Popular Post zaphod Posted March 31, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) I'm sure the interior build out is very nice, but if I didn't know what was going on I'd say from its external appearance that the old Fiesta was becoming some kind of non-denominational church with a name like "Praise Connection" or something. Or maybe it's a new "Junior Striver's Academy Charter School". Or a Mega Self Storage. Just looks the part, lol. Edited March 31, 2021 by zaphod 6 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I'm always amazed by what a fresh coat of paint does to a building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specwriter Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 12 hours ago, zaphod said: I'm sure the interior build out is very nice, but if I didn't know what was going on I'd say from its external appearance that the old Fiesta was becoming some kind of non-denominational church with a name like "Praise Connection" or something. Or maybe it's a new "Junior Striver's Academy Charter School". Or a Mega Self Storage. Just looks the part, lol. I say put the money on the inside. This structure's days (years really) may be numbered. There is no point in gilding a lily that is intended to be demo'd for something else in the future. As we have seen with some churches and charter schools, former big box stores can make useful, if temporary, homes for such uses. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 13 hours ago, zaphod said: I'm sure the interior build out is very nice, but if I didn't know what was going on I'd say from its external appearance that the old Fiesta was becoming some kind of non-denominational church with a name like "Praise Connection" or something. Or maybe it's a new "Junior Striver's Academy Charter School". Or a Mega Self Storage. Just looks the part, lol. wait, I thought Fiesta was just trying out the new trendier exterior color scheme of "paint everything grey"? seriously, I am guessing they had limited options for the exterior (owing to the budget constraints specwriter suggests), but it is pretty uninspired. I guess everything can't be amazing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidCenturyMoldy Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 3/29/2021 at 3:23 PM, hindesky said: Why does the area above the green stripe look like a really bad Photoshop cloning job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerNut Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Why all the concern over how the old Fiesta looks? This will building will have dedicated shop and lab space. Most of the shop/labs for O&G that I've been to were just warehouses that could be easily reconfigured depending on the project. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 4 hours ago, BeerNut said: Why all the concern over how the old Fiesta looks? This will building will have dedicated shop and lab space. Most of the shop/labs for O&G that I've been to were just warehouses that could be easily reconfigured depending on the project. Same reason as there's concern over how the old Sears looks. This is the face of the new innovative Houston. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BeerNut Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 On 2/4/2021 at 7:17 PM, j_cuevas713 said: I was going to say the same. Very possible. Maybe he's going all in on Austin. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2021/04/02/sources-spacex-facility-planned-near-tesla-plant.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 If anyone has access- a webcast presentation on the Innovation District will be held April 15th. https://utcle.org/conferences/LD21/download-schedule https://utcle.org/conferences/LD21 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted April 10, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 10, 2021 I asked the guy with the wheel barrow when they were going to start the parking garage, he said he hopped they start building it this month and it was going to be a precast garage. He had a pump and another guy was bringing some hoses to pump the water out. More fencing has been removed from the patio area. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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corbs315 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 Uh, what? Greentown is opening...today? https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Greentown-Labs-opening-marks-clean-energy-16119227.php?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 I rode by around 9am and they were setting up the tents and bringing in sound equipment. I'm guessing an afternoon grand opening. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 https://abc13.com/science/greentown-labs-houston-looks-to-usher-in-new-era-of-energy/10538457/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstar Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 1 hour ago, hindesky said: https://abc13.com/science/greentown-labs-houston-looks-to-usher-in-new-era-of-energy/10538457/ Wow, they really went all out on that sign. 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Lymbar Restaurant at 4201 Main Street, Suite 100. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted May 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2021 David Cordúa to open new restaurant in The Ion innovation hub The Lymbar, opening in the fall, represents the return of David and Michael Cordúa to the Houston dining scene Greg Morago May 3, 2021 Chef David Cordúa announced Monday he is opening The Lymbar, a new neighborhood restaurant and craft cocktail bar, scheduled for the fall in The Ion, Rice University’s innovation hub that includes the transformation of the former Sears building at 4201 Main. Partnering with his father, chef Michael Cordúa who invigorated the Houston dining scene with his groundbreaking Américas, David Cordúa’s new project will be driven by Latin and Mediterranean flavors. Lymbar, named for Lymbar Drive in the Southwest Houston neighborhood where Cordúa grew up, represents the first Cordúa restaurant since the father-and-son team’s departure from their namesake Cordúa Restaurants group. In 2018 the Cordúas left the company that included their Churrascos, Américas and Amazon Grill brands to form their own hospitality group. The Lymbar will occupy a corner suite in The Ion, which already announced three restaurants for the project set to open this summer. Designed by Gin Design Group, the bar-forward concept will have 120 seats spread over 4,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor dining space. The restaurant’s focal point will be a bar with an emphasis on barrel-aged spirits. While the menu is still being developed, it will offer globally inspired fare with an emphasis on Latin, South American and Mediterranean dishes with a theatrical vertical rotisserie in the open kitchen. “If Churrascos and Américas were our family story in Central America, The Lymbar is our first opportunity to tell our family story in Houston,” David Cordúa said. “We’re really excited to be a place where people meet, think, eat and drink in The Ion, and we look forward to being a part of the heartbeat of Houston’s new innovation district.” Braverman, the Droubi family (owners of Droubi’s Bakery & Delicatessen), and the Garcia-Prats family (owners of Finca Tres Robles urban farm) were among the Cordúa’s neighbors on Lymbar Drive. Their influences will be reflected at The Lymbar, according to a release Monday. Michael Cordúa, a native of Nicaragua, founded Churrascos in 1988. David Cordúa was born in Houston, earning a culinary diploma from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. He spent more than a decade with his family’s restaurant group from 2007 to 2018. https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/dining/david-cord-a-to-open-new-restaurant-in-the-ion 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted May 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2021 Related? Corner of San Jacinto and Richmond https://fisherarchitects.com/our-work/underway/ 11 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Houston19514 Posted May 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2021 One problem with that . . . there is no such intersection. 3 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 32 minutes ago, Urbannizer said: Related? Corner of San Jacinto and Richmond https://fisherarchitects.com/our-work/underway/ "Phase 1 includes 2 of 3 city blocks under development, with phase 2 residential tower coming shortly" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texan Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 The logical intersection it would be referring to would be San Jacinto and Wheeler, I guess I'll forgive a Florida company for that mistake. If my thinking is correct it could fit in front of Greentown Labs and between the Ion and Greentown Labs. If this is actually what is happening it appears Rice wants to get in on the long term ground lease golden goose. The Texas A&M System makes tens of millions every year off of similar arrangements in College Station. I can only imagine what Rice would make off of these blocks. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post X.R. Posted May 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2021 6 hours ago, Montrose1100 said: "Phase 1 includes 2 of 3 city blocks under development, with phase 2 residential tower coming shortly" A residential tower? There?? Lol, if all the people who regularly experienced san jac and wheeler a decade ago could see this now. I also literally laughed out loud at seeing Party City, Forever 21, and Dicks as the placeholders in that design. I think it was the party city that set me off. 🤣 5 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 44 minutes ago, X.R. said: A residential tower? There?? Lol, if all the people who regularly experienced san jac and wheeler a decade ago could see this now. I also literally laughed out loud at seeing Party City, Forever 21, and Dicks as the placeholders in that design. I think it was the party city that set me off. 🤣 It was missing “Zone D’Erotica” to let folks know this was a real Houston mixed-use. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 7 hours ago, houstontexasjack said: It was missing “Zone D’Erotica” to let folks know this was a real Houston mixed-use. and a mattress store 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 17 hours ago, Urbannizer said: Related? Corner of San Jacinto and Richmond https://fisherarchitects.com/our-work/underway/ On 11/11/2019 at 4:38 PM, rechlin said: The Chronicle's link to the agenda is broken, because the username and password were dropped from the URL, but the full link is ftp://PlatViewer:Viewer4DRC@edrc.houstontx.gov//2019/2019-23_DraftAgenda.pdf Note that the username is PlatViewer and the password is Viewer4DRC, in case HAIF breaks the URL too. The information about the Ion is on pages 140 through 160, and there are a bunch of images not in the article. Here is the full set of images: I don't see a "central laneway" in the renderings (unless the sky bridge counts), but other than that everything else seems to match up with the initial vision. That block would also appear to be next up for construction after the parking garage is completed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rechlin Posted May 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2021 Looking good at night from Wheeler Station, all lit up: 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted May 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) The planter boxes are new. They finally took the rest of the plastic wrap off the Ion signage. Edited May 8, 2021 by hindesky 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 On 5/4/2021 at 11:22 PM, X.R. said: A residential tower? There?? Lol, if all the people who regularly experienced san jac and wheeler a decade ago could see this now. I also literally laughed out loud at seeing Party City, Forever 21, and Dicks as the placeholders in that design. I think it was the party city that set me off. 🤣 I wonder how much space will be allocated to the grocery store mentioned as part of the mix. It probably won't rival Fiesta or Disco Kroger, but even a small one (such as the one in Target at Shepherd Square) would be a welcome addition to that part of town, especially with easy access to the Wheeler Transit Center and the Red Line. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 I'm hoping for a CityTarget. Would be incredibly useful. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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