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The Disco Kroger

Plans for the former site of the “Disco Kroger” — once arguably the most famous grocery store in Houston — have been finalized.

Georgia-based developer Southeastern plans to turn the site of the former 24-hour Kroger — which for nearly 40 years was frequented mostly by late-night and early-morning shoppers leaving nearby Montrose neighborhood LGBTQ bars and clubs when they closed for the night — into a seven-story $68 million mid-rise apartment complex, with two parking garages...

Boy, five floors seems to be the, um, standard for a whole lot of these...

Bookmarked for December 19. Early Christmas present?

On 10/5/2022 at 9:31 PM, BEES?! said:

They released a render of the next phase pretty early on, didn’t they? I’m curious how much it’ll keep with the architectural style.

as more of it gets finished up, I think I’m liking it quite a bit. The way the residential portion looks slightly offset from the hotel portion does still trip me out a little bit, though.

I'd actually encourage the developer to come up with an entirely different architectural design, as two of the same thing right next to each other is going to look kind of strange. The original looks good as it is.

17 hours ago, Arbor Street said:

The 3D view has finally updated!

I find the 3Ds very distracting. Often the buildings overlap each other and point in all sorts of directions. The picture above is actually pretty good.

I keep looking at the imagery, and in a lot of places, it's updated to within a couple of months - at least under the timeline banner. Up around Lake Conroe and out to the west, the amount of change is quite noticeable - lots of real estate getting chewed up for packed-in tract homes and strip centers, in pretty quick order. You can even spot the new developments flying into the airports.

On 9/19/2022 at 7:11 PM, dbigtex56 said:

Smoke and mirrors.

Definitely the mirrors. The smoke would tend to obscure...😎

On 10/10/2022 at 11:47 AM, 004n063 said:

Am I the only one who thinks this looks worse? It might be better, but getting rid of streetfront engagement always feels like backsliding to me.

It really has an Ocean's Eleven '50s sort of vibe to it. It wants to be in Galveston...

HBJ

"A greener way to power your plate". Got to leave it to the creative minds in the advertising biz to come up with that...😆

41 years makes it sound so old, but I remember moving back to Texas 41 years ago to accept a job offer. Amazing how time flies...

$100 million.

Meanwhile, Prairie View has an engineering building due for completion next May, and Galveston has a couple of projects coming.

That's the way I always do it - complete the building, then assemble the mock-up. Because I always put on my shoes and socks in that order.🤪

Not "The Edifice"?

Looks like the recent rains have greened the lawn.

I was a member of a private club in Dallas back in the 1980s. Got to witness a rather heated dinner conversation one evening between a husband and wife about who was being unfaithful to whom...

Okay, they ditched the residential in favor of more offices. Is there are market for more offices?

17 hours ago, skooljunkie said:

I’m fairly certain there’s a Ramada in College Station that looks just like this. Or maybe it’s in Waco. No, Shreveport.

Woodbridge, VA. But could be a Red Roof...

I can't find a thread for this, so here goes...
Memorial Hermann - Cypress Campus
Three years after its last expansion, Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital will again add more square footage to its campus to keep up with the area’s fast growth, the Houston-based health system has announced.Work is already underway to build out the second floor of the existing hospital’s south tower to add a new nursing unit, including 40 patient beds on 35,000 square feet. That floor had been shell space since the hospital opened in 2017, said Jerry Ashworth, senior vice president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital.

Also part of the $71.8 million expansion is the construction of a second, 100,000-square-foot professional office building, a parking garage and additional surface parking as well as a two-story, 50,000-square-foot orthopedic sports medicine facility with a sports field that can host community sports leagues...

Memorial Hermann - Cypress expansion
Memorial Hermann
No renders, but I was certain this was posted already.

On 7/26/2022 at 3:23 PM, Urbannizer said:

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2120-Post-Oak-Blvd-Houston-TX/25591050/

 

"Stairway to Heaven, denied!"

I think the recession talk is overblown. And Houston seems to depend more on what oil prices are doing.

6 hours ago, hindesky said:

Vero Sade moved the start date from July '22 to Sept. '22.

Seems to make sense, since we're just about out of July...

That rendering has a floor missing...

Does St. Thomas have a varsity team?

We still have no idea what this is going to look like when it's complete?

I never thought I'd see 1979 as a long time ago. I guess I'm an "old landmark"...