Downtown Houston Capitol Tower pours on foundation

HOUSTON – Skanska is planning to pour the foundation of the Capitol Tower, a 35-story office building slated for downtown’s former Houston Club building site, next month.

Capitol Tower was designed by Gensler to have 750,000 sf and a tunnel-level lobby visible to pedestrians on the streets above it.

In January, Skanska said the building would not break ground until a substantial portion of the space was preleased.

“We’re preparing our site to go vertical when that decision gets made,” said Michael Mair, executive vice president and regional manager for Skanska USA in Houston.