Downtown is blowing up, we've got these in the pipeline Chevron Tower - 50 stories - commercial Skyhouse - 24 stories - residential 5 story apartment near Skyhouse 7 story Fingers apartment near Minute Maid Hyatt Place Hampton Inn-Homewood Suites Marriott Marquis 806 Main converting into a JW Marriott Hines' 609 Main - 41 stories - commercial Hines' apartment tower proposal High School for the performing arts The Savoy converting into a Holiday Inn Green Street remodeling Hilcorp converting Macy's into a building Capitol tower - 34 stories - commercial 38 story residential tower on rusk Take a look at these slides for more info: http://downtownhouston.org/site_med.../2013-06-27/2013-07-08_Downtown_Update-sm.pdf so yeah Houston is in a bit of a boom right now. here's a map of some of them: http://www.downtownhouston.org/site...7-03/dt_current_projects_130703_FOR_PRINT.pdf
what's your definition of a skyscraper? the point is houston is growing fast and eventually you'll start seeing a rise in residential density which will lead to more and more business moving in and possibly building taller buildings. It's a gradual process but Houston is moving in that direction. Hopefully with a higher density of people living in downtown they will also expand on the public transportation. That's where we are lacking
Was, used to be, back when people had to meet face to face and exchange papers. The lawyers needed to be near the courts, city and county offices, the banks needed to be near the lawyers, the oil companies needed to be near the banks and the CPA needed to be near the oil companies. Seems to me now it's a waste of commuter time and a waste to pay to build very expensive office space above 20 floors. CBD's just seem like an anachronism in a city with no constraints on land square footage. You could build the same square footage at 1/2 the cost in a more suburban low rise campus.... like Exxon is doing South of The Woodlands. 50 stores of new construction just seemed curious to me.
Central location may allow flexibility for employees. This way, not everyone has to live in the ****ing Woodlands or Shenandoah or some crap like that.
This. We need tall buildings that will dwarf other cities. Then maybe superheroes will come live in Houston. Tired of this shiz that superheroes always want to show up in NYC.
in a way houston real estate right now is a huge bargain compared to prices we'll be looking at 10-15 years from now smart move by chevron.. when companies are THAT huge they can afford the payout in the short term
Cool. I, for one, have always liked the old Enron buildings. I like how they both go against the grain and face East/West instead of Northwest/Southeast like the rest of the buildings downtown. I also prefer glass buildings. 1400 Smith looks like a big deodorant bar. But still one of my favorites downtown. It looks so cool on a sunny day with no clouds. Almost invisible.
The height has been increased for this one. The final rendering will be complete the end of this year.
You could basically say the same thing about every other big city in America, except for LA/southern california. Houston's weather is only sub-par from late spring till August. After that, I'd take Houston's weather over any other place in the country. Any place up north has to deal with blizzards/snow that completely changes your way of living... something that Houston's heat doesn't necessarily cause.
Who remember's the ridiculous building they planned back when Houston was booming like 30 years ago? It was gonna be like twice the size of the sears tower or something crazy
spoken with truth. I live in Boston and there are some many additional costs when preparing for winter up here. My biggest gripe is not being able to keep my summer tires on my car and having to change to winter tires. Just ruins the fun factor of my car.
Just kidding. Delayed http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2013/12/chevron-puts-downtown-tower-on-hold/?cmpid=businesshcat
