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Demolitions, Oak Forest, Quicklink

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COMMENT OF THE DAY: ZIP ON THIS SIDE “I live in the 77092 portion of Oak Forest. Luckily, our brick ranch houses have been spared the wrecking balls hitting on the little bungalows across the bayou.” [marcy, commenting on Daily Demolition Report: Airline Farming]

77018, 77092, Demolitions, Oak-Forest

Homes for Sale

06/07/12 2:09pm

Under the Cottage Eaves on Shepherd Park Plaza Lot with Leaves

Interiors, Manufactured Homes, Shepherd Park Plaza

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With its breeze-catching front porch, rockers, and kitchen garden, this 1939 cottage evokes old-time country living. Sort of. The home was overhauled in 2006. And it’s located across the street from a cluster of about 30 manufactured homes, some of which date back to the sixties. The home’s woodsy lot, which is more than a acre in Shepherd Park Plaza, is just west of N. Shepherd Dr. south of Pinemont Dr.

77018, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Manufactured Homes, Shepherd Park Plaza

06/05/12 11:08am

That Rumor About a New Central Market in Garden Oaks

Quicklink, Retail, Shopping Centers

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THAT RUMOR ABOUT A NEW CENTRAL MARKET IN GARDEN OAKS To all of you who’ve been emailing, tweeting, and speculating about H-E-B buying the Sears shopping center at 4000 N. Shepherd at the edge of Garden Oaks and turning it into a Central Market: Interesting idea. But here’s your rumorkiller: Houston division prez Scott McClelland tells Swamplot, “H-E-B has not looked at this location and we’ve had no discussions about it to date.” Photo: City-Data

77018, Garden Oaks, Grocery Stores, Retail

05/22/12 2:21pm

Cottage Industry in Garden Oaks

Homes for Sale, Renovations

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Taken down to its studs: This home’s renovation project is in the works on a quarter-acre corner lot backing up to the feeder road of the North Loop at Yale St. That’s in Garden Oaks, or so says the neighborhood signage on the property’s easement.

Listed last week at $350,000, the future version of this 1950-built cottage will have new siding, windows, plumbing, hardwood and stone floors, custom cabinetry, and granite counter tops. The kitchen is already displaying the bones of its new, barrel-vaulted ceiling:

77018, Garden Oaks, Homes for Sale, Renovations

Homes for Sale

05/16/12 2:45pm

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Boosted Roost

Oak Forest

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1309 Chamboard Ln. [HAR]

77018, Homes for Sale, Oak-Forest, Playhouses

04/13/12 4:41pm

A Sidewalk Hazard’s Social Media Strategy

Hazards, Quicklink, Streetscapes

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A SIDEWALK HAZARD’S SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY A coverless manhole just west of Shepherd on 34th St. in Garden Oaks has taken to Twitter to broadcast its plight. “I am a gaping hole in the city’s underbelly,” declares Gringo Trap 34, between drooling appreciations of photos of attractive manhole covers posted on other Twitter streams. By the hole’s third-ever tweet, yesterday, it had snared a response from Mayor Parker, who commiserated over problems caused by copper thieves. (“Like roaches, they mess up more than they take,” quipped the mayor.) Shout-outs to various reporters followed. But as of Friday afternoon, the square hole under the constable sign is still uncovered, and Gringo Trap 34 has posted its latest “glamor shot.” “I may be pretty,” reads the latest report, “but that doesn’t mean I won’t tear your ACL.” [Twitter] Update, 9:13 pm: The Gringo Trap 34 account appears to have been suspended, but its tweets live on in this Chronicle story. Photo: Gringo Trap 34

77018, Garden Oaks, Hazards, Streetscapes

04/05/12 1:43pm

Nature and Neighbors in Garden Oaks

Homes for Sale, Interiors

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A studio, spa, and amped-up patio share a 10,000-sq.-ft. lot in Garden Oaks with this 2-or-3-bedroom house of 1,800 sq. ft. The master bedroom’s open-ended double shower features hot tub access and views of — and from — the great outdoors. Rooms overlooking the back yard have lots of windows, too. The days of curtain-free living here may be numbered, however. A listing photo (at top) shows something under construction rising over the fence, its neighborly vantage point yet to be determined.

77018, Garden Oaks, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors

New Construction

03/26/12 12:44pm

Joining the Ella and 610 Fast Food Nexus

Restaurants, Shepherd Forest

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That’s a Raising Cane’s joint going up at 3007 Ella Blvd. just north of 610, soon to become the closest location of the Louisiana-born chicken fingers chain to Houston’s Inner Loop sanctum. Formerly on that site: the Ella Square Apartments; the city forced the owner of the derelict apartments to tear them down 2 Decembers ago. Next door to the Raising Cane’s construction site is the just-opened Carl’s Jr. built on the north side of the same property. Not enough ~~Oak~~ Shepherd Forest drive-thru action for you? They’ll be joining the McDonald’s, Taco Bell, KFC, Burger King, and Popeye’s already on that short stretch of Ella south of Stonecrest.

Photo: DC from Houston, via Swamplot inbox

77018, Fast Food, New Construction, Restaurants, Shepherd Forest

Furniture

03/16/12 1:02pm

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Outdoor Tanning Bed

Gardening, Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Landscape, Oak Forest

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2010 Hewitt Dr. [HAR]

77018, Furniture, Gardening, Home Decor, Landscape, Oak-Forest

Buildings for Sale

02/03/12 1:51pm

Oak Grove Beach Volleyball Bar Update: Who’s Going To Serve?

Industrial Properties, Oak Grove

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Following up on that former warehouse at 954 Wakefield St. in Oak Grove that last spring looked like it was well on its way to becoming a new beach volleyball venue, a passerby reports a couple of seemingly contradictory signs. On the one hand, there’s now a TABC notice taped to a window, dated earlier in January, which indicates that HFL Construction is applying for an alcohol license for this location. And the volleyball courts (at left in the above photo) look a bit more complete than they did last April. On the other hand, there’s now also a for-sale sign with the HFL Construction logo on it posted in front of the peoperty, the reader says.

Previously on Swamplot: On the Beach in Oak Grove

Photos: Swamplot inbox

77018, Alcohol Licenses, Attractions, Bars and Clubs, Buildings for Sale, Industrial Properties, Oak Grove

01/05/12 4:13pm

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Direct Bedroom Delivery

Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors

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1034 43rd St. [HAR]

77018, Garden Oaks, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors

10/11/11 2:36pm

Garden Oaks Strip Center Draught Report

Nightlife, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Strip Centers

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The next contender for the endcap of the Modern strip center at the corner of North Shepherd Dr. and 34th St. refashioned last year from the longtime home of Garden Oaks’ Binswanger Glass Co. is almost in. Taking over from the stalled out Octane Coffee and Wine Lounge will be the Shepherd Park Draught House — a pub featuring a full menu and an interior festooned with punk, pop, and rock memorabilia. Its owner: Ken Bridge of Delicious Concepts, the same company behind Heights restaurants Lola, Dragon Bowl, and (most notably) Pink’s Pizza, which has a convenient location next door. Expected opening date: “very soon.”

77018, Bars, Garden Oaks, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Strip Centers

Art

09/27/11 12:07pm

Finding the Art in Independence Heights

Independence Heights

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After taking in this weekend’s open house at the thriving shipping-container art colony ensconced in Stephen and Thedra Cullar-Ledford’s Independence Art Studios at 419 Janisch Rd. between Shepherd and Yale (above), fine-arts hound Robert Boyd pokes around a few more streets in Independence Heights — and finds a lot more art lurking in the neighborhood’s big lots. Boyd writes: “I think we can say that this is a little hidden art neighborhood. And if it follows the pattern of other art neighborhoods like Montrose and Rice Military, in 25 years or so, it will be full of expensive townhomes.”

Mysterious North Houston Art Colony Discovered [The Great God Pan Is Dead]
Studios [Independence Art Studios]

Photos: Robert Boyd. Sculpture: Jonathan Clark

77018, Art, Art Studios, Independence Heights

06/15/11 12:29pm

Hard Knocks: Octane Shuts Down in Garden Oaks