Tag: 77494

Brunner, Cinco Ranch, Houston Heights, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Retail

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Updates on a few restaurants Swamplot has been following:

Reopened: Azzarelli’s, an Italian-American restaurant that began the year in Cinco Ranch’s Tuscan-themed Villagio Town Center, then (after a notable exit) camped for a while (as Azzarelli’s Corner CafÃ©) in another center at 6455 South Fry Road, opened last week in its 4th location within just a couple of years: 17754 Katy Freeway, Suite B, I-10 at Barker Cypress. “With this great location, I will be open 365 days a year,” owner Frank Triola tells his press-release copywriter.
Opening Soon: The restaurant going into the former Cue & Cushion pool hall at 510 Shepherd that Swamplot reported on earlier this fall now has a name: Branch Water Tavern — and a more palatable label than “gastropub.” Try “Modern American Tavern.” Chef David Grossman says it’ll open later this month, but the Houston Press‘s Robb Walsh, who’s toured the construction site, thinks Christmas is more likely.

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77007, 77008, 77094, 77494, Barker Cypress, Brunner, Cinco Ranch, Houston Heights, Openings and Closings, Retail

Cinco Ranch

03/02/09 12:13pm

Hey, Hey, Stay Outta Our Chick-fil-A

Master-Planned Communities, Quicklink, Restaurants

77494, Fast Food, Fort Bend County, Franchises and Chain Stores, Master-Planned Communities, Restaurants, Shopping Centers

HEY, HEY, STAY OUTTA OUR CHICK-FIL-A A brief excerpt from that satirical article in the Cinco Ranch High School newspaper that sparked protests from students of neighboring schools at the LaCenterra Shopping Center last Friday: “You can’t help but be a little bit angry when you’re stuck in the Whataburger drive-thru behind an unimaginably large caravan of Katy cars, each sporting at least 12 stickers reminding you of their accomplishments. If they’re so great why can’t they go to their own Whataburger? There’s this feeling in our little corner of the world that just says: This is Cinco. Some believe there is a sense of ownership to the neighboring businesses and restaurants… Cinco’s Mission Burrito. Cinco’s Target. Cinco’s Taco Bell, Whataburger, Sonic. Seeing anything but maroon clad students and parents roaming the aisles seems odd to some. Don’t they have their own places to go? ” [Fort Bend Now]

Hazards

02/17/09 5:23pm

Seen on the Street: Armature Armchair

Houston Heights, Industrial Properties, Katy, Montrose, Openings and Closings, Parking, Restaurants, Strip Centers

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Ready to see some fun pix from around town? Here’s the guardhouse for the loading dock at the Igloo plant in Katy, as captured a while back by blogger Donna B.

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77006, 77007, 77494, Hazards, Houston Heights, Industrial Pollution, Katy, Montrose, Openings and Closings, Parking-Lots, Restaurants, Strip Centers, Westheimer

Katy

12/15/08 10:45am

How To Bring the Mall Closer to Main Street: Katy Shows the Way

Mixed Use, Proposed Developments, Shopping Centers, Streets

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Just line that short central driveway through your new power-center parking lot with a small number of stores and head-in parking. Fortify the freeway frontage with an FM-1960-worthy strip of more than the usual number of pad sites, and build the whole thing next to a mall! Next problem?

Introducing the new Katy Main Street, a just-announced 86-acre shopping center named for the short strip of 4 retail buildings meant to line its gullet.

The mixed-use development is designed to include 485,000 square feet of retail space, 500,000 square feet of office space and a full-service hotel and convention center at the southwest corner of Interstate 10 and Pin Oak Road in Katy.

All this . . . just across the street from the Katy Mills Mall!

77494, Katy, Mixed Use, Power Centers, Proposed Developments, Shopping Centers, Streets

Katy

12/11/08 12:47pm

Not Going West

Office Buildings, Office Space, Proposed Developments, Quicklink

NOT GOING WEST The Energy Corridor won’t be extending to Katy just yet. KBR’s big move to a new 8-building campus a mile east of the Katy Mills Mall has been scrapped — “for now”: â€œâ€˜We hope it is a delay, not a change in plans,’ said Will Holder, president of Trendmaker Homes. The development division of the company is building Cross Creek Ranch, a 3,200-acre master-planned community in Fulshear. KBR announced its project in May, saying it wanted to be closer to its growing employee- and customer-base in west Houston, where it would be joining the likes of BP and ConocoPhillips. The campus was designed to include more than 910,000 square feet of space in a series of low-rise buildings at the southwest corner of Interstate 10 and Grand Parkway. Construction was expected to start by yearâ€™s end, with estimated completion in 2010. The company was going to lease the facility from developer Trammell Crow Co., which was going to build it on a 123-acre parcel along with shopping centers, restaurants, additional office buildings and hotels.” [Houston Chronicle]

77494, Cancellations and Delays, Energy-Corridor, Katy, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments

Apartments

11/18/08 9:13am

Maybe Siennna Is Available?

Cinco Ranch, Fort Bend County, New Construction: Residential, Quicklink, Real Estate Marketing, Senior Living, Sienna Plantation

MAYBE SIENNNA IS AVAILABLE? Marketing new themed apartments has got to be tough these days — all those great Southern European-y names are already taken! “Out-of-state developers thought they had coined a great name for their senior living apartments in Katy. Then they found out a nearby master-planned community had already claimed the same name. A joint venture led by Georgia-based Formation Development Group LLC broke ground in May on The Sienna at Cinco Ranch apartments at 24001 Cinco Village Center Blvd., west of Houston. But the site was a little too close for comfort to the Sienna Plantation master-planned community located south of Cinco Ranch in Fort Bend County. So Formation Development formulated a slight change of plans â€” The Sienna at Cinco Ranch is now going to be called The Solana at Cinco Ranch. ‘There was a little bit of confusion,’ says Karen Thompson, a spokeswoman for the development firm. ‘They wanted to have something that was going to be unique to their property.'” [Houston Business Journal]

77494, Apartments, Cinco Ranch, Fort Bend County, New Construction: Residential, Real Estate Marketing, Senior Living, Sienna-Plantation, Theming

Home Decor

11/17/08 10:31am

Katy Does Contemporary Country: More Pix of that House on Woods Lane

Homes for Sale, Houston Architects, Interiors, Katy, Uncategorized

Readers obsessed with the Katy house designed by Wylie W. Vale that was featured in last week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game will be interested to see these additional views of the 1952 home — in all its original “little bit country, little bit Mod” glory. They were taken by architectural photographer (and yes, game winner) Ben Hill on a quick visit early last year.

77494, Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Houston Architects, Interiors, Katy, Modern Design

Home Decor

11/13/08 5:54pm

Neighborhood Guessing Game Over: Contemporary Country

Homes for Sale, Houston Architects, Interiors, Katy, Neighborhood Guessing Game

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Neighborhood Guessing Game 32: Office

Just what was it that made this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game the most popular ever? Carol tries to explain:

Itâ€™s not just the cool mod furniture and decorations, or the funky taxidermy room. Maybe itâ€™s that the house looks like the family was so much fun. Maybe it represents the family we all want to go home to on holidays, when Grandma pulls out the Betty Crocker cookbook and makes the greatest stuffing ever and Grandpa tells his hunting stories for the thousandth time. Maybe this was the real American middle class dream of the 1950s. Cue the violins and the teardrop. I second the call for a field trip. Realtor: Please schedule an open house!

Here were your guesses: Garden Oaks, Garden Oaks near Shepherd, Spring Branch (3 votes), Sharpstown (2 votes), Meyerland (2), off Braeswood near the Braeburn Country Club, Bellaire, Garden Villas (2), Braeswood, Glenbrook Valley (2), Spring Valley, Willowbend, Linkwood (2), Memorial Bend, South Braeswood near Stella Link, Tanglewood, Memorial (3), Hunters Creek, Pasadena (3), Meadowcreek, Allendale, Mount Vernon, Ayrshire, Piney Point, Katy, Braeswood (2), South Houston, East Harris County, Deer Park, Baytown, Memorial Villages (3), Marilyn Estates, “Briargrove, or one of those Briar places,” off Briar Forest inside the Beltway, Willow Meadows, Riverside Terrace, between Spring Valley and Hedwig Village, Lake Jackson (2), Texas City, Mt. Pleasant, Creekside, Tynewood, Westbury, and Park Place.

How far are you willing to travel for that open house?

The winner was BenH, who in accordance with rule 3 “guessed” Katy. He’s visited the house, but deserves credit for reporting about it on HAIF last week (shortly before another reader wrote to Swamplot with the suggestion). He says the photos don’t do it justice.

Many fine and original comments this week! Honorable mentions go to JT, for some never-mind-the-carbon dating (but what if the home truly was ahead of its time?):

The house is definitely in the 1954-1958 era with the pale yellow kitchen tile counters and the MCM signature pink adobe brick being the telltale. Mrs. Matron loved her draperies but, Lord, can anyone open them up? It looks like some prime windows are hidden.

and Jessica, for expressing the spirit of many in the group, before outing herself as one of those crazed, antler-worthy fans:

You might not want to post the address of this place – I fear the homeowner might be fighting hopeful furniture buyers off with a stick! (Or a pair of antlers – plenty of those handy.) I am totally obsessed with this house, and would also like to see whatâ€™s inside the kitchen cabinets!

Eager to have a better look at this house yourself? Here’s some more detail:

77494, Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Houston Architects, Interiors, Katy, Modern Design, Neighborhood Guessing Game

Land Development

10/04/07 12:34pm

Meanwhile, Way Way Way Outside the Loop . . .