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Neighbor Has a Few Problems with That 17-Story Office Building Going Up Over...
What more quintessential closeup image of Houston is there — the kind you really aren’t likely to come across too many other places — than the one that shows a 17-story office tower under construction...
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With Help from Hines, Family Living Next Door to Highrise Construction Site...
The UH professor whose experiences living next door to the vacant-lot-turned-highrise-construction-site across the southern border of River Oaks made for a colorful teevee news report and an EPA...
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An Office Tower Is Moving in Next Door, So It’s Time To Leave
There’s what looks to be a moving truck parked in front of the home at 2244 Welch St. today, right next door to the building site at 2229 San Felipe St., where a giant crane is already in the process...
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The River Oaks Shopping Center’s New Parking Meters
Hooded, solar-powered parking overseers have arrived on streets surrounding the River Oaks Shopping Center on West Gray St., reader James Glassman notes. Here’s a photo of a meter dressed in a blue...
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The Folks Operating the New Marfreless Are a Bunch of Posers, Say the Folks...
The former operators of Marfreless — the oh-so-dark bar that hid behind the unmarked blue door under the stairs in back of the River Oaks Shopping Center for more than a decade until shutting down in...
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McGowen Cleaners For Sale on Fairview Near Restaurant-Slated Former Te House...
Just a few blocks northwest from the ballroom in the works on Woodhead, a reader sends a shot of the former McGowen Cleaners at 1931 Fairview St., now up for sale by NewQuest Properties. The cleaners...
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Newly Sold McGowen Cleaners Building Getting Liquored Up on Fairview St.
A different kind of sign has popped up at the corner of Fairview Ave. and Morse St., notes a reader — the 1961 building that formerly housed McGowen Cleaners (shown above earlier this year decked out...
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Raising Cane’s Now Raising the Midtown Banner in Vermont Commons
Catty-corner to the middle school both formerly and henceforth to be known as Lanier, another spat of place-name confusion is brewing: A reader notes that the Raising Cane’s (whose Vermont Commons...
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Riel Restaurant Trying To Get Real on Fairview in Former Te House of Tea
French-Canadian-Ukrainian-Texan fusion restaurant Riel is still being installed at 1927 Fairview St., formerly home to Te House of Tea and Trudy’s Boutique Re Sale at the corner with Woodhead St. A...
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KFC Flies the Fairview Coop
The Colonel is still hanging around by the door, but KFC is in the process of leaving the building at 2359 S. Shepherd Dr., a few readers report. The spot at the corner with Fairview Dr. has been...
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Hot Bagel Shop Finally Scoots Over into Wiggly-Eyebrowed Strip Next Door
The long predicted southerly shift of The Hot Bagel Shop has come to pass: a banner above the endcap of the wavy new commercial strip at 2015 S. Shepherd Dr. proclaims the spot now open, and the old...
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Former Womenswear Whereabouts off Hazard St. Will Soon Be Sprinkled with Ice...
A building permit filed last Thursday reveals that an ice cream shop plans to take over the corner Hazard-St.-and-Westheimer storefront shown on the left in the photo above. Backed by a group that...
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