Mab Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 (edited) Quote The site currently houses major and local retailers alike, including Palais Royal and Foot Locker. Levcor is currently working on a redevelopment plan to turn the project into a mixed-use, grocery-anchored development. Space is currently available at the site for short-term leasing. 1 from Levcor website....interesting EDIT Quote Post Oak Market is an upcoming planned mixed use development on Levcor's Northwest Mall site. The project is currently in touch with key anchor tenants, which will inform the overall project development. The project will include hotel, residential, office and retail development within a dense, urban environment in the heart of Houston. Post Oak Market will promote walkability and new urbanism design principles, as well as the densification of Houston's urban core. Post Oak Market will be located at the confluence of seven major thoroughfares in Houston - I-610 W, I-610 N, US 290, I-10, Hempstead Rd, 18th St and N. Post Oak Rd. The 290/I-10/I-610 interchange, at which the project is located, is undergoing a massive ~$3 bn redevelopment plan to improve connectivity and traffic flow, and will be completed in late 2017. In addition, discussions of the proposed high speed rail from Houston to Dallas is expected to have a station in the site's immediate area. Further, the site is located minutes away from major Houston residential and commercial regions, including Galleria / Uptown (<10 min drive), the Greater Heights (<10 min drive), Spring Branch / Spring Valley (<10 min drive), Memorial Villages (10 min drive) and Downtown (10-15 min drive). Being at a critical interchange, Northwest Mall also has excellent access to and from Northwest and West Houston highly populated sub-regions Katy and Cy-Fair. 3 northwest mall will be Post Oak Market http://levcor.com/projects/post-oak-market Edited September 24, 2016 by Mab 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
On to the Next One Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Please please please happen. I've always thought that nothing will happen here until the 610 construction is completed. It is finally getting close to being finished...so much potential for this site. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Bumped to going up. There's a lot of large scale mixed-use developments we can look forward to. Let's see which ones pan out within the next decade. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 All stores said to close by the end of the month: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I just looked at the mall directory to see if there was anything I would want. yech. I can see this becoming kind of like a Meyerland Plaza type place. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 18 minutes ago, samagon said: I just looked at the mall directory to see if there was anything I would want. yech. I can see this becoming kind of like a Meyerland Plaza type place. haha i did the same thing... and nope.... http://www.northwest-mall.com/directory 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsatyr Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 That sucks... I go there for Sesame Hut and their hot and spicy chicken. That's the mall my family went to when I was a kid but I haven't been past the food court in my adult life. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 23 hours ago, gene said: haha i did the same thing... and nope.... http://www.northwest-mall.com/directory Texas Central is already setting up shop though - just look at the directory! Quote NWX Railroad Club 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 On 3/1/2017 at 11:16 PM, Urbannizer said: All stores said to close by the end of the month: Thank God! FINALLY! Place was a dump 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortune Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 My question is why are they renovating the interior of the mall instead of tearing it completely down ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uscats35 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Where is the source of this information of renovating the interior? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) Gotta admit, it was kind of neat and sad the last time when I went there (2013-ish). There was a fountain...there was a Chick-fil-a Express that had closed for the day...there was perhaps the last Sesame Hut in existence...there was a soccer-focused place (I think) that had action figures...nothing like "Wow, this place is a treasure that needs to be memorialized" but to be honest, I'm surprised it lasted this long. The loss of Macy's no doubt damaged its prospects, and the removal of most of its parking lot (making it a pain to get around even the parking lot, one of the sides of the old Macy's has just one lane open up for clearance) for construction made it even harder. Would be surprised if the Macy's WASN'T torn down by the end of the year. -- Also, when they say "renovating the interior" I'm thinking they'll probably turn it into an office building and/or outdoor facing tenants, they aren't saving Palais Royal and the other tenant they mentioned I believe is not quite flush with the interior either. Edited March 4, 2017 by IronTiger 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 On 3/4/2017 at 7:33 AM, IronTiger said: Gotta admit, it was kind of neat and sad the last time when I went there (2013-ish). There was a fountain...there was a Chick-fil-a Express that had closed for the day...there was perhaps the last Sesame Hut in existence...there was a soccer-focused place (I think) that had action figures...nothing like "Wow, this place is a treasure that needs to be memorialized" but to be honest, I'm surprised it lasted this long. The loss of Macy's no doubt damaged its prospects, and the removal of most of its parking lot (making it a pain to get around even the parking lot, one of the sides of the old Macy's has just one lane open up for clearance) for construction made it even harder. Would be surprised if the Macy's WASN'T torn down by the end of the year. -- Also, when they say "renovating the interior" I'm thinking they'll probably turn it into an office building and/or outdoor facing tenants, they aren't saving Palais Royal and the other tenant they mentioned I believe is not quite flush with the interior either. My guess is the "renovation" of the interior is simply to keep the building online for extended use until more deals are done with the property in the future or some master plan is drafted for this site. No way they will keep this aging relic standing for long or in whatever master plan they come up with. Would be cheaper to tear it down than to "restore" or "reconfigure" or whatever "re" one could come up with. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Wait a minute. Are we all talking about the same run down out of date excuse for a retail center, in the middle of an industrial neighborhood surrounded by a wall of freeways, railroad tracks and every other physical barrier known to man to keep people away. Maybe we can get the state historical society and Ed Emmett together to save it for posterity along with the dome. Better yet move the mall into the dome. Perfect. It could be like those chinese boxes. Open one and see whats inside. Then when you got to the bottom there would be a superfund site. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 4 hours ago, Luminare said: My guess is the "renovation" of the interior is simply to keep the building online for extended use until more deals are done with the property in the future or some master plan is drafted for this site. No way they will keep this aging relic standing for long or in whatever master plan they come up with. Would be cheaper to tear it down than to "restore" or "reconfigure" or whatever "re" one could come up with. You are probably right. Second-tier malls like this are a dying breed. I don't know about potential for mixed use, but I could picture a large apartment complex on the site. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 (edited) - Edited July 11, 2019 by Timoric 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 55 minutes ago, Timoric said: I wonder if Amazon will take a look at one of these malls to have a place you can visit - brick and mortar to get stuff. If they can buy them cheap, why not do an experiment? Would people use it? Amazon Drone Factory/Warehouse/Storage Facility/Home 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparrow Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 I envision a retail power center going in here with maybe an apartment building or two and about a dozen pad sites. Perhaps an office building or two if we get really lucky. Maybe they could keep the mall structure for the big box retail stores for cheaper than tearing down and rebuilding? I'd like to hope for something more "urban", but I'm not going to set my expectations too high for this one just yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post King Owl Posted March 8, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2017 If they tear it down, hopefully they build something on the site that keeps with Houston's architectural tradition. Like perhaps 17 standalone CVS stores on the site. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Montrose1100 Posted March 8, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2017 10 hours ago, King Owl said: If they tear it down, hopefully they build something on the site that keeps with Houston's architectural tradition. Like perhaps 17 standalone CVS stores on the site. A "Cypressvile". Coined here first, report that swamplot. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gene Posted March 8, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2017 cant they just shut down all 53,426 Mattress Firms and make this one HUGE location!? 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 They could put it at end of the high speed rail line for padding in case the brakes fail 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) Well IF the station is going to be built here, you can bet a developer is going to create some city centre environment for visitors. We should call it little dallass Edited March 9, 2017 by j_cuevas713 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 On 3/7/2017 at 7:46 PM, Sparrow said: I envision a retail power center going in here with maybe an apartment building or two and about a dozen pad sites. Perhaps an office building or two if we get really lucky. Maybe they could keep the mall structure for the big box retail stores for cheaper than tearing down and rebuilding? I'd like to hope for something more "urban", but I'm not going to set my expectations too high for this one just yet. Probably not even that, given it is hard to access and Palais Royal is going to be heading out. My guess is that it will become a modern industrial park, which would fit in with the antique mall (remember that it was a former industrial site nestled in industrial before becoming an antique mall...directories indicate it was originally a facility that manufactured fans). If not that, I can see more of an office building/hotel environment going in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 This is a great topic. A great spot for it, but cannot connect to buses. As they are building in San Francisco right next to the Saleforse Tower a large terminal with BART, MUNI, Heavy Rail and buses. We are so far behind and the county and the city are just stupid. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 2 hours ago, nativehoustonion said: This is a great topic. A great spot for it, but cannot connect to buses. As they are building in San Francisco right next to the Saleforse Tower a large terminal with BART, MUNI, Heavy Rail and buses. We are so far behind and the county and the city are just stupid. That's not a new terminal, it's a replacement and redevelopment of an existing bus terminal, with an extension of the Caltrain line from 4th and King to the new terminal(unlikely to be completed until 2026, apparently), and a pedestrian connection to the existing BART Embarcadero station near Market and Pine. It's easy to build a terminal when most of the connections are nearby or already exist. The San Francisco project is nothing like the proposals for the NW Mall site. San Francisco also has far higher density, and far less empty space, so there is more impetus for transit projects, and they make more sense there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 1 hour ago, Ross said: San Francisco also has far higher density, and far less empty space, so there is more impetus for transit projects, and they make more sense there. There's somewhat of a chicken/egg situation here. Lack of transit makes it impossible for Houston to get anywhere near San Francisco in terms of density, but, especially since we are continuing to grow in population, there's no reason for that to continue in perpetuity. This really does seem like a great, catalyzing spot to work on that: High speed rail connection to Dallas Connect to Uptown BRT Short term: express buses to downtown Medium term: extend Green Line LRT to NW Transit along Washington Long term: Extend high speed rail to downtown; add links to other cities 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllenOlenska Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 As a person living in the Tanglewood area I like to think of a line up Washington either connecting and Shepherd and then going down 11th, or connecting at Hemptstead. But the light rail of my imagination goes all over the place. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 (edited) 21 hours ago, Ross said: That's not a new terminal, it's a replacement and redevelopment of an existing bus terminal, with an extension of the Caltrain line from 4th and King to the new terminal(unlikely to be completed until 2026, apparently), and a pedestrian connection to the existing BART Embarcadero station near Market and Pine. It's easy to build a terminal when most of the connections are nearby or already exist. The San Francisco project is nothing like the proposals for the NW Mall site. San Francisco also has far higher density, and far less empty space, so there is more impetus for transit projects, and they make more sense there. I'm referring to the future over 400,000 live inside the loop. That will double in 15 t0 20 years have some sort plan now! Edited March 12, 2017 by nativehoustonion 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 NW Mall one of three options for a HSR Station 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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