Black Hole’s New Midrise Neighbor Moving Into The Place’s Place on Graustark St.

Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006
Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006The L-shaped hole dug on the site vacated last year by The Place apartment complex has been getting filled up, and some wooden framing is now beginning to peek over the top of the leafy northern wall of 59 at the Graustark St. bridge. The plan for Encore’s under-construction Castle Court development involves stacking 5 floors of apartments on the site, with additional levels of parking underneath — the rendering above depicts its above-ground height as a floor taller than Trammell Crow’s newish Muse complex just down Graustark at the corner with Richmond Ave.

The Encore project fronts Castle Ct. at the intersection with Yupon St., and faces Graustark just south of Black Hole Coffee Shop and Graustark Laundry, as shown in the floorplan below from the company’s brochure for would-be foreign investors under the EB-5 program:

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Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006

Here’s the current state of affairs as seen from the Castle Ct. side yesterday afternoon:

Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006

Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006

And here’s the view you get wandering down Graustark from the Black Hole bike racks:

Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006

Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006

Encore Castle Court, 1314 Castle Ct., Castle Court, Houston, 77006

Images: Encore (renderings), Swamplot inbox (photos)

Scaling Up Castle Court

3 Comment

  • It’s not at the dead end of Yupon Street. Yupon Street continues and then dead ends on the south side of Castle Court a bit zig-zaggy to the west.

  • Wow. How is this stuff still being funded? For the first time since as long as I’ve owned in Montrose, we’re having a hard time staying full.

  • Good catch, Laura! The article’s been revised.