The dual Italian restaurant concepts being constructed at 500 Crawford in downtown Houston appear to be on track for a December launch. But the restaurants – managed by restaurateurs Bill Floyd and Bryan Caswell – will open with entirely new names: Kristalla and Osso.

When the project was first announced last January the restaurant names were pitched as Brocca and Il Panchina ("pitcher" and "bench" in Italian), nods to nearby Minute Maid Park and the Houston Astros, owned by Jim Crane who is financing the two dining concepts.

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