- Imperial Sugar Factory Intended for Mixed-Use Afterlife Gets Sold in Foreclosure [Houston Chronicle, previously on Swamplot]
- Houston To Start Fundraising for a Pressure Wash, Window Upgrades, Other Work on Its 1939 City Hall Building [Houston Public Media]
- Painting Hanging Behind Door at MFAH’s Rienzi River Oaks Satellite Museum Turns Out To Be a Diego Velázquez Original [Houston Chronicle]
- Developer Behind Bridgeland in Cypress to Start Road Work on Another 6,000-Acre Portion of the Development [HBJ]
- All West Loop Southbound Lanes To Close at Woodway This Weekend for Construction on METRO’s Northwest Transit Center to Post Oak Blvd. [Culturemap]
- Construction Underway on Tandem Seafood Restaurants in River Oaks District [HBJ]
- Global Shipping Company Signs Lease at Concourse at Westway, Off Beltway 8 Near Clay Rd. [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of Preston St. at Main St.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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Hey I’m all for power washing city hall. Should have been done about 30 years ago. And if “sealing” the windows means there’s water coming in through them then yeah, that’s a problem that needs to be addressed yesterday as well. But you need more money to do it? I thought we all paid taxes for this kind of stuff?
Yeah it would appear theyre conflating the maintenance budget of the building (which probably includes wet-sealing of the windows, cleaning of the building) with the remodeling/repair of several areas. The maintenance budget, Im guessing is already accounted for in our tax dollars, etc. However the flooding of the basement and repairs associated with that should be covered by presumably the insurance policy of the building. That leaves the “upgrades” to the lighting, sidewalks, and plants around the building– which is probably a new budget and perhaps part of the 4-5 million .
All of this presumptive on my part, so feel free to refute me if I’m totally off base.