Tag: Mixed Use

Proposed Developments, Quicklink, Restaurants

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THE PARC BINZ GETTING SOME RESTAURANT BIZNESS Culturemap’s Eric Sandler is reporting that a coffee shop and wine bar and 2 new restaurants will be opening up this fall in Museum Park, all 3 of them going inside the 5-story, 50,000-sq.-ft. mixed-use Parc Binz building that’s currently under construction at the corner of Binz and Chenevert: “The first . . . will serve light bites and feature the same coffee beans from Greenway Coffee and Tea that are currently featured at Blacksmith . . . . The second will be a Korean fried chicken concept tentatively called Dak & Dop. The third will be a full service restaurant under the direction of executive chef Chris Leung, who’s already partnered with Balcor on ice cream shop Cloud 10 Creamery that’s set to open in Rice Village’s Hanover development this fall.” [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot] Rendering: Energy Architecture

77004, Bars, Mixed Use, Museum Park, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Restaurants

07/31/13 5:00pm

What Hanover Might Be Building Next in the Rice Village

Highrises, Mixed Use, Proposed Developments, Rice Village, Southampton

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A HAIF user posted this rendering of what appears to be the 12-story apartment complex that Hanover is busy making room for near the Rice Village. The demolition of the creaky Village Apartments and Garden Gate that used to stand here on the eastern half of the block bound by Kelvin, Morningside, Dunstan, and Tangley is nearly done (save for a lone tree in the middle of the site under the shade of which sits a picnic table). Hanover has said that this second building, unlike the first 6-story one, won’t have any ground-floor retail.

Rendering: The Hanover Company

77005, Apartments, Highrises, Mixed Use, Proposed Developments, Rice-Village, Southampton

Medical Buildings

07/31/13 10:00am

The Parc Binz: Slimmed Down and Cheered Up

Museum Park, Office Buildings

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Here’s the latest rendering of the once-protested Parc Binz development that’s going up on the corner of Binz and Chenevert in Museum Park. Prime Property reports that this mixed-use building, designed by Energy Architecture, should be all ready by the end of the year. During construction, though, the scale of it seems to have shrunk: Originally proposed to stand 6 stories and have 75,000-sq.-ft. of office, retail, and medical space, Sarnoff sizes what is actually being built at 50,000 sq. ft., and thisÂ brighter new rendering shows only 5 floors.

You can compare it with the previous oneÂ — featuring a solitary fellow brooding in the gloaming out on the terrace —Â after the jump:

77004, Medical Buildings, Mixed Use, Museum Park, New Construction, Office Buildings

07/23/13 12:00pm

The Mixed-Use Tower Uptown Park Has Been Waiting For?

Commercial Real Estate, Mixed Use, Proposed Developments, Retail, Shopping Centers, Uptown

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This crosshatched highrise shows up in a recently published marketing video as a potential development to densifyÂ the low-slung Uptown Park. The 50,000-sq.-ft. site HFF and AmREIT seem to have in mind for these apartments-upon-retail is right off the Loop, across Uptown Park Blvd. from the Ziegler Cooper-designed 27-story Villa d’Este condo tower — a site occupied now by a 12,000-sq.-ft. 1-story building at the northern end of the low-density Euro-style shopping spread.

77056, Apartments, Commercial Real Estate, Highrises, Mixed Use, Proposed Developments, Shopping Centers, Uptown, Uptown Park

07/22/13 10:00am

The Galleria Whole Foods Grows Up

Galleria, New Construction, Retail, Uptown

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Here’s another of the occasional photos a reader sends of the construction progress of the Whole Foods at the mixed-useÂ BLVD Place just north of the Galleria. Thanks to the photos that span almost a year now, you can watch the development develop here at the intersection of San Felipe and Post Oak Blvd.: Witness the preliminary site work beginning last August to the installation of piers and rebar in October and the rising of the parking structure in February. So what else is new? That parking structure appears just about ready, and even more dirt has been moved around — where those cars are parked in the foreground — for the proposed Hanover apartment tower.

BLVD Place coverage [Swamplot]

Photo: Swamplot inbox

77056, Apartments, BLVD Place, Galleria, Grocery Stores, Mixed Use, Office Space, Retail, Uptown, Whole Foods

07/19/13 12:00pm

Hanover Knocking Over Village Apartments To Build More Village Apartments

Demolitions, Rice Village, Southampton

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Once the scrap pile is cleared, Hanover will begin building a 12-story residential tower on this site near Rice Village. The demolition started yesterday to get rid of the aging Village Apartments facing Tangley and the Garden Gate facing Morningside; these properties share the block bound as well by Dunstan and Kelvin with the Village Commons restaurants. And that might be why — unlike its shorter predecessor on the other side of Dunstan, which you can see looming in the background in the photo above — this proposed tower isn’t planned to have any street-level retail. A notice sent earlier this year to Southampton residents suggests that it will have about 200 units.

77005, Apartments, Demolitions, Mixed Use, Rice-Village, Southampton

Land Development

07/18/13 10:00am

The Beginnings of a Mixed-Use District on Richmond?

Mixed Use, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Upper Kirby

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This corner of Richmond and Wakeforest appears likely to be developed into a new office building, part of what a recently approved application to reduce the building setback on both streets from the Upper Kirby Redevelopment Authority suggests is a plan to transform this block between Wakeforest and Eastside into a “mixed-use pedestrian-focused transit node.” The demolition of vacant office buildings here near Levy Park appears to have begun in 2009; the office building shown in the photo above, also apparently vacant, is likely the next to go.

77098, Mixed Use, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Upper Kirby

Uncategorized

07/02/13 3:30pm

Highland Village’s River Oaks District: Up It Goes!

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It’s got some of the cachet of that tony â€™hood’s name and none of the fuss of its actual hard-and-fast boundaries: The River Oaks District is, at long last, going up. TheÂ $150 million in construction financing that California-based developer Oliver McMillan scored started being spent Monday morning.

And other new numbers are in: The 14-acre mixed-use and misnomered development will comprise about 252,000 sq. ft. of retail and 92,000 sq. ft. of office space as well as 279 places to live — including the 18 3-bedroom homes planned for the gated Bancroft Place community-within-a-district.

Of course, the demolition is imminent of the old 4444 Westheimer apartments whose residents were assisted late last year with their evictions by “move out concierges” provided by Oliver McMillan. But hey — why let something like that stand in the way of something like this?

77027, Highland Village, Mixed Use, River Oaks District, Shopping Centers

Comments

05/29/13 2:45pm

Comment of the Day: Mixed Uses Gotta Mix

by Swamplot

Mixed Use, Quicklink

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COMMENT OF THE DAY: MIXED USES GOTTA MIX “When did adding a strip mall next to an office building qualify as mixed-use? Just like the law, are we going to have to parse out if a development is just a literal mixed-use property (as in there are two possible uses of the land on it) or if itâ€™s in the spirit of mixed-use? Do skyscrapers downtown qualify as mixed-use due to the retail in the tunnel and the public space they add by having a pedestrian plaza outside? I guess I should have realized that the ‘Campus-like Mixed-use’ oxymoron is really just . . . well, moronic.” [DNAguy, commenting on Headlines: Houstonâ€™s Bilingual Cinema; Galvestonâ€™s Holiday Weekend Crowding]

Comments, Mixed Use

Medical Buildings

05/23/13 11:10am

The New Mixed-Use Building in the Museum District

Mixed Use, Museum District, Office Space, Retail

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That excavator first rolled out here on La Branch and Binz last summer — and 11 months later this is how the site looks: Catty-corner from the Children’s Museum, the Museum Point Professional Building appears to be all but complete. The 4-story building at 1401 Binz was originally planned to be 30,000-sq.-ft., with retail on the first floor, a clinic and offices on the middle floors, and some kind of residence (“with a garden terrace”) up top. A 160-car parking garage was also planned.

77004, Medical Buildings, Mixed Use, Museum District, Office Space, Retail

04/29/13 2:30pm

Hanover at Rice Village Feeding the Hungry

Mixed Use, Proposed Developments, Quicklink, Restaurants, Retail, Rice Village, Shopping Centers

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HANOVER AT RICE VILLAGE FEEDING THE HUNGRY The retail ring facing Morningside, Dunstan, and Kelvin around the bottom ofÂ Hanover at Rice Village seems to be filling out: With ZoÃ«s Kitchen opening in February at 5215 Kelvin and Cloud 10 Creamery making plans to since January, Prime Property’s Nancy Sarnoff drops the names of the other 4Â restaurants on the way: There’ll be Cyclone Anaya’s (shown in the photo here on Morningside to the right of Cloud 10 Creamery), a coffee shop called Fellini, Punk’s Simple Southern Food, and Coppa Osteria. Sarnoff also mentions the lone non-restaurant planned, “a boutique” called Saint Cloud. [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Allyn West

77005, Apartments, Mixed Use, Restaurants, Retail, Rice-Village

Homes for Sale

04/16/13 1:00pm

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: One Bedroom Studio

by CALwords

Interiors, Mixed Use, Ryon

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2609 Elysian St. [HAR]

77009, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Mixed Use, Ryon

Homes for Sale

03/18/13 3:00pm

Inside a Storied Montrose Timber Frame

by CALwords

Interiors, Mixed Use, Montrose

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Far away from the Amsterdam canal along which it was originally envisioned (though perhaps with slimmer proportions), this timber-frame structure has been a stand-out property on Dunlavy since the mid-aughts. It’s a mixed-use building; its barreled-with-a-flattish-top roof — with an outlined upper lip — adds higher stucco stylin’ to the neighborhood just north of Westheimer. The retail-residence has 3 levels — each with some distinctively hewn and preserved wooden ceilings.

The work of former owner (and gallerist) Albert Cherqui, in 2010 the venue became the focus of a lawsuit filed by Cherqui — by then its tenant — against the building’s current owners. (The suit was settled out of court last year.) It shares a mostly commercial street that’s lined by galleries, shops, warehouses, apartments, and repurposed postwar houses. Inside, the all-in-one main floor — described glowingly in the listing as “cavernous” — includes a wavy pair of Gaudi-inspired staircases (above). They lead to 2 upper floors of living quarters, each with its own kitchen and yet more timberland touches.

77006, Art Galleries, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Hyde Park Heights, Interiors, Lawsuits, Mixed Use, Montrose

03/06/13 10:30am

Low-Cal Restaurant To Open Inside Westheimer’s High Street Redevelopment