It could become much trickier for vandals defacing murals of presidents to remain undetected, what with all these windows: Real Estate Bisnow‘s Catie Dixon reports that Alliance Residential has closed a financing deal on Broadstone 3800, a 203-unit apartment building planned for a 1.6-acre lot just across West Alabama from the yellow-brick former campaign headquarters where Reginald James’s mural of President Obama was given a rather sloppy second coat this week. The proposed site, at 3808 Main St. on the southwest side of the intersection, is home now to a surface parking lot; it’s bound by Travis, Truxillo, and West Alabama — where, Dixon reports, $8 million is expected to be spent on street improvements. This rendering shows how light rail might be incorporated into the 6-story project; the nearest Red Line stop along Main St. is Ensemble/HCC, where shops and eateries like Natachee’s and Double Trouble have congregated.
- Loch Ness of Financing [Real Estate Bisnow]
- Broadstone Midtown [EDI International]
- New apartment building at 3800 Main Street [HAIF]
- Previously on Swamplot: The Continuing Houston History of President Obama, in 6 Photos
Rendering: EDI Architects
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All the windows on the ground floor are great – they’ll offer passersby on Main a chance to see the cars parked inside.
Love to see some action going on in that area of midtown. Sure it’s only JUST East of Montrose (by a street or two) but that area — and the ares just further East — are starting to get a lot of love.
A year from now there will be four mid-rise apartment complexes within spitting distance of the 527 spur. I do enjoy having instant access to the freeway!
Minus the fact that the rendering looks exactly like every other proposed new building…I LOVE it. Goodbye, urban prairie.
Another great example of Houston signature parking fields soon gone?
This could mean a nice boost for the Mid-Main area. It’d be great to see development around this area expand and fill in some of the undeveloped/underdeveloped holes in that part of Midtown.
Glad to see another parking lot dissappear, expecially in this part of Midtown. With the new MATCH (Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston) building planned to be built a couple of blocks away, this area will definitly create a more vibrant atmosphere.
While this is of course better than a parking lot, this and almost every other new residential project looks to me like a wasted opportunity. You would think that in a city with no zoning and no design regulations, developers could come up with something a little more interesting. I thought the lack of regulations were supposed to spur innovation, after all? So why does every new project look the same as every other new project? Yes, it’s replacing a parking lot, but we are going to be stuck with this building (along with the 50 buildings that look just like it) for the next 20+ years, when something much better could have been built in its place.
@Tracy We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Think of it this way, the site will be easy to re-develop since the current developer went through the trouble of assembling the parcel.
I’m trying to figure out what’s going on in the bottom left-hand corner of the drawing. Is that someone wrestling a dog?
are those two people laying on the sidewalk in the lower left-hand corner?
maybe it’s a pair of dogs… doing something?
I walk past this site every day, usually after dark. Between this development and the renovations of “The Spur” apartments, I almost won’t worry about being shanked anymore. Almost.
Oh, and I think the figures in the lower left of the picture are two kids petting a dog.
Densification is not enough. We need to encourage mixed use facilities either through tax incentives or as a requirment.
Thus: a recess from the road to allow seating and comfortable pedestrian traffic. Retail on the bottom floor.
It is 2 kids petting a dog!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah…this is what I’m talkin bout!
In this thread, 2 people failed the Rorschach test.