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This temporary wall popped up in the Hess building garage a month or two ago. It would be the correct location to connect through to parkview. Now they just need to build out over the road to the Marriott! Connect the tunnel and convention center systems together. 

Looks like they’re building out for an orthodontist practice on the ground level. 

Yeah it is a pity that getting from the navigation esplanade area to eado proper is so awkward with the train crossings. This would be doubly so for east river as the Jensen bridge is not the most fun to cross by foot.

Love it! I wonder what the styling will be for the renovation. Sounds like an opportunity to do some cool retro vibes.

46 minutes ago, Amlaham said:

I wish they found a way to incorporate the trail into the development. That would have been such a nice amenity to add, "connection to the Buffalo Bayou Trail," but I'm starting to realize a lot of these developers are dumb. Like... this building is a 15 min walk on the trail right into the East River Development, thats a huge plus. The Landscape better be bomb to make up for that.

IIRC there is a bit of a height difference between the trail and the building at this location, probably made it hard to directly connect. However there is a trail entrance on the other side of the street

7 hours ago, samagon said:

in google maps you have the option if you right click, to select 'measure distance' down on the bottom, if you connect the distance measured back on itself, it will give you the area. essentially the area you highlighted in red is about 600,000 SF. 

HEB at Heights/Washington is on 235,000 SF. HEB at Bissonet and Bellaire is on 145,000 SF. HEB at Shepherd and 23rd is on 195,000 SF. 

they'd be out of their minds to do a multi story location here. building up costs money, the land doesn't cost enough to consider the benefit of going up. so lets look at some in the loop HEB 1 story locations.

Montrose HEB is (with a full parking lot) is on 315,000 SF. the newest HEB at 288 and MacGregor is 550,000 SF.

the problem with the East End site is that it's separated by streets. Live Oak and Commerce. no way they'd make customers park, then cross Commerce to go shopping. considering though Live Oak dead ends at Commerce, I bet they could get the city to relinquish the slice of Live Oak between Commerce and Canal. that would give them 360,000 SF to play with in one contiguous lot. which is more than enough for a Montrose sized store. 

for a good portion of the East End, this site is no easier to get to than Gulfgate HEB, or even 288 HEB. however, from the East River site? this is super close to that, and also close to the newer apartments downtown who are underserved for groceries too. it really does make sense.

Somewhere in the various links I saw that this property includes the option to remove white oak alley. 

Is the CVS open then?

@wilcal did some great photoshop showing the Montrose HEB on this property -- there is a ton of space for everyone's Ford F-250 even with a single story HEB :)

I believe the only 2 story part of the Heights HEB is the pharmacy on the ground floor.

Doing some cursory clicking around in google maps, I get about ~10 miles of additional trails! Pretty cool, that would put the white oak trail at 25 miles end to end.

Not sure if this is somewhere else on the forum, but they are adding a significant amount of trails to the north end once this project is completed

https://www.hcfcd.org/Activity/Active-Projects/White-Oak-Bayou/C-14-Federal-Flood-Damage-Reduction-Project

https://www.hcfcd.org/Portals/62/Watershed/White-Oak/Pct1-CEM-2020-12-03 v8.pdf

The original timeline was Spring 2022, but idk how well they are doing sticking to that.

Lol this is a VERY different vibe from the old Franks backyard. It looks really nice though!

Yeah on Arch Con's website both of these are shown in the same slideshow, obviously one of these is an outdated version.

https://www.arch-con.com/divisions/multifamily/the-mill-mixed-use/

Design 1

Design 2

1 hour ago, ljchou said:

Can you explain this? I feel like it's a joke but it went over my head.

Its referring to the rumor that Landrys was buying the olshan property -- which isnt this rendering but the whole discussion was on this thread.

10 minutes ago, Ross said:

According to all of the compact city urban planner "experts" I've been reading lately, you don't really want an HEB there, as even the small HEB's are too large. You want something like an average German ReWe store of 10,000 sq ft and limited selection of stuff you don't like, but is all good for you. No parking, because everyone loves to walk when they live in an urban area. Bwahahaha.

In college I spent some time in Germany and shopped at ReWe (I did walk to it btw). My fav part was the ‘American’ section with muffins and peanut butter (complete with the Stars and Stripes on the packaging). That and the fact that the were always playing acoustic covers of Rihanna songs on the PA system. 

I was probably there 2x a week because my fridge/kitchen was really small, but it was super convenient so it wasn’t a big deal. Once every other month I’d go a few tram stops down to the larger target-like store for bulk items or things ReWe didn't have. 

All it all it wasn’t a bad way to live :)

It’s spreading — come on H‑E‑B! You don’t want to let the people down

Yeah this is mentioned in the 10 year plan but there is no details yet on construction timeline. I worry the picnic loop will be demolished and then it will be years before the new cycle loop is built.

The proposal looks way better than the picnic loop -- especially for the weeknight bike races that used to happen at MP. Def saw someone break their leg crashing into one of those wooden stumps around the edge of the road :(

I'm curious, what part of town do people consider this? I know the category is downtown but it is north of I10, which in my head makes it part of near northside. Maybe "Warehouse district"? it is a warehouse after all.

2 hours ago, gene said:

any word on them doing work or improvements on the picnic loop/park? the tables/benches especially need improvements/replacements etc

i forget and can't find mention of it. thanks! 

Don't expect any improvements to the picnic loop -- I believe it is due to be replaced with a more natural area and more trails (Bayou wilds section)

https://issuu.com/memorialparkhouston/docs/mph_mpbook_final_small_webversion_a_c7f9e7eed3d03c

As someone who bikes in the picnic loop regularly this is pretty sad, it's one of the few car free spots to go bike at night (the lights make it a lot less sketchy than some of the bayou trails) -- the master plan mentions a new bike trail over on the west side of the park, but I have yet to hear any mention of that being built. 

Looks like they also own 3100 Canal -- the former Pita Pal factory. 

TXDOT seems to have purchased all three blocks of Lofts at the Ballpark, so that would align with the news that all tenants are getting kicked out. I do hope though that this doesn't get mired in some sort of legal morass with an empty apartment building sitting there for an extended period of time. I could see that getting really run down and sketchy.

25 minutes ago, thedistrict84 said:

There has been an uptick in activity at this site, mostly inside the warehouse. I’ve seen vans and work trucks there on a daily basis. I even spotted a Houston BCycle truck there the other day, which was a bit odd.

Looking in HCAD the new ownership seems to be Concept Neighborhood -- the same people who own two other lots down the street

7 minutes ago, Luminare said:

Well showing is always better than telling. Ironically TCR can't show anything because tellers won't allow them to show because they think (the tellers) that TCR (those that want to show) are the real "tellers".

Imagine being stuck in this crazy circular loop of nonsense:

TCR: Your honor we are a railroad, but how can we prove it if our opponents keep suing us preventing us from building it in the first place

Opponents: Ha see your honor! They just admitted that they aren't a railroad because they don't have any tracks yet.

TCR: Then stop suing us and we will get to work building our railroad

Opponents: No we won't because we don't think you are a railroad because you don't have any tracks.

TCR: We will have tracks if you just let us be.

Opponents: But you aren't a railroad company, so how can we trust you to lay track because if when you do lay down tracks then you will have to be recognized as a railroad and we don't want that.

TCR: ...what?

Agree — if you have to explain that the company building a railroad is not a railroad company, you’re losing :)

5 hours ago, Luminare said:

Traditionally, when your opponents arguments come down to semantics that not exactly a good sign. Also when your opponent continuously has to keep moving the goal post in effort to claim victory, that also isn't a good sign. When you have to push the courts to "fix" a definition of what is defined as a "railroad" in order to keep your narrative going, that is also not a good sign.

We have seen this play out in my spheres over the past few years. It doesn't matter what side of any issue, or whatever tride is pushing whatever narrative. When you see these sorts of points playout and stack up, the side that is at this point usually loses.

Isn't the famous quote "If you're explaining, you're losing"? I feel like that fits this pretty well.