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August 17, 2007 – 10:40 am
The glass tower is half full: 218 of the 394 units in the first Mosaic tower have been sold, reports the Houston Business Journal. Are those just the north-facing units? Because directly to the south, the second tower is ready for liftoff:
Phillips Development & Realty LLC of Tampa, Fla., which is developing both condominium towers near Hermann Park at a cost of $203 million, secured a $141 million loan from Chicago-based Corus Bankshares Inc. last week to refinance the first building and finance the second one. . . .
Phillips says the company financed the first Mosaic tower as a rental property because that was the only way to secure funding.
Why is it called Mosaic? There are a lot of tiny units in there, 18 to a floor, averaging 980 square feet. They start at $165,000.
Read more about: 77004, Condos, Financing, Hermann Park, New Construction, New Construction: Residential
Nine houses and three buildings leave Houston. Our list of the newly departed begins after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77007, 77011, 77020, 77027, 77032, 77034, 77048, 77055, 77063, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
A lovely and diverse group of demolitions in today’s edition. See them after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77007, 77018, 77019, 77042, 77054, 77055, 77056, 77057, 77072, 77081, 77088, 77091, 77098, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Med Center goes down, Green Hill Dr. gets flattened, and more in today’s demolition report, below.
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Read more about: 77004, 77018, 77025, 77030, 77032, 77033, 77098, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
A modernist classic gets its dust-conversion approval. That and other building-retirement news in today’s report, which begins after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77006, 77007, 77008, 77019, 77024, 77030, 77061, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
A Heights institution falls. That and more in our daily list of demolition permits—after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77007, 77008, 77018, 77027, 77030, 77056, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions, Houston Heights
On today’s knock-down docket: Portions of four businesses and six houses. Read ’em and weep—after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77006, 77008, 77017, 77018, 77019, 77025, 77026, 77043, 77074, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions, Oak-Forest, Sharpstown, Southern Oaks
Four businesses and seven residences gained official release from the restricting confines of structural integrity yesterday. What’s going down? Our list of falling buildings is after the jump.
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Read more about: 77003, 77004, 77005, 77006, 77009, 77018, 77019, 77026, 77030, 77081, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
A cold death for Flamingo Chill on Airline. That and more in our daily list of sunsetted structures, after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77008, 77024, 77025, 77074, 77076, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
A fast food icon quickly devoured, plus the end of a house on an oak-lined Woodland Heights street. Details after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77005, 77007, 77009, 77019, 77055, 77056, 77087, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
Today’s round of demolitions are all residences. Ten doomed houses, after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77018, 77024, 77025, 77030, 77045, 77080, 77081, 77096, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
What happens when townhomes don’t crack half a million? Sellers get mighty cranky:
This unit has a great view of downtown. It features a large balcony, spacious rooms, high ceilings, both wood & carpeted floors, an elevator, fireplace, beautiful kitchen and much more! It is being sold ‘AS IS’. The seller will do NO REPAIRS.
Don’t want to deal with this kind of unwillingness to negotiate? For a mere $200K+ more, you can buy the townhouse next door. And that seller isn’t saying what will or won’t be repaired—at least not in the listing.
A nice view of 288 from the balcony, plus an interior photo, which you can scan for evidence of a need for repairs the seller won’t make, after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, As-Is, Buying and Selling, Riverside-Terrace, Townhomes, Views
