HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 73

Xeelee · #**1441** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 3:22 PM**

There was another proposal a year or two back. It was a black tower and it was really really tall. In a rendering it was shown right next to Williams Tower. Anyone have that by any chance?

Xeelee · #**1442** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 3:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cuzco1

News: there are now rumours of a 80 story office building near Williams Tower. If that is so, it could possibly be the new tallest for Houston since the JP Morgan Tower is only 75 stories.

It wont be the tallest if it has a smaller lobby... or the floor to ceiling heights are smaller.

Wattleigh · #**1443** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 4:06 PM**

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/...dpost&p=223258

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Two towers in the galleria area by Williams tower, one office building 80 floors, one residential 50 floors. Right now only in the planning stages, it may never get built, but if it does it will take off within the next 18 months.

Trae · #**1444** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 7:27 PM**

Aw hell. I would want the tallest to be in Downtown.

Xeelee · #**1445** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 8:25 PM**

Yes I concur.

rdavis4559 · #**1446** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 8:36 PM**

But you have to agree that it would be nice to have the two tallest buildings outside of a CBD (in the US) both be in Houston and both be within miles of each other.

Trae · #**1447** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 8:46 PM**

Uptown just needs some rail now. Also, redevelop the strip centers and have the store fronts along the street (with awnings over the sidewalks and have the sidewalks a little wider). Then, put the parking garages in the back.

rdavis4559 · #**1448** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 9:06 PM**

Land Tejas Cos., developer of Houston's Canyon Gate Communities, and General Electric have finalized an agreement to build Houston's first master-planned community to incorporate GE's ecomagination program.

The new program will be launched in spring 2008 at the Land Tejas community of Discovery at Spring Trails. Its aim is to create a living environment that is more cost-effective than traditionally built communities.

In addition to mandating builder cooperation community-wide, Houston-based Land Tejas will apply efficiency and conservation principles to the design of the community and to the energy and water technologies used throughout its common areas.

"Land Tejas is committed to developing environmentally responsible communities that are more energy efficient, less emissive and more self-sufficient," said Land Tejas co-founder Al Brende.

The first phase of lots in Discovery at Spring Trails, located in Montgomery County, is under construction, with anticipated delivery to builders slated for late February 2008. Home prices will range from the $170,000s to the high $300,000s, with both gated and non-gated neighborhoods available.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/s...l?ana=from_rss

Xeelee · #**1449** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 9:45 PM**

Where is this "spring trails" place?

rdavis4559 · #**1450** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 11:11 PM**

Not sure, but this is under construction right near my house on the NW side:
http://beltwaylakes.com/

TritonHouston · #**1451** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 3:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Xeelee

Where is this "spring trails" place?

I live near it. It's just northwest of Old Town Spring.

Pandemonious · #**1452** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 4:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by toxteth o'grady

You have good eyes.

If those two towers get built, Uptown is gonna rock!

As I said before, I have seen other renderings and models, and was told it was over 800'.

c4smok · #**1453** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 5:20 AM**

lol guess they are going to build that community in a well known flood plain.

CALMSP · #**1454** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 7:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by Trae

Uptown just needs some rail now. Also, redevelop the strip centers and have the store fronts along the street (with awnings over the sidewalks and have the sidewalks a little wider). Then, put the parking garages in the back.

come on now.....................are you serious?? That would just make way to much sense for someone making the big bucks to think of!!!!

I would like to see what Metro has planned for that area with all hte new construction.

rdavis4559 · #**1455** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 9:23 AM**

For a skinny and unglamorous tract of land sandwiched between railroad tracks, an abandoned freight rail right of way in northwest Houston has attracted a lot of interest.

The city wants to extend a planned hike and bike trail along an old railbed from Shepherd Drive to Hempstead Highway.

The Texas Department of Transportation is planning a stormwater detention pond through much of it.

And the Metropolitan Transit Authority has looked into using the space for commuter rail to the northwest suburbs.

TxDOT's proposed V-shaped channel would run more than a mile between White Oak Bayou and a Union Pacific overpass on Hempstead Highway.

It also would use up 60 feet of the city's 100-foot right of way for the trail, and that has residents worried.....

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/5468333.html

Trae · #**1456** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 1:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by CALMSP

come on now.....................are you serious?? That would just make way to much sense for someone making the big bucks to think of!!!!

I would like to see what Metro has planned for that area with all hte new construction.

It is so SIMPLE. It is happening though with some of these strip centers being redeveloped (BLVD Place for one). You don't even have to add too much retail space (to avoid some vacancy). Uptown may be taking a bit away from Downtown though.

Xeelee · #**1457** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 4:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by CALMSP

come on now.....................are you serious?? That would just make way to much sense for someone making the big bucks to think of!!!!

I would like to see what Metro has planned for that area with all hte new construction.

Knowing them, nothing.

Trae · #**1458** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 4:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Xeelee

Knowing them, nothing.

I guess you don't know METRO too well.

I just wish METRO would have a subway down Post Oak, and have it pop up somewhere after the Williams Tower. They are already putting it into a subway from Uptown Park until just south of I-10 (where Post Oak's median is wide). It may cost more to double the length of it, but they will benefit in the future (where they don't have to modify it above intersections because of slow downs).

As a subway, you could have stations:

1. Uptown Park. This could connect to the office buildings on the other side if 610
2. San Felipe. This could serve BLVD Place, Four Leaf Towers, and other possible redevelopments.
3. The Galleria/Westheimer. This would obviously serve the Galleria. After entrances inside the Galleria and by the Dillard's across Post Oak. It could then pop back up and have another station somewhere south.

It just takes $, but it would be smart to just do it now. Inflation is going to happen in the future, and it would be more expensive to do.

rdavis4559 · #**1459** Posted **Jan 19, 2008, 5:22 PM**

Houston already has pretty bad traffic and expansion of roads can only go so far... with the expected increase in population, a subway as well as a huge expansion of metro rail routes will have to take place (or maybe I am too hopeful).... unless people just keep expanding further out toward the outlying suburbs, which will end up meaning commuters coming to central Houston from places as far as Conroe (which some people already do).

toxteth o'grady · #**1460** Posted **Jan 20, 2008, 1:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cuzco1

News: there are now rumours of a 80 story office building near Williams Tower. If that is so, it could possibly be the new tallest for Houston since the JP Morgan Tower is only 75 stories.

That's a lot of office space.

Who's going to fill it?