aachor Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 3 hours ago, hindesky said: It seems they went a floor higher than the render. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 It does seem bigger to me as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Wish it weren't a Westchase office vibe all over again 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Levit Green Sec 3 Plat. Block 1 is 17 acres, and Block 2 is 19 acres with Levit Green Boulevard as the middle street. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 This week's update including the top out tree. The glass facade should start being installed in a few weeks. Looking forward to those wide panels! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DotCom Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Topping out story in the Biz Journal. "Hines is already planning the next phase of Levit Green’s development. In a few weeks, the firm will break ground on Levit Green Boulevard, a key access point running through the complex. Hines and HOK are also already working on the design for the second building on the site." https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/05/20/hines-topping-out-levit-green.html Levit Green Boulevard project on CivCast. https://www.civcastusa.com/project/62322f42b739faa9ba635714/summary 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DotCom Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 5/20/2022 at 2:59 PM, houstontexasjack said: From the article: “Hines is working on designing the second building in the complex, although it has not set a timeline for breaking ground. Additional buildings will follow to meet market demand, Mooz said.” "Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Hines has not yet hired an architecture firm for the second building. The architecture firm HOK designed the first building." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X.R. Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 5/20/2022 at 9:10 PM, strickn said: Wish it weren't a Westchase office vibe all over again Fair, only counter is that this type of design is what these companies know and are familiar with. Plus, that rendering is more lush and full of trees than anything on Westchase. Given their propensity to highlight access to public transit, the boulevard will probably will be pedestrian/bike friendly one would think. For projects like this, a little downtown Bagby street treatment should be in the cards. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 6/15/2020 at 9:30 PM, Lux said: Synergism or competition with TMC3? The references to Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass. and Mission Bay in San Francisco are lifted directly from the TMC3 playbook. An amalgam of life science clusters from 288 to the TMC would be a beautiful thing, and it’s going to take massive CRE Life Sciences investments, in addition to TMC3, for Houston to rise by leaps and bounds in the U.S. Life Science cluster rankings (JLL, CBRE, etc.). Thoughts? Two years on, I still think it will be impossible for us to rival those regions without the financial industry legacy tailwind that made it advantageous for them to develop as clusters to begin with. And with no more backing than our area has, it might be better spent developing a cluster that is suited to our regional culture, rather than the most superheated (competitive but overpriced, where you rise the least in the rankings for the greatest table stakes) industry in the nation's economy. But when I have to eat crow, then, to quote H Town Man, it will taste just fine. And if our value play attracts a lot more people from around the world, provides careers that develop local talent without having to move away, and of course beats Dallas, then it will be hard to argue that our timing was wrong. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 Planning Commission deferred this new plat for 2 weeks considerations. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxtethogrady Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 On 5/23/2022 at 12:23 PM, strickn said: Two years on, I still think it will be impossible for us to rival those regions without the financial industry legacy tailwind that made it advantageous for them to develop as clusters to begin with. And with no more backing than our area has, it might be better spent developing a cluster that is suited to our regional culture, rather than the most superheated (competitive but overpriced, where you rise the least in the rankings for the greatest table stakes) industry in the nation's economy. But when I have to eat crow, then, to quote H Town Man, it will taste just fine. And if our value play attracts a lot more people from around the world, provides careers that develop local talent without having to move away, and of course beats Dallas, then it will be hard to argue that our timing was wrong. This, I believe, is the problem. Not only does Houston not seem to have enough venture capital, but any that comes along goes to the oil and gas industry. With all the products being invented out of the TMC, there should have been several start-ups that would have gotten themselves established in the last decade. There certainly is plenty of know-how... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strickn Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) But we don't even want to be a clubby insidery back-slapping shark town which is exactly the mentality that VC requires. It's not an industry, it's a network, and they often make entrepreneurs let them refuse to sign nondisclosure agreements, so they can collude (ahem, compare notes on a startup) with their network of competitors before any of them agrees to terms with a startup. Until we can build a more hospitable but not more impersonal form of participatory accountability, to support a genuinely open and quirky (in a word Houspitable) form of reputation management and risk management ecosystem, then it isn't going to be practical for us to fund the value chain locally. That is, it will either take continued imports of outside investors like we're having recently (meaning a lot more of the capital gains flow back out of the area too), or a change in our own business culture to be more insidery in its expertise and outlook like those older metro areas. Edited May 28, 2022 by strickn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post bobruss Posted June 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2022 We didn't have a port and we dug a fifty mile long one. Now #2 or 3 in tonnage We didn't have a rail and we built one. now we have three lines with plans for expansion We didn't have a space port and were building one. We didn't have an incubator and now we have 4. Just give it time and we will find our niche and for the first time there will be opportunities for interaction between the different members of the med center and it will grow and prosper just like all the above. We now have one of the best and highest ranked airports in the world in Hobby. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Highrise Tower Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 I'd say this is a trophy building for the TMC. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Avossos Posted July 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 26, 2022 Why is this a “trophy” building? I like the building and I like what it means for the area. I even like the campus vibe of the master plan… just not sure why everyone is so giddy about the architecture. 8 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Avossos said: Why is this a “trophy” building? I like the building and I like what it means for the area. I even like the campus vibe of the master plan… just not sure why everyone is so giddy about the architecture. Because the bar is low. We're the architecture limbo champions. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatguysly Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Got a bunch of these trophies along any highway in the city. Bringing the 'burbs to TMC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Montrose1100 said: Because the bar is low. We're the architecture limbo champions. and the best post of 2022 goes too... 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 On 5/23/2022 at 10:57 AM, X.R. said: Given their propensity to highlight access to public transit, the boulevard will probably will be pedestrian/bike friendly one would think. For projects like this, a little downtown Bagby street treatment should be in the cards. Careful, now - that's the kind of "should" that can break a fella's heart. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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