Urbannizer 45668 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 By Javi Kawai on Flickr 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fernz 379 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 This tower is turning out to be one of those rare cases where the building looks better than the rendering! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timoric 1574 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) - Â Â Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Naviguessor 2381 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Fernz, I was think the same thing. Drive by it this week and thought "well damn...she looks good!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timoric 1574 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SkylineView 1421 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 2014 06 28:Â 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bachanon 467 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 i've had my doubts about this building. seeing it in person last week changed my mind. Â the original rendering and even the pictures above do not do it justice. Â it's really nice! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Urbannizer 45668 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=By1pOs6feuU 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fernz 379 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=By1pOs6feuUThat's going to be a nice pool deck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fatesdisastr 544 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=By1pOs6feuU Jurassic Park music... come on Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jmosele 292 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The more I see it, the more I like this building Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gary 264 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The motion of the camera looks like it was shot from an elevator. If not, those are some smooth panning skills. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
monarch 3987 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 was that a DRONE doing the flying and filming sequence? Â ...how very impressive / futuristic! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cloud713 4101 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Has the fence with black tarp always been up around the apache site? I saw someone messing with something to secure part of it as I drove by a minute ago.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fernz 379 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Has the fence with black tarp always been up around the apache site? I saw someone messing with something to secure part of it as I drove by a minute ago..It's been there for a long time Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cloud713 4101 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Lol. Didn't think it looked new, just thought it was odd some dude was messing with part of it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gene 3376 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 True Food Kitchen in the new BLVD Place opens July 29th...they have a job fair going on now! Also while i dont have a photo, they put the "Whole Foods Market" large letters/signage up in front of the building/on top of the entrance...really cant wait to have this open just a block north west of my office and a block south east of my apartment! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SkylineView 1421 Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 2014 07 19:Â 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mab 1836 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Â In December they will open a similar concept called Peska in BLVD Place in the Galleria/Uptown area.When customers walk in to the upscale Peska, they will see a 16-foot-long ice case displaying fresh fish from around the world. A "seafood sommelier" will take them to the display and guide them through the market catches of the day, helping them pick fish for their meal.The fresh fish on ice, unusual for an upscale Houston eatery, gives Peska what the restaurant world calls a point of difference."Within the last few years we've seen the Houston restaurant scene become transformed," Diego Ysita said, and in a city where dining standards are high, it helps to offer something a little different.Emily Durham, president of Houston-based Restaurant Connections, a market consulting and real estate brokerage firm, agreed that a one-of-a-kind restaurant can have an advantage in Houston's highly competitive restaurant environment.Ideally, she said, a new-to-market concept should be easy for the public to understand.If it's so different that it needs explanation, it can be a challenge. For example, she said, restaurant customers had to be educated when tapas first came to Houston.Sometimes an out-of-the-ordinary restaurant does best in a particular neighborhood, she said. For example, Underbelly is on Lower Westheimer in Montrose, home to a number of cutting-edge restaurants.Underbelly - a farm-and-ranch-to-table restaurant with a butcher, in-house curing and more cuts of meats than most restaurants - might not thrive in every area, she said. Nothing may ever be completely new under the sun, of course, including Peska's fish display on ice.For example, J&J Seafood in southwest Houston also has a fish market and kitchen, but it is more basic, and mostly a to-go operation.Chris Tripoli, president of A'La Carte Foodservice Consulting Group, who helped tweak the Peska concept and provided operations assistance, had to venture outside Texas to find another high-end seafood market/restaurant and found one in Las Vegas, he said.Peska will be more international than the La Traineras in Mexico, Tripoli said, and the menu will include Mediterranean, European and Latin American flavors. Fish will be flown in from places as distant as Italy, Spain or Alaska and as close as the Gulf of Mexico. Customers also will be able to order off the menu and to buy whole fish by the pound to go.The 6,000-square-foot restaurant will be at the corner of San Felipe and Post Oak Lane in Phase 2 of BLVD Place, and have a bar and patio.The Uptown/Galleria area has become a restaurant hub, said Ed Wulfe, chairman and CEO of Wulfe & Co., developer of BLVD Place."Restaurants bring energy to a retail center," he said.Phase 1 of BLVD Place has two - RDG & Bar Annie and Table on Post Oak.Phase 2, under construction, will have five restaurants, and Wulfe said Peska is among three that have been announced. The others are True Food Kitchen, opening at the end of July, and North, opening in late fall. Whole Foods Market also will open a grocery there in early fall.http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/retail/article/Restaurant-hopes-to-hook-customers-with-5632132.php#/4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mab 1836 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Â Â Â Whole Food signs are now up! Sorry for bad quality photos but hope you enjoy!! 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
monarch 3987 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 no problem, regarding the photos mab. Â we appreciate them. Â props for sharing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Urbannizer 45668 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 https://www.flickr.com/photos/124965704@N04/ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mab 1836 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 http://www.blvdplace.com/Downloads/BLVD_retail_Plans.pdf site plan show some new additions including -2 story Verizon store  -Elaine Turner -Styungbar-Resolute Fitness -SOZO Sushi-The Boardroom -Facade -Posh Salan  2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Urbannizer 45668 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 8/2 by Russell.hancock on a Flickrr 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bachanon 467 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 nice picture. is anyone else a little put off by the plain vanilla podium parking garages on buildings such as randall davis' cosmopolitan?  i realize that this is the norm, but i do see developers and architects going for a little less profit in exchange for good design, on occasion.  too bad davis isn't of the latter sort. his faux facades are a guilty pleasure of mine, i wish he would be all in or not at all.  it ruins the building for me; i wouldn't consider living in that building because i would hate parking in the ugly box my condo was resting on.  it would piss me off each time i came home.  does that make me shallow or just refined?  i guess the ugly box will be mostly unnoticed after all of the additional buildings are up; plant some pine trees or giant bamboo around that thing please. with my rant out of the way; back to reality, we can expect more downsized or diminished designs with construction costs through the roof.  i think that the building industry is having difficulty getting things built on time, labor shortages, material availability,etc.  as long as constructions costs are high, design and flash will take a back seat. sad but true. houston's transition to higher density is truly fascinating.  it would be interesting to see if there is photo documentation of the transition of manhattan island from single dwellings, to multi-storied buildings, to high and mid-rise.  the higher density transition taking place in and around the loop is a rapid cultural shift that may be quite significant historically.  houstonians will be a different breed altogether in 10-15 years.  it's amazing and fantastic....and we are documenting it here on haif.  haif will be a boon to anyone wanting to research houston's boom in the 2010s.  uptown is but one focal point of houston's rapidly changing city-scape. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richfish 409 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) I went to True Food Kitchen for brunch Sunday (really great place) and explored the BLVD Place building a bit. Holy cow they still have a lot of work to do, both on the Whole Foods and all the other surrounding stores. The enclosed area to the far left (as looking straight at the building from Post Oak; where the proposed Verizon is to go) still has dirt floors on the first level. I have no idea why they're taking so incredibly long to finish this place up, Wolfe is really dropping the ball. Edited August 11, 2014 by richfish Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigFootsSocks 3270 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 That's not WHole Food's fault, more so the contractor. I'm sure they're just as mad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richfish 409 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 That's not WHole Food's fault, more so the contractor. I'm sure they're just as madI'm sure it's Wulfe's fault. I heard rumors some high end restaurents declined to move to BLVD place due to the extremely slow construction progress. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toxtethogrady 895 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 That may wait till it opens. Any word on the Apache HQ? Or did Carl Icahn's meddling succeed in killing it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gene 3376 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 interesting thing happened over the weekend...i went to the kirby Whole Foods and when checking out i mentioned to the clerk, "wow is the whole foods post oak ever going to open? i have been waiting years for that place it seems like as live a block away!" and his comment was "yeah its supposed to now open in november which cant come soon enough since our manager is transferring to that location and he is so evil we all cant wait to have him gone!"Â DOH! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nativehoustonion 605 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I go to Whole Foods off Alabama every day. I know 5 people that put in a transfer to the one off Post Oak. They said it is taking longer because they are building there own brewery there. They never mentioned the manager.   Quote Link to post Share on other sites
arndthwrld82 110 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I go to Whole Foods off Alabama every day. I know 5 people that put in a transfer to the one off Post Oak. They said it is taking longer because they are building there own brewery there. They never mentioned the manager.   A Whole Foods Brewery? Do you think an organic, vegan, all natural, free trade hangover hurts less than a regular one? If so sign me up! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nativehoustonion 605 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Yes they a building a huge brewery there. The bartenders at Whole Foods told me. There happy hours is from 3-7 with all kinds of draft beer of Alabama. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gene 3376 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 interesting thing happened over the weekend...i went to the kirby Whole Foods and when checking out i mentioned to the clerk, "wow is the whole foods post oak ever going to open? i have been waiting years for that place it seems like as live a block away!" and his comment was "yeah its supposed to now open in november which cant come soon enough since our manager is transferring to that location and he is so evil we all cant wait to have him gone!" DOH! wanted to say that last night i spoke to another employee that said..."i love our manager...the only time they are evil is when someone is lazy and doesnt do their job!" haha...just wanted to add that  and wow it looks like the inside of Whole Foods is coming along nicely and from what i can tell the layout is great and the staircase that goes up to the second floor hopefully leads to what will be an outdoor patio, at this point i cant tell and didnt notice a door going out to the part that overhangs the front of the building...stay tuned (or someone let me know if they know the answer) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swtsig 3001 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 i really want them to put some vegetation on the roof... that thing is going to be an inferno. the trend of green roofs really needs to catch on here. for as hot as Houston gets, all this concrete creates a wicked heat island. i find it odd that this city doesn't do more to minimize the suns affects (greenery, shade, awnings, etc.) 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cloud713 4101 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 i really want them to put some vegetation on the roof... that thing is going to be an inferno. the trend of green roofs really needs to catch on here. for as hot as Houston gets, all this concrete creates a wicked heat island. i find it odd that this city doesn't do more to minimize the suns affects (greenery, shade, awnings, etc.)Couldn't have said it better myself... Not to mention green roofs minimize building cooling costs and storm water run off, which we have a problem with here..We definitely need systems of horizontal Roman Shades or something over pedestrian friendly areas to make walking around in the heat less miserable. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gene 3376 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 http://poshsalonhouston.com/index.php has either opened on the second floor or is about to open...just drove by this weekend and noticed it! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gene 3376 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 also just heard that Whole Foods is being delayed again, November 6th is now the targeted opening date...at this rate the Verizon 2 story super store will open first haha! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigFootsSocks 3270 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Wow they've gotta be pissed about that... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timoric 1574 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigFootsSocks 3270 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 So this rendering of the new Frost Bank set to open next week shows a familiar and not so familiar tower fading in the background... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toxtethogrady 895 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 We might see them yet. I notice that the Euro-design that started with BP computing center has now extended to other buildings in Houston. They look like tacos. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
richfish 409 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 They put a large (permanent) 'Hanover Post Oak' sign at the top of the garage running parallel to Post Oak. It's a Times New Roman-ish font that looks really odd and ugly. Also a two story 'Now Leasing' banner from the bottom of the 30th floor to the top of the 28th Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sky-guy 196 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 Wasn't there a plan for a second residential tower and an office tower? what happened to those? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mab 1836 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Opening Nov 6http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2014/09/opening-date-set-for-blvdplace-whole-foods.html Whole Foods Market Inc. (Nasdaq: WFM) will open its Blvd Place store Nov. 6 and will include a service new to Houston shoppers.Not only will the 55,000-square-foot store feature the grocer's first in-house brewery, a store employee will also ride a tricycle around the market taking orders and delivering beer to customers as they shop. He or she will also deliver made-to-order snacks to customers in the brewery.While stores in Austin currently feature the in-store tricycle delivery service, it's a first for Houston.Several departments will also include brewery-inspired products. The bakery will feature hearth bread made from spent grains and beer collected from the brewery as well as malt-themed desserts.Located on the southwest corner of Post Oak Boulevard and San Felipe, Blvd Place will feature retail, restaurant, office and residential components. Along with the hotly anticipated Whole Foods, Frost Bankrecently announced the opening date of its regional headquarters in Blvd Place.Blvd Place also includes True Food Kitchen,which opened July 29, and will include a new seafood restaurant, Peska, the first U.S. restaurant from the Mexico-based Ysita family, which has received critical acclaim for its La Trainera brand. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Triton 12119 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Whole Foods opens Nov 6th:http://m.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2014/09/opening-date-set-for-blvdplace-whole-foods.html?r=full Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Triton 12119 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Dang, Mab got it. I'm in the tunnels with poor data connection. Haha 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cloud713 4101 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Wasn't there a plan for a second residential tower and an office tower? what happened to those?3 residential towers, a hotel, and 2 office towers I believe is the plan.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scarface 123 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I thought this was supposed to be a pedestrian development. Drove by a few weeks ago and was disappointed on how far set back the development is from the sidewalk. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cloud713 4101 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Keep in mind post oak will be widened in the near future and the development will be that much closer to the sidewalk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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