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wow that does look awesome! 

i wish they would have included Serigo Bustamante! I have been fascinated by his kooky work for like 25 years! 

https://www.coleccionsergiobustamante.com.mx/index.php?language=en

OMG 😂 I sent this to him immediately! haha! 

i will say we (especially he) made friends with almost everyone working there! apparently free alcohol to him means new awesome friend ha! 

it really was a blast!!! 

It was super fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but omg my friend got suuuUuUUuuUUuuUuuper drunk on all the free samples of liquor...let's put it this way, he doesn't remember leaving while screaming to the Amazon driver leaving Post that he loves Amazon and then trying to do parkour (very poorly) until we got to my jeep...

thankfully i got it all on video 🤪haha!

so fun though to see this place buzzing and alive...dang it's such a cool place and wish they would just do these markets in the parking lot on the regular! 

i go to brown bag deli often...so boo for that reason only ;) 

this building has always been an oddity and a curiosity to me haha 🤪

Whoa @Houston19514 i have not heard of or seen these anywhere else in the city! that thread is awesome and can't believe i missed it...but yep this is what it looks like!

hi! posted this on the BLVD thread but will post here as well!

has anyone seen the new pedestrian touch screen that was installed at Westheimer and Post Oak Blvd on the north east corner (in front of Embassy Plaza (the old Ethan Allen building) 5002 Westheimer Rd 

They look much like the large touchscreens in the Houston Galleria to find stores and more...pretty cool! Are there more that i didn't notice yet?

OH and in regards to the giant circle rings that have been missing since road construction i was told today by the Uptown Houston offices that they are having to completely re-engineer them since the roads widened! So they have been rebuilding them and hope to have them up sometime this year but they WILL be back! I miss my UFOs!!!!!!! 

Whoa 300,000?! another screen AND bar (a better/improved bar or an additional one...?)This sounds more and more like this will be a permanent feature which i am happy about! Now if they would only have more horror options! :)

yes to initially add an apartment or condo component would have been very smart...

Here is even more info and pictures regarding the new place Rocambolesc Gelateria taking over where Executive Baskets was (adjacent to Urbe and next to Singkran:

https://houston.eater.com/2022/2/22/22944906/barcelona-ice-cream-shop-rocambolesc-uptown-park-houston

AMEN TO THAT @j_cuevas713! It really is the coolest place and cant wait to see what they do in and around it...

Update above! but wow site is up and the photos are awesome:

https://trufusion.com/houston/pre-sale/  (but yikes...that monthly charge is also killing me...) 

i was driving by this past weekend and also thought something was going on...however there were people on the patio and inside drinking coffee etc...

so i just called and nope, not closed, not being remodeled...they said that is just their new shading...OY...it definitely makes it looked either closed or under construction. They need to print Blacksmith on the "awning (?)" to make it look more like a permanent part of the building.

btw i am excited for the adjacent lot to begin work, what is taking so long? 

wow love the look! 

i was hoping for some Girbaud's or some Cavaricci's... 😛

2 hours ago, SMU1213 said:

Maybe it could replace the Greenspoint Mall. 

Wait what about Chess King and Merry Go Round though!!!???!!!

With workers there nonstop 5 to 6 days a week, www.uchiko.com now has a large Coming Soon banner on their portion of the building however reports still say Fall 2022...i wonder if they are trying to make a summer opening afterall?

honestly the design reminds me more of a chipotle...🤪

Charming? yes. Uncomfortable? yes 

haha

i understand though...although i sincerely say as much as i loved the theater in general, those upstairs screenings were the worst screenings of my life due to the reasons i mentioned so i was always so happy or at least relieved when a movie i wanted to see was playing downstairs. 

and oh my gosh that bar!!! haha...yeah it was interesting to say the least...

Another article here about the theater...i wonder if they would want to make it be a 1 or 2 theater instead of the 3 it was....i seriously hated the upstairs theaters with the odd angles and small uncomfortable seats... so either open back up the upstairs to be a balcony as it was or turn those 2 tiny theaters into 1 theater that way there would be 2 theaters total. One of the most exciting things though is that i am sure (i hope anyway) that they will replace all seats with wider and more comfortable seats..like the ones they have here: 

just basic information here: 

https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2022/02/star-cinema-grill-river-oaks-theater-houston

💯

we can hope! our food court is tragic... 

Mozambique is gone now...it closed a month or so after opening... also worth noting, The Potbelly Sandwich place on the south side of the skate rink still has not reopened and the Yong Kang next door now seems to be closed too!