Mixed-Use Development At 7200 Main St.

[mkultra25]

22 hours ago, bobruss said:

This might have been the original site for George Dentler's Pier 21, 60's restaurant and club somewhere amongst those palm trees if memory serves.

His father made a very popular potato chip back in the day. Dentler Maid.

Does anyone remember this?

Pier 21 was located at 7001 Fannin. 

 

[danielsonr]

Wasn’t there a movie theater on the property, or was it where the Shriner’s facility sits now?

[mkultra25]

On 10/25/2019 at 1:33 PM, danielsonr said:

Wasn’t there a movie theater on the property, or was it where the Shriner’s facility sits now?

 

You're probably thinking of the Shamrock 4  (later 6) multiplex, which was located at 6900 Main. 

 

Shamrock 4 Cinemas

[Ross]

1 hour ago, mkultra25 said:

 

You're probably thinking of the Shamrock 4  (later 6) multiplex, which was located at 6900 Main. 

 

Shamrock 4 Cinemas

I went to movies there in the late 70's, until my girlfriend got her purse snatched one night. The parking lot was pretty dark, and it was easy for miscreants to hide.

[danielsonr]

2 hours ago, mkultra25 said:

 

You're probably thinking of the Shamrock 4  (later 6) multiplex, which was located at 6900 Main. 

 

Shamrock 4 Cinemas

So, it was on the west side of Main, across Holcombe from the Shamrock Hotel?  I could have sworn it was across S. Main from the hotel.

[Ross]

15 minutes ago, danielsonr said:

So, it was on the west side of Main, across Holcombe from the Shamrock Hotel?  I could have sworn it was across S. Main from the hotel.

The theaters were on the East side of Main

[Ross]

1 hour ago, danielsonr said:

I thought so. The reason for my confusion is that Google Maps indicates 6900 Main is where the Wyndham Hotel is located.

Address for the Shamrock theaters was 7017 South Main, according to Cinema Houston: From Nickelodeon to Megaplex, excerpt here https://books.google.com/books?id=R6XDCyvuGSkC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=shamrock+6+theaters+houston&source=bl&ots=JB4yPVFkU1&sig=ACfU3U0o88mSpgeciQCbiKLSygrgl4I85w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGsqTgmrvlAhVlmK0KHd_fD4UQ6AEwCXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=shamrock 6 theaters houston&f=false

[mkultra25]

20 hours ago, danielsonr said:

I thought so. The reason for my confusion is that Google Maps indicates 6900 Main is where the Wyndham Hotel is located.

 

Yeah, it's clearly the wrong address and I failed to catch it before posting. The article on the Cinema Treasures page announcing the theater's opening even states that it's across the street from the Shamrock Hotel. 

[Highrise Tower]

Looks like JTB Demolition is done at the site.  Wonder what's next? They will have to relocate those power lines.

 

[OkieEric]

Some news here...  Heavy equipment is on site right now, clearing out the rest of the lot

[Highrise Tower]

Construction progress!!

[TheSirDingle]

That's a big boy excavator right there , time to to start diggin! On other thoughts, wonder what the timeline is? This developer is extremely secretive from the looks of it, but maybe there's a chance they're going to reveal some information soon. Honestly excited this project is even starting. 

Edited November 16, 2019 by TheSirDingle

[hindesky]

 

[Highrise Tower]

[OkieEric]

It was quiet for a few weeks but today I noticed they were in the process of tearing out that segment of N Braeswood Blvd...  Also noticed some stakes so it appears things are still moving along

[OkieEric]

Sorry for the quick follow-up, but obviously tearing up N Braeswood would indicate they were granted the request for street abandonment from a couple of years ago.  I checked the Harris County Clerk's website to see if it showed up and just found something else interesting...

 

For some background, I've always noticed that the "Main Place at Greenbriar" plat (owned by 7200 Main Corporation) ended at a strange angle at Main and Pressler, as shown below.  However, in all of the 7200 Main renderings we saw a few years ago, there were buildings and development along Pressler as well:

 

 

For what it's worth, it appears that 7200 Main Corporation purchased ~0.8 ac from TMC out of the "Doctors Center" plat on 12/5/2019, and as best I can tell from the description this does appear to be additional land along Pressler:

 

 

Maybe someone more savvy with coordinates can read the file and confirm, but either way it does appear that Coventry is finally moving on with development!  It would seem getting the additional acreage along Pressler would be beneficial regardless of whether we are getting anything remotely close to these renderings, but obviously there is something very large in the works here...

[Highrise Tower]

On 12/7/2019 at 7:23 PM, OkieEric said:

It was quiet for a few weeks but today I noticed they were in the process of tearing out that segment of N Braeswood Blvd...  Also noticed some stakes so it appears things are still moving along

 

[Houston?]

Wait? This is thing is really getting built in all of its entirety?

[OkieEric]

5 minutes ago, Houston? said:

Wait? This is thing is really getting built in all of its entirety?

 

I think all we know at this point is that the secretive developer (same developer as Springwoods Village) has now acquired and cleared the parcels to replicate the footprint seen in the prior renderings.  The renderings we originally saw were from HOK and part of a design competition several years ago...  Some from Gensler have also floated around...  From what I've read, they had to present development plans to get the fill & grade and water/waste water permits that have been issued over the past year or so.  So something is in the works, but what exactly is anyone's guess.  This is a huge plot of land along Main near TMC and near some big upcoming developments (TMC3, new A&M development, new Medistar tower, whatever is happening at 1500 OST, etc) so...yeah, it's potentially something pretty amazing .  Hopefully the recent movement here means we hear something soon

[Highrise Tower]

The other gateway to the medical center.  Any updates with this?

[OkieEric]

I hadn't checked in a while but saw some easements grated between 7200 Main and AT&T and then the City of Houston:

Looking at the easement with AT&T, it appears to show some reconfiguration of easements but, more interestingly, it also seems to indicate the planned road layout.  The below documents indicate a new street parallel to Main from Greenbriar to Pressler, and then an extension of Glen Haven (?) from Main to the new street.

The easement filed on 5/27 to the City of Houston references the parcels corresponding to the new streets (AY17-265B and AY17-265A).

It seems like this one is quietly (and slowly) moving along...

[hindesky]

Edited October 20, 2021 by hindesky

[Two]

On 10/23/2019 at 10:42 AM, X.R. said:

I wonder whats being seen in the market that these types of projects, ones that have been kind of sitting around for a while, are beginning to move forward in Houston? And then you have stuff like the Skanska purchase. Maybe Houston has gotten further enough away from being absolutely, totally oil-industry dependent that fears of a recession's effects have lessened? Some of my commercial real estate bros said the current building rate is what they remember from 06-07, and I was like, errr not great comparison given some people's current fears, lol.

 

Regardless, this looks crazy. But its also a testament to TMC's vision. Isn't this exactly the type of stuff they said they wanted to have built on that Looped In podcast? If they build everything but that huge tower, its still a massive W compared to what was there. 

Well, TMC is kinda a special case with it's own history. It employees 105k people now and that is about to boom even more. If we are Including the outlining hospitals, the medical industry that feeds into these hospitals locally the number of people they employ surpassed Houston's OG industry around 2018, even when oil booms again it's unlike to re-seat itself as Houston's leading industry. As much thanks I have for the OG industry for what it's done for this town, it's always been a bi-polar experience.

There's a group of venture capitalists that teach start-up healthcare and pharmaceutical classes at Rice and they allow people who work in the med center to audit them. Their studied appreciation of TMCs missed opportunities are really very similar to what I've seen on the ground floor and exactly what these expansions and TMC3 are designed to close the loop on. For many decades now it's been what doctors I know that come here from  prestigious hospitals in the NE refer to as "the medical Disney World" and they're right, AND it's one we've never properly capitalized on. It's very leaky.

TMC despite having every toy and specialty and research rabbit hole imaginable has failed spectacularly to keep any of the fruits of that labor and capital here in the city when it comes to the startups that research generates which turn into or are bought out by big companies. I've been a part of plenty of studies, been trained on plenty of gizmos and gadgets who while the hospitals here were always some of the top centers involved, if not the top contributors, we were none the less being ferried back and forth to incubators in Boston, Raleigh, California etc. the company headquarters at for training. For decades TMC hospitals have provided an insane amount of access and money to patients for studies, devices, medicine etc. to companies but once the work's done the company growth and economic fruits are felt elsewhere. TMC is great for coastal startups to use to leverage their products etc. into reality but Houston doesn't benefit from it, only marginally. 

Having a massive engineering medicine campus feed into the medical schools and hospitals here, next to the world's largest medical center, next to some of the worlds largest medical research campuses and then offering plenty of incubator space and access to capital, hotels etc. is designed to stop the drain. I am pretty sure they'll be successful, even without this project.

Edited October 20, 2021 by Two

[OkieEric]

I saw that the new plat was recommended for approval at 10/28 planning commission meeting with the below comments referencing a "Novus Center Way":

I wasn't quite sure whether this was just a typo or carryover from some prior comments, but did some digging and found this on the Houston map viewer site:

 

"New Braeswood Way" and "Novus Center Place" appear to be the names of the new streets.  Perhaps "Novus Center" is the name of the new development?

[houstontexasjack]

There were 5 deeds recorded on this property this past January, from 7200 Main Corporation to 5 different entities for 5 different portions (7200 Center 1, Inc., 7200 Center 2, Inc., etc.).

I’m guessing this portends a 5 building plan for the site. 
 

Edit: Deeds can be found as Harris County Clerk File Nos. RP 2022-3138 through RP 2022-3142.

Edited March 21, 2022 by houstontexasjack

[houstontexasjack]

The plat @OkieEric referenced was recorded:

 

[houstontexasjack]

Snapped this photo of the site today:

 

[hindesky]

[hindesky]

Proposed plat.

[houstontexasjack]

There was a deed to the Harris County Flood Control District for about 8,000 square feet of land in May 2022 (after the prior plat), so I’m betting this replat reflects that.