- Galleria Office Tower Replacing the Courtyard on St. James Place Breaks Ground; Should Be Complete by March 2016Â [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
- Rice University Takes Over Ownership of Village Arcade in Rice Village, Plans Changes [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
- City of Rosenberg May Grant Developer of New Paragon Outlet Mall at I-69 and Spacek Rd. $4.8 Million for Public Infrastructure Improvements [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Arts and Media Hosts Brainstorming Session To Help Fine-Tune Judge Emmett’s Astrodome Park Proposal [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- Texas Transportation Commission Wants TxDOT To Focus on Repairing State’s Oil Patch Highways [Houston Public Media]
- Why the Old Wheatley High School Building, Freedmen’s Town Bricks, and Henington-Alief Regional Library Matter [Houston Chronicle]
- During ‘Preservation Sunday’ Event, Freedmen’s Town Residents Pray To Save Neighborhood Street Bricks from City Renovation [Houston Chronicle]
- Identical Twins Purchase Identical Neighboring Homes in Galveston [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Next Sunday Streets Event Moved to Oct. 12 in the Heights, from 19th St. to Shepherd [Culturemap]
- A Brief History of Oak Forest and Its Recent Transformation [Art Attack]
Photo of 609 Main construction: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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I fear that given its location between downtown, midtown, and Montrose, Freedmen’s Town’s tranformation to townhomes and condos is an inevitability. When that happens the streets are getting redone regardless. Better to pull up the bricks now and come up with some place to re-lay them which will preserve them in a public space.
Living in 5th ward and knowing the people that are making the rukus about Wheatly, its more about getting attention than historic value. The same activist protested the Gun March that was cancelled a few weeks ago, but knew about the event several months in advance. They chose to let the situation blow up instead of stepping in and helping the community prevent any uneccssary outrage. Same thing happened with the school. We talked about it weeks in advance but again it was decided not to approach the situation until the construction crews started to tear it down. I really like the architecture of Wheatly and I’m glad we are going to re-create it but dont think the people arguing against its demo are doing it for anything other than self satisfaction.
A zip line in the dome would be the coolest thing ever!
All the way from 19th to Shephard!!! Oh wait… those streets are perpendicular… Do they mean from 19th and Heights to 19th and Shephard maybe?
@Caneco: Yes. Although the web site isn’t much help, it looks like the route will be along 19th street, from Heights to Shepherd. And it looks like it will start at noon, not 11am.