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Downtown was amazing this weekend. Walking around the Discovery Green area and Main St/Market Square Park area Friday and Saturday night was unbelievable. The atmosphere was amazing and all of the out of towners I talked to said how much they enjoyed Houston.

Simply Amazing how much this part of downtown has grown over the past 30 years. Thanks for the pics!

McAlister's Deli is now open

It's an old southern pacific locomotive

^^ Wow great photos

1 hour ago, j_cuevas713 said:

Think about the amount of foot traffic that's going to flood Midtown once this is finished and the new Whole Foods on Elgin. 

Yep, plus the new high rise with retail going up across Main St from the park. Good times for Midtown indeed.

From the pic above it looks like Brasserie Du Parc at One Park Place is almost ready as well. The CNN article featuring it says it will be open in time for the Super Bowl. Everything is coming together!

I had a feeling they would move. Midtown Park just doesn't seem ready.

Just now, cspwal said:

Next year or in 2030 for the next Superbowl in Houston?

My bad... next Houston Super Bowl lol

I keep forgetting about this thing. Maybe it'll be open in time for the next Super Bowl... 

McAlister's Deli to open January 23rd.

https://www.facebook.com/McDeliHtown/

18 minutes ago, cspwal said:

When I first looked at this picture I thought the Canadian Mounties were doing the ground breaking and I was very confused

Well Maple Leaf Pub is right across the street...

Finally made it to this hotel last night. First, I went to Grotto for Happy Hour, which was awesome, then went over to Biggio's for a few hours and walked through the hotel. I also saw Tilman Fertitta hanging out at Biggio's and he was commenting on how Grotto turned out really well (He owns it). This whole area has a completely different vibe and feel to it now which is just amazing compared to what it was a few short years ago. I'm planning on going to Biggio's for the Texan's game Saturday and sitting in one of the upstairs booth areas.

Yea i wish they would hurry and finish the restaurants. They told us late summer the day I moved in, then October...November...December... The most frustrating thing is the utilities for the restaurants must not have colluded with the building of the apartments as they have went back and ripped up the sidewalk by the parking garage a couple months ago to install gas lines and CenterPoint is constantly disrupting the power in the entire complex to install generators ect for the restaurants. The power goes out at least once a week. A few weeks ago they were installing a generator near the parking garage entrance and caused a fire knocking out power in the entire complex for the whole weekend so 500 Crawford paid for hotels at the Westin and Hilton Americas for residents to stay and then gave everyone $50 HEB gift cards for groceries. As I type this, the power has already went out twice today..... pretty frustrating...

Just went jogging through this area....wow. This will be HUGE for downtown Houston once all of the restaraunts are open. There is also lots of buzz around the Marriott Marquis as it opens today and saw a bunch of suits inside Biggio's for some sort of meeting I supposed. Can't wait to check it out.

Yea this picture reminds me of an old motel or something. Oh well, nice addition to the area!

3 hours ago, CrockpotandGravel said:

 

This picture of Biggio's reminds me of the Sports Books in Vegas.

20 hours ago, tormina said:

It is nice but I didn't like the small strip of parking in front of the HEB. If you are trying to make this pedestrian friendly, make the sidewalks as wide as possible and let people enter the store directly from the sidewalk.

I agree. This will be like the Whole Foods on Post Oak with the parking strip in front. I wish they took the Whole Foods/Apartments in Midtown route. Oh well....