A tipster sends Swamplot this sneak peek at the hotel tower planned for Uptown’s Boulevard Place development. That’s somewhere around 180 highrise condo units perched on top of a 225-room hotel, which the Chronicle reported this weekend would likely be a Ritz-Carlton.
A tower that’s tall, thin, sleek, and half-dressed would seem about right for the Galleria, no? We count about 31 stories in the hotel-tower drawings before our eyes get all buggy, but plans might call for a building even taller than that. Our source reports that the hotel tower might end up taller than the 55-story apartment tower the Houston Business Journal reported that the Hanover Company was also planning for the site.
After the jump: The view from above!
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The tower’s architect is Skidmore Owings & Merrill. The drawings do make it look vaguely similar to a portion of Rice’s Collaborative Research Center — which SOM also designed, and is now going up at the corner of University and S. Main.
- Blvd Place set for construction [Houston Business Journal]
- Hotel growth [Houston Chronicle]
- Rice University Collaborative Research Center [Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]
- Supermod Boulevard Place: Replacements First [Swamplot]
