Some blue fists are clenched on the ground floor of the Bayou Lofts building, at the northeast corner of Travis and Franklin — La Calle Tacos y Tortas purports to be bringing Mexico City-style street fare to the space at 909 Franklin St. Owner Ramon Soriano Tomka anticipates a February opening, and is currently plugging the chance to win free tacos for a year via various social media platforms.
The storefront is the former home of dim sum spot Hong Kong Diner, and sits between the former homes of Franklin Street Coffee and Brewery Incubator, the kitchen-kickstarter-turned-brewery-fermenter that was evicted in 2014 following complaints about a late-night game of naked Twister.
A rendering posted to La Calle’s facebook page shows what the spot could look like after buildout is complete:
” . . . You’ve got to fill two dumpsters with trash, rip out the carpet, probably all the sheet rock at this point (to get rid of the urine smell that is probably in there), bleach clean the studs, probably sand and refinish the wooden floors downstairs to address pet stains. The bathrooms could use an update. Still though, good profit at that price, but I’d say you’ve three to four months’ work to get it onto the market — plus however much it costs to get a hacker to remove all internet traces of this listing and the photos.” [
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