This somewhat industrial stretch of Berry Rd. just west of Irvington on Houston’s Northside will soon be home to a new food-and-entertainment strip center developed by the Alamo Tamale Company. The 21,000-sq.-ft. theme center and parking lot were designed by Cisneros Design Studio Architects (local ethnographers among our readers may recognize Cisneros as the designer of Katy’s recently shuttered Forbidden Gardens). Lining up on the south-facing strip at 809 Berry will be the best in tamale-themed entertainment: a full-service restaurant, a cantina open late, a panaderia that’ll open early, a banquet and reception hall, and a raspa and dessert bar open primarily on weekends. But the featured destination will likely be the new Alamo Tamale storefront itself, next door to the company’s existing handmade tamale HQ. You should be able to pick it out quickly — it’s the one with the Alamo-like facade:
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Plus, for dedicated masa-and-motoring fans: a tamale drive-thru. Warwick Construction expects to begin building the facility after the official groundbreaking, which is scheduled for next week.
Images: Cisneros Design Studio
I love this friggin’ town!
The near north side continues to attract more attention. Maybe even more so if the rail line opens in the near term….Nice to see some of the lesser known close-in neighborhoods with such potenial get investment dollars.
When do they start work on this?