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This was  in the previous thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main. It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

Originally posted by Angostura, September 27, 2019 in the thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main.



Would rather a 3rd level on the garage and zero surface parking, but it's encouraging to see structured parking and no parking on the street frontage.
 

Originally posted May 24, 2017 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

 
 

From CityBook a few months ago, speculation about a possible hotel for the Cheek Neal Building at 2017 Preston.


Funky, still-transitional EaDo would make an ideal home for a new hotel to serve the crowds of the nearby George R. Brown and the Dynamo’s BBVA Compass Stadium. Developer David Denenberg — owner of the historic Cheek Neal Coffee Building, currently beginning a massive renovation — says he’s considering something like a creative-class-savvy Ace Hotel for his property, with its soaring ceilings and large, vintage industrial windows. The Oregon-based Ace chain is famous for re purposing old structures — a halfway house in Portland, a theater in L.A. — into affordable hotels that function as temporary workspaces for the laptop-and-latte set.

status: under serious consideration

http://www.houstoncitybook.com/get-a-room/

 

This was  in the previous thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main. It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

Originally posted by Urbannizer, September 26, 2019 in the thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main.

New concept for 5802 N Main

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/5802-N-Main-St-Houston-TX/16519828/   (archive link)

Brochure:
 https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/kO7fkvhheNYHx9syRzedAXcltbbrUxmAk1Ke96N-Q2E/document.pdf  (Archive link)

Originally posted December 27, 2016 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

 

This was  in the previous thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main. It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

Originally posted by HouKev, May 17, 2018 in the thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main.

Haven't seen any progress on this lot. Any idea if this project is still moving forward?

5307 is nearing completion of the structure and it would be nice to see this project follow shortly behind.

 

Originally posted December 8, 2016 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

On 12/7/2016 at 12:28 PM, Urbannizer said:

http://www.2017preston.com/

 

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19617716/2017-Preston-Houston-TX/

 

 

 

Additional drafts and renderings of The Cheek and Neal (or The Cheek & Neal) at 2017 Preston (from the links above)













A site plan of the first floor with lobby, retail space, restaurant and patio:




 

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Originally posted by native_Houstonian, October 30, 2017 in the thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main.

And, you can pick up the vacant lot adjacent too....It's always been

commercial...
 

http://www.har.com/1112-24-kern-st/sale_20902674



 

Originally posted October 29, 2017 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.


 

On 10/23/2017 at 11:33 AM, native_Houstonian said:

New development at "Five Corners".   Across the street from Five Points being marketed by New Quest.

 

A desire to be part of the white hot Heights real estate market led the company to acquire land at the intersection of 20th, Studewood, and North Main for a new development it’s calling the Crossroads at Cavalcade. The 3,500-square-foot center will complement an adjacent tract being developed by Chris Dray of NewQuest properties. Although they have different owners, Stream and NewQuest are working together to ensure the properties share both design elements and parking.
 

As for prospective tenants, Stream is open to a wide array of possibilities. Since NewQuest will likely open a restaurant on the neighboring tract, Sondock and Bagnall are looking for something that will pair well, like a dessert concept, coffee bar, or juice bar. They also want something that will enhance the neighborhood, whether that’s retail like some of the recent arrivals at Heights Mercantile or a doctor’s office.
 

“One thing we’ve seen is service groups, a dentist, an orthodontist, something like that, Bagnall says. “These groups are paying to be close to the population base, and I think residents benefit from it.“
 

Construction will begin once they find the right tenants. Expect the new center to open sometime next year.

 

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/real-estate/10-20-17-crossroads-at-cavalcade-heights-retail-center-stream-realty-partners/

https://www.streamretail.com/pdf/listings/Crossroads-at-Cavalcade-Brochure---Reduced731142230.pdf

 

Good news!


 

This was originally posted  October 29, 2017 in the previous thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main. It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

From the Crossroads at Calvacade thread:


 

On 10/23/2017 at 11:34 AM, native_Houstonian said:

On another note, New Quest seems to have picked up the property behind this as well....they are now working on Five Points AND Five Points East.

 

http://www.newquest.com/pdfs/5_Points_East.pdf

 

 

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/38665-crossroads-at-cavalcade/?do=findComment&comment=560375












 

This was originally posted  October 29, 2017 in the previous thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main. It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

A conceptual rendering of the planned retail for 5802 N Main





 

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/5802-N-Main-St-Houston-TX/9177478/

(archive link)

 

Originally posted March 31, 2016 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

Pictures of the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. Building on OffCite from Jim Parsons and Allyn West:

















 

Originally posted March 31, 2016 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

More on The Cheek and Neal (or The Cheek & Neal) at 2017 Preston from OffCite:


 

“I’m a repurposer”: Preserving East Downtown’s Cheek-Neal Coffee Company Building

Even though he’s developing the former Cheek-Neal Coffee Company Building on Preston Avenue, David Denenburg doesn’t think of himself as a developer. “I guess I’m a repurposer,” he says.
 

The term fits him, and it fits his project — it suggests that there’s plenty of life left in in the 55,000-square-foot building, designed by Joseph Finger and James Ruskin Bailey and completed in 1917. A rendering of the project that Denenburg’s not ready to publish shows a storage wing of the building, which now houses wheelbarrows and other tools, turned into a storefront and shared kitchen that would be used by food vendors operating stalls on the first floor; the top four floors would be furnished offices.




Possible inclusions:


Denenburg has already envisioned ways of incorporating into this new concept the building’s old machinery. The fire escape he imagines as a way for people to clamor up to the rooftop bar, where an icehouse would be carved out of the decommissioned water tower. A corroded boiler in the basement could find new life as a pizza oven; an internal four-story-high motor-driven chain could become a kind of hipster dumbwaiter delivering boiler-fired pizza up to the office workers. Even the forgotten steel rods jutting out of the facade, in place for an addition that was never added, Denenburg sees as useful. “They show the history of the place,” he says.




On Denenburg's passion for restoring the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. Building:

 

Originally posted March 29, 2016 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

This was originally posted  October 29, 2017 in the previous thread for Point Heights Center | 5802 N Main. It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

Past discussions on the property, discussed as 1137 W Calvacade or 1137 Calvacade from the 5307 N Main thread:


 

On 12/12/2016 at 2:07 PM, native_Houstonian said:

They are shopping the property across the street from this too....although I think the price seems a little steep....

 

 

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/20063981/1137-W-Cavalcade-St-Houston-TX/

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/31431-5307-nmain/?do=findComment&comment=545162



 

On 3/23/2017 at 12:51 PM, native_Houstonian said:

According to loopnet - the old gas station site is no longer available.    Any info?

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/31431-5307-nmain/?do=findComment&comment=551156


 

On 3/23/2017 at 2:37 PM, HAG said:

Still shows available on HAR: http://www.har.com/1137-calvacade-st/sale_16747413

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/31431-5307-nmain/?do=findComment&comment=551167


 

On 5/19/2017 at 1:12 PM, native_Houstonian said:

It's now showing pending.....

 

Maybe Town in City Brewery purchased it?   It would give them room to expand in the future......

https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/31431-5307-nmain/?do=findComment&comment=554018


 

Originally posted February 8, 2016 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

On 7/24/2015 at 12:00 PM, Urbannizer said:

David says that his team has immediately launched work refurbishing the exterior—power washing and welding crews are out there this morning (when David took this photo for us) to bring the building back to its former glory and tells us he's replicating its original awnings and windows to a T. He's working with the historic department to line up tax credits, and is trying to get historic landmark protected status. David hasn't decided yet what they'll do with the interior—he tells us he'd really like to do a state-of-the-art boutique hotel, but they're also considering doing event space or creative offices there. David may not know what the building will be, but he's got a grand opening date in mind already—in 2017, exactly 100 years after the Cheek Neal Coffee Co Building first opened.

https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/mixed-use/historic-eado-building-to-be-redeveloped-48377
 

The developers applied for protected landmark status for the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. Building at 2017 Preston in August and was granted permission to go forward by the Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission. A resolution designating the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building as a protected landmark is on tomorrow's city council agenda.

 

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The 8,090 sq ft lot at 5802 North Main (between W Cavalcade and Kern) is being redeveloped.











 

Originally posted January 25, 2016 in this thread before all of my content were removed from the entire forum earlier this month. Reposting this throws off the flow of the thread (i.e. out of order),  still, it may be helpful for visitors to see what was previously discussed or shared before. Archive link coming soon.

On 1/24/2016 at 11:05 AM, CrockpotandGravel said:

Add another David Buehrer coffee house (Greenway Coffee, Blacksmith, Morningstar) to the list. He's opening a coffee place at The Cheek and Neal (or The Cheek & Neal), the redeveloped Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building at 2017 Preston St in Houston's East Downtown or EaDo. This was uploaded to his Instagram page Friday:

More about the new coffee shop opening in The Cheek & Neal, the redeveloped Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building from Swamplot:

Coffee Coming Back to Long-Vacant Coffee Plant Next to East Downtown Soup Kitchen

Greenway, the roasting operation behind Blacksmith’s coffee (in the former Westheimer home of Mary’s), appears to be involved in a coffee project intended for the ground floor of the 1917 Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building. The former coffee plant at 2017 Preston St. (located across Congress Ave. from the Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen and SEARCH Homeless Services’s under-construction employment center) received little use or maintenance following the 1946 departure of coffee manufacturing operations; the building is currently being renovated after sitting vacant for years across 59 from Minute Maid Park.

2017 Preston’s new owners mentioned plans to put a coffee shop on the ground floor of the structure to the Houston Chronicle in September — and on Friday, Greenway owner David Buehrer posted a photo of the renovation’s interior progress to Instagram:

The property at 2017 Preston was used from 1917 until 1946 to manufacture Cheek-Neal’s Maxwell House Coffee; the Maxwell brand was sold to what eventually became Kraft Foods in 1928, and operations moved to a new facility on Harrisburg Blvd. in 1946. (That Harrisburg plant was sold to Maximus Coffee in 2006, shortly after which the iconic Maxwell House coffee cup sign was removed; the company was rebranded as Atlantic Solutions Coffee in 2014 following a labor strike at the plant during the previous fall.)

In September, the new owners of 2017 Preston mentioned the possibility of conversion of the building into a boutique hotel, but said they were at that point more focused on the renovation than on finding tenants.


 

This was originally posted September 10, 2017 in the previous thread for 938 Wakefield Dr. It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

Great Heights Brewing Company opened at 938 Wakefield Dr around August 23. Here's the finished exterior shot from Facebook:
 

An interior shot from Facebook:






 

This was originally posted December 12, 2017 in the previous thread for 4818 N Shepherd Dr . It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

More on Astral Brewing's renovation of the warehouse in Independence Heights at 4818 N Shepherd:

 

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Here are pictures from two weeks ago posted to Instagram of The Cheek and Neal (or The Cheek & Neal), the redeveloped Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building at 2017 Preston St in Houston's East Downtown or EaDo:









[Photos from Instagram/Twisty1965]

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The owners of The Cheek and Neal, the proposed name for the redeveloped Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building at 2017 Preston St, established an entity in June under 2017 Preston LLC. Denenburg Construction Group is redeveloping this property Houston's East Downtown or EaDo in partnership with The Deal Company. There's a dedicated website for the 2017 Project /The Cheek and Neal, described as an exciting new restoration and redevelopment of the historic Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building in downtown Houston, TX.

 

This was originally posted  November 6, 2017 in the previous thread for 4818 N Shepherd Dr . It's being reposted / reupped since the original thread and other content from me were removed. An archive link to this thread is here.

From Swamplot:

The former North Shepherd Dr. garage of Southern Truck Pros, an auto shop that specializes in diesel trucks, appears to be headed for a second career — as a brewery. The Facebook page for a new company called Astral Brewing, showing off the kick-the-can logo portrayed here, lists 4818 N. Shepherd Dr. as its address — with a projected landing in 2018.

http://swamplot.com/the-truck-repair-to-brewery-transformation-coming-to-north-shepherd/2017-11-02/

And from Facebook:

Excited to announce that biochemistry PhD and brewing whiz-kid Alex McDonald and I (Jose Ceja ) will be launching Astral Brewing in 2018 in Houston. Equipment is on the way, and we're finalizing the terms of a lease on a warehouse a little north of Garden Oaks.

https://www.facebook.com/jose.ceja/posts/10214638686260156


 

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 Add another David Buehrer coffee house (Greenway Coffee, Blacksmith, Morningstar) to the list. He's opening a coffee place at The Cheek and Neal (or The Cheek & Neal), the redeveloped Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building at 2017 Preston St in Houston's East Downtown or EaDo. This was uploaded to his Instagram page Friday:



Cheek-Neal Coffee Building, Jan. 22nd, 2016. #Houston #CoffeeFamily


 

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On 9/24/2015 at 6:47 PM, Urbannizer said:

Historic coffee building gets an 'old school' renovation

 

 

A soft breeze blew through the open windows on the top floor of 2017 Preston, bringing with it the rich smell of coffee from a manufacturing plant about a half-mile away. At first, the irony was lost on the owner of the five-story building, itself once a coffee roasting operation that shuttered in the 1940s.

"I've always smelled that, but I didn't know exactly what it was. That's pretty cool," said David Denenburg, laughing about how his senses have been dulled by years of exposure to paint, chemicals other products used in construction.

 

Denenburg recently bought the red brick building that rises five stories alongside the Southwest Freeway just east of downtown. Though there's been a renaissance of the neighborhood around it, the old Cheek-Neal Coffee building has languished for decades, a target for graffiti artists and a shelter for the homeless.

 

One of its most identifiable features is a rooftop water tower that was replaced several years ago with a fiberglass imitation that hides Verizon Wireless cellular equipment. The original tank sits just a few feet away, and Denenburg imagines it being used as perhaps a circular bar once the building has been restored and has a new purpose.

 

For now, he's not sure what that purpose will be. And there's still a looming question as to how the building might be affected by the state's plans to reroute Interstate 45 alongside U.S. 59, effectively widening the freeway adjacent to Denenburg's building.

 

Since he and a small group of investors purchased the building in June, the 36-year-old developer has been moving at a fast clip to restore it to the way it looked when it was built in 1917.

 

Denenburg has concentrated initial restoration efforts on the building's downtown-facing side.

 

"What I'm trying to do is get this entire façade finished so everybody in the city can see how beautiful this building really is," Denenburg said during a tour of the property. "I just want to prove this building is not a piece of junk. It's a masterpiece."

 

Workers have been power-washing the structure and removing paint with equipment that won't damage the bricks. Every window has been restored by hand.

"Everything we do is kind of old school, from building our own scaffolding to how we do the windows," Denenburg said.

 

Distinctive windows

Welders and architects told him the windows, which were manufactured in St. Louis 100 years ago, could not be saved because they'd have to be removed in order to be restored, and that wasn't an option because of the way they were built into the structure.

 

"Everyone told me to rip these out and have them re-created in a factory in China," said Denenburg, who was determined to redo them in place.

He pointed out the curvature of a handle that cranks open the windows.

 

"See how beautiful this handle is? You can't find that anywhere," he said.

 

The Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission recently voted to approve the building as a Protected Landmark, the highest level of protection for a historic property. It prohibits demolition, except in cases of extreme hardship, and requires approval for any alteration to the façade.

 

 

Joseph Finger and James Ruskin Bailey designed the 55,000-square-foot concrete frame structure, which served as a coffee plant that manufactured Maxwell House before operations moved to a bigger plant on Harrisburg, the one nearby, in the late 1940s.

 

As Denenburg pushed for the designation, he was warned against it.

 

"People were like, 'Oh be careful ... you're going to be in the hand of the preservation society for everything you do,' " he said. "I was like, 'I don't care. I want it to be that way.' "

 

What it could be

 

For now, Denenburg is more focused on restoration than finding a tenant. Still, he's talked with boutique hotel operators and was recently approached with an idea that would use the property as a culinary market like they have in other major cities.

 

He'd also like to see a coffee shop on the first level and perhaps an event space on the top floor with rooftop access. Residential lofts are "off the table," he said, "because the only people that would be able to enjoy them are the owners."

 

His plan is to use the original name: The Cheek and Neal.

 

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/sarnoff/article/An-old-school-renovation-for-historic-coffee-6527888.php#photo-8686905
 

Photos from Houston Chronicle


David Denenburg, one of the new owners of the historic Cheek-Neal Coffee building at 2017 Preston, photographed inside of the building with Minute Maid Park in the background.













Detail of an old lift, used to bring coffee beans up into the upper story of the historic Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. building at 2017 Preston St.