US: Construction of X Houston, a 33-storey coliving tower in Houston’s Museum District has stopped, leaving the project partially built with no indication of when work will continue.
X Houston was expected to be one of the city’s first coliving projects built from the ground up, but work on it has stopped. Plans for X Houston included 646 beds in 475 units, including studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Meanwhile UNITi Montrose, a coliving development in Houston’s Montrose District, topped out earlier this month.
X Co., the Chicago-based developer of X Houston, also halted construction on a coliving project in Phoenix, Arizona, around the same time.
Noah Gottlieb, the developer’s CEO, told the Phoenix Business Journal that he expected work on X Phoenix would resume “very soon”, adding that company was still planning to break ground on a separate apartment tower in downtown Phoenix called X Roosevelt.
The general contractor for X Houston is Hoar Construction. It has not said when construction might resume. The project was expected to open in late 2024.
“Due to circumstances unrelated to Hoar, work on site has been suspended. We are working closely with the X Co. to get the project restarted,” a Hoar spokesperson said.
X Co. has built coliving projects in Chicago and Denver, and earlier this year had around 5,300 coliving units in its pipeline.
