Asbestos-Laden Mod Code Enforcement Office Now Getting Swapped for Mixed Use Highrise on Main St.

Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

The 1967 occupant of 3300 Main St., which previously housed the city code enforcement office, is currently getting its asbestos removed in anticipation of its impending demolition, according to a reader involved in the work. The structure and its parking lot grounds were bought from the city in 2011 by the Midtown Redevelopment Authority, who started trying to sell it in 2014; PM Realty (the developers of the glass-petticoated apartment tower at 2929 Weslayan, who are also currently working on the less-is-more-branded Ivy Lofts tiny condo complex in East Downtown) put the property under contract that year.

What’s going to take the code building’s place, between the new MATCH box theater collection and the Houston Community College buildings to the north on Main St.? The involved reader confirms that the rendering below shows the current design in place along the light rail line; materials from AECOM (a partner in the project) say the highrise should hold 336 apartments and 14,390 sq.ft. of retail space:

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Proposed Highrise at 3300 Main St.

The reader says construction should start in September after demolition wraps up. The design shown above has put on a few floors (and lost some corners) since the original designs by RTKL were passed around last fall:

Previous renderings of proposed 3300 Main St. Highrise

Here’s another view of that older design, looking northeast:

Previous renderings of proposed 3300 Main St. Highrise

The older rendering set also included a view of the building’s ground floor retail level:

Previous renderings of proposed 3300 Main St. Highrise

Here’s a quick photographic jaunt around the block as it looked early last week, for streetscape comparison:

Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

Former City of Houston Code Enforcement Building, 3300 Main St., Midtown, Houston, 77002

Images: Swamplot inbox (photos), AECOM (current rendering), RTKL (older renderings)

 

 

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6 Comment

  • Nice design – however, I prefer the original design to the newer rendering.

    Happy to hear it!

  • Banking on $75 oil, much?

  • Ah, memories of those traumatic visits to Kumar at traffic and parking. Ask any builder and he’ll tell you that land is cursed forever like a covered up burial ground.

  • Glad to see its not a HOD (Homeless Oriented Development) or ROD (Rehab Oriented Development) going in there.

  • Confirmed! Hunt Construction is on site and prepping for implosion! Crackheads beware, we gonna
    blow yo a__ sky high.

  • Very good. Hope to see such projects downtown. Imagine if office towers had ground level retail instead of below ground level retail? Downtown would look like a real city.