An Update On All The 7th Street Construction
by Kevin BuchananIt’s been a while since the last time I did one of these big development roundups, so let’s do another one, covering the current hotbed of activity - the 7th Street corridor between downtown and the museums. A lot has changed since the last time I wrote about these developments, so let’s dive right in.
Museum Place is really making significant strides in construction these days. The area around the development is a world of torn-up pavement, orange cones, fences, and cranes as work steadily moves from the big 7th/University/Camp Bowie/Bailey intersection back into the neighborhood.
Above, the big building of the development, One Museum Place, is getting more glass installed as its facade installation continues. This building will be home to ground-level retail, office space, and condos on the upper two floors.
Below, a close-up of some of the facade work, showing the brick and granite that will make up the majority of this side of the building:
Meanwhile, across the street:
The new “Flatiron” style building is about to head upwards towards its final height. The small triangular building will be ground floor retail and office space.
On the next block, crews are grading and prepping the site of what will be the development’s Aloft Hotel, which should be similar in height to One Museum Place and will likely feature Aloft’s distinctive roof treatment. The Aloft will, like every building in the development, feature ground-floor retail.
Adjacent to the Aloft site, the pace is picking up on the realignment of Arch Adams Street. Arch Adams will now no longer connect straight through the site, as it does now; rather, it will shift over and run in front of the 7-Eleven Corner Store/condo building shown in the photo and the Village Homes townhomes already in place. The former alignment of Arch Adams will be closed and torn out, and a mixed-use building will run from the new Arch Adams alignment all the way over the old alignment and over the site of the current 7-Eleven store. This small map view shows the new alignment of the street and the presence of the mixed-use building in the old right-of-way, along with the large public plaza that will be created where the alignment shifts:
Last, but not least:
Facade work is at last underway on the new Post Office between University and Bailey. The new Post Office, designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates, will feature a large mural on ceramic tiles of a thunderstorm rolling across the prairie on the side facing the big intersection. This side will also be the site of another public plaza, and the tornado-bent steel beams that stood on this site since the 2000 tornado will be reinstalled in the plaza as a piece of sculpture. The bent poles have been seen on the construction site again recently as time nears for them to be put back in place.
As far as retail tenants go, the only ones officially announced thus far by Museum Place are:
Aloft Hotels
7-Eleven Corner Store
Eddie V.’s Edgewater Grille
Legacy Bank
Tenants rumored, but not confirmed, for the development include:
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
The Market
BoConcept
Potbelly
Design Within Reach
La Duni Latin Cafe
Nicolas
Ra Sushi
Village Tavern
Celebrity Bakery
Duxiana
A dry cleaner
A barber shop
A florist
Next, let’s head down the road towards downtown and take a look at the progress on the West 7th development by Cypress Equities.
At 7th & Foch, Cypress is developing this office building, which will rise about seven stories or so. Also on this block will be a parking structure and the development’s Movie Tavern theater. The buildings will also have ground-level retail.
On the adjacent block to the east, work is nearly complete on the parking structure shown here. The rest of the block will be five-story apartments with ground-level retail. The garage will also have ground-level retail.
The block immediately south will also feature five-story apartments with ground level retail and another parking structure, along with condos.
The partial block owned by the development that fronts University and 7th will be the site of another office building of approximately seven or eight stories with ground-level retail, another parking structure, and another retail structure fronting University.
The block the development shares with Fred’s will be home to a hotel of about seven or eight stories with ground-level retail, another parking structure, and more upper-floor condos.
Here are some renderings of the finished blocks:
Tenants announced at West 7th thus far include:
Movie Tavern
Lucky Strike Lanes
Fort Worth City Market
Fireside Pies
Iron Cactus
Patrizio’s
Tillman’s Roadhouse
Brut
Yofe
Paciugo
Saxby’s Coffee
LA Fitness
Sovereign Bank
West 7th’s hotel operator has not been announced, but some speculation is saying that it might be Element.
Next up, let’s venture down to SoSeven, next to Trinity Park.
While finishing up their ArtHouse condos and building more townhomes in the property’s south side, SoSeven has also been hard at work on the long-awaited Shops & Lofts portion of the development, which is the part that fronts 7th Street. As seen in the photo above, the first of the phase’s mixed-use buildings is getting closer to completion, as crews add the stucco facade and glass to the building. The concrete columns alongside it are for the next building, which will rise to five stories above an underground, hidden parking garage. The building finishing out will be office space, and the building just rising will be condos. Further condos will be built in more multi-story buildings stretching back south to the existing Residence Inn as the project continues. All buildings will feature ground-level retail.
Here are a few renderings of the completed Shops & Lofts:
The view from 7th Street.
The view from Stayton.
This image shows the Shops & Lofts site plan:
Tenants thus far for SoSeven include:
Primo’s Bar & Grille
Vino Jean Michael
Performance Playground
A bicycle shop
Hola! Tapas
Saint-Emilion
In the property’s south side, between the Residence Inn and the condos & townhomes, construction will get underway soon on this, The Stayton at Museum Way, a retirement condo development consisting of three connected ten-story towers:
The Stayton will be located on the vacant property at SoSeven’s south side, between Museum Way and the Lancaster bridge.
On a smaller note, across the street from SoSeven is the new Southwest Bank now under construction. This small building follows good urban design guidelines and will also feature leasable ground-floor retail space.
All told, the 7th Street developments will bring extensive new retail and office space and over 1,500 condos and apartments to the Cultural District.
Tags: 7th Street, apartments, architecture, city, condos, cultural district, development, downtown, Montgomery Plaza, Museum Place, museums, office, retail, So7, SoSeven, urban, West 7th
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