H-Town Man Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Nah, he can have this one. One thread is enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CREguy13 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Maybe this has already been reported here, but I was told today that of the 31,000 SF of retail space there will be two restaurants (one high-end and one more americana) and a food market with about 18-20 different food vendors. There will be some additional space, but these seem to be certain. I think the food market will do really well in this area. Construction start is 8/16 with estimated completion 4Q 2017. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Food market sounds really promising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amashgo Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 On 5/5/2016 at 9:36 PM, CREguy13 said: Maybe this has already been reported here, but I was told today that of the 31,000 SF of retail space there will be two restaurants (one high-end and one more americana) and a food market with about 18-20 different food vendors. There will be some additional space, but these seem to be certain. I think the food market will do really well in this area. Construction start is 8/16 with estimated completion 4Q 2017. I feel like there is no chance an 8/16 start date is going to happen... They got Hines involved and its out for bid right now. I can't remember when they said it was due it, but those things are going to take more than two weeks from now to shake out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 51 minutes ago, amashgo said: I feel like there is no chance an 8/16 start date is going to happen... They got Hines involved and its out for bid right now. I can't remember when they said it was due it, but those things are going to take more than two weeks from now to shake out. I think they meant August, 2016, not August 16th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amashgo Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Houston19514 said: I think they meant August, 2016, not August 16th. It works out damn near the same though... August of 2016 is a week away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 1 hour ago, amashgo said: It works out damn near the same though... August of 2016 is a week away Yes, but the end of August 2016 is 5 weeks away. A lot more feasible than 2 weeks... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amashgo Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Touche'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 The eastern half of the lobby has reopened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 (edited) Pre-Construction to start on October 21 per the memo sent out today. Should have ground floor retail what the tenants are being told by building management. Edit: I tried uploading the memo from the building but was told it's too big. Edited October 13, 2016 by houstontexasjack 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Is this on any Downtown Houston development map? From the renderings provided by Urbannizer it looks significant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 I was able to use the snipping tool to get some of the pertinent information from the memo for review. Lyric Centre Memo Snips.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 dup threads merged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adr Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 I can hear them banging away outside the building. Can we move this thread to going up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 On 9/29/2015 at 2:24 PM, Urbannizer said: https://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-realty-commercial-real-estate One of the greatest ironies of downtown Houston is that it has largely been the parking garages that have brought ground floor retail and street presence to the landscape, while the buildings they support have largely remained cold sculptures connected by skybridges and tunnels. One typically thinks of the parking garage as anathema to the urban landscape. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 (edited) That's giving a *lot* of credit to parking garages, and it's really only true of a few of them. It's more true really of towers with integrated parking garage bases than of standalone or after-the-fact garages. And of course, the best street presence downtown is Main Street, largely because it has the largest collection of historic buildings with street-facing storefronts. Even the newer buildings either have integrated garages or, like the Skyhausen, pushed their garages to the back. The only exception I can think of is the standalone garage at Main and Rusk. Edited October 31, 2016 by Texasota 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 3 hours ago, Texasota said: That's giving a *lot* of credit to parking garages, and it's really only true of a few of them. It's more true really of towers with integrated parking garage bases than of standalone or after-the-fact garages. And of course, the best street presence downtown is Main Street, largely because it has the largest collection of historic buildings with street-facing storefronts. Even the newer buildings either have integrated garages or, like the Skyhausen, pushed their garages to the back. The only exception I can think of is the standalone garage at Main and Rusk. Don't read too much into it, Texasota, the post was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I was actually thinking of some of the integrated garages, as with 609 Main, Hilcorp, or separate-but-integrated garages like 601 Travis. But I don't see why an integrated garage shouldn't count, because the fact remains that the developer didn't want GFR cluttering up their handsome tower, but did not mind putting it in the garage and seeing what rents it could get. I agree that the best pedestrian presence is on Main Street, but is that because of the historic buildings, or because it has so many parking garages with GFR - or both? Bottom line, parking garages are carrying a lot of the weight of downtown's emerging retail scene, and perhaps even have the majority of new construction GFR downtown. (Disclaimer: I actually am one of those who think parking garages are anathema to the urban landscape, hence the irony.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/bizfeed/article/Work-begins-on-eight-level-parking-garage-for-10629979.php?t=fb6979fd1d438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium Crews have broken ground at the site of a new 810-vehicle parking garage that will connect the Lyric Centre and the Alley Theatre Center in downtown Houston. Upon completion, the 327,315-square-foot parking structure will be eight stories, with ground-level space for restaurants, according to Rhode Island-based Gilbane Building Co., which is working on the project for Houston developer Hines. Plans are to renovate the plaza and sidewalks to add outdoor seating. A tunnel under Prairie Street will connect the Lyric Centre to the basement level of the Alley Theatre. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I thought GFR was removed from this project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nole23 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 1 hour ago, j_cuevas713 said: I thought GFR was removed from this project It was removed from the garage going up at Franklin & Milam http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/32685-franklin-milam-10-story-garage/?page=3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Just now, Nole23 said: It was removed from the garage going up at Franklin & Milam http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/32685-franklin-milam-10-story-garage/?page=3 Ahh ok I barely found out they were building a garage at Franklin and Milam. I got confused. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Why cut the trees? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Normally I'd sigh loudly about the trees... but what rocket scientist* thought that sycamores would make good street trees? Their fall leaves are like catcher's mitts, and they drop pods that are the size and weight of softballs. (*perhaps it was a rocket scientist, since it's more of a horticulturalist's job to know these things) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 13 hours ago, mollusk said: Normally I'd sigh loudly about the trees... but what rocket scientist* thought that sycamores would make good street trees? Their fall leaves are like catcher's mitts, and they drop pods that are the size and weight of softballs. (*perhaps it was a rocket scientist, since it's more of a horticulturalist's job to know these things) Sycamores are great street trees 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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