- Houston’s Hottest Zip Codes for Home Sales [Click2Houston]
- Kirby Towers’ Multimillion-Dollar Renovation To Add Rooftop Decks, New Facade [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- How Discovery Green Has Influenced Downtown Development [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- El Gran Malo To Take Over Recently Shuttered Pepper Jack’s Spot Downtown [Eater Houston]
- Legal Fight Slows Work on $6M Downtown Galveston Transit Terminal [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Competing Visions of How to Preserve Freedman’s Town’s Brick Streets [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- What Memorial Park Might Look Like in 20 Years [KUHF]
- Even with Reams of Data, Predicting Floods is Hard [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Starting in June, Umbrella Use No Longer Restricted at Galveston’s Stewart Beach [Houston Chronicle]
- The Giant Scope of Invasive Species in Texas [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- The Collection of Public Art on University of Houston’s Campus [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- River Oaks Real Estate Listing To Be Featured on Bravo’s New ‘Property Envy’ Show [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of Downtown: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
In the Kirby towers article, it also talks about central square plaza in Midtown:
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“”We’ve already started cleaning the building,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll start on renovations in the next 30 or 60 days.”
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Wow, that was fast. Curious what it will become.
I have been going to Stewart Beach for a decade and have never been told that I cannot plant my own umbrella and have never seen anyone else told that they have to take down an umbrella they brought with them. I suspect that the umbrella vendor and the City are pretending that they are doing everyone a favor by setting up tiny strips at the far ends of the beach for people bringing their own umbrellas when this is really the beginning of a crackdown on people who have been bringing umbrellas to the beach for years to try to muscle more business for the guy who rents umbrellas for outrageous sums. This is a total dick move if it is enforced. Galveston’s beaches are not that nice, but they are affordable and close by. Pulling crap like this will just discourage people from coming to the island, which will just harm the broader interests of the island in favor of some guy who owns a bunch of umbrellas.
Kind of stinks the Chronicle expects you to pay to read the articles, would have been interested in reading about the bricks in freedman’s town otherwise.
@cm: If you Google the title of the article, that link will allow you past the paywall.
Sara deserves an award! From the article:
“Of the 530 historic buildings listed in 1984, when Freedmen’s Town received its historic designation, more than 500 have disappeared”
So much for the supposed commitment to “historic preservation” in this city.
The only historic items really safe from bulldozers in Houston are those, like the Freedmen Town bricks, that can be used as charming accoutrements/eye candy for the new residents while they walk their dogs or “entertain”.