Astro Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 Thanks for posting that great pic Subdude! I remember I had posted it in the old forum but had since forgotten what website it came from. I believe the Tidelands and Tides II were torn down during the late 90's to be replaced with surface parking lots for the Med Center I always liked those old buildings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yaga Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2017 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bizjournals.com_houston_news_2017_11_17_exclusive-2Dmedistar-2Dto-2Ddevelop-2Dhealth-2Dcare-2Dtower-2Din.html&d=DwIFAg&c=Nwf-pp4xtYRe0sCRVM8_LWH54joYF7EKmrYIdfxIq10&r=blKN8VopvORAS0wfhRwbytKy3LX7VRXXkSGAZ5grTVE&m=oKU_5Ug6V8IJKYixwlZLicFxT7bwrDWZ7k3QPqzFwBI&s=uDs1_LFkk24xzLzhNZ31xvHRCcLU97r55jO4sstW_H0&e= New Design: http://media.bizj.us/view/img/11203455/innovationtower.jpg 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AREJAY Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2017 Details from the paywall article: roughly 25 story right across the street from the dual hotel-multifamily development the company is currently building (Latitude @ 6750 main) skybridge to Latitude break ground in Q2-Q3 2018 in talks with several healthcare systems, both local and out-of-town to occupy tower retail and restaurant on ground floor 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 16 minutes ago, AREJAY said: Details from the paywall article: roughly 25 story right across the street from the dual hotel-multifamily development the company is currently building (Latitude @ 6750 main) skybridge to Latitude break ground in Q2-Q3 2018 in talks with several healthcare systems, both local and out-of-town to occupy tower retail and restaurant on ground floor More height in the TMC! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 17, 2017 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 "roughly" 25 stories - rendering attached is roughly 31-32 stories. hoping it's the latter. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 19 minutes ago, Urbannizer said: NICE! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 This will replace the Best Western? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 ^^^ something to SMILE about...... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CREguy13 Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 5 minutes ago, Triton said: This will replace the Best Western? Correct. "The project will take two years to build, Hourani said. It'll sit at the site of the Best Western at 6700 Main St., which Medistar bought around 2006 or so, Hourani said. Medistar will demolish the hotel in the second or third quarter of 2018; the construction will coincide with the tower's groundbreaking." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 wow! Looking good 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Knew the parking lot had a limited future but that was fast. TMC is an awe inspiring place. It grows by leaps and bounds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 35 minutes ago, Twinsanity02 said: Knew the parking lot had a limited future but that was fast. TMC is an awe inspiring place. It grows by leaps and bounds. Almost like Post Oak/San Felipe! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OkieEric Posted November 18, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 18, 2017 http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3566986 I don't completely understand the height of this thing - one of the renderings in the article above make this appear taller than the Latitude 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Office floor to ceiling heights are almost universally taller than residential. Love they height but the massing of the overall development looks a bit crazy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Houston is somewhat eccentric. I do not mean that as a put down or to suggest our city puts on "weird" airs of attempted hipness like other cities. It just is a tough city to label and its layout reflects it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 1 hour ago, OkieEric said: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3566986 I don't completely understand the height of this thing - one of the renderings in the article above make this appear taller than the Latitude wow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 3 hours ago, OkieEric said: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3566986 I don't completely understand the height of this thing - one of the renderings in the article above make this appear taller than the Latitude I see potential for a good LIGHT UP FEATURE!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 This is the site that the construction foreman for Latitude said was going to be a sixty story tower. I guess he was right about the site getting developed but not the height. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 7 hours ago, bobruss said: This is the site that the construction foreman for Latitude said was going to be a sixty story tower. I guess he was right about the site getting developed but not the height. Do they own the surface lot next door? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 10 hours ago, CrockpotandGravel said: Another rendering of Medistar's New Medical Tower, located at 6700 Main Street, the home of the old Best Western hotel in the Texas Medical Center. From the press release: And the site of Medistar's New Medical Tower at Texas Medical Centerhttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medistar-announces-development-of-major-medical-tower-at-texas-medical-center-300559059.html There goes their view of downtown but I like the density! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 This article says 33-stories http://realtynewsreport.com/2017/11/20/medistar-developing-33-story-medical-tower-on-main-street/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 A 33 story office tower has the potential to become the tallest building in the med center (not including the multiple spired buildings. This thing should be in the 500 foot-to-the-roof range). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 On 11/17/2017 at 9:01 PM, KinkaidAlum said: Office floor to ceiling heights are almost universally taller than residential. Love they height but the massing of the overall development looks a bit crazy. What is crazy-looking about the massing of this development? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Having high end hotel and apartment windows 10-15 feet away from office windows. Living in a fishbowl. Not for me. Also, the office tower is going to wipe out northern views... which happen to be TMC/Hermann/Downtown views. Most people who rent top floors a pay premiums tend to do so for the view. In my ideal world, I'd have put the office tower on the Southern lot. Just seems counter-intuitive to build it this way. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 8 hours ago, Urbannizer said: This article says 33-stories http://realtynewsreport.com/2017/11/20/medistar-developing-33-story-medical-tower-on-main-street/ I agree and it looks connected. I was just remembering a job foreman for the Latitude telling me they were going to tear down the best western after the Lat. project and build a 66 story tower. They obviously are designed as a group, and the transition from Latitude to the office tower is very well done. I guess the side street is going to be part of the transition. I wish he had been right about the number of floors. As KincaidAlum said this should be very close to the tallest in the Med center. If you haven't driven east on Holcombe or Braeswood from Buffalo speedway its a nice view and definitely adds height and scale to the southern end of TMC. Thats something that gets overlooked sometimes in these discussions. Its not just the height of a building but what it does to the skyline. The infill that adds texture, layering, density , while creating so many interesting juxtapositions. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htownbro Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 3 minutes ago, CrockpotandGravel said: From Houston Business Journal this morning: Medistar's planned 550,000-square-foot health care tower in the Texas Medical Center may undergo some design changes. For now, the building's 25 floor-plates will each contain 25,000 square feet of space. But Medistar officials are mulling reducing the number of floors and instead widening each floor-plate to contain between 32,000 square feet to 35,000 square feet of space. Once the building's design is finalized by the end of 2017, it could contain 20 or 21 floors. Luckily, there's plenty of room to expand the hotel, said Medistar CEO Monzer Hourani. The street-facing curvature of the building might also be straightened out in the redesign. The new design would better cater to the needs of doctors and health care users, Hourani said.https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/11/21/medistar-mulls-design-changes-to-its-550-000-sf.html 20 to 21 floors? ughhh. Well, I'm sure blocking the northern view had something to do with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AREJAY Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 The rendering shows 25ish floors on top of an 8 floor parking garage over GFR. I'd assume the 20-21 floors is atop of the 9 floor podium, right? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Loopnet listing has it at 27 floors. http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/6700-Main-St-Houston-TX/11022113/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 They need to put out a new rendering then because this one show roughly 33 floors. Mas o Menos! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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