Triton Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 12 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said: Can you post the article? I was just thinking about Finn Hall today. Is it empty now? Ah, it was Culture Map actually. It's a great article with the inside complexities of this food hall. The interesting parts are further down in the article with the disputes and Finn Hall's future: https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/03-06-20-finn-hall-downtown-food-hall-new-vendors-lit-chicken-papalo-taqueria-pho-binh-david-buehrer-midway-lionstone-investment/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 2 hours ago, Triton said: I think we could very well witness the closure of some local Houston bars and restaurants. As someone who has worked in that industry for awhile now this is a massive understatement. If we have to socially distance past May there won’t be many restaurants left unless the government really steps up to the plate. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Yes it is truly a sad state of affairs... I am seeing so may friends already struggle and that was in hopes of tomorrow being the last day of the stay at home order...but now that this has been extended until the end of the month, it is truly frightening. I have also gotten a handful of emails from various clients saying goodbye from having to close or those being laid off... what is this world now? wow... thoughts (or prayers) for everyone... xo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 12 hours ago, Big E said: Its being built that way because of the of the Texas Capitol View Corridors, which forces the taller buildings to be built with these weird shapes so as not to obstruct views of the Capital building. True to a point, but they could have made the different components more homogeneous. Of course, some people like the look they chose. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 25 minutes ago, gene said: Yes it is truly a sad state of affairs... I am seeing so may friends already struggle and that was in hopes of tomorrow being the last day of the stay at home order...but now that this has been extended until the end of the month, it is truly frightening. I have also gotten a handful of emails from various clients saying goodbye from having to close or those being laid off... what is this world now? wow... thoughts (or prayers) for everyone... xo I am guessing the places that have been successful and well-run will be able to get loans to make it through. When I see a place like the downtown Hard Rock Cafe already closing, it makes me think they weren't that successful and knew the writing was on the wall. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 4 hours ago, H-Town Man said: I am guessing the places that have been successful and well-run will be able to get loans to make it through. When I see a place like the downtown Hard Rock Cafe already closing, it makes me think they weren't that successful and knew the writing was on the wall. I dont known ...I think 20 years for a concept that was played out 19 years ago...can be considered successful 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 16 hours ago, Triton said: I think we could very well witness the closure of some local Houston bars and restaurants. These places function on small margins.... any major event like this can be death for those type of businesses. Highly encourage people to read a recent Houston Chron article about the restaurants that had to leave Finn Hall. Gives you some good incite about the middle men that some restaurants have to work with which further cut into their margins. The middle-man was apparently intense there but, to be honest, I think a lot of the closings there came as a result of the lack of quality overall of the food. Mala was still pretty legit but a lot of people can't handle sichuan spice and so they need a lot of traffic in the place to get enough people that can. There were a lot of subpar food options there. I live and work downtown and barely went. My coworkers who went said the food was bad. I think that the management group that charged all of that money failed good places like Mala by surrounding them with options that wouldn't increase traffic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Nitpicky sidenote - this thread's title is "Coronoavirus Delays" but it's spelled "Coronavirus" also I've ordered out more in the past 3 weeks than I feel like I did all of the rest of the year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 2 hours ago, cspwal said: Nitpicky sidenote - this thread's title is "Coronoavirus Delays" but it's spelled "Coronavirus" also I've ordered out more in the past 3 weeks than I feel like I did all of the rest of the year Simple typo on my end. I was typing fast. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hills Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 On 3/28/2020 at 11:25 PM, H-Town Man said: Do you know if 6X Guadalupe ever started, other than demoing the previous building? That could be a huge casualty of this virus. Yeah, they started column construction and the first crane was scheduled to go up the weekend after the City's SiP Order shutdown construction. It may start up again because the State order is more favorable to construction and supercedes the City order. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 17 hours ago, kbates2 said: Mala was still pretty legit but a lot of people can't handle sichuan spice and so they need a lot of traffic in the place to get enough people that can. I would say the opposite. Rather than being like the other Mala Sichuan restaurants (which are excellent, or at least the Chinatown location was), they had a greatly reduced menu that had too much American Chinese food and very few of the offerings that made their other locations great. There were only like 2-3 traditional dishes on the menu. I was really looking forward to them opening, because downtown had no proper Chinese food, meaning they had the potential to fill a very valuable niche, but instead all we ended up with was basically another American Chinese place but with prices far too high to compete with the others downtown. Look around town and fairly authentic Sichuan-style places are opening up everywhere -- Cooking Girl, Pepper Twins, Spicy Girl, etc -- so there is clearly a lot of demand, but so far nobody has attempted this downtown. Now that the middleman has been removed at Finn Hall we might finally see prices adjust to be more reasonable, because despite working across the street from it, I very rarely went because their prices just weren't competitive. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 On 3/26/2020 at 11:41 PM, Triton said: Hotel occupancy has collapsed: April update: 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrohip Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 And that's a four week moving average (per the chart). If it dropped from 60% to 30% in a FWMA, the actual number is probably single digits.😢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtNsf Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 we are in scary unknown times now. however, if ANY CITY can bounce back from these odds, HOUSTON is the place. So, let's try to stay upbeat while hunkering down during this crisis of social distancing and a pandemic that is under no one's control, yet. Everyone, please stay safe and courteous as most Houstonians have been doing, indeed, most Americans are still doing, since this won't end anytime soon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purdueenginerd Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 We've now had a couple of larger jobs in design phase in Houston and Austin put on temporary hold by ownership. This will trickle own to construction eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hills Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Purdueenginerd said: We've now had a couple of larger jobs in design phase in Houston and Austin put on temporary hold by ownership. This will trickle own to construction eventually. I'm guessing your not at liberty to be more specific about the projects? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purdueenginerd Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 minute ago, The Hills said: I'm guessing your not at liberty to be more specific about the projects? Thats correct. Sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) Hey so did Franks offically close their doors? They weren’t open today. Edited April 13, 2020 by j_cuevas713 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 43 minutes ago, j_cuevas713 said: Hey so did Franks offically close their doors? They weren’t open today. Don't forget, today was Easter Sunday, so some businesses were closed for the holiday. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 49 minutes ago, JLWM8609 said: Don't forget, today was Easter Sunday, so some businesses were closed for the holiday. Oh true I forgot, damn that scared me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 11 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said: Hey so did Franks offically close their doors? They weren’t open today. I saw that franks outdoor patio thing which is a separate entity closed permanently. I don’t know if Franks original pizza place is closed or not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 48 minutes ago, jmitch94 said: I saw that franks outdoor patio thing which is a separate entity closed permanently. I don’t know if Franks original pizza place is closed or not. Didn't they also do that tower next door? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 On 4/13/2020 at 11:06 AM, jmitch94 said: I saw that franks outdoor patio thing which is a separate entity closed permanently. I don’t know if Franks original pizza place is closed or not. Yeah Franks Backyard is permanently closed but not Franks Pizza. It was Easter, that’s why they were closed this past Sunday. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 just an FYI for the non-construction folks out there. we have seen an increase in RFP's and RFQ's coming out of the City and County. Public money is still flowing right now and the last of the approved school bonds are all bidding. There is definitely a fall of in the hospitality side, many projects are getting put on hold or are back with the architects for "design refinements". 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I wonder what Metro is planning. I know they delayed releasing their myriad RFQs by a month, but hopefully they're moving forward with them now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Moving this to the general Houston discussion forum now. Will leave link here for a while in Going Up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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