- Fresh Market Planning Webster Store Next Year in Baybrook Village Shopping Center [Prime Property]
- Austin Dance Club Barbarella Taking Over Status in Midtown [Culturemap]
- University of Houston’s Gourmet Coffee Shop and Wine Bar The Nook Opening Next Month [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- Sonic’s Washington Ave Location Now Open [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- Bridgewood Property’s Village in the Heights Provides Assisted Living with a Neighborhood Touch [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
- Alvin College Professor Sues Again over Paid Seawall Parking [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Mark di Suvero’s New 6-Ton Weathervane on Rice University’s Campus [The Great God Pan Is Dead]
Photo of Greenway Plaza: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Can we just rename the Washington Ave area ‘Little suburbia’?
It’s got a Target, Walmart, sonic, Kwik Kar, Chilis, Chick-fil-a, mega-Kroger, Petsmart, a McDonalds, 4 chain sandwich shops, 2 chain burrito places, and both an IHOP AND Denny’s.
All pretty much off of a major 8 lane highway.
Put a Best Buy & Bed Bath and Beyond and I’m pretty sure it would be a clean sweep.
The only difference being that in the suburbs, the city of Houston doesn’t hand out money to build these kind of stores….. oh wait…
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2013/07/houston-approves-1m-incentive-for.html
Hip Hip Hooray! Haven’t been a UH student in nearly 10 years, but so happy they’re finally getting a decent coffee shop. GO COOGS.
DNAguy,
nothing suburban about that area, no Lowes, no Home Depot, no Applebees, as you pointed out, no Best Buy.
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They will be getting a Guitar Center though, so there is that.