New condo tower planned for Galleria area

Have you driven through Uptown lately and thought to yourself, "What this area really needs is another high-rise condo?" Well, get ready to be happy: Turnberry, the developer of fancy residential projects across the country, has its eye on the Galleria area.

The Houston Business Journal reports Turnberry has leased an office that overlooks the site of its proposed condo tower between Hidalgo and West Alabama, just west of the Water Wall (we assume that's the empty plot of land between the Water Wall and the Galleria's new parking garage). The building could be as tall as 42 stories, and units would likely start around $500,000.

Sources told the Journal that the company will start advertising the development when it gets the city's OK to build a temporary sales office.