After years of limbo, the long-delayed Forme tower in Houston’s Museum District is finally open, debuting this week as a hybrid apartment-and-hotel high-rise built around wellness, social programming and shared spaces. The project takes what began as a halted coliving experiment and reshapes it into hundreds of residences, short-term furnished suites and amenity floors meant to pull people out of their units and into a more communal daily routine.
The 33-story building, now branded Forme, rose out of a project that stalled mid-construction and reopened after a 2024 financial rescue backed by Raven Capital and Mavik Capital, according to the Houston Chronicle. its 2024 construction pause was closely tracked, which helps explain why the building’s comeback has drawn so much attention.
Units, Suites and Scale
Forme contains roughly 475 apartments, according to ApartmentFinder, and, per reporting in the Houston Business Journal, also includes 55 boutique hotel suites inside a development reported at roughly 750,000 square feet. Listings disagree slightly on whether the tower reads as 32 or 33 stories, but either way the building brings hundreds of new units to the Museum District.
Amenities and Wellness Programming
The owner carved out about 60,000 square feet for programmed common space and amenities and advertises a roughly 20,000-square-foot fitness center with studios, trainers and scheduled classes, per Forme's website and public listings. The amenity stack also includes an elevated pool deck and a full-service bar, plus large flexible coworking floors and event spaces that are intended to keep residents plugged into on-site programming rather than retreating behind their own doors.
Who’s Moving In and Rents
Management says the first move-ins skew toward newcomers, many affiliated with Rice University and the Texas Medical Center, and that rents range from about $1,750 for studios to roughly $5,600 for larger three-bedroom units, according to the Houston Chronicle. The operator, Sentral, is pairing nightly furnished suites with traditional leases and an events calendar in a bid to turn the tower’s amenities into a consistent draw.
Forme’s leasing portal already lists units and nightly furnished suites for booking, signaling the move from a stalled construction site to a hospitality-tinged residential product. Whether the heavy emphasis on fitness, programming and short-term stays will sustain long-term occupancy will be the next test for the Museum District's newest tower.
