- Haven on Algerian Way Closes; Building To Be Sold to Owner of Union Kitchen [Food Chronicles, more here; previously on Swamplot]
- 7,000-SF Retail Space and Restaurant Heights General Store Adding a Pizzeria [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
- 10 Recently Completed Office Buildings Across 6 Submarkets in Houston [Houston Business Journal]
- Slideshow: Air Conditioned Garages with Car Lifts, Master Bedroom Coffee Bars, and Other Occasional Excesses of Houston’s Luxury Home Market [Houston Business Journal]
- Katy, Fulshear Eye Town Square on Model of Sugar Land’s To Draw Visitors, Preserve ‘Sense of Identity’Â [Houston Chronicle]
- Debate Brews Over Which Was the First Distillery To Open in Houston [Eating Our Words]
- Defense Files Motion To Appeal Damages in Ashby Highrise Ruling [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
- Ramp Connecting Grand Pkwy. to I-10 West To Open Saturday [Covering Katy]
- Architects, Planners To Reimagine Rice Village This Weekend as Part of Annual Design Competition [Houstonia]
Photo of home near Mary and Brooks streets in the Fifth Ward: David Elizondo via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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The snake bite finally took Haven down huh? I’ve never seen any food joint besides the Taco Cabana have enough resilience to suffer through the venomous bite of the Algerian Way Cobra. I guess that means their Restaurant Weeks menu is off the plate, heh.
If the Rice Village wants to be a retail goldmine, it should look outside it’s borders. My suggestion would be a linear public park that would take the residential properties between University and Dryden between the Medical Center at Travis all the way west to Greenbriar.
Well that’s one way to learn my reservations are cancelled.
I’m not sad to see Haven go. Their food bored me.
Architects reinvisioning Rice Village? Really? C’mon. All it really needs is a public parking garage and some sidewalk enhancements. Done.
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Now if we want a challenge for architects, let’s reinvision a neighborhood like Gulfon or the FM1960 corridor. They need the reinvisioning. And the answer in those cases isn’t clear. Or are my fellow architects afraid of a challenge?
Didn’t architects already screw up Rice Village in the 90s?
Bring back The Fast and Cool Club.