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houstonray

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  1. Hey hey! Target is open yea for hurray! We stopped by this afternoon and it's nice. I would highly recommend going before the 'official' opening because it's nice to roam around in a quiet store and check it all out. Yes, they have a much bigger food selection than a 'normal' Target. Talked to the manager and he said that it was somewhere between a regular Target and Super Target with regards to food. It's great to have it here.
  2. I would vote for a Cafe Express. In fact, I sent my request to the Cafe Express website. Speaking of, this is a good time, if any of you have a "favorite" store or restaurant, find their website and shoot off a "comment/suggestion" for a new location. Cafe Express actually wrote me back, thanked me and they said they were constantly looking for new places for expansion. So it might be a good time to remind your favorite place about "Sawyer Heights", THE new inner loop shopping destination...can't hurt.
  3. OH! And I almost forgot, there's a Starbucks inside Target and now possibly one outside in the parking lot! You're right though, so many strip centers go up and have potential but they just get filled up with the same things over and over. That's what I hope doesn't happen with SH...
  4. Two banks? Oh joy. I mean, I'm happy for those people who now have branches of their banks close to them, but 2 banks? Maybe we can get some cell phone stores, a Jack in the Box, a McDonalds, a Burger King, and then a CVS and a Walgreens and Sawyer Heights will be complete. Haha. <tongue firmly in cheek>
  5. Yeah, I noticed that too, that there were some updates to the plan. The stand alone Starbucks though is shown on the March 2006 plan, whereas the May 2006 plan just shows it as "food". And an Amegy bank? I thought someone said it was a Wachovia? We need you to get the scoop Mistergreen!! :-)
  6. That IS weird...that slab was so odd....I was beginning to think it was maybe something related to the rumored 24 Hr Fitness but who knows. It's weird. I drove up in there tonight but a security guy ran me off. He rolled down his window and said "the store isn't open, unless you work here, please leave". I complied and drove off. So excited that the opening is almost here...if anyone hears of a "soft opening" (i.e. opening before the "official" opening) please let us know!
  7. Yeah, saw the tilt walls almost completely up on my way home tonight but didn't have time to drive in and see what happened with the foundation...
  8. OK guys, new mystery (or maybe I just don't know what I'm seeing). Drove up into the Target tonight on the way home, and parked in front. Store is still fairly empty, but I was more intrigued by whatever it is they are putting next to it. They poured a slab a few days ago, and I thought, cool, more retail. Now they have poured all sorts of raised and lowered and even angled, concrete forms on top of the slab. It doesn't look like any sort of retail space I've ever seen at that stage. I tried to visualize how that would work and I couldn't figure it out, unless it's specific to whatever is going in that space. Has anyone else seen this?? My first thought was some sort of bike parking area, maybe with a water feature? Then I imagined stalls filled with all sorts of Farmers Market type vendors but then I figured that was just wishful thinking. Oh! And they painted the oil derrick a shiny black. It looks pretty cool...
  9. I drove by tonight and noticed that a "driveway" entrance was being cut into the land from the Taylor exit access road....I assume so drivers can get into the shopping center from the feeder instead of turning at Taylor. Things are starting to happen!
  10. Pig Stand it going to do a booming business! haha. But seriously, I was wondering the same thing...with taxes sure to skyrocket next year, and developers eager to turn the whole Sawyer Heights area into the next "West U" or "Upper Kirby" or "Town and Country" or whatever it is, seems the industrial will start to disappear....?
  11. I drove past Sawyer Heights tonight and saw that they had broken ground and started working on the area next to (attached to?) the Target...future retail or 24 Hr Fitness or something else??
  12. That's ok, I work over on the NW side of Houston (Copperfield), and there is a Target there (a regular one) with a Starbucks inside....and outside in the parking lot of the shopping center is a freestanding Starbucks. "Resistance is Futile"
  13. We live in a bungalow in the Woodland Heights that was built, sometime between 1915-1920. Can y'all give me advice on how to research the ownership history? We'd like to find out who the builder was, when it was built exactly, who all the owners have been through the years, etc? I am sure I have to start at the tax office but what documents do I ask to look at? Someone once told me to check names at the library too but now sure what to look up there either. Thanks!
  14. Wow! That's cool! I love hearing history like that. The link posted above to the artist drawings shows it still has a basement...sure hope a store incorporates that....it would be very neat. Weingartens...hmmmm....maybe that's where we could finally get our grocery store! :-)
  15. I was just at the Property Commerce website and there are several food spaces listed, but no Chick-Fil-A is shown. The ORIGINAL site plan, which is still posted on the Woodland Heights website listed the Chick-Fil-A....but if you compare that site plan to the one that is on the PC website that was updated just a couple of months ago, there are many many changes, and one of them is that Chick-Fil-A is no longer listed...
  16. We third that. Teotihuacan is hands down better than Spanish Flower is now. When we moved here 8 years ago, we loved Spanish Flowers, but over the years and after their expansion, it seems the food has become bland. Teotihuacan is definitely great!!!
  17. That was what we were wondering too. Having worked out in the burbs for years, it seems that every new 'development' sort of just "opens" with a bunch a stores already in it. For Target to be opening in what, less than 2 months, there is nothing else built, no other shopping center spaces...maybe they are just going to build fast toward the end. You'd think though that for the fact that their website plan shows 5 or 6 restaurant pads and bank pads in addition to the empty retail space, that there would be other businesses putting up their stand alone buildings. Are the warehouses coming down and that graphics place that are right there at the edge of the property?
  18. Don't most all new Target's have a Starbucks inside them now? I'm sure we'll get one of those. A Cafe Express would be a great choice for a 'chain' if you have to have one. We live in the Woodland Heights, but I work in the heart of the 'burbs, in Copperfield (NW Houston). I'm surrounded by chains out there, like someone said, the choice for dinner out there is Chili's, Olive Garden, Applebees, and all the others. I love coming back home to the diversity of the Heights. Part of that diversity is our choice of food. So many great places here to eat. And speaking of Pig Stand, I hope they are prepared for a huge influx of people. The Sawyer street connection to Washington Ave is going to be a major route to Sawyer Heights and alot more people are going to start discovering it. In fact, I bet Washington Ave is going to experience a huge increase in redevelopment as the Target center gets busier and busier. Just my .02
  19. Did some checking today and the NW corner is actually going to be, if the deal goes through, a 250+ unit apartment complex/condominium project. The 5.5 level parking garage is parking for the residents and the courtyards are where the apts will face inward toward, I assume with the prerequisite pool area in the middle of one of them. The hope is that people will want to live where they can shop. You know, years ago when I lived in North Carolina (Raleigh) with my parents, the city had a rule of 1 tree for every THREE parking spaces. So if a developer built a parking lot for 300 cars, he had to put in 100 trees somewhere on the property. I thought that was kind of excessive and didn't "get it", until I visited a couple of years ago and the places I remember were now amazingly beautiful shaded shopping areas. It was truly awesome. Not sure why we don't have a similar rule here. "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot..." :-)
  20. Have y'all seen the Property Commerce website for Sawyer Heights? It has changed yet again, alot less retail space and lots more "food" locations. BUT, on the NE corner of the property, can someone explain what all those buildings are? There is a parking GARAGE in the middle of it?!? Apts? Condos? It certainly has changed from the original plan which included a bunch of retail outbuildings with space for dozens of smaller businesses, and now there seems to be alot less. From what I see, this certainly doesn't look like what they described as "THE inner loop shopping destination" before they broke ground... It gets curiouser and curiouser! :-)
  21. I'm pretty sure it's a regular Target as well. According to the Prop Commerce website, it's only listed as "Target" whereas the actual Supers are listed as "SuperTarget". Square footage size, it's a bit smaller actually than a regular Target that is next to my office in the 'burbs. As for the Whole Foods rumor,l I heard the same thing Of course, I also heard 'scaled down Central Market' awhile back as well, so who knows. I'd love any grocery store, but not so sure we'll get one.
  22. I drove by the 'new' Target development yesterday and drove up into the parking lot and all I can say is, "unimpressed". I was at a local neighborhood meeting where the developers came in and talked about how this was going to be unlike anything else inside the loop, trees, greenspaces, a style that fits in with the history of the neighborhood, etc etc and, while I realize it isn't finished yet, it's pretty much just a Target like in the suburbs, lots of concrete.... I'll reserve final judgement for when it's finished, but as of now, like I said, unimpressed so far....
  23. Does anyone know what happened with the 'further development' at the Heights Abbey (the old Woodland Baptist Church)? They were supposed to start a phase 2 and since it's by our house, we were curious what happened with that plan. The developer is/was Mercury Development. We were told a year ago that construction on phase 2 would be coming in the Fall but nothing at all happened and now emails to Mercury are returned as undeliverable. Just curious! Houstonray
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