Naviguessor Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 ^^ Nobody, back then, would have predicted that baseball would ever be played indoors either. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Don't get too excited, but Bobruss spotted some activity on the site this morning: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Don't get too excited too late! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfastx Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 itshappening.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Slightly off topic, though something I think is interesting... While viewing the site on google's most recent street view, the smoke from Axis apartment fire last March can be seen from Ashby street. the street name, ASHby, coupled with the smoke in street view and the angry NIMBYs is a pretty ominous sign. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Wow what are the odds of capturing that... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Ashby-casts-long-shadow-over-Houston-land-use-7213635.php The Houston developers have said construction of the tower will not be affected by the appeals process. They plan to move forward. Construction costs have risen during the course of the legal proceedings and the developers need to find a new contractor before they break ground, said Fred Cook, an attorney for the developers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Quote TEXAS’S FOURTEENTH Court of Appeals overturned part of the 2014 decision on the Ashby Highrise case yesterday, declaring that no, the developers of 1717 Bissonnet don’t have to pay the tower’s would-be neighbors $1.2 million as compensation for property value losses. Nor are the highrise planners on the hook for all those legal fees incurred by the various stages of the case — those were handed back to the homeowners as well, along with all costs incurred by the appeal. http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-appeal-judgment-no-payment-for-damages-by-an-unbuilt-project/2016-07-01/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Oh wow great news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 A friend of mine bought a house off Banks St. for $375,000 and now itis wroth $1.2 million. They a greedy rich people. They need to be sued! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nole23 Posted July 1, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2016 Comments section... "This thing had better have long arms and huge teeth like all the ads show it as having or I'm going to be sorely disappointed." http://www.chron.com/business/real-estate/articleComments/Court-of-appeals-rules-in-favor-of-Ashby-8336479.php 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagoman Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Friends were discussing this over lunch today, and someone has read and heard a couple of folks saying this latest court ruling was a victory for the homeowners. It was a huge loss. One person knows the developers, and their partner is so rich, it could afford to buy every home in the subdivision at 150% of value, ie, uber rich. All the delay has done is change the numbers upward, including the prices people will pay to the developers for a first class highrise. The homeowners seem to be affluent who seem to see themselves as either 'special' (entitled) OR victims who chose to make a very ill-advised decision to fight this in the City of Houston, where they never really had a chance (despite one lower court victory) to win this fight. Until huge changes in the law occur (and the City Planning Department), and not just favorable comments from one or a few city politicians, nobody could have won this fight in the Capital of Private Property rights. Sad war, and yet I feel badly for the ill-advised plaintiffs. The defendants will roll when they see a timeline to their now well-deserved profits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 (edited) If you haven't heard yet, Nancy and Erin have a new real estate podcast. It has been good so far. Check out the tweet below!!! <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looped In podcast listeners: We're talking to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ashbyhighrise?src=hash">#Ashbyhighrise</a> developers tomorrow. Got any questions for them? <a href="https://t.co/AU9I3elV8b">https://t.co/AU9I3elV8b</a></p>— Nancy Sarnoff (@nsarnoff) <a href="https://twitter.com/nsarnoff/status/753706438665482241">July 14, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> I don't know how to embed a tweet, so here's Nancy's tweet today: Looped In podcast listeners: We're talking to the #Ashbyhighrise developers tomorrow. Got any questions for them? Edited July 14, 2016 by lockmat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Yea,why are they so obessed with that location, when there a dozen areas around there that would gladly welcome the development? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagoman Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 I liked this young lawyer's article (he testified for the defendant's): http://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2016/07/15/3819/#.V4qpAfmPu02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Moving forward http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/looped-in/article/Developers-of-so-called-Ashby-high-rise-talk-10-8392350.php?t=37efcb8f6c438d9cbb?cmpid=twitter-premium 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 http://swamplot.com/dont-look-now-but-theres-a-crew-literally-breaking-some-ground-over-at-the-ashby-highrise-site/2016-09-07/ 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfastx Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 One can only hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 still wish that the owner had decided to build low income housing instead. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 1 hour ago, samagon said: still wish that the owner had decided to build low income housing instead. All of the problems with the Ashby highrise would have been exacerbated with low income housing - and the developers wouldn't have the promise of a huge pay day at the end to keep fighting for it. It would have just resulted in demolition of the old apartment complex, and a perpetually vacant lot Low income housing is for sure needed, but I don't think it realistically would ever have been made here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 1 hour ago, cspwal said: All of the problems with the Ashby highrise would have been exacerbated with low income housing - and the developers wouldn't have the promise of a huge pay day at the end to keep fighting for it. It would have just resulted in demolition of the old apartment complex, and a perpetually vacant lot Low income housing is for sure needed, but I don't think it realistically would ever have been made here. The way to make cash would've been to not shoot for the moon before the recession hit, build a bunch of 3-story townhomes here, cash out. On the homeowners end, the smart way would be to avoid expensive lawsuits ongoing, just enough to hold off construction to get a special zoning rule for their neighborhood pushed through the city and forced the developers to abandon the project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 20 hours ago, cspwal said: All of the problems with the Ashby highrise would have been exacerbated with low income housing - and the developers wouldn't have the promise of a huge pay day at the end to keep fighting for it. It would have just resulted in demolition of the old apartment complex, and a perpetually vacant lot Low income housing is for sure needed, but I don't think it realistically would ever have been made here. there's lots of government grants they could have received, and building something on the scale of the apartments they removed would have been impossible to block, if it's pretty much exactly what was removed. sure, it wouldn't have been the biggest payday, but I'm not concerned about the developer making money. I'm thinking about how awesome it would have been to watch from the sidelines. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) I drove by there yesterday and there was a crew working on the east end of the lot with backhoe and several worker bees. I couldn't tell if it was just utility work or what. Edited September 10, 2016 by bobruss spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Don't think it had anything to do with the highrise. Hard to tell from the street, but it looks like all they did was dig a little trench through the old driveway entrance between a manhole and a storm sewer drain. There's been no activity all week since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Once again there was a crew on site this morning. Perhaps their annual "dig up some dirt and then leave for a year" exercise? They had an excavator and several trucks and had already dug up some piles of dirt. This is the same corner where they were working a year ago, but a much bigger operation than last time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 1 hour ago, rechlin said: Perhaps their annual "dig up some dirt and then leave for a year" exercise? Haha, the developer waits just long enough that the neighborhood calms down and thinks the project is dead, then sends out a random construction crew to play mind games and increase the anxiety of the homeowners.. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 10 years ago! Wow..... I don't even know what this was suppose to look like anymore. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 On 5/24/2014 at 4:54 PM, Triton said: Great article on Houston history and the Ashby highrise: http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/ashby-high-rise-lawsuit-houston-developers-sprawl There might be a newer rendering, but 2014 seems recent enough for it to be relavant This doesn't seem that much taller than the high rises that have gone up since in the area 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 A new project named Camelia Apartments is proposed here. 792 units (!) , 4Q 2018 Start - 2Q 2021 Completion http://www.constructionwire.com/Client/Report/Details/3139949?reporttypeid=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfastx Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 6 minutes ago, Urbannizer said: A new project named Camelia Apartments is proposed here. 792 units (!) , 4Q 2018 Start - 2Q 2021 Completion http://www.constructionwire.com/Client/Report/Details/3139949?reporttypeid=1 Don't think that link is working, I'd be very intrigued if this is legit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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