Subdude Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Note three Archstone Memorial Heights topics merged. Carry on 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tormina Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 It is nice but I didn't like the small strip of parking in front of the HEB. If you are trying to make this pedestrian friendly, make the sidewalks as wide as possible and let people enter the store directly from the sidewalk. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 ^^^ extremely nice, ambitious, and innovative concept for buffalo heights. totally cool..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 4 hours ago, tormina said: It is nice but I didn't like the small strip of parking in front of the HEB. If you are trying to make this pedestrian friendly, make the sidewalks as wide as possible and let people enter the store directly from the sidewalk. I'm a little curious. Considering what we know about the project, Where would you have the patrons park? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dml423 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 20 hours ago, tormina said: It is nice but I didn't like the small strip of parking in front of the HEB. If you are trying to make this pedestrian friendly, make the sidewalks as wide as possible and let people enter the store directly from the sidewalk. Exactly. I wish we could start building with a more urban setback to encourage more walking. Even if you wanted to do surface level parking lot, why don't developers put a lot in the back and still have the building up to the street (Like Catalina Coffee). Then you make both pedestrians and drivers happy. But a project like this would have a parking garage anyways so there wouldn't be much of a need for a surface level parking lot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 20 hours ago, tormina said: It is nice but I didn't like the small strip of parking in front of the HEB. If you are trying to make this pedestrian friendly, make the sidewalks as wide as possible and let people enter the store directly from the sidewalk. I agree. This will be like the Whole Foods on Post Oak with the parking strip in front. I wish they took the Whole Foods/Apartments in Midtown route. Oh well.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 (edited) 96,000 SF is huge. Will this be the biggest H-E-B in the chain? Whole Foods in downtown Austin is only 70,000 SF, IIRC. Hope we find out soon when they are breaking ground. With apartment and office markets overbuilt, it could get tricky. NM, I see the article says they're hoping for mid-2017. It's a good sign that the owner is providing all the equity, that just leaves the debt piece. If we can just get some positive economic growth news the next six months... Edited December 19, 2016 by H-Town Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 1 minute ago, H-Town Man said: 96,000 SF is huge. Will this be the biggest H-E-B in the chain? Whole Foods in downtown Austin is only 70,000 SF, IIRC. Hope we find out soon when they are breaking ground. With apartment and office markets overbuilt, it could get tricky. This seems to be well supported. Making the 'brand' public is a huge vote of confidence for this project. The office portion is small and should be considered boutique. With the mix of all 4 components and this location, I don't think there is a project more set up for success. I expect to see activity happen in 2017 as they have already stopped renewing leases. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angostura Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, H-Town Man said: 96,000 SF is huge. Will this be the biggest H-E-B in the chain? Whole Foods in downtown Austin is only 70,000 SF, IIRC. Not their largest, but pretty big. Bunker Hill is 127k. San Felipe & Fountainview is 99k. Montrose is around 80k, Heights will be around 87k. That said, about 6k of the square footage (on the 2nd floor) appears to be just escalator/elevator space, so functionally the 91k s.f. on the ground floor is a more accurate representation of the size of the store. Edited December 19, 2016 by Angostura 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angostura Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 22 hours ago, tormina said: It is nice but I didn't like the small strip of parking in front of the HEB. If you are trying to make this pedestrian friendly, make the sidewalks as wide as possible and let people enter the store directly from the sidewalk. When buildings in Houston look less pedestrian-friendly than we'd like them to, there are usually two reasons: setbacks and parking minimums. The building looks to be pretty close to the required 25-ft setbacks on Washington and Heights. Though if they really wanted a setback variance, I suspect they could get one. I think parking is a bigger deal here. Since retail parking minimums are based on square footage, for every square foot of surface parking you replace with retail footprint, you have to add 2-3 square feet of additional parking space. It looks like the surface parking is about 20k s.f., which means they'd need to replace those 100 or so spots, plus add another 100 spots for the extra square footage. This probably means at least one if not two extra floors on the parking garage. The store entrance is situated on the West face of the building (along Heights) while the parking garage (floors 3 and up) are on the East face, making the additional parking spaces pretty far from the store entrance. There are already HEB spaces on the 3rd floor of the garage, from which it appears customers will have to go down one floor, walk across the entire 2nd floor of the garage, to the 2nd floor escalator lobby, then down into the store. On the way out, those customers will have to do the same thing, just with a shopping cart full of groceries. I suspect HEB wanted to limit the percentage of their customers for which this would be necessary. Unless it's a rainy day, I would expect those surface spaces will be the first ones filled. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Quote Unless it's a rainy day, I would expect those surface spaces will be the first ones filled. Or any day in May - September. I LOVE parking in a garage so my car doesn't bake in the Texas summer heat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cdebnil Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 I live down the street from the old Archstone Apartments. Actually lived in the apartments that are going to be torn down before I moved into my house. Will be interesting to see effects on real estate prices in the area. 100 Waugh sounded familiar to me. I vaguely remember a thread on it from 2 years ago and found it below. Wonder if they are going to also redevelop 100 Waugh to include a hotel similar to the City Centre Westin? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 On 12/23/2016 at 1:27 AM, cdebnil said: I live down the street from the old Archstone Apartments. Actually lived in the apartments that are going to be torn down before I moved into my house. Will be interesting to see effects on real estate prices in the area. 100 Waugh sounded familiar to me. I vaguely remember a thread on it from 2 years ago and found it below. Wonder if they are going to also redevelop 100 Waugh to include a hotel similar to the City Centre Westin? City Centre Westin? Where is that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Development @100 Waugh moving forward. http://houston.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=8648&MeetingID=141 Quote Rock Creek Ranch I, Ltd. and Waugh Real Estate Ventures, Ltd. and Houston Waugh, LP (Gordy Oil Company [Sharin Scott, Treasurer], General Partner), the abutting property owners, requested the abandonment and sale of: 1) platted Eugene Street (commonly known as Dickson Street), located along Lots 7 through 12, in exchange for conveyance to the City of: 1) a 50 foot-wide right-of-way easement for and construction of Leverkuhn Street, from Dickson Street north to Feagan Street; 2) a 5 foot-wide right-of-way easement along the southern portion of Feagan Street, from proposed Leverkuhn Street east to Waugh Drive; and 3) a variable width sanitary sewer easement along the western and southern portions of the applicant’s property, all located within the Mary L. Morse Addition and Joe Smalley Subdivision, Brunner Addition, out of the John Austin Survey, A-1. The applicants plan to incorporate the requested abandonment area into their abutting tracts and construct a commercial, office, and multi-family development. Because the utility construction and the proposed Leverkuhn Street construction requirements associated with this transaction will not be completed until after the City Council passes the abandonment ordinance, Rock Creek Ranch I Ltd. and Waugh Real Estate Ventures, Ltd. and Houston Waugh LP have provided a Letter of Credit (LOC) for $387,000.00, an amount equal to the total estimated construction costs associated with the construction of proposed Leverkuhn Street and the water and sanitary sewer lines. The LOC will be for a specific time period which may be less than but not longer than twelve months from the effective date of the ordinance for this transaction. The Director of the Department of Public Works and Engineering or his designee may authorize one extension of the LOC which may be less than but not longer than twelve months, if the applicants have received approved permits and commenced construction of the work required within the initial term of the LOC. Should the conditions of the LOC not be satisfied upon expiration of the LOC, a recommendation will be submitted to the City Council to rescind the ordinance that abandoned the City’s property interest. All funds paid by the applicants will be forfeited. Upon the applicants’ satisfactory completion of the construction-related work as evidenced by written inspection clearance/approval by the Office of the City Engineer at the applicants’ request, the City will release the LOC. Rock Creek Ranch I, Ltd. and Waugh Real Estate Ventures, Ltd. and Houston Waugh, L.P. have complied with the transaction requirements or provided a Letter of Credit and have accepted the City's offer. The City will abandon and sell to Rock Creek Ranch I, Ltd. and Waugh Real Estate Ventures, Ltd. PDF File: Maps.pdf Stretch to be abandoned: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skooljunkie Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 The concrete for the new street segment was poured a few weeks ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ksab Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Temporary fence around the Archstone apartments is going up today. Hopefully demolition will begin soon. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 4 minutes ago, Ksab said: Temporary fence around the Archstone apartments is going up today. Hopefully demolition will begin soon. wow... i didnt even know these buildings were empty... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted January 19, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2017 On 12/19/2016 at 7:33 PM, Urbannizer said: http://zieglercooper.com/buffalo-heights/ Higher-res: 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatguysly Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I hope to see more and more of these mix use with grocery stores in the loop. This and the one with Whole Foods are a great start. I also hope this lowers the traffic in the Montrose HEB just a little bit. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Texasota Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 I appreciate the pavement treatment (assuming it gets done as shown.) It makes that corner more of a plaza. Hopefully they'll frequently close it off to parking for events. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ksab Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Per the apartment management, the first building is set to be torn down this afternoon! I'll try to get some pics. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visitor Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 On the demo report for today... http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-bassooned/2017-02-08/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visitor Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Buildings 1-5 on the report today http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-under-durness/2017-02-09/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Visitor Posted February 16, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2017 Not the best photo but they are coming down... 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Had some good times in those apartments 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Office portion is super cool. Apartment building isn't bad either. Im all for density but would it kill them for some more variations on roof height? Solid Box, white roof, no grass just reflecting the sun. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator80 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 On 2/16/2017 at 0:01 PM, j_cuevas713 said: Had some good times in those apartments As did I back in 98-99. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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