Houston vs. Dallas (Trinity, West, Buffalo: 2015, theater, university)

[TexasTallest]

Originally Posted by TexasTallest

uhh... pretty sure The Union is NOT in Victory Park..

Originally Posted by ViolentMimes

Are you blind? It's like 3 blocks away
"The the $200 million planned development also includes a 16-story office tower, 20-story residential building and retail space on vacant blocks just east of Victory Park and near the Perot Museum of Nature and Science."

You might want to re-read those comments bud. I said it's not IN victory park. You proved me right, by linking the quote saying its a few blocks to the east, and you yourself claimed its "3 blocks away". So please explain how that makes it "in" Victory Park? Or are you blind?

[TexasTallest]

a sneak peek someone posted on another forum of Oliver McMillan's River Oaks District, Phase II.

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/h...1432237235.jpg

if all goes to plan, Westcreek Lane will be lined with a 34 story condo tower, 25 story apartment tower , 17 story condos, 15 story apartments, this 30 story residential tower, and whatever the 10 story ends up being. and thats not including the 3 other plots of Westcreek that are under contract and/or sold to be developed.
pretty impressive for an area that was nothing more than a sprawling apartment complex last year.



edit.. speaking of Westcreek and the 34 story condo tower.

https://vimeo.com/127899081

[BCB]

Facebook looking at North Fort Worth for huge data center
Steve Brown
May 21, 2015

A project worth nearly $1 billion that’s in the works for North Fort Worth hopes to lure social media giant Facebook to Texas.

Landing the Facebook facility would be the Internet equivalent of luring a new auto plant.

“Dallas-Fort Worth has become the third largest data center market in the world,” said Curt Holcomb, executive vice president with commercial real estate firm JLL. “For the same reason you have all these people moving their headquarters and offices here ... the data centers are coming here.”

Full Article

[Jimmy1953]

Originally Posted by BCB

Facebook looking at North Fort Worth for huge data center
Steve Brown
May 21, 2015





Full Article

Very interesting.

[dallasboi]

The competition for the top of Dallas

[dollaztx]

Originally Posted by dallasboi

The competition for the top of Dallas

Very interesting article. These are my favorite parts:

Richard Keating, the architect who designed the Trammell Crow Center and Chase Tower, said many modern major employers want low and mid-rise campuses, not skyscrapers.

“The whole function of offices in America has changed dramatically in every city,” Keating said. “Our skylines could stay the same for a while.”

Keating said most of the new skyscrapers going up around the world are residential towers or have a combination of office, residential or hotel space.

“Look at the very tall buildings around the world — most are not being built for tenants,” he said. “They are for ego. “Here in L.A., there are 50-story buildings that are more than half empty,” Keating said. “Big companies like Google and Yahoo and Apple want to go into low-rise buildings.”

Cities should stop expecting corporations to build massive landmarks like they used to. The future for growing our skylines lie in residential, multi-use, and midrises.

[dallasboi]

Victory Park finally lives up to the hype - Dallas Business Journal

That walkability, along with Victory Park’s proximity to the highly popular Katy Trail, has created a residential demand for condos and apartments that hasn’t been seen before in the 16-year-old neighborhood.

And with Hillwood recently completing a new $33 million, 1,257-space parking garage adjacent to the American Airlines Center, this frees up more land for development. Hillwood declined to discuss its future projects in Victory Park, but real estate sources say surface parking lots could become building sites.
For Backes, the new Victory can live up to the promise of its original vision.
“I’m excited to see this finally come to fruition,” he said.

[KerrTown]

Richard Keating, the architect who designed the Trammell Crow Center and Chase Tower, said many modern major employers want low and mid-rise campuses, not skyscrapers.

Which is the complete opposite in Houston. Air Liquide's new 2-building complex in Memorial City is being shoehorned in. Cemex, Nexgen, and Murphy Oil next door are very tall buildings compared to the land-eating horizontal campuses within a comparable distance from the city center (e.g. Las Colinas).

Strangely, there is a new skyscraper around the corner from the horizontal campus of Conoco at the SW corner of Eldridge and IH-10 Katy Freeway. It is very imposing (maybe 20-30 stories tall) and has been under construction for almost a couple of years. All the other newer developments around Conoco are at least 15-20 stories tall. Foster Wheeler and Shell Westlake's new research complex next door (the green buildings with massive parking garages) stick up in the sky.

Originally Posted by dollaztx

Cities should stop expecting corporations to build massive landmarks like they used to. The future for growing our skylines lie in residential, multi-use, and midrises.

The future is more Makati-style living than North Dallas low-rise suburban corporate campuses. The view from the new Whole Foods at San Felipe & Post Oak reminded me that The Galleria area is starting to resemble Makati with the new condos next to the 4 Oaks Place office towers and access to shopping(!). A new office building is on the former 24-Hour Fitness site with another condo added into the mix across the street.

Millennials want to be close to home and work with abundant public transport facilities. Houston is much closer to the game than Dallas!

[TexasTallest]

I was kind of thinking that too KerrTown. Along with the recently constructed vertical Air Liquide, ConnocoPhillips and Shell campuses you mentioned are the vertical campuses going up by Phillips 66, Noble Energy, Anadarko, BHP Billiton, Hilcorp Energy, and obviously Chevrons plans to build an 859' tall tower to expand its vertical urban campus. Exxon is one of the only big timers going horizontal in Houston..

[TexasTallest]

Metro rail lines open across Houston - Houston Chronicle

residents all over the central and eastern portion of the loop now have direct rail access to multiple professional sports arenas, the theater district, the convention district, Discovery Green and Buffalo Bayou Park, and the University of Houston, to name a few new destinations served by rail. and obviously the east end and 3rd ward residents now have rail access to the Red Line, connecting them with the numerous popular destinations that were already served by rail.

D'Shaun Grimes said rail access from his Third Ward home to downtown - notably for sporting events like Houston Rockets and Houston Astros games - makes it much more likely he'd attend and stick around to eat or drink downtown.

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The new lines, for the first time, give Houston a light rail system and not just a single light rail line.

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With so many people moving into the Houston area, and so much of that growth leading to more density within Loop 610, Stan Leong said light rail is a natural solution.