The steel-framed doubled-up home at 115 Arnold St. in Rice Military (pictured above) owned by Houston restaurateur Ouisie Jones and her husband Harry Jones earned its demolition permit yesterday, a few months after the property was sold to a developer — for $2.2 million. (It was asking $2.65 million this past March, when Swamplot featured it.) The 24,915-sq.-ft. property is being joined with the slightly larger plot of land under the adjacent warehouse building at 5202 Chandler St. to make space for an F-shaped 22-townhome development.
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The new development is described variously in documents as Alys Park and Gable Park. Earlier this month, the planning commission gave approval to the developer, Brook Ingraham, not to have to widen the tiny stub end of Arnold St., which dead-ends at the back end of the CÃ ceres townhome ring directly to the north.
- Previously on Swamplot: A Restaurateur’s Hidden Tin House in Rice Military Leads a Doubled Life
Site plans: Vernon G. Henry & Associates; Mirador Group
Yay..more density is coming!
Remember: In density, there is destiny.
This was as sure as wind and ran during a Hurricane. Good Bye and Good Riddance.
That’s a damn shame. Another oasis gone. Almost no wooded areas of Rice Military remain now, no shaded tributaries of Buffalo Bayou’s canopy.
Living in that place must have felt like camping out on the sales floor at Rooms To Go.
What exactly is the process of a $million+ tear down? I mean there has got to be a TON of good salvage there. Hell, i’d even dig up and take most of the garden.
I want the kitchen!!! And the dining room table!