Jax Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I noticed a variance request sign up on the fence of the parking lot between the Rice Collaborative Research Center construction and the Hilton Hotel. Does anybody know what it could be? Edit: There are two addresses affiliated with the Mixed-Use Development in the Texas Medical Center. Latitude Med Center Apartments is located at 1850 Old Main Street (or 1850 Old Main Street Road.) InterContinental Houston Hotel is located at 6750 Main Street (or 6750 South Main Street.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Owl Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Probably a 40 story hotel/condo project... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 (edited) Is that the same place KingOwl?Swamplot's got the scoophttp://swamplot.com/newest-and-tallest-the...ndo/2008-02-28/Added to wiki list. Change if neededhttp://www.towrs.com/wiki/index.php/New_Pr..._Houston,_Texas Edited February 28, 2008 by lockmat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 40 story hotel/condo at tmc and nobody cares? Yall must be really busy today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 swamplot always goes for the easy line and the smartass tone, which serves them right because the easy line so often undermines their pretense: For instance:a 40-storey hotel and condo tower is neither going to be taller than a 31-storey office building nor a 27-storey hospital, because interfloor heights are more than a third lower for residential and especially hotel space. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 swamplot always goes for the easy line and the smartass tone, which serves them right because the easy line so often undermines their pretense: For instance:a 40-storey hotel and condo tower is neither going to be taller than a 31-storey office building nor a 27-storey hospital, because interfloor heights are more than a third lower for residential and especially hotel space.regardless, it's still something besides a hospital. Which is something we haven't really seen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 That rocks. I've always said that there needs to be more residential in the medical center (and in the medical center I don't mean next to the Astrodome). I could see a lot of doctors and professors living there, walking to work every day, and loving it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 (edited) That rocks. I've always said that there needs to be more residential in the medical center (and in the medical center I don't mean next to the Astrodome). I could see a lot of doctors and professors living there, walking to work every day, and loving it.A lot of people have been waiting for this wrinkle in the Med Center's development, and if this were 18 months ago I'd imagine it would fill up quickly and inspire either an expansion or additional projects. Now? Though medical practice isn't going anywhere, money's getting tighter and people know it's only going to get tighter; a significant part of the money floating around in America was based in prospective value that didn't exist because the supposed riskiness (according to the MIT grads going to NY investment banks) of the speculative future revenues was in fact unrealistically low. In other words, that money wasn't any surer a thing than all the internet startups' future riches; it's just that "risk management" firms made things so complicated that no-one but them could understand much of the market... and their understanding, for its part, was incented - during these financial industry boom years, those volumes looked so good, and so expected, in the annual balance sheet - to be overly optimistic about the securities being bundled. I.e., they were wrong. Hopefully the developer, Medistar, already has their financing in place at reasonable rates. Anybody have an idea of it? Edited February 29, 2008 by strickn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 (edited) An early presentation from the civic club and other fun, featured on Swamplot...http://swamplot.com/live-on-tv-new-med-cen...wer/2008-02-29/ Edited February 29, 2008 by ChannelTwoNews 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 (edited) 40 story hotel/condo at tmc and nobody cares? Yall must be really busy today.Jax needs to rename the thread to something a little more eye-catching than just to point out a variance sign. I passed the thread over for a day on account of that I didn't figure it to be anything important and also because CRC didn't exactly pop into my head as "Collaborative Research Center." I figured this might be related to the student housing project or something else. Edited February 29, 2008 by TheNiche 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister X Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) http://swamplot.com/live-on-tv-new-med-cen...wer/2008-02-29/ I couldn't resist any longer. I feel that every new tower going up in Houston deserves it's own thread with a descriptive name, especially 40-story ones. If I've broken any rules for creating a double thread for this project, I'm sorry. Please feel free to merge this with the "Variance Request" thread. But PLEASE keep MY topic title. No offense, JAX, I love your photos and comments. But this tower deserves more attention at Haif and a catchier thread name is all it needs. Anal is a nice word for what I am. Edited March 1, 2008 by Mister X 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) . Edited March 1, 2008 by TheNiche 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister X Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) I saw it, like 15 minutes ago. I didn't catch it until today because of the thread title. So, I just wanted this cool tower to have a more eye popping title. That's why I gave an apology on my first post and called myself 'anal'. I figure the mods will delete this thread or merge it with the 'variance request' thread, but will hopefully keep this thread's title so that more people will know about this tower at HAIF. I meant well. -Anyway, cool project, yes? Edited March 1, 2008 by Mister X 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 I learned that the City of Houston is proposing to move the street barricades on Southhampton at Travis to the west side of Travis and making the other two streets entering the neighborhood from Travis one way exits. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALMSP Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 doesn't seem to block the view of hte twin peak towers..........thats a landmark for TMC............this is awesome to have another high-rise............ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 For better or worse, neato "that's just about right" visions like that first 4:52 graphic are why we get disproportionately giddy about high-rise development :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Can we merge with this thread?http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...=15089&st=0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolie Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 fantastic news. let's move it to going up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wernicke Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 I'm rotating at MD Anderson right now, and after being there for a bit I am amazed there aren't more hotels near the medical center. About half the patients we see are from out of state or out of country and some wind up staying in Houston for >1 month for treatment... also, these patients tend to be affluent, so it seems like a really fancy hotel would have no problems making money. This came up the other day as there is a serious shortage right now because of rodeo season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 I never worked with them directly, I do hear constantly about how enormously grateful they are to MDA for their help in a variety of areas. While I never heard them complain about the costs of the hotels, I have heard complaints about availability and the lack of transportation. Interestingly enough, they have a significant amount of culture shock they have compared the other cities they are from. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 (edited) From Swamplot: http://swamplot.com/houstonian-texas-medic...3-13/#more-1421 http://swamplot.com/live-on-tv-new-med-cen...wer/2008-02-29/ Edited March 13, 2008 by Boris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 more news. is it bad or good?no condos. instead we get 100 apts and 303 guest rooms.http://swamplot.com/med-center-houstonian-...3-14/#more-1430 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 There will be a 12 story parking garage with greenspace on top. 70 apartments will be furnished.This is my first new topic, so I hope I did it right and didn't create a duplicate. Swamplot is currently running an article. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 duplicate thread here 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Sorry. Does someone know how to remove a topic?Geez, I screwed up on my first topic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 No worries - they are combined now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolie Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 What basis do people have to complain about the height? It's marginally taller than the building directly across the street. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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