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Old 06-14-2017, 03:08 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Old 06-14-2017, 04:32 PM
 
Location: Houston
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The 1st and 4th building look interesting. The rest not so much.

I'm surprised there is so much demand for office and residential space. Happily surprised. When I pass by those empty towers on Eldridge between Memorial and I-10 I thought we were flooded with too much office space.
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Old 06-15-2017, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Belton, Tx
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Nice new additions to the skyline.
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Old 06-16-2017, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Houston
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The 1st and 4th building look interesting. The rest not so much.

I'm surprised there is so much demand for office and residential space. Happily surprised. When I pass by those empty towers on Eldridge between Memorial and I-10 I thought we were flooded with too much office space.
Overall yes, there is too much office space. Especially in the Energy Corridor, where the tenant base is skewed toward upstream oil & gas. But, in Downtown and some other areas, Class A tenants are looking for the top end, current standard building infrastructure, amenities and finishes, and the 1970s/1980s vintage buildings (though often very nice) can't match a brand new building, giving new development an opening. This is also a major reason ConocoPhillips is leaving its old campus in the EC and moving into the new high rise across the freeway.

The main thing, apart from the high levels of vacancy, is that building owners and investors can't assume rental increases for several years, as they won't be warranted by the market in most cases.
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Old 06-16-2017, 09:47 AM
 
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#5 - Borg inspired ??
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Old 06-16-2017, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Celebrating Hines’ Main Street Tower – His 21st Addition to Houston Skyline | Realty News Report


How about a list for 2017 openings like 609 Main





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Old 06-16-2017, 10:42 AM
 
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Overall yes, there is too much office space. Especially in the Energy Corridor, where the tenant base is skewed toward upstream oil & gas. But, in Downtown and some other areas, Class A tenants are looking for the top end, current standard building infrastructure, amenities and finishes, and the 1970s/1980s vintage buildings (though often very nice) can't match a brand new building, giving new development an opening. This is also a major reason ConocoPhillips is leaving its old campus in the EC and moving into the new high rise across the freeway.

The main thing, apart from the high levels of vacancy, is that building owners and investors can't assume rental increases for several years, as they won't be warranted by the market in most cases.
In promoting being a top tier US city today that the world sees as meh and still seen as massive sprawl in the US even. Houston needs to PLAN and STEER its development much better. Especially a DOWNTOWN CORE that presents well and VIBRANT to the world. So far it DOES NOT. Street-level offers little to invite visitors to see its offerings. Office buildings alone will not do this. It doesn't even have real shopping if even in a mall form.

You see buildings in the skyline from a distance it looks interesting and inviting. Then you hit it street-level and..... its merely OK, more buildings like a fortress and nothing street-level. You're hard-pressed to find a Starbucks unless you find a tunnel entrance to some.

You can walk by parking garages that are a full block and another in the next block and hit NOTHING street-level. You see the Aquarium Restaurant like a OASIS and its majestic Palm trees in January and wonder why only there and not more prevalent?

Since growing a retail street today is unlikely? Main-street really offers less shopping then Dallas Main-street. It ALL points to POOR PLANNING and demanding more from developers and builders to create a CORE WORTHY OF A MAJOR CITY. Until then? Houston can build more buildings? But they they may as well be any office park in the suburbs as just for work.

More high-rise living can help. But not fix what could have been. Destroying so much of Old Houston did not help. The best part of Main St. Is where Old Houston is intact. Dallas has sooooo much more Old Dallas intact.

Time will tell? How well Houston can re-create, build and add vibrancy to its Core in the future? So far it is NOT getting a good review from most.
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Old 06-16-2017, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Houston
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When the world thinks of Chicago it thinks of guns and violence, and corrupt politicians. Sorry but it's true. It's a waste of a beautiful skyline.
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Old 06-16-2017, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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It's tile for a houston to step it up a notch on architecture. I really wish Hotel Alessandra kept the original design. Would have been a much better building.
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