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On 9/6/2019 at 7:39 AM, Texasota said:

 

How do you define when surface parking "isn't enough"? Are businesses at the Water Works failing due to lack of access?

Seems like personal preference for now.  Time will tell I guess, but, sure does not seem like that is the case at the moment.   

On 8/10/2019 at 9:39 AM, Luminare said:

 

Agree, however, going with our initial assumption of Garden Oaks and Revive not considering a parking garage instead of a parking lot shows that there are still initial misconceptions and presuppositions to overcome for this area. This always happens for every new area that goes in a new direction. I'm the opposite when it comes to areas like Near Northside and 3rd Ward. Most people I talk to, think I'm crazy that these are going to be the next it places, but yet there is something there that has a lot of potential. On the flip side I didn't really see that initially with 34th St. Even then though this area, because its so new regarding recent development is going to have some growing pains trying to figure out not only what it wants to be, but what others will want it to be. We can probably say now that a parking garage might have been better because we now know how many people are likely to go here, but that data was probably just not there yet for Revive to consider. I've seen all these new developments by Revive as initial experiments. Most of these are easy entry flips to see what can be possible. Its the evolution thing that was discussed at length in the Camden thread. An evolution has to start somewhere, but what does that initially look like...we don't know. What will it turn into....we also don't know. Looking forward to how it grows though. Its certainly flipped my initial presuppositions for that area of town, which I'm happy about.

 

EDIT: Further on the point of "evolution" and flipping assumptions, that is the current era we are in for our city. Every proceeding era was development for established or well know assumptions. This current era of development has been the opposite. This era has been all about flipping earlier, old, or misunderstood assumptions about the city. This area of town is also now getting that treatment.

A lot of neighbors will walk and ride bikes to this development.   Not putting in a garage was not due to a misconception, and the presupposition was that people would walk.  

you guys seem grumpy.  a lot of jumped conclusions from a 13 word quote - seemingly edited from a longer conversation to intentionally show a counterpoint...

25 minutes ago, Mr.Clean19 said:

Why get light rail when you can have a Gondola to Downtown? Hopefully plans are released soon. They have been suspiciously quiet lately. If you ever need an update on what is going on, you just need to go to The New Potato across the street from the site. The owner Paul can fill you in. 

Also can just go there because its a cool bar.  

would be huge for the area.  

La Coqueta is open sporadically, though it is not located on the transit center lot, its adjacent to a portion of it to the east.  The transit center was abandoned in 2015.

awesome

Dunkin' Donuts at the corner of Yale and 20th is now open.  

these guys are doing an awesome job marketing this site. kudos to them.

21 hours ago, Triton said:

Hughie's is so good. Already been to this location twice and it was completely packed just the second day. It appears this place will be very successful... so hard to find parking though now along with the Austin-based ice cream place taking in a lot of customers too. I do worry about Morningstar though... hasn't been getting great reviews either.

Uh Morningstar seems packed all the time...where have you seen bad reviews? 

"Car Audio" and "Upholstery" were added to the garage doors over the weekend.  Looks like it remains a car service shop.  

Interesting.  where did you see that? 

cleaning still ongoing.  in addition to repainting there is now tin/galvanized roof sheets for flair above the garage doors..  

nm

wow thats huge. 

Anyone know whats going on with Galaxy?  The site has been substantially cleaned up and was as of last night repainted completely (graffiti-ish logos gone).  It's not completely abandoned but a large majority of stuff has been removed from the site (all Uhauls, old cars etc) and it looks like the next step is to fence it in temporarily.  This sits right next to Birds Barbershop and Steel City Pops.   

sweet.  do you have the link to the hahc submission? 

2 hours ago, JCR said:

This one at the end of the month.

 

An additional closure is the Taquito Rico on Main and Pecore also at the end of this month.  The building owner has other plans for that lot.  The business owner will have a taco truck in the same area at some point.

Ok so which restaurant is it?

1 hour ago, s3mh said:

Demo permit issued for the car wash.  No info on tenant(s) yet.

The car wash is demoed!!  Gone on Monday.  

39 minutes ago, HeightsPeep said:

Not sure what will come, but I know the food establishments will NOT have alcohol since it is in the dry part of the Heights and in a residential area.  No one wants their family to live right near a late night drinking crowd.  Any TABC attempt will be cost prohibitive expensive and likely fizzle like Gelazzi.

thats downright lol stuff right there.  

to answer the question without speculation and conjecture - DEFINE fitness is one of the tenants.  

19 hours ago, s3mh said:

TABC notice for Fusion Taco at 4706 N Main. 

wow. thats interesting.  

this is positive news.  pi pizza truck moving into funky chicken / new concept coming to BFD as well

Cool, though construction has been stalled for the last few weeks...

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/restaurants-bars/article/Delicious-Concepts-rethinks-Heights-brewpub-6782722.php

 

moo.  Name is pretty bad, but at least they didn't do one of those douchy plus sign ("+") names.  Could have easily been "Ritual Taproom + Kitchen".

considering the sign is not up yet, there is always a chance.  

 Pinks is a takeout place; no tables, no eat in.  

have you ever been to pinks?