- 4602 Riverglade Ct. [HAR]
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The Tree Tops at Post Oak apartment complex on Briar Hollow Pl. has been abandoned since August, “with many windows and doors open as well as no maintenance to the yards,” writes a reader. Also noted: survey markers, like the one stuck between the fence and the curb in the photo included. First floor units at the complex sit below street level, and had water “up to the ceilings,” during Harvey.
From the corner of Briar Hollow and Post Oak Park Dr., you can see wooden scaffolding fronting the lower-level units, behind the fence — and the overgrowth — that separates them from the street:
Out of Order
Title Boxing Club is the latest tenant on its way to the block-long former Midtowne Spa at 3100 Fannin St. Braun bought the building the same year the bathhouse shuttered in 2016, set up a 4,664-sq.-ft. office on the second floor, and began ushering other tenants into the building. Two months ago, Verizon opened at the south end of the structure, on the corner of Elgin and Fannin. In between it and the national boxing chain’s new location, a Bishops hair salon is planned.
The bathhouse — pictured above from the north before its recent whitewashing treatment — had been in the building since at least the ’80s. Other locations still operate under the same brand in Denver and Los Angeles.
Its first floor included this swimming pool and hot tub setup:
No Longer Midtowne Spa
- Yorktown Plaza Property Near the Galleria To Be Demolished for Potential Residential, Mixed-Use Project [HBJ ($)]
- Remington Square III in Northwest Houston Nearly Fully Leased [HBJ]
- Stages Repertory Theatre Breaks Ground on New Campus One Block South of Current Location [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Affordable Housing Apartment Project Breaks Ground in North Houston [HBJ ($)]
- The Most Expensive Homes Sold in Houston in April, According to HAR [HBJ]
- First Indoor Cycling Studio Opens in Downtown Central Business District [Culturemap]
- Gov. Abbott Criticizes Houston for Response to Hurricane Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
- Texas ‘White House’ Estate in Preston Hollow Sells for $11M [Culturemap]
Photo of MFAH: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Headlines
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The elements of our environment are but obstacles to our dreams.
- 610 Walnut Bend Ln. [HAR]
Paperwork filed recently with the city’s Historical Commission reveals the extent of flood damage at the 1960 Frame-Harper house on Westminster Dr. and what Stern & Bucek has planned for the home’s second redo in 11 years. The Houston architecture firm’s first renovation of Harwood Taylor’s original design smoothed out the rough edges of its previous additions and restored its ’50s swagger. Floodwaters from Harvey filled the home’s Buffalo Bayou–facing living room, pictured above after the 2007 redo, to nearly half its height.
This interior view shows how the structure chaperones you down towards the living room and the bayou:
Wash and Wear
Multiple angles on the fully built, but not-yet-open Heights Mexican restaurant building dubbed Calle Onze show how it’s shaped up on the corner of Allston and 11th St. long home to Jozzie’s Mobile Home Park. In its new format, the 13,200-sq.-ft property relegates parking to the lot on the right in the side view above from Allston. A patio, complete with fake grass, wraps the building to front 11th St (pictured at top), where it butts up against the western boundary of Eight Row Flint‘s corner spot off Yale.
The mobile home park, home to about 9 trailers in its final days, cleared out of the lot in March of last year:
By Eight Row Flint
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- Gioretti-Branded Upper Kirby Condos Break Ground Behind Schedule [HBJ ($); previously on Swamplot]
- Listing Price for Woodlands Mansion with 3-Story Closet Drops to $7M [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Joseph Finger-Designed Kingston-Davis House Hits the Market [abc13]
- VKC Group Acquires Westlake Shopping Center [Houston Chronicle]
- Acclara Solutions Inks Lease at Remington Square III Office Building in Northwest Houston [Houston Chronicle]
- Outriggers Seafood Grill & Bar in Clear Lake Closing Next Week to Make Way for Highway 146 Expansion [abc13]
Photo of Walding Station: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Headlines
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
When we demolish, let us think that we are demolishing forever.
- 1216 Nashua St. [HAR]
Renovations are about to begin at 1304 W. Alabama in order to turn the shuttered dog boarding facility into a new wine bar. The former doghouse, dubbed Jackson’s Place, was originally converted from a 1928 bungalow. It advertised itself as a “cage-free pet resort,” and bakery that not only cared for pets, but also fed them with “yummy, all natural dog treats and pastries, made from premium ingredients.” The business closed down about 2 months ago, but an additional location remains open on Dunlavy 2 blocks south of W. Gray.
A lawn sign identifying Jackson’s Place has since been yanked from former its yard on the corner of Graustark St. — 2 doors down from hot dog restaurant Good Dog’s Montrose location — and the building’s windows are now browned out with paper. A construction permit issued yesterday for the space names Light Years Wine as its new occupant.
- About Us [Jackson’s Place]
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Hair of the Dog
COMMENT OF THE DAY: WHO CARES HOW FAR AWAY YOU ARE FROM A DECENT GROCERY STORE? 
“I live downtown and use Instacart every week. Saves a ton of time. I don’t understand the fixation about going to a grocery store in person.” [Matt, commenting on Comment of the Day Runner-Up: The Hole in the Donut] Photo inside H-E-B, 1701 West Alabama St.: Candace Garcia
The signage above Fallas’ storefront — pictured above — has already come down, reports an employee of a neighboring business. Now on its way to that 25,480-sq.-ft. space in the chamfered corner of the L-shaped Northtown Plaza shopping center: Dallas supermarket El Rancho. A building permit was filed yesterday for the grocery conversion. It’s the second location that the North Texas chain has in the works for Houston; a Greenspoint location 6 miles up I-45 is planned to open in June.
But Fallas’ discount clothing presence won’t be entirely displaced by the new supermarket:
Northtown Plaza
The Kroger at 5235 Aldine Mail Rd. closed down late last year, but 1st Convenience Bank remained open inside the 47,622-sq.-ft. store for about 2 weeks. The branch then relocated to the portable building that’s now sitting in the grocery parking lot, just west of A Autoworks’ adjacent repair shop.
Weitzman Management is marketing the 4.3-acre property for sale. Aside from the buildings and parking lot, the land includes an eastern appendage that stretches across the boundaries of a separate set of parcels before butting up directly against 59:
Mobile Banking
