M•K•T, The Standard in The Heights

[hindesky 28262]

[H-Town Man 3766]

2 hours ago, CrockpotandGravel said:

Mods, @Urbannizer @Triton @Subdude @intencity77 @editor

Please add the address back to the title of this thread. Putting the address in the title makes it easy for people to know EXACTLY where this is located, making it easy to plug the address into Google maps or whatever map service versus posting street intersections. Also makes it easier to find when using the search or when searching on Google and easy to find additional information on the property (past and present) when there is an exact address.

Please change the title to include 600 N Shepherd Dr or change it to M•K•T |   600 N Shepherd Dr . It's cleaner looking and includes the name of the development and the address attached to it since this is a complete renovation and adaptive reuse of the Shepherd 10 Business Park at 600 N Shepherd Dr.


I don't understand why certain mods are so hellbent against to adding the address to the title of these projects or even the official names of the projects once they're known.

 

If you resist the urge to make something perfect, although it is very difficult, the urge will gradually diminish for the next thing and then the next thing. But if you act on the urge to make something perfect, then the urge will only be stronger for future things and you will drive yourself into a frenzy trying to perfect everything.

 

[Triton 10341]

4 hours ago, CrockpotandGravel said:

Mods, @Urbannizer @Triton @Subdude @intencity77 @editor

Please add the address back to the title of this thread. Putting the address in the title makes it easy for people to know EXACTLY where this is located, making it easy to plug the address into Google maps or whatever map service versus posting street intersections. Also makes it easier to find when using the search or when searching on Google and easy to find additional information on the property (past and present) when there is an exact address.

Please change the title to include 600 N Shepherd Dr or change it to M•K•T |   600 N Shepherd Dr . It's cleaner looking and includes the name of the development and the address attached to it since this is a complete renovation and adaptive reuse of the Shepherd 10 Business Park at 600 N Shepherd Dr.


I don't understand why certain mods are so hellbent against to adding the address to the title of these projects or even the official names of the projects once they're known.

 

So I changed the title but it looks like someone added The Standard in the Heights... isn't that a different development?

[Urbannizer 39339]

1 hour ago, Triton said:

 

So I changed the title but it looks like someone added The Standard in the Heights... isn't that a different development?

 

See posts starting from May 23rd on this page.

[Triton 10341]

3 minutes ago, Urbannizer said:

 

See posts starting from May 23rd on this page.

Thanks! Is it weird that Phase 2 is really kicking off before Phase 1?

[Urbannizer 39339]

12 minutes ago, Triton said:

Thanks! Is it weird that Phase 2 is really kicking off before Phase 1?

 

I believe the apartments u/c aren't considered as phase II. Triten Real Estate owns the old Swift building, which is rumored to become a boutique hotel once the retail component is complete.

 

https://tritenre.com/projects/swift

[Purdueenginerd 1145]

Ive had design projects that were broken into Phase I and Phase II... and by the time drawings got issued for both, the owner/contractor elected to start with Phase II. 

 

Though in this case, I think @urbannizer is correct. 

[mollusk 2042]

6 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

 

If you resist the urge to make something perfect, although it is very difficult, the urge will gradually diminish for the next thing and then the next thing. But if you act on the urge to make something perfect, then the urge will only be stronger for future things and you will drive yourself into a frenzy trying to perfect everything.

 

[mkultra25 867]

15 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

 

If you resist the urge to make something perfect, although it is very difficult, the urge will gradually diminish for the next thing and then the next thing. But if you act on the urge to make something perfect, then the urge will only be stronger for future things and you will drive yourself into a frenzy trying to perfect everything.

 

 

[Visitor 226]

On 7/11/2019 at 10:00 AM, H-Town Man said:

 

If you resist the urge to make something perfect, although it is very difficult, the urge will gradually diminish for the next thing and then the next thing. But if you act on the urge to make something perfect, then the urge will only be stronger for future things and you will drive yourself into a frenzy trying to perfect everything.

 

Well this explains Houston perfectly. 

[hindesky 28262]

The Texas wrap apartments going up.

[hindesky 28262]

The wooden wrap apartments continues to get higher, demo of the interior of the warehouses retail area has started.

[Luminare 4417]

@hindesky Thanks for the update. Moved this from "Proposed" to "Renovation, Reuse, Revamp" on the map.

[hindesky 28262]

The apartments are getting higher on the eastern side.

[hindesky 28262]

The apartments of phase 2 continue to wrap around the parking garage. A fence has gone up around the MKT project. Harvey is the contractor of phase 2.There is a gap between the 2 projects.

 

 

[X.R. 516]

Is it just me or is this flying? Also, its a great sign for this development that in Q3 2019 you have tenants already lining up for a Q2 2020 move when the projected office space hasn't really gotten off the first floor yet, so to speak. Its going to be added pressure to deliver on time. This could also speak to a market that is ready for a development of this sort, since nothing like this is really out there in that area. 

 

 

[hindesky 28262]

The apartments are going up quickly.

 

 

 

 

Not sure if apartments will go up on the southern portion, looks stranger than the rest, large concrete floor with a basement underneath.

 

 

 

 

West side of the parking garage.

 

 

 

 

The retail/office section has been completely gutted in the interiors. Loving the gold covered atrium.

 

 

[hindesky 28262]

Heights mixed-use development announces two new retailers 

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A rendering of M-K-T, a mixed-use development that Radom Capital and Triten Real Estate Partners are developing.

MICHAEL HSU OFFICE OF ARCHITECTURE

By Laura Gillespie  – Reporter, Houston Business Journal 

5 hours ago

 

M-K-T, mixed-use project repurposing more than 200,000 square feet of industrial buildings in the Heights, has signed on two additional tenants to add to its growing collection. 

Burdlife will open its first retail location at M-K-T, according to a press release. The 1,193-square-foot space will sell jewelry and statement pieces. The Heights-based company was founded by Natasha Dadwani in 2015. Brett Levinson, assistant vice president with Weitzman, was the broker for Burdlife. Brittney Freed, Linda Rubiola and Christie Amezquita with Shop Companies represented the landlord. Although this will be Burdlife's first brick-and-mortar location, the brand has been available in retailers such as Anthropologie. 

Houston-based Elite Meals will also open its first retail location in 1,653 square feet in M-K-T, according to a separate press release. The meal plan service offers meals for ketogenic, paleo and plant-based diets and more, as well as snacks such as bone broth and brownies. Levinson also was the broker for Elite Meals. Prior to this brick-and-mortar location opening in M-K-T, the company offered meals via home delivery or pick-up at its commercial kitchen at 6906 Airline Drive, Suite 108.

Other tenants previously announced, to debut in summer or early fall 2020, include: 

• Mendocino Farms Sandwich Market, which opened its first Houston locations in Rice Village this summer, in Uptown Park this fall and will open two downtown locations, according to previous Houston Business Journal coverage. 
• Honeychild's Sweet Creams, the first brick-and-mortar location of the Houston-based frozen custard company, which sells its products in various grocers, stores and farmers markets in the Houston area and Bellville.
• Miller Grossbard Advisors, the first office tenant announced for the space. The Houston-based accounting firm was founded 28 years ago and specializes in advising clients on tax, accounting and business advisory issues. The firm is currently located at 2204 Louisiana St. in Midtown. The company will relocate in the second quarter of 2020 to the mixed-use development, where it is leasing 14,000 square feet of Class A office space.

 

M-K-T was designed by acclaimed Austin-based architect Michael Hsu, who recently opened an office in Houston. Houston-based Method Architecture is the architect of record, and SWA Group is the landscape architect. Boston-based Long Wharf Capital LLC is financing the project. Houston-based Radom Capital and Houston-based Triten Real Estate Partners are developing the 12-acre site at North Shepherd Street and 6th and 7th Streets. 

M-K-T will offer office users modern structures with 10- to 20-foot exposed ceilings that provide the ability to install internal stairwells leading to mezzanine spaces, JLL said previously. Other features include stained concrete floors, exposed beams, private outdoor spaces, and large windows and skylights.

Tenants and guests will have access to a wide array of lifestyle amenities including approximately 100,000 square feet of creative office space and 100,000 square feet of chef-driven restaurants, first-to-market retailers and studio fitness concepts. In all, the development will have space for up to 30 restaurant, retail, and health and fitness businesses, including over 1,000 feet of frontage along the Heights Hike and Bike trail. 

[Angostura 1034]

Soon there will be no place in the Heights that isn't within walking distance of a boutique ice cream shop.

[Luminare 4417]

2 hours ago, Angostura said:

Soon there will be no place in the Heights that isn't within walking distance of a boutique ice cream shop.

 

ice cream shops are killing it right now apparently. The same thing is happening in Montrose.

[cspwal 2932]

More ice cream shops needed in midtown and downtown though

[hindesky 28262]

[Purdueenginerd 1145]

 

Quite a bit of activity going on now. cut holes in the tilt walls now

[H-Town Man 3766]

15 hours ago, Purdueenginerd said:

 

Quite a bit of activity going on now. cut holes in the tilt walls now

 

They must be using some different tools than the concrete cutting going on at the Sears in Midtown...

 

[Luminare 4417]

23 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

 

They must be using some different tools than the concrete cutting going on at the Sears in Midtown...

 

 

If its tilt wall (which is an assumption) then they wouldn't have the problem of all the rebar/ reinforcing nets like at the sears right?

[H-Town Man 3766]

29 minutes ago, Luminare said:

 

If its tilt wall (which is an assumption) then they wouldn't have the problem of all the rebar/ reinforcing nets like at the sears right?

 

Not sure, I would think tilt wall has rebar in it as well? I suspect that if someone wanted to make a clean cut then there's a way to do it, rebar or not. The fact that the cuts on the Sears building were so ragged makes me think that all the concrete is going to come off those beams.

 

[Luminare 4417]

1 hour ago, H-Town Man said:

 

Not sure, I would think tilt wall has rebar in it as well? I suspect that if someone wanted to make a clean cut then there's a way to do it, rebar or not. The fact that the cuts on the Sears building were so ragged makes me think that all the concrete is going to come off those beams.

 

 

I have no clue either. The make up of the walls are clearly different. The old wall at the Ion is a cast in place with a lot of rebar and this one seems to be tilt with minimal rebar necessary. I'm working on a job where they did a clean cut on an existing building a long way back where you can see the rebar, and its only a couple decades younger than the old Sears building.

 

I'm wondering if they initially were doing exploratory demo and then just decided to take it down all the way to beam?

[Purdueenginerd 1145]

On 10/7/2019 at 11:34 AM, H-Town Man said:

 

They must be using some different tools than the concrete cutting going on at the Sears in Midtown...

 

 

 

ha, I took a look at the photos of sears. Interesting demo technique. But it should be noted these are quite different structures. Sears appears to be a structural concrete frame. With Sears I'm not sure what their end goal is there, but they may be performing more drastic modifications to the frame system which is precipitating the need to have a more "ugly demo".

 

For this structure, This is definitely tilt-wall. I can't tell if these particular ones are load bearing. (i'll check next time I ride by). But generally the demo procedure is "saw cut" through the wall and push! One good thing this contractor has done is not over cut at the corners of the opening... so kudos to them for doing that. I would expect some sort of steel lintel  to be attached on the inside face/jamb at some point. Generally when I detail post-installed tilt wall openings, I have them install the steel prior to performing demolition.

 

CC @Luminare Tilt walls do have reinforcement, though traditionally less congested then your typical reinforced concrete beam. I've provided a photo from one of my old projects where we repaired a tiltwall. This is the reinforcement that is typical of Tiltwalls. 

 

 

 

Edited October 8 by Purdueenginerd
Typo

[Luminare 4417]

6 minutes ago, Purdueenginerd said:

 

 

ha, I took a look at the photos of sears. Interesting demo technique. But it should be noted these are quite different structures. Sears appears to be a structural concrete frame. With Sears I'm not sure what their end goal is there, but they may be performing more drastic modifications to the frame system which is precipitating the need to have a more "ugly demo".

 

For this structure, This is definitely tilt-wall. I can't tell if these particular ones are load bearing. (i'll check next time I ride by). But generally the demo procedure is "saw cut" through the wall and push! One good thing this contractor has done is not over cut at the corners of the opening... so kudos to them for doing that. I would expect some sort of steel lintel  to be attached on the inside face/jamb at some point. Generally when I detail post-installed tilt wall openings, I have them install the steel prior to performing demolition.

 

CC @Luminare Tilt walls do have reinforcement, though traditionally less congested then your typical reinforced concrete beam. I've provided a photo from one of my old projects where we repaired a tiltwall. This is the reinforcement that is typical of Tiltwalls. 

 

 

 

 

This is what I thought, but couldn't prove substantially. That was a quick ninja response!

 

Its been interesting watching the demo because I haven't really seen demo with intent to preserve that intense before. I know on the project I was mentioning above that architecturally if you are going to poke holes into a facade that is concrete then most times it just makes sense to demo the whole wall and refill back in. It is interesting to see how rigid the Sears structure is to be taking such a beating.

[Purdueenginerd 1145]

53 minutes ago, Luminare said:

 

This is what I thought, but couldn't prove substantially. That was a quick ninja response!

 

Its been interesting watching the demo because I haven't really seen demo with intent to preserve that intense before. I know on the project I was mentioning above that architecturally if you are going to poke holes into a facade that is concrete then most times it just makes sense to demo the whole wall and refill back in. It is interesting to see how rigid the Sears structure is to be taking such a beating.

 

I'll concede that looking at Sears photos, that demo does seem more invasive than I would picture for a renovation project . A few things on Sears Im seeing based on the demo. 

 

It looks like a solid wall was demolished at sears. Other than the lateral system(loads that go left to right, like wind), theres nothing that indicates to me that its part of the gravity system(loads that go down, and hopefully not up). If its part of the lateral system, they're modifiying the lateral system of an existing old building. I'll put this bluntly, doing this sucks, is difficult and expensive and is very invasive to the existing structural systems. Generally on renovation projects youre not required to modify the existing lateral system to modern code provisions unless certain provisions are crossed. Changing a building from Risk Category II to Risk Category III is a good example. Another one is "enlarging" the building wind profile. 
The other thing I noticed at sears is they appear to have completely removed the roof framing. I dont know their end goal here so Im in pure speculation mode. They could be replacing it. Why would use replace it you ask? Roof framing are typically designed for relatively light loads. If the Architect wanted a green roof, or another occupied floor, demoing that roof structure may have precipitated just simply replacing the framing up there. The other item they could be doing is... simply never replacing it. This has the added benefit of reducing the wind profile of the building. Regardless, I think its important to note that whatever they're doing to sears, at least to me, seems significantly larger in scope that this MKT project... as far as demo goes. We also have a secondary portion that here on MKT: the structure is exposed, and will likely remain exposed. Thats less likely for sears. 

 

 

Edited October 8 by Purdueenginerd

[Purdueenginerd 1145]

 

 

1 week update. So the tilt walls are clearly load bearing. They've installed shoring, with structural steel (a little surprising) with cribbing down to the slab on grade. Doesnt look tied down for uplift which irks me a little bit, but I digress. It could be theyre planning on performing select demolition at the roof in these locations. 

[hindesky 28262]

In my industry they use very high pressure water (30,000 - 40,000 lbs of pressure) and a little garnet grit to cut steel plates when there is any trace of explosive/flammable residue, I wonder what they use to cut these concrete slabs so cleanly? Spotted the mock up of the apartments.

 

 

[hindesky 28262]

The dark brick is starting to go up on the eastern portion.

[CrockpotandGravel 8146]

Another tenant for M•K•T has been announced for the Radom Capital development.: Da Gama Canteen


This is the redevelopment of the Shepherd 10 Business Park at 600 N Shepherd Dr.




From Houston Chronicle this morning:


Rishi Hospitality, the owner of Oporto Fooding House and Wine in Midtown, will introduce a new concept in M-K-T, an upcoming mixed-use project at 600 N. Shepherd in the Heights. Owned and operated by husband and wife team and Heights residents Chefs Rick and Shiva Di Virgilio, Rishi Hospitality plans to open da Gama canteen, a Euro-Indian influenced café and bar, in fall 2020. The 3,251-square-foot restaurant will be the evolution of Oporto Café and The Queen Vic pub & kitchen on Richmond Avenue, which closed this year and last. The restaurant, inspired by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s spice route, will have a modern decor with Indian art and design elements. Brittney Freed and Linda Rubiola of Shop Cos. represented the developers, Radom Capital and Triten Real Estate Partners. Hannah Tosch of Colliers International represented Rishi Hospitality.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/texas-inc/article/Retail-wrap-Euro-Indian-cafe-coming-to-14554523.php



More from Houston Business Journal:

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2019/10/24/another-restaurant-tenant-signs-on-for-massive.html


From CultureMap:

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/10-25-19-da-gama-cantine-new-restaurant-wine-bar-the-heights-mkt-development-shiva-rick-di-virgilio-radom-capital/


 

Edited October 26 by CrockpotandGravel

[hindesky 28262]

The graffiti bandit has struck the retail portion, he obviously used one of the scissor lifts to do his dirty work. Apartments continue to wrap the parking garage.

 

[j_cuevas713 1971]

I'm really starting to hate that ROWDY guy

[Purdueenginerd 1145]

whats the significance of Rowdy?  I see his graffiti everywhere all over the city... Even written with a sharpie on traffic signage. 

[Triton 10341]

3 minutes ago, Purdueenginerd said:

whats the significance of Rowdy?  I see his graffiti everywhere all over the city... Even written with a sharpie on traffic signage. 

 

Maybe it's the next Fight Club? It's incredibly hard to figure out of it's a group of people or one person.

[Urbannizer 39339]

Aerial view from last month:

 

http://blockcompanies.com/projects/the-standard-in-the-heights

 

 

 

 

 

[hindesky 28262]

[hindesky 28262]

I assume this might be the pool area because of the windows facing west on the right of my pic.