“To this day, people still refer to 1400 Smith as ‘the old Enron building,’ even though the company collapsed more than a decade ago and Chevron now owns the property. Will 5050 Westheimer face a similar fate? That’s the building that housed Stanford Financial Group, whose founder, R. Allen Stanford, is awaiting a jury verdict on federal charges that he ran a $7 billion investment fraud. . . . Bruce Kink of Keller Williams said the company chose the space for its prime location directly across from the Galleria mall. He doesn’t focus on who used to occupy it. ‘They removed the name out front,’ Kink said. ‘To us it’s 5050 Westheimer.’” [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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KW ought to do just fine, if for no other reason than the building itself was never much of a landmark. Speaking of Chevron, who among us still refers to “the old Gulf Building,” which hasn’t been that forever.