Randall Davis Co.’s London House is a go.
The 12-story luxury condo tower in River Oaks has broken ground with an expected completion date sometime in 2024. The building at 2323 San Felipe Drive will offer 19 units starting $1.5 million and four penthouses upwards of $3.8 million, the Houston Business Journal reports.
Every inch of this 70,000-square-foot condominium is inspired by the city of London. In fact, its dark blue-green wood paneling facade was taken from the Flask pub in London’s Highgate area, said CEO Randall Davis, who worked on the project with his daughter Natalie.
“Natalie came across a picture of the pub and thought the color was perfect,” Davis said. “It also fits the area because many of the homes in the area were designed to look like London townhomes. We wanted to create something that was not only beautiful but that fit the neighborhood, while still having a strong architectural style.”
Douglas Elliman Development Marketing is listing the boutique community that is “catering to a demand for a carefree, jet-setting lifestyle.”
Fourteen private garages in a four-story structure will be offered to residents for rent.
Most of the units will have direct elevator access. Finish outs include gas fireplaces, Gaggenau appliances, high ceilings and terraces with the option to add an outdoor kitchen. Sanitizing lights in kitchen drawers, touchless toilets and faucets, and ionizers in air-conditioning return grills are among the high-tech hygiene features. The building will have a lobby concierge, dog run and pet-washing station.
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The Houston-based firm canceled another River Oaks project just blocks away from London House, at 3723 Westheimer Road, a few years ago. Dubbed the Premiere, the design of that building had been inspired by 1920s Manhattan.
“We opened the sales center in January 2020 and were supposed to break ground right before Covid hit,” Davis told the Houston Business Journal in 2021.
“But Covid killed the momentum. We decided to take our lumps and move on.”
Davis told the Journal that he sold the property to the owners of a Mexico-based furniture importer, who paid more than $300 per square foot for the nearly half-acre parcel. While the CEO declined to confirm the exact terms of the deal, that adds up to more than $6.5 million.
— Maddy Sperling