Low brick and metal warehouses east of downtown, with freight tracks crossing the streets at grade. Reality Bites used the punk club at 2524 McKinney Street in 1994.
What EaDo looks like
EaDo's warehouses are mostly one and two storeys, in brick, steel and stucco. The streets between them run wide and straight, open enough that downtown Houston's towers show at the end of several blocks.
Painted murals cover long stretches of wall in the district. , on Chartres Street, holds the largest of them. On St. Emanuel Street, a strip of low stucco storefronts includes the , with an orange bike rack stamped with the district's own name parked out front.
, a former storage warehouse on McKinney Street, has been converted into loft office space. Its upper floors are fitted with added steel balconies. A few blocks north on Preston Street, the has also been restored as loft space. It is five storeys of brick and concrete, with its industrial windows kept intact.
Freight rail lines cross several of the district's streets at grade, and gravel lots sit between some of the remaining warehouse blocks. , home of the Houston Dynamo and Dash, sits on the district's southern edge. The redevelopment, at McKinney and Hutchins, is a few blocks away.
Shot in EaDo
The building at 2524 McKinney Street was the punk club Catal Huyuk, and before that the Axiom. Reality Bites used it as one of its Houston locations in 1994.
Reality Bites, 1994
The building at 2524 McKinney Street was the punk club Catal Huyuk when Reality Bites used it as one of its Houston locations. The same warehouse had already held a string of earlier punk clubs, Cabaret Voltaire and then two runs of the Axiom, before Catal Huyuk took it over. It sits a few blocks from the district's other converted warehouses on McKinney Street.
What EaDo can double for
East Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York
East Williamsburg's low brick and metal warehouse walls carry the same mix of loading docks and painted murals as EaDo, on streets about as wide. Rail spurs still cross some of its blocks at grade, the same as EaDo's freight lines. The L train rumbles overhead a few blocks west, which a wide shot needs to avoid or explain. Try searching brick warehouse mural walls now.
Fulton Market's low brick meatpacking warehouses have been converted into loft offices and restaurants the same way as EaDo's own McKinney Street buildings, with loading docks left in place on several fronts. The streets run just as wide and straight. Fulton Market's buildings run taller in places and its rail viaduct is elevated rather than at grade, so a wide shot needs care to avoid both. Try searching converted brick meatpacking warehouses now.
Deep Ellum's warehouse blocks carry the same painted murals on brick walls as EaDo, with low buildings converted into bars and event space. Rail tracks still cross a few of its streets at grade. Deep Ellum's murals are denser and more clustered along Elm Street, so a wide shot needs a quieter block to avoid over identifying the location. Try searching painted murals brick warehouse now.
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