Post Oak Lane Park Dollar Timeline: All the Offers and Counters
Following up on the overview of the controversy he and Carolyn Feibel published last week, Bradley Olsen provides this updated summary of all the offers made for James and Jock Collins’s 7,230-sq.-ft....
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The Super Happy Fun Land Sock Monkey Rescue Plan
Former Heights landmark Super Happy Fun Land may reopen in its new East Downtown EaDo location soon, writes Omar Afra in the Free Press. What’s happened since we last checked in? To give you a brief...
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The Great River Oaks Shopping Center Compromise of 2009
There was no showdown over the River Oaks Shopping Center variance request at yesterday’s Planning Commission hearing. In talks prior to the meeting, Weingarten Realty used its mad skillz to assuage...
View ArticleTrammell Crow, 1914-2009
Real estate developer Trammell Crow, the founder of Trammell Crow Company (now a part of CB Richard Ellis), died yesterday in Tyler at the age of 94. “He relied on hundreds of young leasing agents to...
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River Oaks Shopping Center Balcony: A Few Loose Ends
Weingarten’s Planning Commission victory earlier this month doesn’t resolve everything for the westernmost of two replacement retail buildings now under construction at the River Oaks Shopping Center....
View ArticleWestcreek Apartments: Refinanced, Waiting
The Austin-based owners of Westheimer’s Westcreek at River Oaks Apartments — just inside the Loop, just west of the giant new steel sculpture known as High Street — have refinanced the 574-unit complex...
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End of the Parking Lot Sideshow: Mobile Home of the Titan Packs Up, Moves On
“Ronald McDonald will soon have all of his parking spaces back,” writes Swamplot tipster Michele, who also sends in these photos from yesterday. They show the sales office for Randall Davis’s canceled...
View ArticleTakara So and Beyond: More of Allen Stanford’s Houston Real Estate Ventures
Long before the Stanford Lofts debacle, Guardian International Investment Services — Allen Stanford’s former real-estate company — bought and sold or developed a number of Houston properties. Nancy...
View ArticleGalleria Pocket Park Fight Ends with TIRZ Reaching into Pocket
Twin septuagenerian veterinarians Jock and James Collins, whose property on the corner of San Felipe and Post Oak Ln. adjacent to BLVD Place was taken by eminent domain 2 years ago, settled their...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Short Timers
“I’ve lived in Oak Forest now for 11+ years, zoned to OFE, in an original house just north of 43rd, west of Ella and about 5 years ago began receiving sporadic letters to buy the house site unseen....
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Could Glenn Beck Bring Independence to Texas?
“If you really wanna pass on the secrets, if you really wanna pass on truth, embed it in architecture,” says Glenn Beck in the January 10 episode of the Blaze. “That’s what I intend on doing.” The...
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Astrodome Stripped Bare By the Architects, Even
With the June 10th deadline to submit the Astrodome proposals that the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation kind of forgot to ask for approaching, architect Ben Koush pens some poetic...
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