Buildings for Lease

09/07/16 11:00am

A sign of possible second chances for anyone looking to make a play for the former Wabash Feed & Garden Store building at 5701 Washington Ave: the leasing noticeÂ now up out front, shown here as spotted by a reader yesterday. Onion Creek owner GaryÂ Mosley bought the land early this year and announced plans to turn the buildingÂ into a restaurant and bar called Driftwood once the garden store headed out to itsÂ new spot. At that time, the moveout was planned for June; Wabash owner Betty HeackerÂ tells Landan Kuhlman this month that the new location in the former Mechanical Plumbing, Inc. warehouse atÂ 4537 N. Shepherd should finally be ready to goÂ by late October.

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Options on Wash Ave

77007, Bars, Buildings for Lease, Commercial Properties, Industrial Properties, Restaurants

Bars and Clubs

08/22/16 1:30pm

Buffalo Fred’s Ice House Price Now Down to $3.25 Million on N. Shepherd

by Christine Gerbode

Buildings for Lease, Buildings for Sale, Houston Heights

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Buffalo Fred's Ice House, 2708 N. Shepherd Dr., Houston Heights, Houston, 77008

Buffalo Fred's Ice House, 2708 N. Shepherd Dr., Houston Heights, Houston, 77008 After a month or soÂ on the market at $3.75 million, the asking price on Buffalo Fred’s Ice House has dropped by half a million as of early last week. The 37,500 sq.ft. property, positioned right across the northern boundary of the potentially moistening Heights dry zone at 2708 N. Shepherd Dr., sits a few blocks north of the ongoing culinary redevelopment zone near the recent Fiesta Mart breakup. The HAR sales listing notes that leasing the space is an option (and a matching LoopNet leasing listingÂ has been addedÂ for the property in the last few weeks).

The listing claims the early-1980s ice house is now running on a month-to-month lease; the bar building is up for grabs along with the 2,100-sq.-ft. building formerly occupied by Speedy Cycle Lube (on the right hand side, both above and below):

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Room to Roam in Houston Heights

77008, Bars, Buildings for Lease, Buildings for Sale, Heights Dry Zone, Houston Heights, Ice Houses

Buildings for Lease

08/02/16 3:45pm

Now a Second Entire 20-Story Energy Corridor Office Building Is Available for Lease on I-10

by Swamplot

Energy Corridor, Leasing, Office Buildings, Office Space

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Westlake Four, 200 Westlake Park Blvd., Houston Please don’t turn around and stare, but suddenlyÂ another entire office tower in the Energy Corridor has becomeÂ available for lease — all 20 floors of it. AnyÂ takers?

So far, only one of the 2 extremely available towersÂ appears to qualify as a genuineÂ see-through building — that would be the 22-story completed-but-never-occupied Energy Center Four, at N. Eldridge Pkwy. and I-10, which back in JuneÂ ConocoPhillips announced it was giving up on moving intoÂ but hoped some other company (or 32) would sublease from them. And nowÂ fromÂ Nancy Sarnoff comes the other dropping shoe: energy company BP, announcing that by early next year it plans to vacateÂ Four Westlake Park, aka WestLake Four, a little more than a mile west along the freeway feeder road, at 200 Westlake Park Blvd. BP has 7 years to go on its lease for that 22-year-old property from New York-based Falcon Real Estate Investment Management.

BP puts more office space onto crowded sublease market [Houston Chronicle]
ConocoPhillips offers up Energy Corridor tower as sublease glut grows [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Westlake Park Four: Steven Baker

Getting Lonely on the Katy Fwy.

77079, Buildings for Lease, Energy-Corridor, Leasing, Office Buildings

Buildings for Lease

07/27/16 12:45pm

Architectural Antiques Shop Leaves 1917 Brick and Mortar Spot, Embraces the Digital Age

by Christine Gerbode

Midtown

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Adkins Architectural Antiques, 3515 Fannin St., Midtown, 77004

Closing Sale Sign at Adkins Architectural Antiques, 3515 Fannin St., Midtown, 77004 A reader noted these notes nearÂ the door of the former homeÂ of Adkins Architectural Antiques, which had been operating out of the 100-ish-year-old houseÂ at 3515 FanninÂ (at the corner with Berry St.). The shop is rebranding as Adkins Antique Hardware Co.Â and retreating from the realm of physical architecture to a fully digital storefront.Â The company’s inventory also looks to be shiftingÂ away from bigger items like salvaged doors and windows to focus in on the little things — likeÂ knobs, pulls, and hinges, bothÂ oldÂ andÂ old-looking. Per the new website, you might still be able toÂ get anÂ in-person appointment as theÂ closingÂ sale wraps up.

The property itself was listed for lease on LoopNetaboutÂ 2 weeks ago,Â under its HCAD alter ego of 1103 Berry. The house and its early-1990s warehouse are the only structures on the block, which otherwise serves as parking lot.Â CBRE’s leasing flier aerial (below) showsÂ the space bathed in green highlighting,Â in placeÂ between the Ensemble Theater, several Houston Community College buildings, that Holman-St.-facing strip center,Â and the Downtown Pregnancy Help Center (thought the fact that itÂ doesn’t show much progress on the recently-wrapped MATCH building dates the shot):

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Out with the Old in Midtown

77004, Antiques, Buildings for Lease, Midtown

Buildings for Lease

07/13/16 10:15am

Empty Houston Office Space Hits 20-Year High With More In the Pipeline

by Christine Gerbode

Quicklink

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EMPTY HOUSTON OFFICE SPACE HITS 20-YEAR HIGH WITH MORE IN THE PIPELINE 609 Main St., Downtown, Houston, 77002 “The damage has been done,” writes Ralph Bivins this morning: although developers in the city have mostly stopped starting new office buildings, the past quarter “was the first time in 21 quarters that Houston had negative absorption, meaning more office space was emptied than filled.” And the office space availability rate, brushing up against 20 percent, is also higherÂ than it has been at any time since 1995; real estate scrutinizer CBRE estimates that the rate could shoot past the 20-year record to 21 percent in 2017Â as more sublease space hits the market (and more of the spaceÂ already under construction,Â on the order of 4.2 million sq.ft., wraps up).Â [Realty News Report] Photo of 609 Main construction:Â Katherine Feser (bottom)

Buildings for Lease, Office Space, Oil

Now Leasing: 59 Diner’s Former Shepherd Location Next to The Halal Guys

by Christine Gerbode

Restaurants, Upper Kirby

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Former 59 Diner, 3801 Farnham St,, Upper Kirby, Houston, 77098

The original Shepherd-side location of 59 Diner is now up for lease, with teal-and-bubblegum exteriorÂ still intact. The whole 59Â chain shut downÂ suddenly at the end of February,Â amidÂ aÂ tangleÂ of formal and informal disputesÂ regardingÂ employee pay.Â The listing indicates thatÂ the 6,000-sq.-ft. building (officiallyÂ located at 3801 Farnham St.) can be divided, as long as the future tenant wants at least 2,000 ft.

The ex-diner property is next door toÂ the smaller building now housingÂ The Halal Guys, whose red-and-yellow stripedÂ canopyÂ is visible on the right in the east-facing photo above. The formerÂ carwash reopened as the New-York-food-cart-gone-international-chain’s first Texas location a few weeks before the 59 closures;Â hundreds of customers linedÂ up outside the tiny venue during the opening weekend rush, some allegedly fillingÂ 59’s parking lotÂ whileÂ waiting for hours for gyros and chicken.

3801 Farnham St.Â [LoopNet]
59 Diner Owner Showed Up to Pay Employees â€” and It Got TenseÂ [Houston Press]
Longtime Houston diner shutters remaining locationsÂ [HBJ]
Previously on Swamplot:Â 59 Shake: You Want Fries with That?

Photo: LoopNet

Upper Kirby

77098, Buildings for Lease, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Upper Kirby

Buildings for Lease

06/22/15 10:30am

New Exposure for the Shuttered Camera Co-Op Storefront

by Swamplot

Retail, Rice Military

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A big for-lease sign has been posted to the door of the building at 801 Durham Dr. in Rice Military. Longtime building tenant Camera Co-Op (see above photo) shut down here at the beginning of last month. The camera-lens mural that surrounded the camera store’s front door has been painted over.

Photos: Stephen J Alexander (door); Camera Co-Op (building)

Houston’s Retail Canon

77007, Buildings for Lease, Openings and Closings, Retail, Rice Military

Buildings for Lease

06/20/14 1:30pm

Don’t Bother the Fine Folks at Cafe Japon, but Would You Like To Lease Their Building?

by Swamplot

Quicklink, Restaurants, Upper Kirby

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DON’T BOTHER THE FINE FOLKS AT CAFE JAPON, BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEASE THEIR BUILDING? Cafe Japon, 3915 Kirby Dr., Upper Kirby, Houston A listing for the 4,000-sq.-ft. restaurant space tucked deep into the space at 3915 Kirby Dr. just north of the Southwest Fwy. appeared last week on LoopNet. “Please do not disturb the tenant,” the listing says, noting that the building is currently occupied month-to-month by “a Japanese restaurant.” That would be longtime sushi purveyorÂ CafÃ© Japon. How long might it be until some new-kid-in-town restaurant displaces it? An interloper would have to pay $14,000 per month in addition to a share of property taxes, the listing says. [LoopNet, via Chris Frankel] Photo: LoopNet

77098, Buildings for Lease, Leasing, Restaurants, Upper Kirby

Buildings for Lease

05/13/14 12:15pm

What They’re Tweeting About Your Lease Rates

by Swamplot

Leasing, Lower Westheimer, Montrose, Quicklink, Real Estate Marketing

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WHAT THEY’RE TWEETING ABOUT YOUR LEASE RATES 2502 Dunlavy St., Lower Westheimer, Park, Montrose, Houston We now join the Twitter discussion of the potential lease of spaces at 2502 Dunlavy St. just north of Westheimer Rd. in Montrose, currently home to the offices of Eurostone Marble and the Bacchus Mediterranean Winebar and Coffee Shop (both still open), already in progress. [Twitter] Photo: Davis Commercial (PDF)

77006, Buildings for Lease, Leasing, Lower Westheimer, Mixed Use, Montrose, Real Estate Marketing

Buildings for Lease

06/21/13 11:00am

Kicking Out the Oldies on Westheimer

by Allyn West

Montrose, Openings and Closings, Quicklink, Retail

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KICKING OUT THE OLDIES ON WESTHEIMER Just a few weeks after a fire took out one resale shop in Montrose, Culturemap reporter Whitney Radley has noticed that another,Â BJ Oldies and Antiques just a few doors down, is for lease. Radley seems to suspect that this old watch-your-step reliquary is being booted out forÂ yet another new Westheimer restaurant. Whether the foodies are coming won’t be determined until August, though, when antiquarian owner Becky PieniadzÂ ups and leaves for her new location just down the road at 1726 Westheimer, joiningÂ thoseÂ like-minded retailers next to Empire CafÃ©. Still, Pieniadz doesn’t seem thrilled about having to vacate the 8,600-sq.-ft. building where she’s been since 2008 and box all that %&$# up: “The last thing I wanted was to move out of here.” [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Flickr user emilycovey

77006, Buildings for Lease, Montrose, Openings and Closings, Retail

Buildings for Lease

04/08/13 2:00pm

Owners of Houston Studios Seeking Tenants: Will Tear Down To Suit

by Allyn West

Commercial Real Estate, Downtown, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Real Estate Marketing, Warehouse District, Warehouse Space

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This relatively gritty Warehouse District warehouse appears to be the subject of some real estate speculation, reports Hair Balls’ Richard Connelly: A website for the Houston Studios building — home to a 10,000-sq.-ft. soundstage with a 30-ft. ceiling for video shoots, rehearsals, and other creative expressions — features renderings that show it as aÂ cleaned-up commercial complex:

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77002, Buildings for Lease, Commercial Real Estate, Downtown, Proposed Developments, Real Estate Marketing, Warehouse District, Warehouses

Buildings for Lease

03/05/13 10:00am

West Main Standalone Now Available for Next Restaurant

by Allyn West

Montrose, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Signage

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This corner at Mandell and West Main near Richmond and the Menil Collection has lost another tenant;Â Sophia bowed out of the freestanding brick building at the end of February. It was back in 2008Â when Sophia’s predecessor CafÃ© Artiste kept this “closed today” sign posted in the window for an entire month, receiving yourÂ questions and comments without betraying a word; Sophia’s sand-bagged sign, spotted by a Swamplot reader at the end of last week, doesn’t appear to have inspired the same level of community feedback just yet.

Casual Dining in the Neighborhood [Sophia Houston]
Guerrero Moving Alma to Montrose; Sophia Shuttered [Eater Houston]
Previously on Swamplot: â€œDude, What Gives?â€: Cafe Artisteâ€™s Disappearing Act

Photos: Jack McBride (Sophia); Flickr user DrPantzo [license]

77006, Buildings for Lease, Montrose, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Signage

Buildings for Lease

09/28/11 1:40pm

The Last-Ever Sale at Harold’s in the Heights Is Over

by Swamplot

Buying and Selling, Commercial Real Estate, Houston Heights, Modern Design, Retail

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The new owners of the Heights building at the corner of 19th St. and Ashland that for 61 years housed the Harold’s in the Heights men’s clothing store have wasted no time in advertising the modern structure for lease or “redevelopment.” The Chronicle‘s David Kaplan reports that a partnership led by local development firm Braun Enterprises bought the property from the family of Harold Wiesenthal last week; a flyer for the 13,600-sq.-ft. property, which comes with a parking lot in back, hawks restaurant or retail space in chunks as small as 1,750 sq. ft. The glass-front building includes a 3,000-sq.-ft. second-story office space. Harold’s closed its doors for good in August.

Haroldâ€™s, â€œmodern landmarkâ€ on 19th Street, finds buyer [Prime Property]
Harolds in the Heights [Braun Enterprises]
Previously on Swamplot: Haroldâ€™s in the Heights Is Closing Down

Photo: Braun Enterprises

77008, Buildings for Lease, Buying and Selling, Commercial Real Estate, Houston Heights, Modern Design, Retail

Buildings for Lease

06/08/11 11:36am

King Biscuit Comeback Efforts Grind to a Halt, Building Up for Sale

by Swamplot

Buildings for Sale, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Woodland Heights

4 Comments

Noting the new handcrafted plywood “for sale or lease” signs now hanging on White Oak in front of King Biscuit Patio Cafe, a few Swamplot readers have written in to tell us that it looks like the Woodland Heights restaurant’s promised comeback has been called off before it even started. Restaurant guide b4-u-eat announced last month that building owner Pat Quinn would be teaming up with former Fitzgerald’s owner Sara Fitzgerald to reopen the restaurant. One reader tells Swamplot that remodeling work came to a halt 2 weeks ago, and that Fitzgerald spent all of last Thursday moving out of the building. The signs — one of them advertising the availability of owner financing — were posted over the weekend.