Office-to-Residential in Houston — market context
National office-to-residential pipeline tripled since 2022 to 70,700+ units. Dallas ranks #2 in delivered conversions, four units behind Manhattan. Houston is not yet in the top tier — but the structural conditions are forming. Downtown office vacancy has been rising as energy-sector footprints compressed. SB 840 permits residential in commercial zones without rezoning, statewide. SB 2477 proposes to exempt conversions from impact fees, public hearings, parking minimums, and traffic studies, statewide. The legislative environment moves the math toward conversions in Houston the same way it does in Dallas.
Office-to-residential is the convergence of three disciplines: adaptive reuse preservation, multifamily delivery scale, and preconstruction judgment. ANDRES has documented all three. Mosaic (440 apartments out of a 1960s office tower), Dallas Power & Light (1931 Art Deco), Gables Republic Tower (1954 office), Corrigan Tower (1952 office) — four separate structural eras, four separate residential outcomes. The capability is portable. The Houston team runs under Cody Whittle, who has been with ANDRES since 2006; the conversion playbook moves through institutional knowledge that does not reset between metros.
