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One Allen Center Skybridge Pales As Companion’s Destruction Nears
From over the fence at the corner of Smith and Dallas streets, a reader sends a shot of the ongoing scrape-out at One Allen Center. The glassed-in space protruding toward Smith will be undergoing a...
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Brewery Tap Returns to Life near Franklin St.’s Crypt-Turned-Bridge-Support
Ghost-story hub and beer bar Brewery Tap reopened this weekend, after about nearly 11 months of remodeling in the wake of a January ownership swap. The bar is located in the building at 717 Franklin...
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Buffalo Spdwy. First Stop Now Readying Ground To Plant a Gas Station
The ribbed tank hiding behind the tract excavator in the north-facing shot above will soon be going underground, per current plans at the corner of Durhill St. and Buffalo Spdwy. First Stop Food...
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Interior of EaDo Interior Design Shop Art Hous Scooped Out To Make Room for...
The folks at ACS studio architecture say that the insides of the former Art Hous art and interior design center on St. Emanuel St. are being cleared out for the planned installation of Burgr Hous....
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Owls, Giant Aluminum Owl Origami Now Stationed Watchfully by Rice Village...
The sculpted birds above are now staring intently in various directions from just south of the entrance ramp for the Rice Village’s rooftop parking lot between University Blvd. and Amherst St. The new...
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The End of Tal’s Hill and Any Future Multi-Story On-Field Chase Scenes in...
Astros historian Mike Acosta snapped some shots today and yesterday of the newly flattened corner of Minute Maid Park’s center field, where Tal’s Hill once sloped gently upward (as showcased in the...
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A Brief Tiki Interlude at a North Montrose Bus Stop
A few wee-hours shots of the bus shelter at the southwest corner of W. Gray St. and Waugh Dr. show the stop’s short-lived cosplay as a thatch-roofed, mask-encrusted tiki hutch before the Friday...
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Buffalo Exchange Exchanges Locations; Old Spot Up for Possible Tailoring
The body-oriented retail strip across from the recently browned-out Alabama Theater has just swapped second-or-more-hand clothing retailer Buffalo Exchange into the spot by Kipling St. last occupied...
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Nett St. Bungalow Bar-To-Be Drops Athletic Club Claims
The little house on the angular 10,000-sq.-ft. lot along Patterson St. (wedged between Nett St. and the railroad tracks that run along scattered segments of Allen St.) is looking more like a bar these...
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Developer Hides Skeleton of Teenage Queen Vic Inside Size-Doubling Bellewood...
The resemblance of the front entryway of 7818 Bellewood Dr. to its angular 2001 visage might only be visible to those who knew the house in its earlier days — before the 15-year-old home was taken...
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About Those Big Holes in the Sides of the Old Royal Oak Spot on Westheimer
Just in time for the spring equinox, a reader sends shots of some recent trimming back at the former home of Royal Oak Bar & Grill, which may soon sprout a 2-story patio if permits issued over the...
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Rice Village La Madeleine Will Shut Down Sunday for Shake Shack-ification
The 26th will be the last day of business for the La Madeleine on Kirby Dr. at Amherst St., a rep for the Rice Village District says this afternoon. After that the space’ll get a significant makeover,...
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A Sushi-Thai Swapout Between Hobbit and Capone’s
One of the low-slung spots fringing Portsmouth Square (the gravelly picket-fenced space between Portsmouth St. and Richmond Ave. which a reader refers to as “arguably Houston’s worst parking lot”) has...
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Famed Wichita St. Mystery House, Still Under Renovations, Will Ditch the...
The Chron’s Craig Hlavaty reports from the scene of still-ongoing renovations to the bedecked and multi-turreted home at 2309 Wichita St., better known as the castle-like former duplex, orphanage, and...
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Sharpstown Drive-Thru Parking Lot Bar Planning Options for Walkers, Eaters,...
The drive-your-drinks-home daquiri shop planned for former MJ Motorcars office island at 8275 Beechnut St. (in the parking lot of stripmall nightclub Club Tequila) isn’t just going to be a drive-thru...
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Former Durham Triangle Car Wash Blacked Out for Balls Out
The ex-service station sitting on the sliver of land edged by N. Durham Dr., W. 16th St., and Nashua St. is being remodeled and repainted, with signage already in place for burger bar Balls Out. The...
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Comment of the Day: Where Are All the Houston Post-Demo Fridge Steals?
“The appliances in [2311] Bartlett are brand new. So — when people in River Oaks, West U., etc., tear down a house that has very recently been updated, where do the appliances go? Do builders recycle...
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Galleria’s Philip Johnson Facade Facelift Now Clearing the Nosejob Stage
Now hanging in the newly remodeled central nook on the Galleria’s curved facade along Westheimer Rd.: these strips of hexagonal rings spotted early last week by a passing bus rider. (That curved wall...
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Body of VRSI Nightclub Could Be Cut Up, Reanimated as a Beer Hall by the...
A permit was issued yesterday to knock out some walls at the former medical clinic at 820 Holman St., remodeled back in 2015 into abbreviated-French-themed nightclub VrSi. The club (shown here as it...
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