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Hotel Double Whammy
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Developer Thind Hotels has heard the call, and is gearing up two hotels in the area.

The Mathis Group prez Joe Mathis (he's the project manager, pictured with Arnold Palmer) and GC Arch-Con VP Michael Vaughn say the properties, a Holiday Inn and a Staybridge Suites, will be built simultaneously on a 10-acre parcel at Tamina Road and David Memorial Drive. The team will have three acres to spare for future development. To cater to energy companies, both properties will have higher-quality finishes and amenities than is typical for the brands. The Holiday Inn will be six stories and include 152 rooms; its special amenities include a firepit. (S'mores on a business trip? It truly is the 21st century.)

The 120-key Staybridge (rendered here) will be four stories. It caters to long-term stays, and Michael says it'll feature a movie lounge. (Do residents get a choice? Can we suggest Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo?) To create a vibrant environment, residents will get two free drink coupons to the communal bar area. Michael tells us the Holiday Inn will break ground next month and the Staybridge will follow 60 days later, but the two will deliver at the same time next summer. That makes the last days of construction (especially moving in the furniture and those last minute touches) very tricky to coordinate.
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Stream announced its newest industrial development, Bayou Bend Business Park. The two-building, 378k SF project will break ground this week and deliver in early 2015. The 22-acre site sits in Southwest Houston with Beltway 8 frontage near Highway 90. Kyle Roberson is overseeing construction of the two buildings, a 310k SF crossdock and a 68kSF side-load facility. Matteson Hamilton and Adam Jackson will handle leasing.
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What's Nau, pussycat? This project is about to get out of the starting blocks.

Nau Center for Texas Cultural Heritage on track for summer groundbreaking with new donor
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Ever hear of the Prairie Parkway? It's the proposed beltway outside the Grand Parkway. And it's a twinkle in the eye of Waller County Commissioners...

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Ever hear of the Prairie Parkway? It's the proposed beltway outside the Grand Parkway. And it's a twinkle in the eye of Waller County Commissioners...
Good god, make it stop...
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From Swamplot:

http://swamplot.com/a-new-main-st-ap...te/2014-05-05/

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Alliance Residential hasn’t even finished construction on the 203-unit Broadstone apartment complex at 3800 Main, on the southwest corner of Main St. and Alabama in Midtown — but already equipment crews are tearing up a neighboring 1.03-acre lot across Travis St. for a second phase of the development.
This is a stone's throw from the HCC/Ensemble Station. The number of new and existing units within two or three blocks of that station will soon be approaching 700 with these two new buildings plus the Ventana (two blocks east), Isabella Court, etc. That station already handles a substantial number of riders coming and going from HCC at all hours. Soon the MATCH will be a block away (breaking ground tomorrow - May 7) and the planned Mid-Main mixed project will be directly across from the same station (mixed use including an additional 350 or so apartments). Of course the Ensemble Theatre is right there two, along with the Cram & Ferguson Trinity church, morning lines around the block at Breakfast Klub and late night crowds at Continental Club, Double Trouble, etc.

The bad news in the area has always been the large homeless population which doesn't do much for the area's reputation. I hold no personal grudge, but it is fair to point out the price that is paid by all of the neighborhood in terms of a general sense of mayhem (shopping carts, trash, people sleeping on stoops and dumpster diving) and particularly because of panhandlers. While this situation is not unusual in urban America (as anyone who has spent time in San Francisco or New York can attest) BUT Houston generally doesn't have the density of ordinary folks on the street to offset the presence of a relatively large number of hobos who can be aggressive asking for a handout (who may or may not be chemically or mentally unhinged ). The reason that these guys are in midtown and downtown is not rocket science: it is where all of the social service organizations are located. I'm not suggesting that this can be fixed by simply moving all of these people out. I also don't want to turn this into an anecdote rehash party because I have lived all over town and this area isn't any more dangerous in reality than areas that are considered to be far safer. What's at stake here is perception.

The good news is this: the influx of new businesses and hundreds of residents will dilute this underbelly. If you walk down the street and the only person you see is a bum, it can be disconcerting. If you walk down the street and there is a bum along with some students, people walking the dog, a group going out for a drink etc., you don't care, or at least you care less. I'm looking forward to seeing how this area evolves in the next few years as those who need social services are not the only people visible on the sidewalk.
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http://swamplot.com/a-new-main-st-ap...te/2014-05-05/
The bad news in the area has always been the large homeless population which doesn't do much for the area's reputation.
Something tells me this will change with the new development. That leaves the problem of finding them a home.
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Didn't NYC do something to get dirty rag car window washers and the pan handlers out of Times Square and it worked?
Yeah, but that created its own problems. The place is overcommercialized and looks like Las Vegas. It's always something...
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Affordability is slipping as Houston becomes a more expensive real estate market than the national average.

Still affordable? Average home prices in Houston surpass national average
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First HSPVA, now the High School for Health Professions (okay, the HCC Coleman College of Health Sciences’ Medical Science & Technology Early College Charter High School). From Swamplot...

Visiting the Future Site of the New Third Ward Medical High School with the Ridiculously Long Name

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Believe it or not, this is a single-family house. One. In the Heights. (from Swamplot)



A Heights-Area Homebuilder’s New Home Office on Yale St.
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Grocer's Supply, a major Houston-based distributor, has a 1.7 million sf warehouse development scheduled to start.

Grocers Supply to build massive complex in north Houston
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Here's a surprise: it's cheaper to keep the Dome open than previous estimates.

NOW DOWN TO $171K A YEAR, GIVE OR TAKE?
Keeping the Astrodome Around Is a Whole Lot Cheaper Than You Thought It Was


And here's a gratuitous shot of the Dome over a sea of rooftops. From Swamplot:

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A.D. Players Theater:
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One of Houston's largest resident theater companies will start construction on a facility in the Galleria area this summer that will house three separate theaters with 900 total seats.

The A.D. Players, a Houston-based theater company founded in 1967, announced the groundbreaking at the company's annual guild luncheon in May.

The facility was funded through the A.D. Players' capital campaign, which was bolstered with a recent $2 million gift from Houston Texans owner Bob McNair's education non-profit, the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation.

No figures on the total goal of the capital campaign or the price tag of the building were released.


The location will be named after A.D. Players founder Jeannette Clift George's husband Lorraine George, a construction executive, theater leader and set designer who died in 2004.

The facility will sit on Westheimer Road near Yorktown Drive, about half a mile from the Galleria. Included in the location will be a 450-seat mainstage theater, a 300-seat children's theater and a 150-seat black box theater.

The A.D. Players' new theater is part of a major boost to the arts in Houston with the improved economy.
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Industrial Complex in the Northwest breaks ground:
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Panattoni is underway with Beltway Crossing Northwest, a 125-acre master-planned project. It's the firm's largest industrial initiative in Houston thus far, and they couldn't find a better spot for it, on N Gessner in the oh-so-popular northwest submarket with access to Beltway 8 and SH 249. Above, Alston Construction's Radie Stroud, LaSalle Investment Management's Nicholas Firth and Alex Rosen, Panattoni's Todd King and David Cheairs, LaSalle's Sean Meehan, and Alston's Stephen de Jongh hit the dirt. (Barely. It's going to take forever if you don't start taking bigger scoops, guys.)


Phase 1, three buildings totaling 663k SF of spec office, warehouse, and distribution space, will be completed in fall 2014. 80 acres remains for BTS options up to 1M SF and future phases. The park includes both front- and rear-load for cross-dock building opportunities. Panattoni is partnering with LaSalle to develop the site; Alston is design-builder, Three Square Design Group led design, and Kimley-Horn is civil engineer. Cushman & Wakefield's Stephen Schneidau, Jim Foreman, and Beau Kaleel are handling leasing.
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http://thedailycougar.com/2014/05/16...research-park/


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Academics & Research May 16, 2014 // by Nam-My Le // Comments

Investment deal builds new building, faculty start ups at Energy Research Park


The new facility, slated at $15 million, will house laboratories and startup businesses, complementing the entrepreneurial nature of UH. | Courtesy of University of Houston online.

On Wednesday, UH signed a $25 million deal with the Texas Collegiate Regional Center for the construction of a new building at the Energy Research Park which will house laboratories and startup businesses for commercialized technology created by UH faculty.

TCRC, formed by investors David Franklin, Huan Le and James Tao, will include a venture capital fund for foreign investors and will invest between $3 million and $10 million in specific technologies chosen by a board of appointees from both TCRC and UH.

“Developing a more entrepreneurial culture promotes UH’s overall academic and research mission to create new knowledge for the good of society,” said President and Chancellor Renu Khator.

“Ideally, the revenues from this arrangement will be used to support additional research that leads to even more innovation.”
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The top 10 communities for home starts in Houston are all on the west side of town.

These ten communities saw the most new home construction starts

Another article mentions a prediction that Houston will see 125,000 new homes constructed in the next ten years - which is quite a bit less than the expected demand. Soon finding a home in Houston will be more difficult than finding a villa to rent in Tuscany (gratuitous Seinfeld reference included ).
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