Posted Nov 4, 2011, 4:03 AM
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Some news coming out for Downtown:
Phoenicia Market opens up
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On Monday, puffy hot pitas will come sliding down a roller-coasterlike conveyor belt and, hopefully, flying out the doors when Phoenicia Specialty Market greets its inaugural customers as the first major grocery store to open in downtown Houston in decades.
It’s a day that downtown workers and residents — as well as city foodies — have been anticipating since May 2010, when the Tcholakian family, owners of the mammoth Phoenicia in west Houston, announced it would open a 28,000-square-foot international food market and restaurant at the One Park Place luxury apartment tower on the edge of Discovery Green....
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Downtown District Proposes Retail/Entertainment District
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The shopping district would connect Main with the George R. Brown Convention Center/Discovery Green area as a pedestrian-friendly retail/restaurant environment...Several projects in the study are already underway, said Angie Bertinot, director of marketing and retail development for the Downtown District.
For example, the Houston Pavilions is working on a plan to improve the pedestrian experience along its three blocks of Dallas with more lighting, signs and sidewalk cafes, she said: “And we’ve started working with the lease holder of the Sakowitz building and owner of the Macy’s building.”
Also, on Dallas from Caroline to the Hilton Americas-Houston, the Downtown District is widening the sidewalks and making lighting improvements, she said.
Funding for projects underway is coming from the Downtown District and property owners, she noted.
One purpose of the plan is to connect various pockets of downtown pedestrian activity that are currently isolated from each other, she said, and another goal is to spur more residential development downtown.
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City Playing Musical Blocks with Downtown Houses
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Yesterday was moving day for 2 unusual Downtown buildings: The 1905 Cohn and 1904 Foley (above) houses cattycorner from the George R. Brown Convention Center...The city is moving them across the street and a block closer to Minute Maid Park, where they’re intended to become add-ons to a mysterious Regional Tourism Center proposed for the 600 block of Avenida de las Americas. According to plans flashed at the last public meeting for the Downtown/EaDo Livable Centers Study, this new building dedicated to Upper Texas Gulf Coast vacationers would face the westbound light-rail line along Capitol St. and sit at the bottom of an unidentified residential tower
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Museum District:
Inside Views of Yoshio Taniguchi’s Asia Society Texas Center, Houston’s Next Big Museum District Thing
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The big new Asia Society Texas building designed by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi along Southmore Blvd. in the Museum District won’t officially open until next April, but a new slideshow featured on the organization’s website provides early peeks into some of the 38,000-sq.-ft. structure’s ultra-spare interiors.
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