{"id":670112,"date":"2026-04-08T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:22:14","slug":"company-owned-in-part-by-astros-pitcher-closes-midtown-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670112\/","title":{"rendered":"Company owned in part by Astros pitcher closes Midtown business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solarium, which opened last April, recently posted on its Instagram account that it has permanently closed.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 Almost exactly a year after opening a luxury pickleball facility in a prominent Midtown building, the team behind Houston-based Maven Coffee + Cocktails has shuttered the concept, which included a restaurant, bar and patio.<\/p>\n<p>Solarium,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/04\/28\/rex-hospitality-kirby-group-solarium-pickleball.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0which opened last April<\/a> in the space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2024\/07\/05\/etro-damians-closing-plume-travelers-cart-opening.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">once occupied by Holman Draft Hall<\/a> at 820 Holman St., recently posted on its Instagram account that it was permanently closed.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact date of the closure is not clear, Solarium\u2019s last social media posts were in February.<\/p>\n<p>Rex Hospitality, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2023\/11\/01\/maven-coffee-cocktails-expands.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which was co-founded by Houston Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. and other high-profile business partners<\/a>, converted the 9,000-square-foot space at 820 Holman St. into a multilevel, sports-inspired lounge centered upon pickleball.<\/p>\n<p>To open the club, Rex Hospitality worked with the Houston-based Kirby Group, which specializes in owning and operating high-end restaurant and bar concepts. The Kirby Group owned Holman Draft Hall, which operated in the space for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading this story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2026\/04\/07\/rex-hospitality-closes-solarium-pickleball-midtown.html?cx_testId=40&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_27&amp;cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Business Journal&#8217;s website<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This story came to us through our partnership with the Houston Business Journal. Keep up with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">latest Houston business headlines here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solarium, which opened last April, recently posted on its Instagram account that it has permanently closed. HOUSTON \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-670112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116368830971088899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}