Over the weekend MATCH Theater and Montrose H-E-B designer Lake Flato hit Instagram to release some depictions of what the former McGowen Cleaners at the corner of Fairview and Morse streets might looked like dressed up as a restaurant (as per that TABC license notification spotted over the summer at the site). The design shows some of the current doors turned into windows, some of the current windows turned into much longer windows, and an existing patio cover hosting a series of hanging seat-pods, amid much leafier landscaping. The plan also calls for the creation of a new courtyard out back, to be “carved out of the existing building;” another rendering shows a sliver of what that might look like from the inside, on the right below:
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- Previously on Swamplot: Newly Sold McGowen Cleaners Building Getting Liquored Up on Fairview St.; McGowen Cleaners For Sale on Fairview Near Restaurant-Slated Former Te House of Tea
Images: Lake Flato (renderings), LoopNet (photo of former McGowen Cleaners).
So I guess Fairview is the next restaurant row with Westheimer leases so high now?
Fairview prices aren’t that cheap either brother. Business is getting competitive.
Fairview’s transforming into a hipster retail baby blvd. This building being saved is a plus for the neighborhood.
The residents had better start the process of making their side street permitted parking before the “the next big area” hits…