Landing a big one in Sherwood Forest. And Dairyland is no more.
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Commercial Structures
- Dairyland Restaurant, 310 Cavalcade St. 77009
- Apartments, 1844 Sul Ross St. 77098 (photos)
Residences
- 3027 Webster St. 77004 (Pierce Court; new construction by Big Homie Group)
- 3452 Elgin St. 77004 (Carters; photos)
- 3805 Blodgett St. 77004
- 4651 Scott St. 77004
- 1038 W. 17th St. 77008
- 1116 Henry St. 77009 (Allen AC)
- 4019 Chapman St. 77009 (Ryon)
- 5701 Chapman St. 77009 (Ryon)
- 417 W. Friar Tuck Ln. 77024 (Sherwood Forest; photos)
- 2923 Drexel Dr. 77027
- 3431 Banbury Pl. 77027 (Afton Oaks; new construction by Charter Custom Homes)
- 5730 Southwind St. 77033 (shed)
- 1526 Ronson Rd. 77055 (Spring Oaks Replat; photos)
- 6330 Schiller St. 77055
Photo of 2923 Drexel Dr.: HAR
Dairy Land went down on Tuesday. Permit filed on Thursday? Funny how that works.
417 Friar Tuck might be this year’s nominee for most Dickensian tear-down. Almost 12k square feet will be torn down. No architectural treasure (though the NY skyline glass shower enclosure made swamplot), but that is a lot of building to take down just to put up your updated version of in your face wealth.
What the heck is wrong with the Friar Tuck house that one couldn’t live in it as is??? Wrong color of marble??? Rich people of Houston sure are fickle.
A $4 million teardown? So, <$2 gas impact on local development not relevant there, I guess. And it was only built in 89.
A late-’80s new-money mansion with a history of neglect, that’s tacky to boot? I would’ve scraped it, too, if only to have a more pleasing lot to look at. http://swamplot.com/houston-home-listing-photo-of-the-day-tall-buildings-artistically-reconsidered/2013-07-15/
Rodrigo — thanks for the crosslink. I’d missed the post from 2013. The HAR Home Value page doesn’t have the statement that the images were not representative of the current state of the home, so that is doubly a shame if they had just allowed the house and grounds to rot.