REIGN OF NEW EAST END FARMERS MARKET ON THE NAVIGATION ESPLANADE BEGINS THIS SUNDAY 
Local veggie standouts Finca Tres Robles and the Last Organic Outpost will be among the 35 vendors on hand on April 12th for the inaugural East End farmers’ market on the Navigation Blvd. esplanade (pictured here), across from the original Ninfa’s. The East End Foundation, the event’s nonprofit sponsor, says it’ll be the first farmers market in Houston to accept electronic food stamps. The market will run every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm at 2800 Navigation; strolling mariachis will kick of this weekend’s grand opening, to be answered by a few sets from Sister Sister y Los Misters. Also available: meats from Texas T Kobe Beef and Al Marcus’s Grateful Bread. Photo: East End Foundation
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And can’t get it back, unless we’re willing to start all over again. And even then.
- Trammell Crow, Artis REIT Planning Park 8Ninety Industrial Park on 127 Acres in Missouri City [Prime Property]
- Crescent Communities Readying 993-Acre The Groves Master-Planned Community in Lake Houston Area [HBJ]
- Greenpoint Occupancy Down 8.2% Year-Over-Year After Exxon’s Exit From Four Greenspoint Place [HBJ]
- Houston First Will Convert 4,000-SF of the Hilton Americas Lobby into a Beer-and-Wine-Serving Starbucks [HBJ]
- Enterprise Products Partners Completes Expansion of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Export Terminal at the Houston Ship Channel [Fuel Fix]
- Cars Are Already Parking in the Lamar St. Bike Lane [Houston Press]
- Life Magazine Photos of the Over the Top Apartment Judge Roy Hofheinz Built for Himself Inside the Astrodome [Houston Chronicle]
- 67-Year-Old Houston Resident Says Her Home Went into Foreclosure After New Mortgage Holder Wouldn’t Accept Her Payments [abc13]
- Federal Railroad Administration To Host Public Meeting April 23 in Cypress on Dallas-to-Houston High-Speed Rail [Houston Public Media]
- New Houston-Based LoveMyGasPrice.com Offering Gas Insurance to Drivers [KHOU]
- Cheap Oil Squeezing Property Owners in Energy Hubs Like Texas, North Dakota [Bloomberg]
- Here’s Brookfield Office Properties’s Art Car for This Saturday’s Houston Art Car Parade [Prime Property]
- A Third Ward 2-Story Designed by Brett Zamore and Stuffed with Art Is One of 8 Homes in This Weekend’s Rice Design Alliance Spring Architecture Tour [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of The Dunlavy, under construction at 3501 Allen Pkwy.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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- 3688 Willowick Rd. [HAR]
The front yard of a property in Camp Logan’s Minola section is nice and shady. So’s the driveway that takes up most of it, though it shares critical space with a well-established tree. Both are located across from Camp Logan Park, or whatever folks call the grasslands formed by a triangle of streets at Wanita Pl. and Taggart St. The 1940 home (the listing calls it 1980) re-renovated its 1995 renovations earlier this year. After 2 weeks on the market at $1.2 million, the 2-toned home took a brief breather on Friday before re-listing. The property’s price tag took a trim and is now asking $1.1 million.
Peak Experience
All that’s left of a 1956 steel-frame industrial building on the campus of ALG Truck & Trailer Repair at 4101 Fulton St. just south of Patton is these old cast-in-place concrete supports. The building, which lines the west side of the North Line light-rail extension in the Near Northside, was torn down over the last 2 weeks. Why are just these portions left standing?
It’s not entirely clear, but it might have something to do with the guy wires that are holding down a radio antenna tower adjacent to a service bay behind the Love’s Truck Stop directly to the west, which is accessed from nearby Patton St. It’s visible at the far left of the above photo — and in this marked-up view from Google, showing how it looked when the building was still intact:
Hang Tight
“Not sure if you can see from this picture,” writes the Swamplot correspondent who sent the image at the top of this story, looking into a few of the units in the new 24-story apartment tower at 1625 Main St. from Pease St., “but it appears the ‘view’ from the bathrooms at the new SkyHouse will be excellent.” Of course you already knew that.
Bonus: The design of the SkyHouse Main going up across the street will be identical.
- Previously on Swamplot: Comment of the Day: Suggested Improvements for the Next Highrise Sky Throne;Â Comment of the Day Runner-Up: The Best Views in Every SkyHouse;Â Have a Look Where Crews Have Begun Digging for the Second Downtown SkyHouse;Â Second Downtown SkyHouse Highrise Will Go Up on Main St. Just South of the First;Â The Street Shops in Store for SkyHouse Houston, Now Under Construction Downtown;Â Downtown SkyHouse Clearing the Ground First
Photos: Swamplot inbox (view); Simpson Property Group (tower)
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- Zieben Group Closes on Portion of Hardy Yards in Near Northside for Public-Private Mixed Income Apartment Development [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Siemens Planning New Oil and Gas Headquarters in the Energy Corridor [Click2Houston]
- Metro Evaluating Plan To Sell Pinemont Park and Ride to Housing Authority [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
- Darling Homes To Build 31 Houses in Bridgeland [Prime Property]
- Average Household Real Estate Taxes in Texas Are More Than 50% Higher Than National Average, Finds WalletHub [Prime Property]
- Restaurant and Lounge Tarakaan Opening at 2301 S. Main in Former Knoll Furniture Showroom in Midtown This June [Prime Property]
- Peska Seafood Culture Slated To Open in BLVD Place on April 8 [HBJ]
- Hugs & Donuts Now Open Next to Fat Cat Creamery in N. Shepherd Retail Center [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
- City Council To Vote Wednesday on Residential Parking Permits for Hyde Park Blvd. Block in Montrose [Houston Public Media]
- Texas Transportation Panel To Consider Naming the Galveston Causeway After the Mitchells, Extending Reagan Name on 290 Inside the Beltway [The Highwayman]
- Anheuser-Busch Brewery Bringing Back Regular Tours Starting This Friday [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of 19th St. Parklet: Swamplot inbox
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HOUSTON CHRONICLE BUILDING GOES ON SALE TOMORROW, THE CHRONICLE REPORTS 
The Houston Chronicle’s 10-story downtown headquarters and neighboring parking garage will be listed for sale tomorrow — with the Hearst newspaper’s reporters and other employees still working away inside. “Chronicle executives said prospective buyers have already expressed interest in the property and that more are expected once word spreads that the building at 801 Texas and an adjacent parking garage are up for sale,” writes real estate reporter Nancy Sarnoff from somewhere inside the complex. Indeed, company executives have already suggested to her the story’s conclusion: “’This building is likely to be torn down and replaced with a modern skyscraper that will generate more revenue for the city. It’s in a prime location,’ Paul Barbetta, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Houston Chronicle Media Group, said Monday.” Chronicle employees will be allowed to exit the building and take their belongings with them to a revamped, smaller, outside-the-Loop just-inside-the-Loop facility before that happens. [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot] Photo: Walter P Moore
A couple of readers have sent in pics of the curious driveway installation at 2115 Taft St. just south of Welch St. just over the eastern border from Montrose, on the former site of the Taft St. Coffee House and Ecclesia Church. The utility pole dates from the lot’s former inhabitants; the courteous flatwork has been built around it for later patching. “In case you are wondering,” writes one of our tipsters, “the space on either side is not wide enough for a car to pass, nor does the driveway go all the way through to the next street.”
The Townhomes Are Coming
Demolition crews made short work of The Place apartments at 1341 Castle Ct. late last week. A reader reports seeing the 1974 complex largely intact Friday morning, but coming by again that afternoon to see it in this sorry state:
Castle Court Apartments
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The former Norris of Houston building gets its last haircut ever, and it’s a buzz.
- CenterPoint Properties Buys 27 Industrial Buildings in Houston Business Parks [Realty News Report]
- Baytown Seafood at I-10 East and Haden Rd. To Be Demolished, Replaced by Retail Center [Houston Chronicle]
- Asian Real Estate Association of America Launches Houston Chapter [HBJ]
- Homeownership Can Help Close Wealth Gap Between Racial Groups, According to Brandeis University Study [Houston Public Media]
- Cullen’s American Grille Owners Replacing Big Shots with ’Merica Beer Bar at 11500 Space Center Blvd. [Food Chronicles]
- TxDOT Proposes Adding Third Lane on Both Sides of I-10 To Accommodate Future Traffic Increases [San Antonio Express-News]
- Sebastien ‘Mr. D’ Boileau Painting Large Mural of Ed-U-Gator Mascot on Storage Facility at UH-Downtown [Houston Chronicle]
- Texas Water Development Board’s New Water Plan for Region H Reports Jumps in Population Projections [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Heights Association’s 2015 Spring Home & Garden Tour Taking Place April 11, 12 [HBJ]
- The Astrodome’s 50 Most Memorable Moments Since Opening on April 9, 1965Â [Houston Chronicle]
- A Sampling of Astrodome Memorabilia [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of mural at St. Emanuel and Leeland, East Downtown: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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