UtterlyUrban Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Folks:Perhaps we are trying too hard.Why can't this office building just be an office building? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 omg a hostel would be perfect! Do we even have hostels in Houston? There are ones in Museum District, Montrose, Med Center area, and near IAH. Don't know much about them. The State National Building would be just awesome, but I'm sure the space is worth too much. Imagine that thing full of bunk beds and operable windows... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChannelTwoNews Posted March 18, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 18, 2015 Saw this on bisnow today. I know that there had been some discussion of this narrow building between the Magnolia and Keystone Lofts previously, but couldn't find a dedicated thread for it. CPR Money funded a $4.2M acquisition loan for 1114 Texas Ave, a 16-story vacant office building in the CBD. The deal closed within three weeks of the term sheet receipt, allowing the borrower to close quickly on a below-market acquisition price. PMI Hotels will redevelop the building into a 154-key Hyatt Place Hotel. Construction is expected to begin in nine to 12 months. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mab Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Found this small picture 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Wow! Good news! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Here's a Google street view of the building - I'll see if I can get a picture after work 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 this news is most welcome if authentic. the more hotels downtown the better! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Wow. This is better than them building a new building. Are there any vacant buildings left? Le Meridian will take the other building that I wanted to see restored. Battlesteins I guess? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Very cool. Texas Avenue/Street before/after will be stark in ~5 years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanize713 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Tall skinny hotel, what is this NYC? All kidding aside I agree that this is better that building new. Can't imagine how busy Texas St will be once all the projects along it are finished. Just off the top of my head from whats there and to be completed. The Aquarium Music Venue Movie Theater 3 Performing arts theaters/halls 1 Park 4 hotels 6 or so residential buildings 4 office buidings (including tallest in Texas) 6-7 Restaurants maybe more 2 Church/Schools 1 Ballpark 4-5 bars All this within what 12 blocks? Then of course you add the retail that will come at the bottom of the new residential buildings. I don't think there is another street like it in Houston or maybe even Texas. Edited March 18, 2015 by urbanize713 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarosurf Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Awesome, I love this little skinny building. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I don't think there is another street like it in Houston or maybe even Texas.Uhhh a little bold maybe? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 So cool to see both this and the Melrose Building becoming hotels. Goes to show you there are actually opportunities in rehab (I'm looking at you, Skanska). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonIsHome Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Wow, more hotels to add to the residential = more people downtown. Yes!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I will be interesting to see the layout of the rooms. There would be no windows on the lower floors on the East side. I started the thread below a while back, maybe the mods could do a merge. http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/30233-1114-texas-street/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The state of the building as of 3/18/2015 Does anyone know what used to be in 1114 Texas? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Wow. This is better than them building a new building. Are there any vacant buildings left? Le Meridian will take the other building that I wanted to see restored. Battlesteins I guess? The white brick Stowers building on the BG Place block is one. It was at one point rumored to be an Aloft Hotel conversion, but so far there has been no activity there (nor any definitive news that the idea was dead), Stowers and the building on the corner of Prairie and Fannin are two restoration jobs that have found no tenants. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 The white brick Stowers building on the BG Place block is one. It was at one point rumored to be an Aloft Hotel conversion, but so far there has been no activity there (nor any definitive news that the idea was dead), Stowers and the building on the corner of Prairie and Fannin are two restoration jobs that have found no tenants. Corner of Prarie and Fannin does have a tenant. Some medical or charity organization I forget. Should be moving in soon. Stowers building is cool. I hope it gets use soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I think the Stowers Building Aloft is still in the works. It's still on the Aloft website as an upcoming hotel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Corner of Prarie and Fannin does have a tenant. Some medical or charity organization I forget. Should be moving in soon. That's good news. Seems like they finished that up a couple of years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Uhhh a little bold maybe? Didn't you know we deal in hyperbole here? *shakes head in disappointment* 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 This site says that the building is 16 stories, with a basement and a penthouse, and that it used to be a Southwestern Bell building. http://www.ghabriel.com/index.php?p=1_2&mid=46 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 This site says that the building is 16 stories, with a basement and a penthouse, and that it used to be a Southwestern Bell building. http://www.ghabriel.com/index.php?p=1_2&mid=46 It backs up to an AT&T building that presumably holds all kinds of switching equipment. I may have been built at the same time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 what did the lower floors look like before they removed all the detail? Obviously that marble needs to go.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt16 Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 what is the building on the corner? Are those lofts? It looks occupied, but for what? Also, I love the renovations, but that location probably gives some nice views of the guys in federal custody hooping it up on the top of the building across the street. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 That's the Keystone Lofts. Lots of older members of Christ Church live there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Corner of Prarie and Fannin does have a tenant. Some medical or charity organization I forget. Should be moving in soon. Yes, the former Wilson Printing Building is now owned by the Episcopal Health Foundation. The foundation's offices are in the building (top floor, I believe) and the rest of the building will soon be occupied by the now-being-created Hines Center for Spirituality and Prayer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted January 6, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2016 Application filed for 1114 Texas Ave and 1121 Capitol St to be placed under the National Register of Historic Places. Great set of photos and history of these two in the file below. http://www.thc.state.tx.us/public/upload/preserve/national_register/draft_nominations/Houston,%20SW%20Bell%20NR%20SBR%20Draft.pdf Also came across this, page 16: The 1121 Capitol Central Office building, owned and occupied by AT&T, is not part of the rehabilitation project underway for building at 1114 Texas Avenue, which is being converted to a 154-room Hyatt Place hotel. In the basement, a pool and laundry room and offices are planned. The ground floor will have the reception area, lounge and dining facilities. The 130 penetrating telephone conduits at this floor will be enclosed behind sheetrock walls per ATT’s stipulations. The second floor will have two meeting rooms and exercise room, as well as the active communications conduits behind a sheetrock wall for privacy and security. The third through sixteenth floors will provide eleven guest rooms per floor. At the ground floor lobby, the original terrazzo floor will be uncovered and restored. The original marble lobby wall on the east side will be retained. The west marble wall panels will be relocated to the elevator walls and the walls surrounding the conduits. The original elevator hoistway doors and jambs and mail chute will be restored. The original fifteen foot high plaster elevator lobby ceiling has been replaced with a later suspended ceiling, which will be removed. The first two floors with the marble slab sheathing and the cantilevered entrance overhang are proposed to be retained, with a new storefront glass opening to match the original in size and proportion. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Glad to see that this one isn't dead. I'm interested to see how they manage the construction, the access to the building is pretty much limited to the 30-40 feet fronting Texas Ave. They will almost certainly have to take a lane out of the street to have any space to put dumpsters, etc. The building turned AT&T bunker behind it is an interesting thing. It's a lot of patchwork on the outside, but is apparently still needed and useful to manage the hub/trunkline networking stuff for downtown. I wonder if it could ever be repurposed prior to that infrastructure being replaced completely, and I have no clue how feasible that is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Application filed for 1114 Texas Ave and 1121 Capitol St to be placed under the National Register of Historic Places. Great set of photos and history of these two in the file below. http://www.thc.state.tx.us/public/upload/preserve/national_register/draft_nominations/Houston,%20SW%20Bell%20NR%20SBR%20Draft.pdf Also came across this, page 16: Sounds like they're bringing sexy back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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