Note: More here.
It looks like that retail center that’s replacing the art gallery that burned down is beginning to shape up. And it looks like at least one of the future tenants intends to serve adult beverages. The sign behind the chain-link at the site names the applicant as Leaven & Earth, and a rep from the TABC confirms that the application, filed on April 17, is pending. The original plans for the site here at 1706 Westheimer describe a 4,829-sq.-ft. building — with 36 parking spaces behind it, accessible from Dunlavy — designed to replace the Galerie Mado Chalvet, which was lost in a fire and immortalized on a backpack in 2012.
- Previously on Swamplot: Burned Building Next to Agora on Westheimer Returns — As a Backpack, No, Dunkin’ Donuts Is Not Coming to the Corner of Westheimer and Dunlavy, The Commotion at the Corner of Westheimer and Dunlavy
Photos: Allyn West
Some more color on the new tenant:
http://houston.eater.com/archives/2013/02/15/pastry-chef-roy-shvartzapel-reveals-plan-to-bring-worldclass-cafe-to-montrose.php
As long as they leave my good friend Leigh’s ghostbike as it is, I welcome whatever they open.
I can’t believe Leigh’s ghostbike has mad it this long. Would like to see a fire engine truck planted under its front wheel.
R.I.P. Leigh Boone