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And this side of downtown or anywhere in downtown, frankly, could use places like this:

https://stagprovisions.com/

21 minutes ago, Libbie said:

I thought it might be farther west, like maybe West Dallas at Montrose, since it's both far enough and close enough to see so much skyline. Could we see that much skyline at Scott? Dunno. I'll have to look and visualize the next time I drive that way.

I think that the buildings that I mentioned above would not be in the correct orientation from this vantage point.

the best tool that I have found to use to help me visualize is Apple maps 3D view on an iPad.  Really helps me to “see” the rough angles.

I can’t say .  But, from the relative positioning of the Gulf building and the Eperson building, I would guess that this shot may have been taken along maybe Bell or Pease in what now would be the area maybe just inside 59?

At the rate they are going, they will be finished building on Tuesday, have their occupancy permit Wednesday, and the first tenants will move in Thursday.

wow.

4 hours ago, Avossos said:

 

One big problem would be access to elevators. Retail on the bottom floor is limited due to the needed access to elevators. My guess is the interior is extremely catered to a department store...

 

Offices (we-work or such perhaps) / Department store (hopes and dreams) / large scale condo units with a coffee shop downstairs

How about an urban Target concept?  I think at it would be smashing there.

The physical logistics of building a building that on this site will be impressive to watch.  Safely Navigating the turns inside that finished parking garage up to the 11th floor will take until Lunch.

i am thrilled that this project is coming out of the ground (hopefully) very soon.

1 hour ago, hindesky said:

Excavation has begun and the site's fencing will make it hard to see the progress.

We’ll just have to bribe the Roach Coach driver for excavation status details!

With this being a hotel, any ideas or known plans on how they intend to handle guest parking?

On 3/7/2007 at 9:54 AM, H-Town Man said:

Another one here, but it won't let me post the image:

http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-5865:159

This is a cool shot...... why?  Because of what I think is missing........  isn’t the building that now contains the Le Méridien not yet built in this image?  It looks like there is ar three level brown building there......

and, I wonder what building this image was taken from?

6 hours ago, nate4l1f3 said:

I hope I’m wrong but I just don’t  see how this will be successful.  What do you guys think? The location stinks for something like this. 

I have similar concerns but I think that convention goers will flock to the place.  If the theme is as described above, the place seems to me to be designed as a caricature of what Houston might have been like at one time (but never really was?).  However, that image is in the collective imagination.  As such, I think that many conventioneers will flock there to experience a “Texas Honky Tonk”........

i also think that it will attract the before and after sports event crowds and also the before concert crowds (imagine a Country western act at Toyota...... this place will be packed to the gills before the curtain).

is the enough to prosper?  I don’t know.  But I am glad it’s coming.  

55 minutes ago, kbates2 said:

I assume that with no close options, the food store concept will be profitable and they will keep it.

 

It looks like they only occupy a half of the retail in the garage so even if they added that, it would likely just go in as an expanded footprint.

Fair point.  I guess that if they expanded, they could do both and perhaps they might choose to sell only “healthy fresh” foods along with the new “health services” and other healthcare /grooming items.

With CVS announcing that they are buying Aetna and then wanting to use their stores as “neighborhood health centers”, I wonder if this store (and its “take away food” concept) will survive as-is or will it be quickly branded into a “health center” after the merger is complete and drop the food concept???  I guess that we will know in a year or two......

It won’t look like a medieval fort when they are done.  Of course, without the arrow slits, it was kinda useless anyway.  So much for having those walls strong enough to ward off cannon fire.   The new place will actually look inviting from the outside!

8 hours ago, Urbannizer said:

 

Currently four tenants occupying a chunk of the office space.

Great to hear!

6 hours ago, mollusk said:

TAS is a concrete contractor.

Ah!  Thank you for this. I understand now.

What does “TAS concrete” mean?

...... just trying to learn......

Bravery sounds great.  I’m excited!

it sounds like they could have saved a bunch of flowery prose and simply said, “it will have multiple ‘lunch counters’............”.........

what’s old again is new.

More curiously, is that snow on the roofs of the houses?  Perhaps that “blizzard” was why this image was taken?

17 minutes ago, H-Town Man said:

 

The asphalt lot fronting Texas Avenue there was bought by a group affiliated with Liberty Hospitality a couple years ago. Liberty brought us the Embassy Suites and the Hyatt/Homewood Suites, both epochal architectural moments for downtown.

 

Well, at least the companies that make synthetic stucco will have a good Christmas knowing that a big order might be coming!

1 hour ago, VicMan said:

Aren't those now used by Greensheet and Spanish language papers?

Perhaps a few but all I see are empty.

Taking a walk through downtown these days shows countless “newspaper/alt paper distribution kiosks” that have long ago been abandoned.  The city needs to rip them out and recycle the steel.  As of now, they are simply industrial flotsam and raise potential security issues.

On 4/11/2013 at 8:15 AM, sevfiv said:

Very cool! I found more ads like below recently and updated my page: http://arch-ive.org/archive/battelsteins/

 

Interesting.  The archive shows that in 1950, they may have also occupied an adjacent building (now a taller parking garage).  Thanks for posting this.

iOS.  Redirecting to google Walmart thingie.  CAnt use site

Good to see Rustic starting!

On 11/22/2017 at 6:48 AM, sdm1130 said:

I guess the rooftop pool isn't happening?

I can’t see how.