Comment of the Day: Ode to a Doomed Alabama Place Bungalow, with Caveats
“Poor, poor 2205 Branard. I know the standard Swamplottian response is ‘if you’re so sad to see it go, buy it.‘ I know that it was built in 1939, and wasn’t necessarily meant to last past 1989. I know...
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The New Highland Village Anthropologie Across the Street From the Old...
There sure has been a lot of activity in the past few months here in Highland Village: the former Tootsie’s building is having a little taken off the top and being split in two for new J. Crew and...
View ArticleComment of the Day: That’s a Different Kind of Growth in Oak Forest
“The new $550k mcmansions in Oak Forest are replacing other housing units one for one, and the types of households that are getting displaced were already reasonably well-off and were all also living...
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Houston Pavilions To Be Renamed, Rebranded
Clearly, former NBA star Earvin Johnson knows the value of renaming — and Houston Pavilions, which Magic and other investors bought back in August, will be given a new moniker of its own, reports the...
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Low-Cal Restaurant To Open Inside Westheimer’s High Street Redevelopment
The shell shown here was about as high as High Street got before the ambitious mixed-use development was scrapped in 2008. In 2011, the property was sold and the project downsized by Dinerstein and...
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Designing Houston’s Bicycle Underbelly
Peter Muessig’s graduate thesis for the Rice School of Architecture imagines a system of symbiotic bike-only features he’s calling “Veloducts” that would be fused on, under, around, and through the...
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Here, Now, a Few More Ideas for the Astrodome
Making the rounds this week are a couple more long shots for the Astrodome from people who don’t seem very keen on the 2,500 parking spaces the Texans and Rodeo proposed last week. First, you’ve got...
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A Change Afoot at Old Tejas Boots Home on Westheimer
Why did Tejas Boots leave 208 Westheimer? Owner Mike Kuykendahl says that the family that owns the li’l strip center (above) that Tejas Boots shared with Hollywood Food & Cigars asked them to: The...
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Astrodome Stewards Announce Deadline for Redevelopment Proposals — Without...
The Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation this week approved a June 10th deadline for all private proposals to redevelop the Astrodome. That’s a notable event not only because of the...
View ArticleComment of the Day: An Atmosphere of Mistrust
“I’m inclined to believe the owner on this one. Who knows better what Sharifi plans to do with the property, than Sharifi himself? It’s not just that he said there were no immediate plans to develop...
View ArticleComment of the Day Runner-Up: Bogarting the Astrodome
“The only roadblock to redevelopment of the Dome, as I see it, are two self-interested organizations that are afforded an unwarranted and undeserved say in the matter.” [TheNiche, commenting on...
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Hatching Baby Businesses at the Astrodome
One of those 19 private bids that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation didn’t quite get around to asking for and yet still received just in time for Monday’s deadline comes from...
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Richmond Strip Not Down for the Count?
Real estate reporter Shaina Zucker cruises Richmond Ave., tallying up the evidence that she suggests might just point to a resurgence of that once-lively strip between Hillcroft and Chimney Rock: “30...
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Some Real-Life Occupants for Galveston’s Long-Abandoned Brewery?
The endangered historic Falstaff Brewery that once harbored a bunch of scared architecture students in a horror flick might become a real refuge for Galvestonians looking for cheap housing — or so...
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Crushing an Old One for 4 New Ones on a Museum Park Corner
Yeah, this old one is a goner: A rep from the city says that a variance application to reduce the building setback has been approved for this corner in Museum Park, making just enough room on the...
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