Urbannizer Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 KHUT Has produced a documentary on the history of the Post Oak/Uptown Park area of town. It's in depth, and very well down. It is definitely worth a watch! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Cool shot at 26:22 of the Sakowitz store (late 1980s?). I didn't watch the entire documentary yet, I kinda skipped around, but they didn't talk about the Pavilions, the Saks-based smaller mall that eventually became home to BLVD Place, the fact that 610 really destroyed Post Oak as a viable north-south corridor, and the untimely demise of Sakowitz. Newspaper articles revealed that Sakowitz renovated in October 1988 as part of a program to bring back Sakowitz to new destinations, including new boutique stores in Sugar Land and Dallas. This was due to the fact that it was bought by a company that had also bought Bonwit Teller and B. Altman of New York, and had placed them both (along with Sakowitz) in the infamous Forest Fair Mall in Cincinnati (a massive mall that included a supermarket/discount store hybrid, built in 1989 and has had several attempts at revival to varying degrees of unsuccess). When the parent company of Sakowitz failed, Sakowitz went down with it, closing the Post Oak store for good in August 1990. It was flattened in 1994 for the modern Centre at Post Oak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 watch here for updates on the Post Oak Blvd Project : https://theboulevardproject.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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