POST: Mixed-Use Development At 401 Franklin St.

[BEES?!]

Wow, awesome! I think I saw snippets of the hard hat tour- one of the local news stations was airing it I believe. (Maybe FOX 26?)

[cityliving]

Where I-10 and I-45 Interchange-Post Office and Downtown in center. 

Edited August 31, 2021 by cityliving

[BEES?!]

Nice shots as always! 😀

[hindesky]

All the fencing is down around the whole project. Asked a security guard when it will open, he said November. I assume they are flying up vegetation for any that died in the freeze.

[Houston19514]

8 minutes ago, hindesky said:

All the fencing is down around the whole project. Asked a security guard when it will open, he said November. I assume they are flying up vegetation for any that died in the freeze.

Had they already installed plants on the roof  before the freeze?

[kbates2]

They have not planted the food garden yet, I assume that is what they are flying up.

Edited September 27, 2021 by kbates2

[gene]

can't wait to see Rufus Du Sol here 11/19/21!  

already loving Post Houston and haven't even been there yet! 😀

[hindesky]

POST Houston, the abandoned post office turned eatery and concert hall, sets opening date

For years, the Barbara Jordan Post Office in downtown Houston has been quietly transforming into POST Houston: a mixed-use development including an eatery inspired by night markets where small vendors sell street food in Asia, a 5.5-acre rooftop park where a revolving music stage takes in views of the skyline and a warehouse-style concert venue. Now, the developer behind the project, Lovett Commercial, has announced POST Houston’s grand opening date: Nov. 13

The features of the project include a glowing double helix stretches to the top of the 555,000 square-foot former mail-sorting warehouse, one of a number of unusual staircases leading to the roof, as well as a translucent, lightweight plastic known as ETFE and designed for the aerospace industry. It stretches in bubbles across large, excised portions of the ceiling, letting natural light filter down into a food hall.

Rooftop gardens, where restaurants can request ingredients to be grown, will unfold overhead. Blackwood Land Education Institute, a group that runs a 33-acre nonprofit teaching farm in Waller County, will also sell vegetables, fruits and herbs it grows in the rooftop gardens for people to take home and use.

The sprawling complex incorporates restaurants, retail and office space, a hotel, concert hall and a wedding venue. Lovett Commercial announced that first tenants will include the flexible workspace provider Common Desk and several restaurants.

Common Desk will provide a mix of coworking, private offices and office suites.

“We’re excited to provide uniquely amenitized coworking space for the project in addition to designing the move-in-ready suites that (the commercial real estate firm) CBRE will lease,” said Dawson Williams, head of real estate at Common Desk, in a release.

Newly announced restaurants include the wood-fired pizzeria Roberta’s, which hails from Brooklyn, G’Raj Mahal, an Indian food spot that traces its roots to Austin’s food trucks, Motto Ramen, run by Houstonian behind Chinatown’s Tiger Den and Rollin Phatties a Pakistani food truck that’s making the jump to brick and mortar. Whisk Crêpes Café, Thrive Juices, Flower & Cream, Earth and Roots CBD and Return to Sender & Address Unknown will also be tenants on opening day.

Previously announced tenants include Golfstrømmen Seafood Market, Saison Cellar, Salt & Time Butcher Shop, The Butcher’s Burger, Hawker Street Food Bar, East Side King, ChòpnBlọk, Andes Café, Thai Kun, Soy Pinoy, Lea Jane’s Hot Chicken, Taco Fuego, BlendIn Coffee Club, Abu Omar Halal, GELU Italian Ice, Sweets with L&L and SOUPreme.

rebecca.schuetz@chron.com;

twitter.com/raschuetz

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/POST-Houston-the-abandoned-post-office-turned-16500091.php

[hindesky]

I was sent an email with this link to get free tickets to the grand opening on Nov. 13th.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/post-grand-opening-tickets-183000037037

[InTheLoopFromNYC]

What am I missing? I mean, don't get me wrong, cool interiors and rooftop spaces, but what about the exterior? Most people see this thing from the outside and frankly, its as ugly as its always been! 

With a November opening, seems what you see is what you're going to get -- to me it looks like umm, an old post office processing facility and offices! Why no significant improvements to the exteriors? I mean, not like this place was landmarked or had an exterior with anything worth preserving!

[kbates2]

53 minutes ago, InTheLoopFromNYC said:

What am I missing? I mean, don't get me wrong, cool interiors and rooftop spaces, but what about the exterior? Most people see this thing from the outside and frankly, its as ugly as its always been! 

With a November opening, seems what you see is what you're going to get -- to me it looks like umm, an old post office processing facility and offices! Why no significant improvements to the exteriors? I mean, not like this place was landmarked or had an exterior with anything worth preserving!

They got like $50 million dollars for keeping it historic (not sure if it was tax breaks or what but I read that number somewhere).  You can’t do much with the facade and still get that.

[hindesky]

So I stoped to take some pics of what looked like and Indian Wedding event going on here. Up comes Paula Blart:Mall Cop, saying I can't take pics from a public street of a private wedding. STFU. I took a whole bunch of pics. Screw her.

[TheSirDingle]

downtownhouston Instagram posted a video of some of the interior/exterior areas of the POST.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CU5XpUggpDs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Along with posthtx Instagram and a fly threw of the complex. They're a private account so I can't directly post the video into HAIF.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/CUffqfggBlB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[Amlaham]

The building is beautiful, I just wish they put more work into the outside landscape/ entrance. Imagine if they built an eye-catching garage on the east or west parking lot and converted the entire front of the building into greenery or something. The outside looks a little, unfinished for something thats practically finished. 

Edited October 12, 2021 by Amlaham
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[samagon]

my guess is it's in the plan, but they wanted to get some revenue going first.

[tangledwoods]

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my guess is it's in the plan, but they wanted to get some revenue going first.

 

What we have now is 100% Phase 1.  They absolutely have plans for parking garages / more buildings on site.  They REALLY want residential + office space on the site. 

[hindesky]

Grand Opening is Nov. 13th.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/post-grand-opening-tickets-183000037037

Edited October 31, 2021 by hindesky

[BEES?!]

So exciting. Anyone planning on going? I imagine it’ll be pretty crazy. 

Edited October 31, 2021 by BEES?!

[gene]

I will be there...i get back from Vegas that day (the 13th) so won't be there until around 7 or 8pm! Then Rufus there the next weekend! Can't wait! 

[j_cuevas713]

Yeah I have my tickets

[Brooklyn173]

I thought someone else would have beaten me to these pix. There was a 'soft' opening tonight (and tomorrow). Only about 15 of the vendors were open and the site is still very much a work in progress. But it is an interesting space and, as promised, the roof views and gardens are spectacular.

[wilcal]

29 minutes ago, Brooklyn173 said:

I thought someone else would have beaten me to these pix. There was a 'soft' opening tonight (and tomorrow). Only about 15 of the vendors were open and the site is still very much a work in progress. But it is an interesting space and, as promised, the roof views and gardens are spectacular.

Great pics!!!

How hard do you think it would be to get in to this soft opening tomorrow if you aren't invited? Asking for a friend lol

[Brooklyn173]

I had an Eventbrite 'invitation' and no one checked. But I didn't park, I just walked up. My guess is its not a big deal. But you could still probably do an eventbrite sign up if you want to be sure.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/post-soft-opening-nov-6-tickets-203265200687?aff=erelpanelorg

[dbigtex56]

On 11/1/2021 at 9:53 AM, gene said:

Then Rufus there the next weekend! Can't wait! 

Rufus Wainwright, or the Chaka Khan Rufus?

[wilcal]

9 hours ago, Brooklyn173 said:

I had an Eventbrite 'invitation' and no one checked. But I didn't park, I just walked up. My guess is its not a big deal. But you could still probably do an eventbrite sign up if you want to be sure.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/post-soft-opening-nov-6-tickets-203265200687?aff=erelpanelorg

Well having a ticket certainly helps things a bit! I'm definitely gonna go. 

[BEES?!]

We ended up going and it was so cool- the rooftop gardens are absolutely gorgeous and have some spectacular views of downtown. We didn’t see some parts- there was a wedding reception, but next time for sure! 
 

It was pretty busy at times- I can only imagine how crowded the grand opening is going to be.

[wilcal]

Some pics I took last night. I just got my Pixel 6 Pro, so was looking forward to testing it out.

We all agreed that there were some strong Cali vibes with the sunset. Thanks again to @Brooklyn173for posting the eventbrite link. No one ever checked and there were tons of people, but I probably wouldn't have been as emboldened.

One thing that was kind of interesting was that there was a wedding on the roof last night. Talk about hitting the weather lottery. They had the reception on the roof as well on the eastern portion, so didn't make it over there. 

View from where the wedding was set up:

Towards the reception area:

I went to post this one in The Allen thread and Brooklyn713 posted almost the same exact photo from the night before! This was using the 4X optical zoom camera. Crazy impressive for a cell phone imho.

 

Best food we tried was this, the hot chicken fries. Price is $12 and the heavy black pepper mac is $3.

Spicy salmon hand-rolls 5/$20

20oz ribeye I think about $35 normally. All of the food was half price for the soft opening.

Bonus pic of the Bagby rebuild because it makes me so happy:

 

 

[hindesky]

https://www.posthtx.com/grand-opening

Edited November 7, 2021 by hindesky

[wilcal]

They announced a bunch of further details about the grand opening next weekend https://www.posthtx.com/grand-opening

[HtownWxBoy]

Yea looking like this development is gonna be just a tad successful... and by that I mean very successful.  I'm sure the Downtown Aquarium is happy with both this and the Bagby Street improvements.