CrockpotandGravel Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 (edited) 1500 Oliver Street in the First Ward. This is part of Washington Corridor area of Houston (I think). Aerial view: Street View from February 2017 Edited November 11, 2019 by CrockpotandGravel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrockpotandGravel Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 1500 Oliver St may be part of the Dock High District (I think) within the Sawyer Yards. The property sits next to Lovett's other development at 1201 Oliver St in the First Ward. The property is included on the Sawyer Yards Masterplan below. There is no listing of this property on Lovett Commercial's website yet, but that doesn't mean it won't in the future. Both 1201 Oliver and 1505 Oliver St were marked as retail development for a year or longer before Lovett published materials / announced plans for both. That could be true of this property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I believe this will replace The Garage, Houston Meat Dis. & Market Day of Texas SubdivisionPlatPDF_BG3642_Fairfield Sawyer Heights_PDF.pdf 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) The Garage is also where Lovett's current office is for now till they get their new HQ's finished at the old Houston Post building. The lot across Oliver has a sign showing a rendering of what Lovett will convert with it to. It's not shown in this Google Street View though. Most of the stuff shown here is now gone. Edited February 23, 2022 by hindesky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 These are the two properties Fairfield bought for their future apartments on Oliver. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 I am pretty surprised about this. Lovett’s okd HQ is kind of a cool / interesting building. I wouldn’t have thought it a candidate for demo. An apartment here fully dependent on Oliver for traffic flow makes me think Oliver is going to need a massive upgrade. that pedestrian path connecting sawyer to Oliver is extremely important IMO. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 First permit for it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Lovett Commercial is out and moved to their new offices in the converted The Post building in Eado. Talked with one of the truck drivers from the meat distributor that is on the end of the property. Asked him if they were moving out soon, he seemed surprised about that and didn't know anything. He did say they have another warehouse somewhere else though. https://www.houston-meat.com 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Houston Meat Distributors has moved out and a crew is taking down the shelves inside. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Looks like the crew must have finished removing the equipment inside. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 (edited) Saw a guy waiting in the parking lot, turns out he is overseeing this project for Fairfield and was waiting for a fence company to enclose the lot. He said this will be a 5 story wrap around a 7 story parking garage that will be cast-in-place. He is hopping to not use a tower crane due to the limitations of Oliver St. being very narrow. Edit: Demo is supposed to start late November or early December. Edited October 5, 2022 by hindesky 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Fence crew is installing the construction fencing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Paco Jones Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 12 hours ago, hindesky said: The permit was purchased by Lovett Commercial. I suppose they are teaming up with Fairfield on this one...? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 H & M Plumbing was doing the sewer, firewater and water disconnects. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Two plumbing demo permits, one for the old Lovett Commercial building and the other for the Houston Meat distributors building. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Demo permits for the two buildings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 https://www.fairfieldresidential.com/communities/coming-soon 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyt36 Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 On 2/28/2022 at 12:23 AM, hindesky said: These are the two properties Fairfield bought for their future apartments on Oliver. There's that mysterious "Dock High Pedestrian Path" again. I get the concept from walking around other parts of Sawyer Yards and MKT, but there isn't a loading dock anywhere there, at least as drawn, or I am blind. Does anyone know what it's supposed to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco Jones Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 1 hour ago, mattyt36 said: There's that mysterious "Dock High Pedestrian Path" again. I get the concept from walking around other parts of Sawyer Yards and MKT, but there isn't a loading dock anywhere there, at least as drawn, or I am blind. Does anyone know what it's supposed to be? Typically, this is just an elevated/raised pedestrian walkway. The term "dock high" is likely referring to the actual height the walkway will be, which would be around 4'. These help corral and distribute the pedestrian traffic. In this instance I could be completely wrong, though. For reference... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyt36 Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Paco Jones said: Typically, this is just an elevated/raised pedestrian walkway. The term "dock high" is likely referring to the actual height the walkway will be, which would be around 4'. These help corral and distribute the pedestrian traffic. In this instance I could be completely wrong, though. For reference... Thanks--maybe that drawing is not to be taken literally--seems odd they'd put a semi-elevated walkway in the middle of a parking lot, across a street, through the middle of another parking lot, and through a building. But maybe it will end up being some sort an industrial-esque architectural attraction in and of itself! Edited January 12, 2023 by mattyt36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 On 2/28/2022 at 12:23 AM, hindesky said: Makes perfect sense to me. This area used to be industrial, those had no reason to have any sort of connections to the surrounding streets. But now that there's so many restaurants, bars, and residential, this disconnected area forces people to walk quite a distance even if the bar is just a building away. We saw the powerful affect of connection once the multi-family at Lower Heights was connected to Target. Sure, more car traffic but you see people walking to Target all the time now (or just walking their dogs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerNut Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Maybe "Dock High" is the name of the path. 🤷♂️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyt36 Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 3 hours ago, BeerNut said: Maybe "Dock High" is the name of the path. 🤷♂️ The simplest explanation is more often than not the correct one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) Edited January 29, 2023 by hindesky 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Looks like Cherry Companies got bought out and is now a division of Arcosa. https://www.arcosa.com https://www.arcosa.com/construction-products/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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