SamHouston
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I think there were two different concepts. Blue Line is something coming from Agricole, but they just have a lease IIRC.
Behind it was a different plot of land that was supposed to be Benny Thunders (they have an IG account) that was going to be live music and self-serve taps.
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On 9/10/2021 at 9:12 AM, s3mh said:
Someone is building a new deck in front of the former El Gallo de Jalisco. No idea who or what is planned. No TABC notice.
Apple Maps shows it as "The Boiling Point by Chuck and Dave's". Chuck and Dave's seems to be a wholesaler of seafood so I'm expecting Boil House 2.0.
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Story I heard was a couple one block over bought it (along with the two houses) with plans to renovate the craftsman on the corner, sell off the white bungalow to the east, and make the print shop into a wood working shop (his hobby).
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16 hours ago, hindesky said:
I wonder if the Volvo dealership just down the road lost their right to sell Volvos? Star Motor cars sells Volvos and other high end cars.
They did indeed. They were super convenient but stopped being a Volvo dealer a few months ago (though still pitch themselves as an independent Volvo repair shop).
I wonder if this is because they never really updated the look. Used to be very 1970's Volvo chic inside and any newer Volvo dealership (West Side comes to mind) is like walking into the Minority Report. Curious to see what Grubbs does with Western Brick!
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As a resident of Harvard Street I think a 7 foot erect penis would be great for the neighborhood. But why stop at seven feet? Make it large enough that you could see it from a block away. "Meet me at the cock for drinks tonight". Have it light up at night, maybe it could grow and shrink with the temperature?
Seriously, the parts of White Oak that weren't entertainment the last twenty years were light industrial. There still is a print shop. Coltivare was a vacant building. This zoning nonsense and HEB blaming is unreal. If this city had zoning, what exactly do you think White Oak properties would be zoned as?
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On 11/26/2020 at 8:42 PM, Ross said:
Most of the arguments are specious, and rooted in NIMBYism. Lots of the naysayers didn't live in the area when the Dian Street hate gate was installed, and have no clue what they are talking about. I laugh at their complaints about impervious ground cover, when they are living in side by side houses, where 3 or 4 are occupying the area that used to have a 1400 sq ft house and a decent sized yard. Really? You are complaining about runoff when your house is Exhibit A for development induced runoff?
Dang, I looked into the Dian St Hate Gate and wow: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/a-neighborhood-divided-6570721
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On 11/21/2018 at 10:39 AM, ADCS said:
Eh, the comment above was a bit overstated. The line parallel to Washington will stay pretty much intact, while the line on Winter St will be removed altogether as part of the I-45 reroute. There will be a new double-tracked bridge over White Oak Bayou.
If they decommissioned the Winter Street line, it seems like they would need to double track from the train station, under UHD, across White Oak and by the jail. Seems like a lot of work, no?
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Related, I love/hate how Google Maps takes the MKT Trail and interprets it as "Market Trail". Same how sometimes "West Road" becomes "W Rd". Robots aren't beating that CAPTCHA soon.
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Related, I love/hate how Google Maps takes the MKT Trail and interprets it as "Market Trail". Same how sometimes "West Road" becomes "W Rd". Robots aren't beating that CAPTCHA soon.
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On 2/20/2018 at 1:26 PM, Triton said:
244 spots? Sounds like it will be about 5 to 6 stories? Can't imagine too many residents being happy about that but I truly think we need this especially with this lot going away.
I think that's exactly what they plan on doing.
"New 244 car automated garage being built"
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/2805-White-Oak-Dr-Houston-TX/11627429/
This will be interesting to see.
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Justin Yu just opened a place in the Heights, Better Luck Tomorrow at Yale & 6th.
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I heard that it's going to be a giant Bucee's once Prop One passes.
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I thought they did a really nice job fixing this up. Imagine living there when trains were going by!
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Someone on 311 keeps trying to get the city to care about Revival, Coltivare, Gelazzi, etc. It's pretty amusing when they don't. Highly recommend that app for amusement alone.
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Revival Market posted a TABC notice yesterday to start a private club. I, for one, am excited, but am not looking forward to all the neighborhood drama.
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If they were trying to keep property values down/affordable when they started the Historic Districts, I can't really say it's been working. Lot value alone is up 25% in the last two years. Partially due to the overall Houston climate, but the fact is, that due to the HAHC decisions, the inventory of lots in the Heights is quite limited.
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Ok so never been to an Alamo drafthouse. Are they always that small? Looks only big enough for one theater.
What is this, a movie theater for ants?
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I can't believe this topic / development has been active since early 2007. That's like a couple of lifetimes ago.
No joke. We bought a house across from the vacant lot three months after the announcement. Lived there for six years. Moved again. Still vacant. Great views of downtown though for those six years!
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there appears to be fairly new townhouses on a portion of this site. are they going to be knocked down?
I assume you're talking about the townhouses on Greenwich Place & Terrace? No, they are not part of the development. In fact, you can barely make them out in the rendering you replied to, right at the top, one-third from the left.
Lockmat, the apartments in the top right were originally part of the plan, but just as a phase-two (currently occupied by Allen House apts. that didn't get knocked down). My guess is that if folks are getting notices at the other Allen House's and GID wants to add apartments to the original plan, they will/are just going to build phases one and two at the same time.
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We live on Tirrell St, on the backside of the development. It is a parking garage across the street (we were told it'll look nice), not a parking lot, but it was there in the original renderings. As for the green space, we're all for it, but it seems that most of it that was lost was in interior courtyards, something we probably couldn't use ourselves.
As for the variances (we get them by mail automatically since we live so close) IIRC, they are for small sight triangles at some of the intersections (something like 12' instead of the usual 15'). I'm all for that...12' is a lot better than the 3' the W Dallas & Tirrell intersection has now with those bushes...I'm halfway into W Dallas before I can see west-bound traffic!
What we are most excited for is our "Road to Kroger" (the diagonal road from W Dallas to W Clay)...we have a bit of a detour now. However, Marvy's Whole Foods just east of here will probably make that less of an issue.
Finally, do we think Regent Sq. will have a hotel? My guess is that is what the cul-de-sac just south of W Dallas is for.
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The area is now fenced off, and it looks like demolition should begin soon. I also noticed some signs regarding a public hearing, but I drove by too fast to notice a date.
The hearing was the 19th. Basically they want to get an allowance around setback and visibility triangles and want an exception to the maximum fire hose drag (will be sprinkled-entirely). Also, I think they wanted to re-plat the whole property in one piece from thirty.
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When I first heard of this from Rice administrators, they mentioned that they had Norman Foster on board for the design. Not that this isn't great, but it sure is not any HSBC building (Hong Kong) or 30 St Mary Axe.
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On a somewhat related subject of where W Gray meets Gray:
For some time now, I've been trying to get a handle on where the 'zero' lines fall (i.e. where the address would be 1 N Some St, or 1 W Any Street). I can't tell if it is Main St and the bayou all the way out to Barker Cypress or if it is the latitude and longitude line of where the bayou and Main St. meet (Allen's landing has also been tossed in as a guess).
Things I haven't done yet, but might:
-Call the post office or City Hall or Fire Department
-Plot out all the 1 N Any Streets in Google Earth (partial list: UHD, Bayou Bend, Rainbow Lodge)
-Give up
Finally, wherever these lines are, do you notice/is it true that the odd and even numbers change sides? North of Buffalo Bayou evens on N/S streets are on the East side and South of the bayou they're on the West?
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The curved side reminds me of the John Hancock in Chicago, another SOM design.
Anyways, a little digging, it sounds like this might have been a design for the AIM headquarters:
Which would have been located here
Anyways, my best guess is that is was the SOM bid for the site, and the Pickard Chilton design won (but as well all know, never built).
El Gallo De Jalisco - 3220 White Oak Dr.
in The Heights
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Threw this into the Restaurant thread, but Apple Maps has it as "The Boiling Point by Chuck and Dave's". They appear to be a seafood wholesaler so I think it's going to be a boiled seafood setup?