Nate99
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Brown Bag Deli does steady business every day, hopefully they would open up a shop somewhere close by. Wasn't this the building that had a fire earlier in the year (or late 2010)?
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GreenStreet: Mixed-Use Development At 1201 Fannin St.
Nate99 replied to MontroseNeighborhoodCafe's topic in Downtown
Me too. HP was a neat idea, hopefully they'll get more tenants eventually. -
GreenStreet: Mixed-Use Development At 1201 Fannin St.
Nate99 replied to MontroseNeighborhoodCafe's topic in Downtown
While $100 ($0.02 x 5000) doesn't sound like much, I think that is what Books-a-Million is paying in rent this year. -
The swamplot link in the first post said that it was vacant for 24 years.
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This in particular is going to be landscaped on the surface, as I understand it. The parking is underneath the former hotel and has been utilized consistently up until the demo started. That will be used again after they complete the tear down. This was an empty shell of a building for the better part of 20 years that is most vividly remembered by those who had to be near it for the strongest urine stench in all of downtown. Sometimes, it's just an old building.
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I used to work in 5 Houston Center. The orientation with the park and the Fulbright tower is messed up. It may be a mirror image.
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I'm curious if the building that sits on the corner of that lot would come down or be built around ala the Stowers building. It looks like it has been empty for a long time.
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Down to a floor and a half above the concrete part.
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By my count, that's 7 floors gone in less than a month.
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I'm guessing that the entire league probably had an exclusive deal with some beverage company.
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From earlier today - April 26th.
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I didn't see anyone working on the exterior, but I didn't look to closely for signs of anyone coming in/out of the lobby. I was across the street when I walked by.
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Here's a shot of the cladding removed from a strip of the facade. It looked to me like it must have been held on by a thick black adhesive (tar, maybe) that pretty well entirely covered the brick underneath.
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Apologies for the size, here are a couple of shots from an hour or so ago. Looks like all of the glass is out.
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They have a crane up now and most all of the windows are out. The lower concrete floors are exposed through the hole they punched in it to install the tower crane. It will be interesting to see how fast it comes down.
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This "catwalk" (for lack of a better descriptor) seems like an awful lot of work for an empty property. It's hard to imagine a circumstance where an owner would be able to put that kind of money in to something that has no indication of an ability to generate revenue for them at the moment, so that was why I suspected that, perhaps, something might be in the works for the whole site. Maybe the code violation penalties were severe enough that condemnation and seizure of the property was threatened, form my non-real estate background, that would seem to be the only reason an owner would be motivated to do this. There is an old RV trailer there to the left of the hole in my picture that I think someone lives in to serve as a security guard for the building, but that has been there for a long time. The hole in the street might have something to do with the new light rail lines, one of the workers was wearing a hard hat with the HRT logo on it.
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Took this pic today. Doesn't look like anyone is working on anything else at the site. I guess they were just building a workable sidewalk.
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Chronicle Blog article A few pics, more in link.
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I went back and looked again, and if I had to guess, I would say it looked like they were putting in a permanent walkway where the hole in the ground encroached on whatever right of way is required for the sidewalks downtown. I know that there had previously been a wooden structure there that is now gone, replaced by the steel structure that is now being built. The construction company is GT Leach. Based on their website, it doesn't look like they would just be doing remediation of an abandoned site to keep it from being a code violation, but who knows. The structure looks like it would be permanent, something along the lines of what you would see supporting a steel stadium bleacher.
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I'm trying to imagine the underground parking being retained without the structure on top of it. Seems a bit odd, but what do I know. If I had to guess, I would think that building a new attached parking structure to Total Plaza might bring them higher rents.
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Posted in Downtown forum also, but thought I'd put it here as well... I walked by there yesterday and noticed that there were some welders constructing what looked to be steel catwalks (not sure what you would call them) along one side of the big hole in the ground next to the old abandoned Texaco building at Fannin/Capitol. Anyone know what is going on there? It is the first activity that I have seen there in years. A construction company had its banner sign on one of the chain link fences, but I don't remember the name.
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I walked by there yesterday and noticed that there were some welders constructing what looked to be steel catwalks (not sure what you would call them) along one side of the big hole in the ground next to the old abandoned Texaco building at Fannin/Capitol. Anyone know what is going on there? It is the first activity that I have seen there in years. A construction company had its banner sign on one of the chain link fences, but I don't remember the name.
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Did they dig tunnel access from the garage under Bagby to the Heritage Plaza building? There have been metal plates on Bagby for a while now running from one to the other, I presumed that was what they were up to, unless it was just the utility connections.
