Houston19514 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Luminare said: Don't you think that if the original interiors weren't so blahhh that the new wouldn't be so dramatic as it is. Maybe dingy is overkill, but it could still be applied. Don't you think? I was only inside GRB once and wasn't that impressed with the interiors, but maybe I'm wrong. I'm sure you have more knowledge on this then I do. Please do tell. Exhibit halls are generally pretty blahhh. They are just large open spaces. This space used to be part of the exhibit halls. Convention center lobbies, on the other hand tend to be more exciting, dramatic, impressive (choose your own adjective). The GRB never had an entrance lobby, per se. That's the issue they were addressing with this remodel. Edited July 25, 2016 by Houston19514 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 On July 24, 2016 at 4:19 AM, Urbannizer said: Entertainment venue for the Super Bowl in the bidding process. http://www.houstonfirst.com/static/media/uploads/attachments/houston_venue.pdf Will this be a permanent structure? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 I think this is going in as a popup venue for the run of the Super Bowl. This is sited on the block between Market Square and the old Chronicle building site of a future high rise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 1 minute ago, bobruss said: I think this is going in as a popup venue for the run of the Super Bowl. This is sited on the block between Market Square and the old Chronicle building site of a future high rise. No. It's on the Polk/Hamilton/Chenevert/Clay bloc, and looks to be far more extensive than just Super Bowl popup. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 I agree. I thing that this is a permenant feature to support the convention business,. Likely some kind of "Texas Themed barn-like thing" for small concerts, award ceremonies, etc.. I wonder if the cladding in the drawing is the expected final cladding? Color? This thing could be a real eyesore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 (edited) - Edited July 10, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 If it is gong to be done for the Super Bowl, I can't imagine that it will be permanent. While proper motivation does have away of changing schedules, it seems like it takes six months just to scrape off an old surface lot. This block feels like it is off in a corner behind the barn, as it were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PD_1 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 On page 7 of the proposal form it shows "Owner's Expected Substantial Completion Date". The date listed is 05.15.17. It doesn't appear to be for the "Big Game". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 I obviously need new glasses or I should have realized that I could enlarge the drawing. Your right it is on Hamilton and Polk. So is this going to be an events venue for parties and the like for off site convention business? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 (edited) 10 minutes ago, bobruss said: I obviously need new glasses or I should have realized that I could enlarge the drawing. Your right it is on Hamilton and Polk. So is this going to be an events venue for parties and the like for off site convention business? It's a restaurant and live music venue. It's being done by Free Range Concepts. You can get an idea of the types of places they do here. Edited July 26, 2016 by Houston19514 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, PD_1 said: On page 7 of the proposal form it shows "Owner's Expected Substantial Completion Date". The date listed is 05.15.17. It doesn't appear to be for the "Big Game". can you provide a link to the particular form you are speaking of, or give us the exact name of the form? Found it. Interesting and a little surprising. Elsewhere in the documents it says construction must be completed in 150 or 180 days. Edited July 26, 2016 by Houston19514 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Our first look at the view beyond the big new windows... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerNut Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 6 hours ago, Houston19514 said: It's a restaurant and live music venue. It's being done by Free Range Concepts. You can get an idea of the types of places they do here. Interesting...I went to college with one of the founder's wives. She is always advertising their places on Facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 From looking at those drawings....yeah thats a temp structure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 2 hours ago, Luminare said: From looking at those drawings....yeah thats a temp structure. You may well be correct but the plans in Dropbox include a fairly comprehensive landscaping plan. Seems to me like a frivolous expense for a building that will be used for a week. and PD_1 above suggests a 5-17-17 completion date is listed somewhere in the docs. I guess we we will know for sure in May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 45 minutes ago, UtterlyUrban said: You may well be correct but the plans in Dropbox include a fairly comprehensive landscaping plan. Seems to me like a frivolous expense for a building that will be used for a week. and PD_1 above suggests a 5-17-17 completion date is listed somewhere in the docs. I guess we we will know for sure in May. Most projects you will have a landscaping budget big or small. I haven't seen these docs though so you would know more than me. What makes it "comprehensive" in your opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 (edited) 8 hours ago, Luminare said: Most projects you will have a landscaping budget big or small. I haven't seen these docs though so you would know more than me. What makes it "comprehensive" in your opinion? It seems that they are removing some existing trees and planting, in ground, a list of plants including (9) 12'-15' trees. They are also adding an irrigation system it seems. Would that expense be undertaken for a building that will be used for a week? If so, I am going to raise cane at the frivolity of the expense. If the building is permenant, then, it makes sense to me. Edited July 28, 2016 by UtterlyUrban Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 project is NOT temporary. I work for a general contractor that thought about bidding on the thing, we had people at the prebid. This is designed to be a permanent structure. With that being said, there is a good chance this thing doesnt get built. Their schedule is too tight and their budget is too small. It has already been put on the market once and NO ONE bid the stupid thing. My guess is that they take bids, its over budget and then it goes away for another 6-12 months. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mab Posted July 28, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2016 Quote Heavy rain turned the construction on Avenida de las Americas into a mud pit Thursday, but beautiful views across Discovery Green unfolded from above, through the dramatic glass walls that are giving the George R. Brown Convention Center a friendlier face. Views inside are improving, too. While crews shimmied up scaffolding in the atriums, veteran artist Ben Woitena stood atop a small cherry-picker at the center's north end, doing final touch-ups on his three-panel installation, "The Brown is Green." Woitena's piece is one of ten new artworks that Houston First, the center's operator, has commissioned to make the walls of the renovated lobbies feel more human and give them a stronger sense of place. "So when you walk into the George R. Brown, you don't just feel that you're anywhere," said Christine West, Houston First's cultural programs manager. "We want to reflect Houston's culture." The art program is part of a Houston First initiative to create a dining and entertainment hub - Avenida Houston - that connects the center's lobbies with a new promenade along the Avenida de las Americas and Discovery Green Park. Last week Houston First announced eight new restaurants that will open this winter at Avenida Houston. Chef Hugo Ortega's new concept, Xochi, joins five other eateries coming to the soon-to-open Marriott Marquis Hotel, where Craig Biggio's sports bar is also sure to be a big draw. Also arriving soon to the area: A new take on Grotto, by Tilman Fertitta; plus Bud's Pitmaster BBQ, Kulture and McAlister's Deli. But first, it's a focus on the art. West, who previously directed Lawndale Art Center, sent out an open call for art proposals that interpreted themes such as space and technology, native flora and fauna, reuse and recycling, cultural diversity and the city's entrepreneurial history. "I wanted to leave the artists the freedom to express themselves as they would, with the type of practice that they have," she said. "But ... it is a public space, and we are trying to promote Houston through our convention center, so we had to rein it in a tiny bit." She awarded the commissions, which total $80,500, with help from a committee that included Texas Southern University's Alvia Wardlaw, Houston Arts Alliance's Sara Kellner and others. Five of the works are murals fabricated in a variety of media. Several will entertain people by offering unusual ways to "experience" views of Houston. For instance, Shane Albritton's "Earth and Skyline" will combine multiple images of Houston environments from multiple days as a single gesture. Joe Aker and Tami Merrick's "Skype Scape" is a take on a three-dimensional lenticular photograph, with a series of images that floats within a contrasting color-field background Street artist Gonzo247 is creating "Lifting Off, Houston," a Pop art-inspired mural with a space shuttle element, while Britt Thomas' "Metallographic Cosmos" enlarges microscopic images of particles into "planets." Smaller works by Reginald Adams, Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola, Lorena Morales and Page Piland will hang in four phone-charging nooks. Woitena, who is best-known for beefy, abstract sculptures, has delivered a surprise: His three panels feature cut-out black and white paintings of a great horned owl, a hummingbird, a monarch butterfly and flowers. He has drawn and painted since he was a student at the University of Texas-Austin in the early 1960s, he said. "You never lose it. It's like riding a bicycle." His paintings, made on masonite, are screwed to forest-green backgrounds framed in cream, with black corners, so each panel mimics a photograph in a vintage album. Visitors are already posing there to take selfies. West said the other artworks should be complete by mid-October, and there's more to come. "I want to fill up the whole GRB," she said. Two unrelated, monumental civic artworks are also under construction: Ed Wilson's "Soaring in the Clouds" will hang in the central atrium, and the kinetic "Wings Over Water" by Joe O'Connell & Creative Machines will hover above the new Fountain of the Americas outside. Installation begins in September on Wilson's piece, a commission that stirred intense controversy when it was awarded in 2014. O'Connell's work will be installed in November and activated in December when the fountain is complete. 1 http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Artists-give-George-R-Brown-Convention-Center-8471875.php#photo-10664275 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Is that 609 Main fourth from the left? Or am I imagining it? 4 hours ago, Mab said: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 ^^^ @Mab outstanding work! props.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elseed Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Below is an article from swamplot that talks about Free Range Concepts possibly setting up shop @ Polk St. http://swamplot.com/bowling-and-dog-park-restauranteurs-look-to-serve-drinks-in-a-downtown-parking-lot/2016-04-27/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 *Just bumping a page worth of threads ahead of all of the spam* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 182 days 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sunstar Posted August 12, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2016 Looks like the grass has recovered quite a bit. Also notice the fountain base has been installed in front of the GRB. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 ^^^ @Sunstar SUPERB illustration pal! this is what we have been wanting to see. should you acquire any more of this burgeoning area, please post... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed_Tx Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 http://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2016/8/12/discovery-green-requests-all-pokemon-stops-lures-and-creatures-from-the-park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 16 hours ago, monarch said: ^^^ @Sunstar SUPERB illustration pal! this is what we have been wanting to see. should you acquire any more of this burgeoning area, please post... You can check this shot out everyday I'd you'd like, that's a screenshot from the webcam. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ryrohtx Posted August 14, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 14, 2016 On 7/24/2016 at 4:19 AM, Urbannizer said: Entertainment venue for the Super Bowl in the bidding process. http://www.houstonfirst.com/static/media/uploads/attachments/houston_venue.pdf I went to Bowl and Barrel at CityCentre this afternoon and met a construction manager from Free Range Concepts. He came up and asked how we liked the place. It really was cool and I will definitely go back. I asked him about this project and he confirmed that this block is going to The Rustic - their live, outdoor music venue, kitchen and bar concept. Had no specifics on the time, but they are really excited to bring it to Houston. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayjay Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Wow that's great! I love The Rustic in Uptown Dallas and it's always super busy, great atmosphere with the live music. Looking forward to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HoustonMidtown Posted August 20, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2016 The road work has been completed 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Only in front of this building or the entire stretch of the GRB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonMidtown Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 2 hours ago, UtterlyUrban said: Only in front of this building or the entire stretch of the GRB? Just in front of the new building Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 ^^^ @HoustonMidtown outstanding illustrations my pal! please post more of these..... perfect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 168 Days Till Houston's Super Bowl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 The driveway is finished but will be deadly to bicycle riders, ankles and people who wear high heels. Why would they make these gutter covers that have such wide openings to them? It's a pet peeve of mine being a bike rider, so many places have have the wheel eating covers installed in their driveways that is just asking for someone to get seriously hurt. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 WOW! Where is that grate? That could cause all sorts of issues! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 3 hours ago, hindesky said: The driveway is finished but will be deadly to bicycle riders, ankles and people who wear high heels. Why would they make these gutter covers that have such wide openings to them? It's a pet peeve of mine being a bike rider, so many places have have the wheel eating covers installed in their driveways that is just asking for someone to get seriously hurt. Yup! Samething almost happened to me biking around that area this week trying to catch Pokemon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 At the very least, they could turn the grates so that the lengths of the openings are perpendicular to the path. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mab Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 I have so many questions from this rendering It looks like another event designed to kill the grass of that main lawn. I like how CNN is banished to a corner, with Fox (who has the rights to broadcast the game) front and center. Will that field have people doing each play live with the game? What is up with the screens - what will they be showing, and is "HTX" on 3 big screens or just 3 big banners? What is the strange blue square up in the left hand corner? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucleareaction Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 (edited) 21 hours ago, cspwal said: I have so many questions from this rendering It looks like another event designed to kill the grass of that main lawn. I like how CNN is banished to a corner, with Fox (who has the rights to broadcast the game) front and center. Will that field have people doing each play live with the game? What is up with the screens - what will they be showing, and is "HTX" on 3 big screens or just 3 big banners? What is the strange blue square up in the left hand corner? Sometimes the old-ass commentators do try and imitate some of the plays, yes. It's quite sad. I'd imagine the screens will show the game to an exclusive pass crowd, and imagine those are just banners for the TV background. The blue square is the glass of the walkway from the conference hall to the Hilton. EDIT: hahaha, confused right and left Edited August 23, 2016 by Nucleareaction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 This is obviously a first day of elementary school art contest entry that won 3rd place... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 (edited) If you cut that lawn in half, the crowd in front of the stage won't be very big. I'm guessing this will be fairly limited access. The blue square in the top left behind the pond over by the Marriott is placed where a rather steep but short grass covered hill is located. I'm not sure if there is anything permanent (other than dirt) under it or not, but they would have to take it out to put whatever that is up in its place. Bouncy castles are always a crowd pleaser. Edited August 23, 2016 by Nate99 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietstorm Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Apparently Twitter users have taken "issue" with the use of HTX instead of HOU... http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-Super-Bowl-Host-Committee-boasts-9178252.php 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 HTX>HOU Fact. Fight me I dare u 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towerjunkie Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 I thought everyone called it HTX I always see everyone my age and below call it HTX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 HOU is best 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 @HOUexit HTX is Austin-wannabe. Maybe why people with no sense of history like it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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