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Now Listed: The Slightly Bigger Half of That New Small Modern East Downtown Duo
Look familiar? Two weeks after its smaller look-alike housing unit appeared on the market, this bigger-by-a-bedroom version finishing up right next door listed for a bit more. And speaking of doors,...
View ArticleComment 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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A Few Freedman’s Town Rowhouses To Be Relocated, Rehabbed
A City of Houston rep tells Swamplot that 3 of the 10 Freedman’s Town shotgun houses on Victor St. between Gillette and Bailey will be relocated in the Fourth Ward. (The photo shows a shingle-stripped...
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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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Holding the Front as Rosewood Townhomes Up
As a checkerboard of townhome development builds out the Rosewood neighborhood south of Midtown, this sunny yellow house with poppy red shutters rather emphatically states its enduring presence on a...
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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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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 Runner-Up: Looking for a Multi-Dome
“I also remember how impressive it was to see the bare-steel framework during construction. So, the ‘strip it down to structural elements’ idea does resonate with me. In any case, most 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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