De-Mad-Men-Ized Downtown ExxonMobil Tower Reminds Me of My Doctor’s Office,...
Lisa Gray, already on record as a non-fan of Shorenstein Realty’s plans to remove all the distinctive sun-shading fins from the soon-to-be-former ExxonMobil Tower at 800 Bell St. downtown (and...
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Tour the Decaying Splendors of Old Houston in the Just-Unleashed Weingarten...
The MacGregor Way mansion built for the family of Houston grocery pioneer Joseph Weingarten went up for sale last week, providing Houston oldtimers and other more recent converts to old-school real...
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Pasadena’s Capitan Theater Is Already Coming Apart. Is Demolition Next?
The city of Pasadena is likely to go ahead with the sale of the Corrigan Center at Shaw Ave. and Pasadena Blvd., which includes the once-grand Capitan Theater, to a New Jersey oil-industry inspection...
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Where’s the Waldo Mansion? Somewhere Behind These Large Oak Trees That Are...
The Waldo Mansion at 201 Westmoreland St. in Westmoreland, best known (well, for its interiors at least) as the terrestrial stomping ground of playboy astronaut Garrett Breedlove, the Jack Nicholson...
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Kuhl-Linscomb Planning Large Add-On to Penguin Arms Apartment Building for...
The owners of the quirky Kuhl-Linscomb home-goods store, arrayed in 6 separate repurposed buildings just east of the Upper Kirby Whole Foods Market, have plans to attach a large addition behind and...
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Buyers Will Restore Weingarten Mansion, Expand Kitchen, Call It Home
The owner of a offshore-drilling-rig fabricating company in Baytown and his wife, a real estate agent, have bought the former Weingarten mansion at 4000 S. MacGregor Way in Riverside Terrace — and...
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The Josephine Apartments Are Being Torn Down Now
The 75-year-old art moderne brick steel-windowed structure at 1744 and 1748 Bolsover St. known as the Josephine Apartments is coming apart in a cloud of (watered down) dust this morning. The 8-unit...
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Tricon Homes Still Trashing the Josephine
Demolition crews turned the Josephine Apartments into a dusty pile of rubble yesterday (as seen in Swamplot’s on-the-spot report), but Tricon Homes cofounder Tristan Berlanga threw in a little...
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Now $1.9 Million Buys Your Good-Forever Ticket to the Heights Theater,...
The asking price for the Heights Theater on bustling 19th St. in Houston Heights in today’s live-or-work listing is $1.9 million. The owners last toe-tested the reel deal in 2008, at $1.3 million. In...
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Excavators Finally Come for the Oft-Rejected Hogan-Allnoch Building Downtown
The back-and-forth is over: following years of unsuccessful auctions, a plan to use the lot as 27 parking spaces, and that dramatic moment when someone offered to turn the building into a nutcracker...
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Ribbon Cut to Slivers at the Reopening of Fifth Ward’s Long-Empty DeLuxe Theater
No fewer than 11 pairs of scissors reached to cut the ribbon in front of Fifth Ward’s DeLuxe Theater at 3303 Lyons Ave. as it formally reopened yesterday. The 1941...
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Freewayside Queen Anne Now Getting Whitewashed, Rearranged, Flipped for $2.4...
That Burlington St. mansion nestled in along the 527 Spur leading from Downtown to 59 is back on the market this week, though the listing implies that the interior redo and whitewashing is still in...
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