight industry.

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2111 Austin


@phillip_white

[The Best Forumer]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

So, I just discovered this for the first time. What's the story on this? How far long is it? What's the support like for it?




https://www.facebook.com/PageSouther...type=3&theater

This has been around for about 10 years. It was included in the Houston Corridor Master Plan (or something like that name).