POST HTX: 401 Franklin Post Office Site Redevelopment

[hindesky 46652]

[hindesky 46652]

[hindesky 46652]

[tangledwoods 706]

if they time this thing right, its going to be a HUGE success.  Imagine this building opens in July / August of 2021.  The vaccine has rolled out, people are itching to get out and BOOM there is this place ready for you to spend you money.

 

2021 is going to be a GREAT YEAR (i keep telling myself as I hide under my desk from the current world). 

[houstontexasjack 2358]

2 hours ago, tangledwoods said:

if they time this thing right, its going to be a HUGE success.  Imagine this building opens in July / August of 2021.  The vaccine has rolled out, people are itching to get out and BOOM there is this place ready for you to spend you money.

 

2021 is going to be a GREAT YEAR (i keep telling myself as I hide under my desk from the current world). 

As an addendum, if it’s August and the vaccine has rolled out, people are ready to get out but realize they’ll melt if they actually go outside, and there’s this cool new air conditioned place that just opened up. 😊

[samagon 3266]

On 12/7/2020 at 10:45 AM, houstontexasjack said:

As an addendum, if it’s August and the vaccine has rolled out, people are ready to get out but realize they’ll melt if they actually go outside, and there’s this cool new air conditioned place that just opened up. 😊

 

or they realize that they have to resume going into the office and sitting in traffic for 2 hours a day.

 

I wonder, how many people are going to start missing those 2 hours, and either demand more WFH options, or try to move closer to their offices?

 

probably a topic for another post...

 

no matter, I can't wait to see this thing up close and in person. looking back at my photos from day for night festival, the view of downtown is spectacular, and being able to see it from the roof is going to be even better.

[CREguy13 1887]

 

https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/12-09-20-post-houston-mixed-use-development-food-hall-downtown-vendors-salt-time-lea-janes-hot-chicken-taco-fuego/#slide=0

 

First 6 food hall concepts announced.  Can't wait to see announcements continue to flood in.  Really excited about Post Houston and the destination it will be for visitors/residents downtown.

[hindesky 46652]

https://www.houstoniamag.com/eat-and-drink/2020/12/post-houston-restaurants-announcement

 

THE MAJOR 550,000-SQUARE-FOOT, MIXED-USED DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT POST Houston announced Wednesday the first few food and drink tenants for its POST Market, and the names include a mix of local and emerging national shops and restaurants.

Austin-based butcher shop Salt & Time headlines the list. Per the announcement, butchers Ben Runkle and Bryan Butler are not only opening a Houston location of their award-winning shop at POST Market, but they’re also launching a burger concept called The Butcher’s Burger. 

 

Also coming in are Lea Jane’s Hot Chicken, a concept from South Carolina-born chef Nick Graves that got its start last year in Denver; Taco Fuego, an expansion of the South Houston food truck that offers quesadillas, quesabirrias, tostones, and flautas; GELU Italian Ice, another Colorado concept serving up icy dessert treats; and SOUPreme, a pho and bun bo hue concept from Tuan and Thy Tran of Moku Bar.

The vendors will be a part of POST Market, a 53,000-square-foot space designed to be Houston’s largest indoor market hall. More than 30 retailers and culinary vendors are anticipated to reside at the market.

“We are beginning to manifest our vision for a pioneering food destination that reflects Houston’s diverse culinary community,” said Frank Liu, president of the Lovett Group, which is developing POST Houston at the former Barbara Jordan Post Office property. “This is just the tip of the iceberg; we are excited to continue announcing additional vendors that will be dynamic additions to downtown’s food and beverage scene.”

[tangledwoods 706]

Imagine if they could land a Whole Foods or Phoenicia, downtown could use another grocery store.

[samagon 3266]

there's already a phoenicia, unless you are suggesting they move to that side of downtown, which doesn't net a new store, just moves an existing location.

 

maybe Rice Epicurean can be convinced they need to expand?

Edited December 10, 2020 by samagon

[Andrew Ewert 155]

I want an Eataly 😬

[j_cuevas713 3063]

Isn't that the whole point of the market? Why not have a cool market with local vendors like Pikes Place in Seattle?

[Tumbleweed_Tx 1801]

it's not a 'go to the store' type place, it's a gathering place where people can be entertained. A Whole Foods would be out of place here, just as it would be out of place at the Marq-E complex

[Texasota 2969]

I think you have a different relationship with grocery stores than I do. Plus the Marq-E complex is nothing to be emulated.

That said, I think a specialty grocer (or more than one) would work great here, but a full-size grocery store, even Whole Foods, is probably not ideal. An Asian market would be cool.

 

I do think proximity can be beneficial to everyone if it's done well. A big market with lots of vendors next door to a grocery store kind of offers the best of both worlds. You can go to the market (in part for that heightened "entertainment" experience), and if you realize you also need something at a standard grocery store you don't have to get back in a car and drive someplace else. 

 

Trader Joe's across from Eastern Market in DC is one example. 

[Twinsanity02 1289]

Are the Tennison Lofts adjacent to this building open? Seems like that is one choice piece of real estate: excellent views of the downtown, nearby park and bayou, theater district and restaurants within walking distance,  and now this development. 

[cityliving 2672]

[tangledwoods 706]

Look at that beautiful ETFE!  Before the questions come in:

What does ETFE stand for: Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene

Whats the big deal: Arch Daily ETFE

This might be the biggest install of ETFE here in town.  We have PTFE on The Woodlands Pavilion and on NRG stadium, but I dont think we have any large scale or notable ETFE.

[Kim Brown 172]

[cityliving 2672]

[j_cuevas713 3063]

This is going to get so much foot traffic because people are going to come just to drink coffee on the roof. It will def become a social media worthy place to take pics. 

Edited Tuesday at 06:55 PM by j_cuevas713

[kbates2 1352]

4 hours ago, cityliving said:

Serious question - were these taken from a drone or a helicopter? (saw one parked in about this exact vantage point for a while today around the time these were posted)

[cityliving 2672]

I took these photographs from neither, I don’t own a drone and I don’t feel safe in a helicopter. 
I took these photographs from the top of a building that I was given permission to go up to.

Edited Tuesday at 09:32 PM by cityliving

[monarch 3797]

6 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:

This is going to get so much foot traffic because people are going to come just to drink coffee on the roof. It will def become a social media worthy place to take pics. 

^^^ actually, i would like to venture forth just to try my luck with those awesome stairs...

[Tumbleweed_Tx 1801]

This is Monarch at the top of those stairs:

[talltexan83 123]

I'm still not clear how access will work to this development when using the trails along Buffalo Bayou?  It's a shame they couldn't include some stairs or a ramp that would come up under Franklin St.  Seems like it could be a nice gateway to the project.

[wilcal 1706]

14 minutes ago, talltexan83 said:

I'm still not clear how access will work to this development when using the trails along Buffalo Bayou?  It's a shame they couldn't include some stairs or a ramp that would come up under Franklin St.  Seems like it could be a nice gateway to the project.

Bagby is getting a redesign that will add a new cycle and pedestrian zone, but it stops at Franklin. Maybe it could be extended by the developers? Only real access point is via George Bush Monument across the street.

A ramp bypassing Franklin would have been great though. 

This should be done by the end of 2021:

 

[Texasota 2969]

Franklin itself could really stand to be redone. There's no reason for it to be anywhere near as wide as it is. It's not on the Bike Plan, but throwing some protected bike lanes on there would really help with circulation between the trails and the surface streets. Some street trees would also be nice. 

[talltexan83 123]

20 minutes ago, wilcal said:

Bagby is getting a redesign that will add a new cycle and pedestrian zone, but it stops at Franklin. Maybe it could be extended by the developers? Only real access point is via George Bush Monument across the street.

A ramp bypassing Franklin would have been great though. 

This should be done by the end of 2021:

 

Thanks! I had forgotten about the Bagby redesign.......that is great news and should offer some nice continuity for those bikers along the bayou looking to access the Post HTX.

[j_cuevas713 3063]

52 minutes ago, talltexan83 said:

I'm still not clear how access will work to this development when using the trails along Buffalo Bayou?  It's a shame they couldn't include some stairs or a ramp that would come up under Franklin St.  Seems like it could be a nice gateway to the project.

This development is new. It will def evolve.

[kbates2 1352]

Anybody think that they are ever going to fix the broken section of the bayou trail/bike path right by here?

[mfastx 537]

Do we know if anything will become of those huge parking lots in front? 

[wilcal 1706]

8 hours ago, kbates2 said:

Anybody think that they are ever going to fix the broken section of the bayou trail/bike path right by here?

I asked at one point almost a year ago and it was basically a "we don't have the money allotted to fix it" situation. Pretty sad tbh. 

[Tumbleweed_Tx 1801]

huge parking lots are required in a development like this. The concert venue going inside is a 5000 seater, there's not enough parking in the area when you add in the needs of the theater district.

[j_cuevas713 3063]

2 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

huge parking lots are required in a development like this. The concert venue going inside is a 5000 seater, there's not enough parking in the area when you add in the needs of the theater district.

This is going to have a concert venue?

 

[Fortune 891]

2 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

huge parking lots are required in a development like this. The concert venue going inside is a 5000 seater, there's not enough parking in the area when you add in the needs of the theater district.

Build a parking garage. . . 

[jermh 1083]

11 hours ago, Fortune said:

Build a parking garage. . . 

There are at least 5 public garages within 5 blocks of this project. Houstonians should realize they don't always have to park directly at the thing they're going to, and it's not always going to be free.

Edited Thursday at 08:22 AM by jermh

[jermh 1083]

Not to say that they shouldn't build a garage, but if they do, I hope it has a residential tower attached or on top of it. 

[Houston19514 4646]

15 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

huge parking lots are required in a development like this. The concert venue going inside is a 5000 seater, there's not enough parking in the area when you add in the needs of the theater district.

FWIW, the last I saw, the concert venue is planned for a later phase, along with a planned hotel conversion of the office tower.

[Lux 131]

This parking lot and the hollowed out Barbara Jordan post office hosted the Day for Night electronic art and music festival in 2016 & 2017 (https://bit.ly/39WeU4e). I hope that the new Post Houston development can bring the same energy and vibe as those awesome weekends spent in downtown Houston.

[samagon 3266]

18 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

huge parking lots are required in a development like this. The concert venue going inside is a 5000 seater, there's not enough parking in the area when you add in the needs of the theater district.

when they did day for night, there was no on site parking, and way more than 5000 people in attendance. 

I'm sure phase1 retains the surface lots, but I'd guess future phases will include a parking structure to replace at least one of the surface lots, and the other surface lots will be replaced with usable space.

[j_cuevas713 3063]

5 hours ago, jermh said:

There are at least 5 public garages within 5 blocks of this project. Houstonians should realize they don't always have to park directly at the thing they're going to, and it's not always going to be free.

I’ve been trying to say that as well. Like I get the “inconvenience” some people feel. But I only have real sympathy for those with handicaps. Otherwise walking a block or two shouldn’t be an issue. ESPECIALLY downtown. 

[gene 3054]

my gosh i miss Day For Night! I got to work with BJORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

(*life complete*)

 

[crock 130]

it feels like they're kind of waiting for the i45 update to even bother with how this will actually get accessed.  

[kbates2 1352]

[Tumbleweed_Tx 1801]

^^^ between you, me, and the walls, it's been announced here, and the name of it is in the image above.


@gene... was Bjork's sound guy's name Jan? I travelled the country with an Icelandic band, our monitor guy guy was her front of house guy.

[kbates2 1352]

5 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

^^^ between you, me, and the walls, it's been announced here, and the name of it is in the image above.

This is the instagram page for Post Houston that puts up updates, renderings, vendor ads, etc. every day. The picture seems to be of the eastern side of the building, under the farm portion of the roof. I haven’t seen what’s going in that portion l.

[Houston19514 4646]

11 hours ago, kbates2 said:

This is the instagram page for Post Houston that puts up updates, renderings, vendor ads, etc. every day. The picture seems to be of the eastern side of the building, under the farm portion of the roof. I haven’t seen what’s going in that portion l.

I think it's the Concert/music venue?

Edited 2 hours ago by Houston19514