Fresh off its work transforming the former Monarch Cleaners/Fox Diner/Cafe Serranos Cantina/Crome/Pravada building on Shepherd into Triniti Restaurant (with the help of some colorful perforated metal), Houston’s MC2 Architects is now designing its seco... »
All 6,000 Seats Sold for Sugar Land Skeeters’ Opening Tonight at New $37M Stadium [Houston Chronicle] New Developer To Begin Construction on Stalled Pearl Brook Estates in Texas City [Galveston County Daily News] Opening of Galveston’s Pleasure Pier Sl... »
Did yesterday’s announcement that Dunkin’ Donuts plans to open 16 new franchises in Houston over the next 5 years add fuel to the persistent rumor that one of them is headed for the recently cleared northwest corner of Westheimer and Dunlavy in Montros... »
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday. Coming back for the rest of the Memorial Springs Apartments, and other heavy-duty Houston demos: * * * Commercial Structures Sperr... »
UTMB Breaks Ground on New $438M Hospital [Galveston Daily News] H&M and the Other Retailers Opening in Houston Malls This Summer [Houston Business Journal] Montrose Management District Hires Lawyer in Lawsuit Calling for Its Dissolution [River Oaks Exa... »
Average Price of a Texas Acre Rose 3 Percent Last Year [Houston Chronicle] The View from the Galleria’s Still-Under-Construction BBVA Compass Plaza [Culturemap] ‘Stop Ashby Highrise’ Task Force Not Stopping Yet, Will Discuss Next Steps at Tuesday Meeti... »
Travel + Leisure “Best, Most, Least” linkbaiter Katrina Brown Hunt tries out a little practical joke on Montrose-bound gullible types in her brief writeup of Houston, ranked a slackin’ No. 26 in the magazine’s accounting of America’s Best Cities for Hi... »
The Don Julio’s in Montrose will serve its last margarita this Sunday before retreating to a new but more familiarly suburban location in Missouri City, reports b4-u-eat. The Mexican restaurant took over last year from Caffe Bello, which took over the ... »
Already busy with 3 local apartment projects, including one just beginning construction next to the new Whole Foods on Waugh, a 399-unit development to replace the Montrose Fiesta on Dunlavy, and another on the site of the old Art Institute of Houston ... »
The antique-bearing bungalow at the northwest corner of Westheimer and Dunlavy was demolished over the weekend. Due to replace it — and the site of the former-duplex-turned-art-gallery next door, which was destroyed in a fire last summer — a 4,829-sq.-... »
Where exactly on the Menil Collection campus in Montrose will the new 18,000-sq.-ft. Drawing Institute building be built? That’s for one of 4 architecture firms to decide. The organization announced late yesterday that Mexico City architect Tatiana Bil... »
The owner of a 6-unit apartment complex in Montrose has filed suit against the Montrose Management District, hoping a court decision will help shut down the taxing entity. A petition calling for the dissolution of the district was delivered to the orga... »
“Have people gone from midgets to monsters in the few years that this place went from being fully occupied to empty? Before it closed were people banging their heads on the roof? did any of the previous tenants died of melanoma due to asbestos? Should ... »
On assignment a couple of months ago to document the office building at 3400 Montrose that once housed Scott Gertner’s Skybar, photographer Patrick Bertolino wrote that the 10-story vacant structure across Hawthorne St. from Kroger reminded him “of wha... »
Being hauled away in a truck full of dust instead: * * * Residences 1612 Gentry St. 77009 13425 Joliet St. 77015 5627 Nightingale Dr. 77017 1826 Cheshire Ln. 77018 3507 Rawley St. 77020 1907 Brackenridge St. 77026 3930 Pickfair St. 77026 (Kashmere Gard... »
