Apartments

09/08/14 10:00am

Another Lot Across from Dynamo Stadium Gets the All Clear

Demolitions, East Downtown

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Cleared Lot at St. Charles and Capitol Streets, East Downtown, Houston

A second block adjacent to BBVA Compass Stadium in East Downtown was cleared by giant yellow machines this past week; a reader has sent us the above photo to prove it. The metal shed once occupied by Tool Mart, which formerly stood on a portion of the site, is no more. (The company has decamped for Missouri City.) Space is being cleared for an apartment project on this block — surrounded by Dowling St., Texas Ave., Capitol St., and St. Charles St., and fronting a bit of the soon-to-open Southeast light-rail line just past where it combines with the also soon-to-open East End line — as well as the block immediately south, which was cleared late last month. Renderings of apartments on this same site were shown last year by Mill Creek Residential before that it backed out of the project; the company that took it over instead, JLB Partners, hasn’t released any drawings showing its plans.

Previously on Swamplot:Â Land Is Being Cleared for New Apartments Next to the Soccer Stadium;Â Stadium-Side Apartments in EaDo a No-Go;Â Home Games: Apartments To Go Up Beside Dynamo Stadium, Light Rail in East Downtown

Photo: Swamplot inbox

Tool Mart Is Gone

77003, Apartments, Demolitions, East Downtown

09/05/14 1:30pm

The Triple-Winged 21-Story Millennium Med Center Apartment Tower Moving in Next To the Spires

Highrises, Proposed Developments, Texas Medical Center

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Proposed Millennium Apartment Tower, Cambridge St. at Holcombe Blvd., Texas Medical Center, Houston

Here’s a rendering of the apartment tower that the Dinerstein Companies, with investment from a few companies including AmREIT, plans to put on the intersection of Holcombe Blvd. and Cambridge St., just south of the bayou that forms the southern border of the official Texas Medical Center campus. The intersection, created with the construction of the Cambridge St. bridge over Brays Bayou, is less than 5 years old. It’ll be filled out with a 21-story building in a 3-wing arrangement typical of Las Vegas hotels and a suburban hospital or 2, here perched atop a 7-or-so-level parking garage more than sufficient to keep all 375 units well above any future Med Center-area floodwaters.

All the Angles

77030, Apartments, Highrises, Proposed Developments, Texas Medical Center

09/02/14 10:45am

Where All the New Apartments Are Going Up in Houston

Houston Data

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The Chronicle’s Erin Mulvaney has thrown data from Apartment Data Services into this interactive Google map — to give you a zoomable picture of where all the new apartments are heading in Houston. The green pins show the 19,923 units (in 72 projects) that have opened recently; the red dots show the 23,781 (in 85 complexes) that are currently under construction; and the yellow dots indicate the additional 18,065 apartments (in 61 new developments) that are proposed — or at least the ones the data company is aware of.

Multifamily construction projects spread over Houston region [Prime Property]

Map: Erin Mulvaney/Houston Chronicle

Mapping New Construction

Apartments, Houston Data, Maps

08/28/14 11:45am

Land Is Being Cleared for New Apartments Next to the Soccer Stadium

Demolitions, East Downtown

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Demolition of 2414 Capitol St., East Downtown, Houston

Demo crews are clearing away a metal warehouse building and chopping up the surface concrete on the block surrounded by Dowling, Rusk, Capitol and St. Charles streets, across Dowling St. from BBVA Compass Stadium in East Downtown. Last year, Mill Creek Residential announced and then canceled plans for a possibly mixed-use apartment development it was calling EADO Station on that block and the one immediately north, facing Texas Ave.

JLB in East Downtown

77003, Apartments, Demolitions, East Downtown

08/27/14 12:00pm

The 2 New Apartment Buildings Just West of Downtown That Alliance Residential Hasn’t Even Announced, but Is About To Start Building

Fourth Ward, Proposed Developments

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707 Saulnier and 707 Robin Streets, Fourth Ward, Houston

Two separate apartment buildings, one 8 storiesÂ tall and the other 5, will be going up at the far east end of the Fourth Ward, just over the Gulf Fwy. from Downtown. The building bounded by Saulnier, Crosby, Heiner, and Robin will cover the entire 1.136-acre block, which is currently a surface parking lot (see photo above), and bear an address of 707 Saulnier St. The (presumably taller) building one block to the south, labeled 707 Robin St., will take up the vacant two-thirds-of-an-acre L-shaped portion of the block boundedÂ by Robin, Crosby, Heiner, and Andrews.

Developer Alliance Residential (the same company behind the Broadstone complexes at Main St. and West Alabama in Midtown and next to the new SkyHouse downtown, as well as other complexes in the Houston area) doesn’t appear to have announced the project publicly, except to let neighbors know that construction will begin on September 8thÂ and will shut down portions of the surrounding streets for the duration of construction, which is expected to last through October 2016.

A Swamplot reader sends these pics of the sites:

Fourth Ward

77019, Apartments, Fourth Ward, Proposed Developments

08/18/14 2:15pm

The Southmore Houses and Apartments Going Down Where the Southmore Is Going Up

Demolitions, Highrises, Museum District, Museum Park, Proposed Developments

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This was the scene of almost-complete destruction on the Museum District block surrounded by Caroline, Southmore, Oakdale, and San JacintoÂ late last week, as crews from Cherry Demolition finished tearing down the gaggle of structures in the way of Hines’s 25-story apartment project, which it’s calling the Southmore. All the homes on that block are being torn down — save the one shown in the background of this photo,Â at the corner of Caroline and Southmore, where the owner did not sell to the developer:

Hines 25 Stories

77004, Apartments, Demolitions, Highrises, Museum District, Museum Park, Proposed Developments

08/14/14 11:15am

Apartment Block Planned for Montrose and Fairview, Replacing Hollywood Vietnamese and Parking Lots

Montrose, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment

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Variance Sign in Front of Hollywood Vietnamese Restaurant, 2409 Montrose Blvd., Montrose, Houston

A variance notice now up on the south side of Fairview St. at the corner of Montrose Blvd. is one sign that a full-block apartment complex is being planned for the site. Another clue: A reader tells us the Hollywood Vietnamese & Chinese Cuisine restaurant at 2409 Montrose Blvd., which occupies the only building on the block, is planning to shut down before the end of the month. A spokesperson for the planning department says a complete set of documents for the variance hasn’t been received yet.

Farb Montrose

77006, Apartments, Montrose, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Variances

08/12/14 4:45pm

The Takara-So Apartments Won’t Be Going Away Just Yet

Buying and Selling, Dearborn Place, Montrose, Quicklink, Real Estate Investing

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THE TAKARA-SO APARTMENTS WON’T BE GOING AWAY JUST YET Takara-So Apartments, 1919 W. Main St., Dearborn Place, Montrose, Houston Inner Loop property watchers: As other Montrose apartment complexes are knocked down and redeveloped left and right, do your thoughts turn occasionally to the Takara-So? If so, you are not alone: The 77-unit 2-story apartments at 1919 W. Main St., occupying the entire 1.22-acre block also bounded by McDuffie, Hazard, and Colquitt, was sold back in May in an off-market transaction. The complex that once belonged in the portfolio of swindler Allen Stanford is now the property of a group headed by Southern California firm Apartment Income Investors. A cached version of a memo for the investment posted online in advance of the sale envisioned renting out and holding the property for 3 to 5 years before selling it to investors or a developer, and identifies the price as $5.51 million. Photo: Takara-So Apartments

77098, Apartments, Buying and Selling, Dearborn Place, Montrose, Real Estate Investing

08/11/14 5:15pm

Hanover Tower Planned Across from Kirby Whole Foods Wants To Keep Oaks, Add Restaurants

Highrises, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Upper Kirby

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Kirby Court Apartments, 2612 Steel St., Upper Kirby, Houston The apartment tower the Hanover Company is planning to replace the northeastern chunk of the Kirby Court Apartments on Steel St. and a few surrounding properties will defer to a range of cuisines. Sure it’ll be directly across the street from the Whole Foods Market on Kirby Dr. But it’s also leaving alone the property on the corner of Kirby and Kipling St., where Becks Prime will continue to pump out burgers to customers passing through its drive-thru. If that bit of culinary contrast doesn’t impress, wait for the building to be finished: According to documents submitted to the city for the variance the developer is seeking, the ground floor of the 370-unit Hanover River Oaks apartment complex will have lease space for restaurants.

Stand Back from Steel

77098, Apartments, Highrises, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Upper Kirby, Variances

08/11/14 12:00pm

New Hanover Apartment Complex Will Eat a Chunk of the Kirby Court Apartments Across from Whole Foods

Redevelopment, Upper Kirby

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kirby-court-and-sign

Variance Sign at Kirby Court Apartments, 2700 Block of Steel St., Upper Kirby, Houston Apartment developer the Hanover Company appears to be the purchaser of the Kirby Court Apartments — or at least a portion of it. A chunk of the 1949 garden apartment complex, which faces Steel St. west of Kirby, directly across from Whole Foods Market, is outlined in a variance application submitted to the city by Hanover for what the company is calling the Hanover River Oaks. The property earmarked for the development extends halfway (or 350 ft.) into the block between Kipling St. and Steel St. from Kirby Dr., but leaves out the Beck’s Prime drive-thru on the northeast corner.

Just South of West Ave

77098, Apartments, Redevelopment, Upper Kirby, Variances

07/29/14 11:30am

Crews Have Begun Clubbing the Memorial Club Apartments by the Washington Roundabout

Demolitions, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Rice Military

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Demolition of Memorial Club Apartments, 904 Westcott St., Rice Military, Houston

Cherry Demolition crews are attacking portions of the Memorial Club Apartments at 904 Westcott St. this morning. A tipster tells Swamplot the section of apartments on the east side of Westcott have been vacant for a few weeks, and that ovens, washers, dryers, and other appliances were hauled off last week.

Tearing Down for Elan

77007, Apartments, Demolitions, Mixed Use, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Retail, Rice Military, Washington Ave.

07/28/14 11:00am

New Owners to Montrose Apartment Dwellers: Everybody Out by the End of August, We’re Tearing These Places Down

Buying and Selling, Demolitions, Montrose, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment

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Apartments at 1920 W. Alabama St., Montrose, Houston

The new owner of 3 adjacent 2-story apartment complexes at the western edge of Winlow Place in Montrose have politely asked all tenants to leave by the end of August. The fifties-and-sixties-era courtyard complexes, at 1920 W. Alabama St. (above), 2810 McDuffie, and 1924 Marshall, were sold by Prestige Holdings at the end of April to a company called City Centre at Midtown, which appears to be connected to apartment developer Dolce Living. The adjacent complexes together include 73 apartments; the 1.58 acres of land they sit on has frontage on West Alabama St. (between Hazard and Huldy, pictured above) and McDuffie St., which dead-ends into a parking lot shared by the McDuffie and Marshall St. properties. According to a tipster, a notice for the abandonment of that dead-end portion of McDuffie St. was posted in February. Admiral Linen’s 3-building complex (behind the Randalls grocery store) at 2030 Kipling St. is immediately adjacent to the properties.

‘Cuz We’re Building New Apartments

77006, Apartments, Buying and Selling, Demolitions, Montrose, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Winlow Place

07/25/14 10:45am

Claiming Downtown Apartment Construction for the Aggies

Downtown, New Construction

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Just last week Swamplot ran an item about the ironworker who got canned for draping a University of Alabama flag at the Kyle Field construction site in College Station. But after spotting a Texas A&M banner hoisted onto the crane for ~~the SkyHouse Houston apartment tower~~ Alliance Residential’s Block 334 apartment building going up at the corner of Main St. and Leeland yesterday, Twitterer-about-town PoppyPetalled wonders if flying college colors on construction sites has become “a thing.” Here’s a longer view:

Marooned

77002, Apartments, Downtown, New Construction

07/23/14 12:15pm

A Drone’s View of the 12-Story Apartment Building Going Up in Rice Village

New Construction: Residential, Rice Village

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Here’s the scene from above Morningside Dr. in the Rice Village, where Hanover is building a 12-story apartment structure between Tangley and Dunstan, just north of the 6-story Hanover at Rice Village apartments it completed last year. Ziegler Cooper Architects’ design for the 206-unit complex will include a pool deck on the top story and a courtyard on the third: