Urbannizer Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2018/05/16/exclusive-galleria-office-building-to-be.html Quote In around five years or less, a roughly 200,000-square-foot office complex and its accompanying retail development will be demolished and transformed into anything from a retail development, to a mixed-use development with creative office space, to a hospitality development. Yorktown Plaza, comprised of two office buildings and a retail strip center near the Galleria, will either be sold to a developer or razed and redeveloped by Houston-based Wedge Group, the firm's CEO Greg Armstrongtold the Houston Business Journal. Wedge has owned those properties since 1996. Though redevelopment plans are still very open-ended, Armstrong said the property's 4.25-acre tract lends itself to an exciting redevelopment opportunity and said work would likely begin "sooner rather than later." The property contains a 98,292-square-foot office building at 5353 West Alabama, a 97,045-square-foot building at 5373 West Alabama and roughly 13,000 square feet of retail space in-between those buildings. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) - Edited July 12, 2019 by Timoric 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 2 hours ago, Urbannizer said: h Quote In around five years or less, a roughly 200,000-square-foot office complex and its accompanying retail development will be demolished and transformed into anything from a retail development, to a mixed-use development with creative office space, to a hospitality development. Yorktown Plaza, comprised of two office buildings and a retail strip center near the Galleria, will either be sold to a developer or razed and redeveloped by Houston-based Wedge Group, the firm's CEO Greg Armstrongtold the Houston Business Journal. Wedge has owned those properties since 1996. Though redevelopment plans are still very open-ended, Armstrong said the property's 4.25-acre tract lends itself to an exciting redevelopment opportunity and said work would likely begin "sooner rather than later." The property contains a 98,292-square-foot office building at 5353 West Alabama, a 97,045-square-foot building at 5373 West Alabama and roughly 13,000 square feet of retail space in-between those buildings. That press release is hilarious. "Sometime in the future we may be interested in doing something with this property. If anyone has any ideas or money, please get in touch." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 Purchased by Braun Enterprises, renovations planned https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2019/02/06/braun-enterprises-buys-another-galleria-area.html Last May, Wedge Group CEO Greg Armstrong told the Houston Business Journal that the property either would be a developer or razed and redeveloped by Wedge. At the time, Armstrong said the property's 4.25-acre tract lends itself to an exciting redevelopment opportunity with ideas ranging from a retail development, to a mixed-use development with creative office space, to a hospitality development. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Tom n Toms Coffee coming to 53 West! http://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-05-19-tom-n-toms-coffee-shop-galleria-area-53west-braun-enterprises-jason-cho/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Agreed...i eat asian food once every 2 months! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 The Houston restaurant group involved with Moku Bar, Casian Asian, the Pho Spot, and Bird Haus have plans for an omakase concept at 53 West (5353 W Alabama St). There were several posts in this thread last summer about the ground floor retail planned for 53 West, Braun Enterprises' renovation of Yorktown Plaza. I suspect the posts were deleted when every post and thread created by Crockpotandgravel were removed. The posts included two updated site plans, a food hall from Company of Nomads (the group behind Conservatory, which was confirmed last week) and more. One of the post showed Moku Bar on the site plan. I think Crockpotandgravel wrote of Moku Bar expanding here too (Please repost those if you can C&G). But that's not quite accurate. The people behind Moku Bar will instead debut a new concept: Hidden Omakase. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HiddenOmakase Instagram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 (edited) 39 minutes ago, IntheKnowHouston said: There were several posts in this thread last summer about the ground floor retail planned for 53 West, Braun Enterprises' renovation of Yorktown Plaza. I suspect the posts were deleted when every post and thread created by Crockpotandgravel were removed. The posts included two updated site plans, a food hall from Company of Nomads (the group behind Conservatory, which was confirmed last week) and more. Confirmation from Houston Chronicle regarding the food hall inclusion to 53 West, the former Yorktown Plaza undergoing renovations at 5353 West Alabama St in Houston's Galleria area. CrockpotandGravel posted speculations of Company of Nomads (Conservatory, Bravery Chef Hall, Railway Heights Market) were possibly the operators of the food hall shown on the site plan. Both the posts and updated site plans from this summer were deleted when admins removed every post and thread from CrockpotandGravel -- a move that was petty and vindictive IMO, being that he provided a wealth of information, posted clear and large renderings, and made sure to include archive links when the original link become inactive. "The first is a project called Conservatory 2, modeled on the original Conservatory, that will bring 11 food vendors and three bars into the Galleria neighborhood. The 12,000-square-foot site is the former Club Roxy space at 5351 W. Alabama. The target date for opening is September 2020. Mai and Ross said the company is already looking for vendors, who as in the original Conservatory, are smaller operations looking to start a new business without the risks and expenses of opening an independent brick and mortar restaurant." https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/restaurants-bars/article/Ambitious-new-food-hall-projects-slated-for-EaDo-14937598.php Edited January 8, 2020 by IntheKnowHouston 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Renderings of the renovation on Braun's website. https://www.braunenterprises.com/5353-5357-w-alabama 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 Since there is no update about Conservatory's plans at 53 West, here is an article from last year detailing changes: "Roveen Abante and Chase LoVullo (Pour Behavior) have partnered to become the franchisees and operators of the Conservatory food hall that will open in the former Roxy nightclub space." "Plans call for 11 food vendors and three bars, including a mezzanine-level wine bar and a new rooftop patio that will connect to the building’s parking deck...After speaking to Conservatory co-owner Anh Mai about investing in the project, Abante and LoVullo tell CultureMap they saw an opportunity to become franchisees who could bring the concept to fruition more quickly than Mai and his partners could on their own." https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/11-08-21-conservatory-galleria-food-hall-new-franchisee-roveen-abante-chase-lovullo/ Social media for the Conservatory Galleria https://www.facebook.com/conservatorygalleria/ https://www.instagram.com/conservatorygalleria/ Site plan for the Conservatory's Galleria location at 5353 W Alabama https://www.instagram.com/p/CZnJ6_qOaQj/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 21 year old me really wanted to see Roxy resurrected but this looks cool! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Construction photos from fall 2021 of Conservatory at 5353 W Alabama St. Located in 53 West, this is a franchised food hall. Posted November 2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CWW1BK1ggRJ/ Construction photo of the Galleria outpost of Conservatory; March 2022 This is from an Instagram post by Blue Kite Building Group. Instagram caption: "The Blue Kite Team on site following #demoday at our Galleria project." https://www.instagram.com/p/CbVfxtJJWwD/ The screenshot is from an Instagram video posted March 2022 by Blue Kite Building Group. "Behind the scenes of #demoday at our Galleria Project!" https://www.instagram.com/p/CbdAJZKgZto/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 (edited) Progress of the Galleria outpost of Conservatory. Below are screenshots from a March 2022 Instagram post by Conservatory Galleria. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbs0VXepOnn/ Edited January 12 by IntheKnowHouston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 (edited) Construction photos of the Galleria outpost of Conservatory; April 2022 This is from an Instagram post by Blue Kite Building Group. Instagram caption: "Underground plumbing started at Galleria." https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb5QhpkrXUk/ "Demo Complete! Retaining walls formed. Site evaluations happening." https://www.instagram.com/p/CcgShJ2p_rh/ "Underground nearly complete for our Galleria Project." https://www.instagram.com/p/CcyCf__J9zv/ Edited January 12 by IntheKnowHouston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 (edited) Below is a link to a video of Conservatory's buildout progress at 5353 Westheimer. The video was uploaded to Blue Kite Building's webpage last year. https://www.bluekitebuilding.com/droow-portfolio/hospitality/https://www.bluekitebuilding.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/5353-Demo-Video-Wide-1.mp4 Edited January 12 by IntheKnowHouston 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Construction progress of the Galleria outpost of Conservatory. The screenshots are from a December Instagram post by Blue Kite Building Group. Instagram caption: "Mid-construction footage of Conservatory. Conservatory Galleria will be a new food hall at 5353 W Alabama with new and exciting food vendors." https://www.instagram.com/p/CmrdDDjgVrp/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Photo of the Galleria outpost of Conservatory, posted in January by Blue Kite Building Group. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAVmgQpLqY/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Rendering of Conservatory Galleria posted on Instagram in September. Conservatory Galleria is located in 53 West, 5353 West Alabama. https://www.instagram.com/p/CiHFH_6s2kn/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) Site plan highlighting some design aspects of Conservatory including archways and glass conservatory. Conservatory Galleria is under construction at 53 West. The food is located at 5353 West Alabama. Once completed, Conservatory will house 11 food stalls, three bars, and a rooftop patio bar. Edited January 27 by IntheKnowHouston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Rendering of the Conservatory / Conservatory Galleria at 53 West. The food is located at 5353 West Alabama. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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