Popular Post Urbannizer Posted May 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 25, 2021 http://texasinnovates.org/texas-innovates-campus/ 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapo2367 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 This thing is wild on a couple of different levels, but I love the vision! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBTX Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 I love it, it's beautiful. Unfortunately, I think this has "to be scaled back down to earth" written all over it. I seriously hope I am wrong though. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted May 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) Hopefully this does get built and the city builds a bridge on Velasco St. over to the East River project. It would be in the wooded area. Edited May 26, 2021 by hindesky 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidCenturyMoldy Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) Oh boy. Right next door to a small lead fabricating company and a large mound of earth encircled by security fencing. Edited May 26, 2021 by MidCenturyMoldy 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post august948 Posted May 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2021 40 minutes ago, MidCenturyMoldy said: Oh boy. Right next door to a small lead fabricating company and a large mound of earth encircled by security fencing. Is that a city vehicle doing ground contaminant testing? 3 hours ago, Urbannizer said: http://texasinnovates.org/texas-innovates-campus/ The vision.... The reality... 1 1 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post aachor Posted May 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2021 55 minutes ago, MidCenturyMoldy said: Oh boy. Right next door to a small lead fabricating company and a large mound of earth encircled by security fencing. That's where the treasure is buried. Obviously. 2 1 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidCenturyMoldy Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, aachor said: That's where the treasure is buried. Obviously. Definitely SOMETHING buried there. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Looks amazing! ....but it appears they have no money. Not sure tax credits or TIRZ money is going to get this done. 35 minutes ago, august948 said: The reality... Well, they are interested in micro housing... http://texasinnovates.org/micro-housing/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) That looks amazing. Houston could never get anything this cool. It would get value-engineered into a box covered in fake stucco. I could see something like this being built in a more innovative place like China, though. Edited May 26, 2021 by rechlin 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post august948 Posted May 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2021 16 minutes ago, rechlin said: That looks amazing. Houston could never get anything this cool. It would get value-engineered into a box covered in fake stucco. I could see something like this being built in a more innovative place like China, though. Grand projects are always much easier in countries with concentration camps and slave labor. 14 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JBTX Posted May 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2021 34 minutes ago, august948 said: Grand projects are always much easier in countries with concentration camps and slave labor. Can't forgot never ending state subsidies and an artificially inflated "economy." 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 isn't this right next to the low income housing project that's planned? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Website isn't working. Are all the HAIFers crashing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedistrict84 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, samagon said: isn't this right next to the low income housing project that's planned? Yes, the "EaDo 800" development is planned for the end of Middle St., which runs parallel to Velasco. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 anytime I see renderings for a project with solar panels I just assume it will never be built.... and this is a mixed use project with solar panels, thats like double proforma confusion.... 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, tangledwoods said: anytime I see renderings for a project with solar panels I just assume it will never be built.... and this is a mixed use project with solar panels, thats like double proforma confusion.... solar panels, bike storage, hydroponics garden, green wall, it's like buzzword bingo on things that never happen in Houston. I'll be cheering from the sidelines, but I won't be disappointed when we get a combo storage units/mattress store. 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Response Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) How do you feel about removed turbines? Edited May 26, 2021 by Response 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 16 hours ago, wilcal said: it appears they have no money. What makes you say that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 48 minutes ago, Houston19514 said: What makes you say that? Their partner list. I guess they might have the what, $100 million to do something like this, but I'm guessing not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 1 hour ago, samagon said: solar panels, bike storage, hydroponics garden, green wall, it's like buzzword bingo on things that never happen in Houston. I'll be cheering from the sidelines, but I won't be disappointed when we get a combo storage units/mattress store. Add a Starbucks and we'll have a trifecta. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 18 minutes ago, august948 said: Add a Starbucks and we'll have a trifecta. Boomtown or Coral Sword type would be more fitting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 1 hour ago, wilcal said: Their partner list. I guess they might have the what, $100 million to do something like this, but I'm guessing not. Not having $100 Million is not the same as having no money. It's unlikely any group (except Rice University) would have the $100 Million in cash to build something like this. Building the campus would probably be financed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 17 hours ago, JBTX said: Can't forgot never ending state subsidies and an artificially inflated "economy." That one kind of cuts both ways... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxtethogrady Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 On 5/25/2021 at 7:33 PM, JBTX said: I love it, it's beautiful. Unfortunately, I think this has "to be scaled back down to earth" written all over it. I seriously hope I am wrong though. I'd love to know who the potential tenants for this are going to be... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 (edited) It won the C40 prize for the use and design on that strip. Who knows how serious their partners are but some are definitely wealthy enough to build that project without cost engineering it to a warehouse on a lead ridden mole hill. Say, if the 'partnership' with UT (second largest endowment in the nation at 31.9Bn) is real that alone dwarfs the Rice endowment that's building the Ion. And this is a project whose focus would directly compliment the Ions. Also many large oil companies, like Shell, are under heavy stake holder pressure to divest from Oil, extraction, supply, and refinement capital and move into renewable chain tied ventures. So it's possible they find enough forward thinking institutions to pull it together. But who knows, the website is awfully quite about timelines or finance, just vague 'partnerships' and plenty about their vision etc. Edited May 31, 2021 by Two 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 Rode down N. Velasco St. There are 4 companies just south of this location, Lead Products, Dixie Plating, Twenty Five, and CCT. The city of Houston owns 4 plots including the fenced off brownfield. The plot closest to Buffalo Bayou is owned buy a company called Pinto East End. Just west the big plot is owned by Houston Housing Authority. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 I think I biked by/through that housing authority lot a couple of weekends ago. Is that the field the trail bi-sects or is that further down? We know a friend with an air quality reader when he goes through there (maybe further down) it's going off a like a Geiger Counter siting on a pile of plutonium. I remember smelling the air in that crossing and you can clearly make out the metal/tinny content, on a bad day it's like swimming in a sea of aersolized nickel and copper. It makes me think there's no way Midway and the city don't already have some sort of legal strategy/plan in mind - b/c as soon as you make it down to the metal recycle facility and see all their piles hanging over into the bayou and piled high on their lot, its no mystery where it's all coming from. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 The only bike trails are along the south side of Buffalo Bayou and when you get close to this site the trail is kind of sketchy with portions missing, I've ridden it twice by myself and I didn't feel safe going there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedistrict84 Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 16 hours ago, hindesky said: The only bike trails are along the south side of Buffalo Bayou and when you get close to this site the trail is kind of sketchy with portions missing, I've ridden it twice by myself and I didn't feel safe going there. I've walked these trails on the south side of the Bayou several times, starting at the Silos and heading east up to N York. There are a few sections of trail missing, but I think the BBP is working on those sections currently. I wouldn't recommend biking it unless you have a mountain bike. I saw a golf cart near this section of the path last year. It was off in the trees below the path, but still on the bank. No idea how it ended up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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