s3mh Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Looks like it sold recently. A crew was doing a pretty thorough interior demo this morning. No idea what is going in, but would assume they are keeping the structure in place to take advantage of the setbacks (or lack thereof). https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3400-White-Oak-Dr-Houston-TX/26494761/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 16 hours ago, s3mh said: Looks like it sold recently. A crew was doing a pretty thorough interior demo this morning. No idea what is going in, but would assume they are keeping the structure in place to take advantage of the setbacks (or lack thereof). https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3400-White-Oak-Dr-Houston-TX/26494761/ Get out of my head! I was going to post this yesterday, but didn't have the time. Thanks for posting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 3400 White Oak Dr consists of an 0.30 acre parcel in the Heights. The property is situated on the corner of Arlington St. Parcel map of 3400 White Oak Drive 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 January 2022 Google Earth view of 3400 White Oak Dr. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 19 hours ago, s3mh said: https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3400-White-Oak-Dr-Houston-TX/26494761/ From the Loopnet listing for 3400 White Oak Drive: Property Type: Retail Building Class: C Building Size: 9,640 Sf Year Built/Renovated: 1954/2019 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 19 hours ago, s3mh said: Looks like it sold recently. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3400-White-Oak-Dr-Houston-TX/26494761/ County records indicate 3400 White Oak Drive was sold around mid-February to 3400 White Oak LLC. I think the new owners are or either tied to Bazbaz Development. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Photos of 3400 White Oak Dr from November 2022. These were submitted by the new owners to the city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 (edited) 20 hours ago, s3mh said: A crew was doing a pretty thorough interior demo this morning. No idea what is going in, but would assume they are keeping the structure in place to take advantage of the setbacks (or lack thereof). Below is the project description for 3400 White Oak Dr. It was submitted to the city of Houston a few months ago. The owner sought a certificate of appropriateness from the Houston Archaeological & Historical Commission. Their request was approved in December. Property: 3400 White Oak Dr, Lots 11 & 12, Block 279, Houston Heights Neighborhood Subdivision. The property includes a historic 9,640 square foot, two-story brick veneer commercial situated on a 13,198 square foot (132' x 100') corner lot. Significance: Contributing Storefront brick commercial, constructed circa 1930, located in the Houston Heights South Historic District. Proposal: Alteration To remove non-historic brick on south elevation facing White Oak Drive. Install doors and windows on east elevation facing Arlington Street where there are existing doors and filled-in openings. Replace existing doors on East elevation with glass doors. Door openings to remain unchanged. Edited March 1, 2023 by IntheKnowHouston 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 More about the renovations for 3400 White Oak Dr. The below details were submitted to the city of Houston a few months ago. The owner sought a certificate of appropriateness from the Houston Archaeological & Historical Commission. Their request was approved in December. The building located at 3400 White Oak Drive is in the Heights South Historic District and is a contributing structure to the historical content of the neighborhood. The current owner, a printing and laminating operation, selling to our client and will be relocating. Our client, is wanting to renovate the building and renovate it for a neighborhood destination usage consistent with the ongoing White Oak Drive development. Please review and consider the following: - The building, listed for its historic storefront and brick elevations, has been renovated and only the east façade can be considered historic. - The current south elevation, also of brick, was renovated in the 70’s and the current brick façade is NOT the historic brick from the original building. - Therefore, the COA Application that is being submitted is to remove the NON-HISTORIC brick from the south façade. - By complete accident however, during a recent site visit I discovered portions of the original façade storefront and brick that were not removed when the building was re-faced in the earlier renovation. - For this reason, we would like to consider renovating and saving those portions of the original façade which still exist inside the perimeter façade construction. The extent of original historic material is unknown and therefore removal of the most recent material is essential to designing the renovation. This is the critical element of the COA Application. - To facilitate this SCOPE, we have requested a meeting with HAHC staff on Tuesday, November 15th, to inspect the storefront and, as best as possible, evaluate the portions of the original storefront visible from the existing interior loading dock. - The completion of the demolition would then inform the design decisions for the building rehabilitation. - Issues of parking, use and other modifications would be determined and submitted for an additional COA for the improvements and COH permits separately. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Proposed renovation design for 3400 White Oak Dr included with the submission. The design is from Cisneros Design Studio. Below is a 3D render of the building prior to the current on-going renovations 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Proposed floor plan for 3400 White Oak Dr included with the submission. Existing floor plan of 3400 White Oak Dr 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookey23 Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 6 hours ago, IntheKnowHouston said: I think the new owners are or either tied to Bazbaz Development. Seems like a pretty unusual venture for them, based on their portfolio on their website, but I'm not mad about it at all. Coincidentally, I had a friend who lived at 25 Bond and it was really swanky and nice. Hopefully these guys have something ambitious planned because the rest of their portfolio seems really high-end. I feel like this could be a great addition to the neighborhood 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBC2HTX Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 (edited) I know a Sonny Bazbaz. This is his website: https://www.bbzdevelopment.com Perhaps a coincidence and they are different people. Edited March 1, 2023 by LBC2HTX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookey23 Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Confusing that both of these guys are named Sonny Bazbaz, but the link LBC2HTX posted makes much more sense than the NY based mostly-residential developer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbg.50 Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Any idea what this will be? There is cloth fencing around the property. It's a prime location right next door to Coltivare. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbg.50 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookey23 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 I was talking to the owner of Padre's and he said that he thinks this is being converted into a restaurant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbg.50 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 2 hours ago, bookey23 said: I was talking to the owner of Padre's and he said that he thinks this is being converted into a restaurant. That would be good. It's interesting...the picture of the building on March 1st with the red brick facade looks better than how the building looks today. 🤷♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookey23 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 (edited) I think they're putting in a bunch of windows and doors to make it street-facing on White Oak. The prior building was essentially a warehouse with no windows Edited April 18, 2023 by bookey23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
springcityparts Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Only confusing thing here if it’s going to be a restaurant is that the floor plan proposes 3 leases 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBC2HTX Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) This is going to be a restaurant https://www.bbzdevelopment.com/3400-white-oak Edited June 24, 2023 by LBC2HTX 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
springcityparts Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Yeah I heard just a couple of days ago that it’s another restaurant by Agricole Hospitality, the restaurant group behind Coltivare, EZ Liquor Lounge, and Eight Row Flint 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amlaham Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 11 hours ago, LBC2HTX said: This is going to be a restaurant https://www.bbzdevelopment.com/3400-white-oak The site plan doesn't make sense, are they planning on demolishing half the building for parking? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 16 hours ago, emmanume said: Yeah I heard just a couple of days ago that it’s another restaurant by Agricole Hospitality, the restaurant group behind Coltivare, EZ Liquor Lounge, and Eight Row Flint Neat! I'm surprised you didn't post about it on NextDoor like many of the other Heights developments you're posted there recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbg.50 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 There is a “For Lease” sign in front of the building. Did the restaurant fall through? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h8s Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 I took this photo of the east façade this afternoon. I can’t read the name of the pharmacy. Does anyone know the name and when this pharmacy closed? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbg.50 Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 28 minutes ago, h8s said: I took this photo of the east façade this afternoon. I can’t read the name of the pharmacy. Does anyone know the name and when this pharmacy closed? I see the imprint “WHITE OAK PHARMACY” but there is no record (that I could find) of a pharmacy existing here. It is, however, a historical building so who knows. What’s interesting is there was a Balfanz Pharmacy just a block over at the corner of Harvard and White Oak. http://boggythicket.blogspot.com/2011/10/at-balfanz-pharmacy.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h8s Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 Just saw this on NextDoor regarding the same topic: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/houstonchronicle/name/maurice-eskowitz-obituary?id=20115222 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbg.50 Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 7 hours ago, h8s said: Just saw this on NextDoor regarding the same topic: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/houstonchronicle/name/maurice-eskowitz-obituary?id=20115222 Ok so Belfanz Pharmacy became White Oak Pharmacy. Could they have moved the Pharmacy over a block? Or that sign might have said White Oak Pharmacy up ahead? This site has some interesting pictures of the building: https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/Commissions/hahc_2022/B08_HAHC_3400_White_Oak_Alteration_Final.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntheKnowHouston Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) Once again, a certain mod (H.T.) took it upon himself to change the title of a topic that didn't need changing. In fact, I noticed this mod had a field day this week and the last week of September unnecessarily changing topic titles in this forum and the Montrose forum. The title was previously 3400 White Oak Dr; however, as ALWAYS this mod changed the title to White Oak Pharmacy At 3400 White Oak Dr. And this wasn't the first time the title of this topic has been changed. Since it's creation, the title has been changed THREE times in SEVEN MONTHS. It makes no sense. These unnecessary and constant modifications have been an issue since this person because a moderator in 2019. None of the other moderators edits our titles and topics like this mod does. And there are other very active members who have shared privately they too don't care for this moderator's constant edits to topics we create for this forum. Yes, the building was previously home to White Oak Pharmacy DECADES ago, but not anymore. In fact, the building ISN'T even named White Oak Pharmacy. Even the current owner / developer is not dubbing this building as White Oak Pharmacy. Instead, it's listed and marketed as 3400 White Oak Dr only. Perhaps this moderator can create a topic for White Oak Pharmacy in the Historic Houston forum. @Triton @Urbannizer please edit this title and change it back to 3400 White Oak Dr Thanks. Edited October 8, 2023 by IntheKnowHouston 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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