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The company redeveloping downtown’s former post office property will open a rooftop venue early next year as part of a 5-acre park and organic farm that will top the historic building at 401 Franklin St.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Lovett Commercial via Houston Chronicle
To go to Houston Chronicle read the full story and more photos. by nancy.sarnoff@chron.com
Lovett Commercial said the space will host open-air weddings and other events with a dramatic skyline backdrop. The property sits on the northern end of downtown near Franklin and Bagby, across Buffalo Bayou from the bulk of the city’s office and residential towers.
Houston-based Lovett purchased the 16-acre site, formerly the Barbara Jordan Post Office, in 2015 and is remaking the space into a coworking, shopping and culinary destination with a concert venue, hotel and rooftop farm called POST Houston.
Jordan was a Houston native who was the first Black woman from the South elected to Congress. Lovett said it intends to incorporate a monument to Jordan, who died in 1996, into the property.
“The special event space, which is part of Skylawn’s rooftop park and farm, is unlike anything ever seen before in the city of Houston,” Frank Liu, president of Lovett Commercial, said in a press release. “We are working with one of the most talented landscape architecture firms in the country to ensure that we are creating a one-of-a-kind, standout rooftop park and farm that is going to become a top destination in our city.”
nancy.sarnoff@chron.com
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