Down the street from Lamar High School, the would-have-been-Little-Woodrow’s now going instead by Kirby Ice House (“A Neighborhood Pearl”) is setting up shop at 3333 Eastside St., between the parking lot used for the weekly Urban Harvest Farmer’s Market and the Bammel Park townhomes. A post to the establishment’s Facebook page earlier this week shows that the under-construction building has just finished turning an icy blue, and the accompanying caption says that work is moving into “the detail phase”.
The bar’s across-the-street neighbors include nonprofit women’s career services center Dress for Success and the main building of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston — both groups expressed concern about the bar’s location in 2014 after the president of the Bammel Park Homeowner’s Association sounded a neighborhood-wide email alarm. Dress for Success filed a protest of the ice house’s TABC license that July; the license was issued in December of that same year.
A rendering of the building’s exterior shows the ice house standing next to a townhouse-free field:
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Original plans for the ice house called for a 5,000 sq.ft. building, with 2,000 sq.ft. of patio space:
Early plans also incorporated a large oak tree previously rooted the property; all of the property’s large trees, however, appear to have been cut down by last August.
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Images: Kirby Ice House
Yep… welcome to Houston and lack of zoning :)
If you don’t like it, you can always move.
Establishment named “Kirby ___” not on Kirby, check.
“Ice house” built from scratch, check.
I must be reading about Houston real estate.
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I’ll take the 75+ year old ice house in my nearby neighborhood, thanks. It’s actually named after the street that it’s on. I don’t mind that it’s in the neighborhood. It gets a lot of walk-up traffic, and the drive-up traffic parks on the surrounding streets. It’s only a problem if people inconsiderately park a single vehicle centered across both spots in front of a house, instead of pulling up or back and leaving room for another car. OK, yeah, and the jaywalkers who refuse to use the brand new five-foot-wide sidewalk.
Put it in the Heights and call it a Private Club.
Be sure to provide minimal parking.
Cannot wait for this place to open!
The 800 block of Columbia would be perfect.
“Dress for Success filed a protest of the ice house’s TABC license that July; the license was issued in December of that same year.”
You lose. :)
Excellent! We need more quality drinking spots in the area.
Seriously, the minimum lot size requirements for block after block in the Heights are set to expire in the next 2 to 3 years. I don’t think that anyone that has moved here in the last 10 years is told this. If I haven’t signed deed restrictions and own/buy adjacent properties what keeps me from getting a club designation? I can provide parking, I can provide a sophisticated atmosphere to bring in a better looking booze hound crowd and wing a few bucks at the parks and schools so I can be featured in local rags. I’ll even rehab my historic structure and take part in self congratulatory award ceromonies with city officials and realtors. Let me know what I’m missing.
Isnt there a mosque almost across the street? Guess they dont get the same zoning laws a churches. I hope they do some BBQing here when the weather is nice :)
This is going to be an iconic place. 6,500 sq. ft interior space and a 1 acre backyard. And over 300 FREE parking places at adjacent office building!
50 beers on tap
All your cocktails including 4 craft cocktails on tap
Great TV and audio package
Throwback decor from the 60’s
Great furniture inside and out
Fantastic landscaping
Get ready Houston