Braun Nails Down Fastener Warehouse at I-10 and W. Loop for Heights Market, Brewery, Food Hall

Rendering of Heights Market, 7122 Old Katy Rd., Hempstead Industrial, Houston, 77055

7122 Old Katy Rd., Hempstead Industrial, Houston, 77055

Here’s a peek at what the old Delta Fastener warehouse at 7122 Old Katy Rd. might look like once Braun Enterprises gets done with it. The property — located just inside the W. Loop in that wedge of industrial parks hemmed in by I-10 and Hempstead Rd., west of Cottage Grove — was snagged by Braun at the end of November. A handful of renderings from Tipps Architecture (also behind the design for another of Braun’s not-in-its-namesake-neighborhood redevelopments) depict the 57,845-sq.-ft. warehouse done over in brown and bearing the label Heights Market.

The renderings show some new windows, large and small, sliced into exterior of the 1940s warehouse, and an existing loading dock redone as a cafeteria space:

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Rendering of Heights Market, 7122 Old Katy Rd., Hempstead Industrial, Houston, 77055

7122 Old Katy Rd., Hempstead Industrial, Houston, 77055

Rendering of Heights Market, 7122 Old Katy Rd., Hempstead Industrial, Houston, 77055

The renderings also show a spot labeled for a brewery . . .

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. . . a collection of food vendors . . .

Rendering of Heights Market, 7122 Old Katy Rd., Hempstead Industrial, Houston, 77055

. . . and some office space:

Rendering of Heights Market, 7122 Old Katy Rd., Hempstead Industrial, Houston, 77055

The spot is separated from the Houston Design Center and Hanover’s Viridian Design District apartments (currently offering up to 2 and a half months of free rent) by the TCI Tire Center and Gulf Tire Distributors facilities to the east.

Images: Tipps Architecture (renderings), 7122 Old Katy Rd. (LoopNet)

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  • Lots and lots of ducts, Central Services-supplied no doubt. Some may even be functional!

  • The Heights Market will be in Old Katy Heights, which is surrounded by Timbergrove Heights, Memorial Heights, Spring Branch Heights, and Galleria Heights to the South.

  • @el Duderino nailed it. I respect Braun for revitalizing so many Heights properties, but for the love don’t call this place “Heights”.

  • Can we put a moratorium on calling any new development North of I-10 inside the 610 loop “the Heights?” This property would be more appropriately named, “Barely Inside the Loop Low Cost Big-Box/Food Truck/Pad-Site Emporium.”

  • As long as they do not name this area “SoLaBro”, I can deal with the “put a bird on it” trend of tagging every development with “Heights”.
    But it is worth stepping back for a minute and marveling at how some developers in town have finally broken with the strip mall, big box, wash, rinse, repeat model of development in Houston.

  • THE HEIGHTS, BROUGHT this and HEIGHTS that. When are people going to learn where THE HEIGHTS is located?!?!?!

    STOP THE MADNESS.

  • Looks pretty neat, although they might struggle at that location. If someone opens up a market hall in some old warehouse along Shepherd, this thing is toast.
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    It’s too bad there’s not more old brick in Houston. Metal painted the color of brick just isn’t the same.

  • Yay – near me (Spring Valley); Boo – “Heights”??. What’s wrong with Old Katy? (or Old Katy ITL – even though now it’s only inside the loop.) Plus that that would nail down the location better than “Heights”. Plus, the orig. Heights referred to it’s relative elevation compared to surrounding land. Now it’s just a word.