Whoever owns this warehouse in the East End — he wants to remain anonymous — has donated it for the time being to Historic Houston to house its collection of materials rescued from historic Houston buildings before demolitions turned everything into splinters and twisted metal.
The warehouse is located between Eastwood and Milby at 4300 Harrisburg, right next to the monolithic Maximus Coffee Group plant. This Sunday the mural-covered doors will be rolled up for a few hours while the nonprofit rolls out an inventory including windows, light fixtures, flooring, and siding. Founder and executive director Lynn Edmundson tells Swamplot that the group has been looking for a permanent home since early December; it had leased a warehouse and yard at 1307 W. Clay until closing in June 2011.
- Salvage Warehouse Reopens (PDF) [Historic Houston]
- Previously on Swamplot: Fundraising to Reopen Historic Houston’s Salvage Warehouse, Historic Houston Salvage Warehouse Going Out of Business, Selling Everything at Auction, Can Historic Houston’s Salvage Warehouse Be Salvaged?
Photo: Historic Houston
This is wonderful news! Thank you, anonymous warehouse worker. :D
HCAD shows that the property is owned by the CITY OF HOUSTON!!! hahaha anonymous indeed.
http://www.hcad.org/records/details.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%84%90%86%7Bng%8El%89tXtYW%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8A%7E%86%C0%AB%A8%AD%86%5E&bld=1&tab=
RIP NEKST, a Houston LEGEND (to be formally recognized by the art world sometime in hindsight years of the 2020’s).
And by worker, I mean person. But I guess it’s not much of a secret from @Hooligan’s post. :)
Not that it’s terribly important, but I swear that warehouse was owned by Frank Liu.
Last I heard, this plot of land and the other large empty parcel across Eastwood Street is owned by Lovett and is labeled as “Harrisburg Market” on HCAD maps. Both pieces of land were the former home of Stewart & Stevenson. Lovett had planned for years to develop this into retail and multi-story apartments in anticipation of the Harrisburg light rail line. Nothing ever happened.
There’s more this than Hooligan’s link. That COH parcel is listed at only 13k SF of land. This building looks like it sits on a much larger site.
HCAD shows it’s still owned by Frank Liu.
Is NEXT dead or just moved on to somewhere else?
Hopefully in jail.
I need a free warehouse as an art welding shop