ljchou Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Someone ask their East End District contact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 5 hours ago, phillip_white said: Do casinos count as mixed use? 🤔 Yes, that's a good point actually. 5 hours ago, nate4l1f3 said: Rumored practice facility? Probably not but it would make more sense than Clear Lake as mentioned in the article. https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/10-08-18-toyota-center-turns-15-houston-rockets-tilman-fertitta-tad-davis-houston-astros-jim-crane/ Kind of an interesting idea, but still such a weird thought. Suburban location would kind of make sense because I think more players are out in the suburbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, wilcal said: Yes, that's a good point actually. Kind of an interesting idea, but still such a weird thought. Suburban location would kind of make sense because I think more players are out in the suburbs. I’d actually be very curious to know where each player on the roster lived. I actually wouldn’t be shocked if most lived “in town”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 5 minutes ago, nate4l1f3 said: I’d actually be very curious to know where each player on the roster lived. I actually wouldn’t be shocked if most lived “in town”. I know that Harden built a place in Rivercrest, so that's Westheimer at BW8. Steve Francis lived in Memorial Villages. Tracy McGrady lived in Sugarland. I think when George Springer first became an Astros staple he was living in one of the towers next to Hermann Park. Dallas Keuchel lived in the tower at Kirby @ Westheimer. So there are some athletes in town. Rockets roster has some up and coming young guys, so I wouldn't doubt a few live in town. I think cheapest NBA salary is about $1.5 mil whereas with MLB it was in the $500s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapo2367 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I have a friend who lives downtown and he used to see a few of the players in the elevator of his apartment building. It was only a few blocks from the Toyota center so pretty easy commute. For a lot of younger guys too it’s probable you are going to get traded so no rush to put down roots — I could see renting a $$ apartment downtown being an appealing option for them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 14 hours ago, wilcal said: I know that Harden built a place in Rivercrest, so that's Westheimer at BW8. Steve Francis lived in Memorial Villages. Tracy McGrady lived in Sugarland. I think when George Springer first became an Astros staple he was living in one of the towers next to Hermann Park. Dallas Keuchel lived in the tower at Kirby @ Westheimer. So there are some athletes in town. Rockets roster has some up and coming young guys, so I wouldn't doubt a few live in town. I think cheapest NBA salary is about $1.5 mil whereas with MLB it was in the $500s. Watt (and a few other NFL players) lived in Shadow Creek Ranch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljchou Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 As of now, the Landry's rumor is nothing more than that. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapo2367 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 It’s spreading — come on H‑E‑B! You don’t want to let the people down 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBTX Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 Well, it's definitely not Polk and Emancipation. But please HEB wizards, we request your presence at the Olshan site. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 hour ago, JBTX said: Well, it's definitely not Polk and Emancipation. But please HEB wizards, we request your presence at the Olshan site. According to all of the compact city urban planner "experts" I've been reading lately, you don't really want an HEB there, as even the small HEB's are too large. You want something like an average German ReWe store of 10,000 sq ft and limited selection of stuff you don't like, but is all good for you. No parking, because everyone loves to walk when they live in an urban area. Bwahahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapo2367 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 10 minutes ago, Ross said: According to all of the compact city urban planner "experts" I've been reading lately, you don't really want an HEB there, as even the small HEB's are too large. You want something like an average German ReWe store of 10,000 sq ft and limited selection of stuff you don't like, but is all good for you. No parking, because everyone loves to walk when they live in an urban area. Bwahahaha. In college I spent some time in Germany and shopped at ReWe (I did walk to it btw). My fav part was the ‘American’ section with muffins and peanut butter (complete with the Stars and Stripes on the packaging). That and the fact that the were always playing acoustic covers of Rihanna songs on the PA system. I was probably there 2x a week because my fridge/kitchen was really small, but it was super convenient so it wasn’t a big deal. Once every other month I’d go a few tram stops down to the larger target-like store for bulk items or things ReWe didn't have. All it all it wasn’t a bad way to live :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBTX Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Ross said: According to all of the compact city urban planner "experts" I've been reading lately, you don't really want an HEB there, as even the small HEB's are too large. You want something like an average German ReWe store of 10,000 sq ft and limited selection of stuff you don't like, but is all good for you. No parking, because everyone loves to walk when they live in an urban area. Bwahahaha. As much as I can tell this is dripping in irony, I'd walk for groceries there. Of course, I would walk there cause I live <5min walk away, but still. That said, one of my personal favorite things to do abroad is to visit grocery stores/supermarkets, just to check the out. Great memories of ReWe and their $0.33 beers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 11 hours ago, Ross said: According to all of the compact city urban planner "experts" I've been reading lately, you don't really want an HEB there, as even the small HEB's are too large. You want something like an average German ReWe store of 10,000 sq ft and limited selection of stuff you don't like, but is all good for you. No parking, because everyone loves to walk when they live in an urban area. Bwahahaha. if it has to be a German brand, I'd absolutely love to have a Lidl in the neighborhood! I'll settle for an Aldi though, which considering they are actually doing business in America, is a realistic thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljchou Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 I would be OK with an HEB similar to that in Rice Military. Otherwise I'd prefer to keep the commerce/canal concepts clean with walkable retail and multifamily 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 I saw this thread in the "popular now" section on the homepage and was so nervous that it was going to be something sad. Kind of glad that everything is still conjecture. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 On 1/27/2022 at 7:21 AM, samagon said: if it has to be a German brand, I'd absolutely love to have a Lidl in the neighborhood! I'll settle for an Aldi though, which considering they are actually doing business in America, is a realistic thing. Not only does Aldi do business in America, they do business in Houston. FWIW, Lidl also does business in America. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 37 minutes ago, Houston19514 said: Not only does Aldi do business in America, they do business in Houston. FWIW, Lidl also does business in America. I once tried going to the one in Pasadena after visiting my dentist. Walked up to get a kart but had no clue you had to pay for and since I didn't have .25¢ I turned around and left. I saw that you got the quarter back when you return the kart. My niece loved shopping at the Aldi in College Station when she lived there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 (edited) Does no one remember when Auchan inexplicably had two stores in Houston? French, not German, and HUUUUUGE, not compact, but still. Quarters for carts. *To be clear, I barely remember it. I was pretty young, but I distinctly remember using a quarter to get a cart. I think I got to keep it when I returned the cart. Edited January 29, 2022 by Texasota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 14 hours ago, hindesky said: I once tried going to the one in Pasadena after visiting my dentist. Walked up to get a kart but had no clue you had to pay for and since I didn't have .25¢ I turned around and left. I saw that you got the quarter back when you return the kart. My niece loved shopping at the Aldi in College Station when she lived there. If you go in and tell them you don't have a quarter for the carts, they'll give you one or give you a cart. When they first started popping up, I talked with the manager at one of the stores on hwy 6 and he told me they were concentrating on the outer areas of town due to real estate prices. Don't know if that is still true, but I know of only one that is inside the loop, on OST in a fairly low-rent area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 7 minutes ago, Texasota said: Does no one remember when Auchan inexplicably had two stores in Houston? French, not German, and HUUUUUGE, not compact, but still. Quarters for carts. *To be clear, I barely remember it. I was pretty young, but I distinctly remember using a quarter to get a cart. I think I got to keep it when I returned the cart. I didn't know they had two stores but we used to go to the Auchan on the west belt when we first moved here. They had the best eclairs and probably the largest cheese selection in town at the time. It was a big loss for us when they closed up. It was also the first time I had ever seen the insert-quarter carts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 On 1/29/2022 at 6:42 AM, Texasota said: Does no one remember when Auchan inexplicably had two stores in Houston? French, not German, and HUUUUUGE, not compact, but still. Quarters for carts. *To be clear, I barely remember it. I was pretty young, but I distinctly remember using a quarter to get a cart. I think I got to keep it when I returned the cart. they did, my mom enjoyed shopping there, which meant as a kid I got to enjoy pushing the cart with the quarter in it around the store. it is a much more elegant solution than a cart that has a wheel that locks up when you cross some boundary, the inevitable result is a cart with 1 bad wheel that no one wants to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 There is an Aldi just under 4 miles as the crow flies from this site. It isn't outrageous to think that could happen here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Ewert Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 On 1/26/2022 at 9:06 PM, Ross said: According to all of the compact city urban planner "experts" I've been reading lately, you don't really want an HEB there, as even the small HEB's are too large. You want something like an average German ReWe store of 10,000 sq ft and limited selection of stuff you don't like, but is all good for you. No parking, because everyone loves to walk when they live in an urban area. Bwahahaha. Is it not possible to build a multi-story HEB... I mean, seriously, I've never seen one but there's no reason why they couldn't stack multiple floors of parking and retail. Is there a *truly* walkable HEB anywhere in the city? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karin Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Just now, Andrew Ewert said: Is it not possible to build a multi-story HEB... I mean, seriously, I've never seen one but there's no reason why they couldn't stack multiple floors of parking and retail. Is there a *truly* walkable HEB anywhere in the city? HEB in Buffalo Heights and Bellaire are multistory with parking in an adjacent garage and underground, respectively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Ewert Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, Karin said: HEB in Buffalo Heights and Bellaire are multistory with parking in an adjacent garage and underground, respectively. My memory may be wrong, but both of those are just single-story for the actual retail portion, right? I was thinking more like multiple floors for retail, multiple floors for parking. Keep the footprint as small as possible. But I was mostly reacting to the person saying that the Olshan site was not large enough for even a small HEB, but maybe that's not true if you're not doing surface parking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapo2367 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 @wilcal did some great photoshop showing the Montrose HEB on this property -- there is a ton of space for everyone's Ford F-250 even with a single story HEB :) I believe the only 2 story part of the Heights HEB is the pharmacy on the ground floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Money Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 You could definitely fit a 2-story HEB there, even just on the northeast parcel E of Live Oak and N of Commerce. Heights HEB is 330 x 630' (208k sqft) across 2 stories, that plot is 520 x 520 (270k sqft). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBTX Posted February 4, 2022 Author Share Posted February 4, 2022 Here me out: drive through HEB. 3 hours ago, sapo2367 said: @wilcal did some great photoshop showing the Montrose HEB on this property -- there is a ton of space for everyone's Ford F-250 even with a single story HEB :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 7 minutes ago, JBTX said: Here me out: drive through HEB. I think they already tried that concept... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 On 6/24/2021 at 2:54 PM, sapo2367 said: Triggering for all the East End people I know I'm 8 months late, but notice how they labeled neighborhoods miles away, but didn't label Third Ward, which is right adjacent to it. 🙃 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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