Pumapayam Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 (edited) Double post, by accident. Edited February 12, 2009 by Pumapayam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Wait, the Westin isn't going to connect to the Mall is it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyB Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 It looks like the crosswalk will lead from the Westin and the Med Prof Bldg to the Mall, but this is just from looking at it from the outside unfinished. I plan to do some walking around inside the area soon ( I take my dad to the Hosp for transfusions bi-weekly). I am curious about the layout of everything to do with the hospital area since he has quite a few hospitalizations and appts. there and I need to be familiar with changes. My concern is that the crosswalk may be a "crosswalk to nowhere" for awhile. I suppose the economic situation could delay construction of the retail at the mall which the crosswalk will connect to eventually. Also, it seems like the progress of the Westin slowed. Just wondering if anyone knows what's going on. Also, by the way the intersection of Gessner and Barryknoll is scheduled to be closed for week starting Monday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 What was torn down on the mall where that sky bridge goes across? Also looks like the sky bridge was ate up at the end and doesn't connect to anything yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 What was torn down on the mall where that sky bridge goes across? Also looks like the sky bridge was ate up at the end and doesn't connect to anything yet.Mervyns was torn down several months back. The sky bridge is waiting for the the new buildout where the Mervyns used to be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Mervyns was torn down several months back. The sky bridge is waiting for the the new buildout where the Mervyns used to be.Okay, its been a while so I could not really tell what was missing. The whole area is getting crowded with lots of different things to see and do. Exciting! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammer Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Is there a Dell store at the mall? The internet says yes, but when I call it's not a good number any more. I need a laptop part and can't stand talking to the Dell people on the phone. Everyone hates them.I used to love the Dell kiosk, but they foolishly decided to discontinue it.Dell made a really poor decision in choosing frustrating telephone service over personal human service. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 found this: http://alquemie.smartbrief.com/alquemie/se...f7-ca5c11478ab7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Seen it. The link inside the one you gave is broken. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 found this: http://alquemie.smartbrief.com/alquemie/se...f7-ca5c11478ab7 See Post #242 on page 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 See Post #242 on page 9I think I went through every page but page 9 before I posted that darn thing.uff! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 (edited) I think I went through every page but page 9 before I posted that darn thing.uff! It's okay. Has anyone driven by the old Mervyn's site recently? What's happening? Edited May 15, 2009 by IronTiger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeats Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I'm confused. There has been absolutely no progress made on that wretched-looking hotel next to the Decepticon *ahem* new medical tower in months. Did they run out of money? Permit issues? Does anyone know why the construction has completely stopped? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunsets Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I make weekly treks to Memorial City to play Saturday night hockey, so I can tell you this:Nothing has happened to the Mervyn's site, either. The pedestrian bridge still goes nowhere.Gessner is all torn up between the hospital and the mall.The empty storefront of the former Sun and Ski shop is still there, unused. The mall is constantly packed every Saturday, however. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I hear the traffic is really bad up there... ugh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 I was eating at Rudi Lechner's on Wednesday with the folks, and decided to drive up Gessner to I-10 to get back to town, huge mistake, it took 5 minutes to get from there to Barryknoll, then I got stuck at the light at Barryknoll, and every single 1 of the 5 lights between there and I-10 are timed so you get to sit at them... at 10 o-clock at night.Granted they are still doing work on the road, but I will be doing everything in my power to not drive down Gessner until this is completed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Just saw that they put up a new wooden fence around the old Mervins area. There are also a couple of bulldozers in the empty lot.Looks like they might start construction on the outdoor section of the mall soon.Interesting that they tore down the Olive Garden for more parking space. Perhaps Olive Garden is going to build in the new outdoor mall area.Anyone know? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducks Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Just saw that they put up a new wooden fence around the old Mervins area. There are also a couple of bulldozers in the empty lot.Looks like they might start construction on the outdoor section of the mall soon.Interesting that they tore down the Olive Garden for more parking space. Perhaps Olive Garden is going to build in the new outdoor mall area.Anyone know?Olive Garden moved to the HEB shopping center at Bunker Hill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Thx for the info. Hadn't noticed they had built over on the other side.Any info on whether they are starting construction on the old Mervin's site at the mall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I heard there's still the fake building facades and the walkway to nowhere, just as it had been in March 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I heard there's still the fake building facades and the walkway to nowhere, just as it had been in March 2008.I was there yesterday and all remains the same. In fact, there isn't even a fake building facade at the Mervyns site. It looks pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducks Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I think the building facade was ripped off during Ike and never replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpringShadows Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I think the building facade was ripped off during Ike and never replaced.Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potsey99 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I am having lunch at the Panera in MC Mall. It looks like they are FINALLY continuing the construction on the bridge, maybe they will work on finishing the rest of it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I am having lunch at the Panera in MC Mall. It looks like they are FINALLY continuing the construction on the bridge, maybe they will work on finishing the rest of it up.My office is nearby. I haven't seen much of anything change in about a year. It's as if we ate too many "magic" mushrooms and time just stopped. It's a good thing they finished the actual hospital before time stopped. By the way, I've heard from someone on the inside of MetroNational that the company is struggling financially, and the whole thing could possibly implode altogether. We could end up with another partially completed shell of a building. It's a good thing we're growing accustomed to seeing those around Houston. It's not Lebanon, Father. It's the economy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpringShadows Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 (edited) My office is nearby. I haven't seen much of anything change in about a year. It's as if we ate too many "magic" mushrooms and time just stopped. It's a good thing they finished the actual hospital before time stopped. By the way, I've heard from someone on the inside of MetroNational that the company is struggling financially, and the whole thing could possibly implode altogether. We could end up with another partially completed shell of a building. It's a good thing we're growing accustomed to seeing those around Houston. It's not Lebanon, Father. It's the economy.Not true. It drives me nuts on these forums that people keep posting this speculative crap. I've posted many times in this forum on this very subject that there was a problem with the windows in both the Tower and the Hotel. That's why things are moving slow, period.I've seen people posting that funding was pulled, that Metro National was going belly up, etc. I don't get it. I remember that in a thread about the new condo's going up on the south side of I-10 and Bunker Hill someone was going ballistic about the faux-stucco being used over the entire face of the building when it was painfully clear to anyone that they were simply pulling the parking garage veneer around the front of the building for ascetics. Of course I posted that observation and now one can see I was correct.I know that forums are built around the principle of speculation but why does everyone err to the negative rather than the positive when we're talking about any project happening outside of the 610 loop? Edited September 18, 2009 by SpringShadows 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto250us Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I noticed a crane at the Mall side of the walkway over Gessner. Does anyone know what will be built at that connection point with the walkway. Will it be one store? or an additional "wing" with many stores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpringShadows Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I noticed a crane at the Mall side of the walkway over Gessner. Does anyone know what will be built at that connection point with the walkway. Will it be one store? or an additional "wing" with many stores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunsets Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 They're definitely expanding/finishing the pedestrian walkway. No sign of building any addition to the mall yet.The new brick crosswalks and street prettifications on Gessner are looking really nice. Hopefully the construction barriers leave soon and there are safer places for people to wait for the bus than the gutter of Gessner!Also, the hotel facade is getting finished as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpgraham Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Does anyone know what is going up on the west-side parking lot where Olive Garden used to reside? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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