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Apartments
Spring Branch East Redo

With Industrial Complex Out Of the Way, More Sueba Apartments Are Posting Up on North Post Oak

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1300-n-post-oak-sueba-signcloseup Here is a close-up view of an upcoming apartment complex that eastbound Hwy. 290 travelers might see to the west as they enjoy that new short-cut to I-10. Sueba Development’s Residences at North Post Oak is going up at 1300 N. Post Oak Rd. a little north of Awty International School and a smidge south of the Hempstead Hwy. and the creaky remnants of Northwest Mall. This project is almost catty-corner to another Sueba development — the North Post Oak Lofts, at 1255 N. Post Oak, tucked away behind Prince’s Diner.

A two-story office building and warehouse complex was demolished in 2012 to make way for the project.

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by John Nova Lomax
Spring Branch
6 Comments
11/19/14 3:00pm
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aesthetic oases

Butler Brothers Hope to Bring a Little Santa Barbara to Spring Branch with 28-Home Gated Community

Maravilla Court, 1717 Pine Chase Dr., Spring Branch, Houston

Here’s the early progress on Spring Branch’s Maravilla Court, a planned 28-home gated community going up in the 1700 block of Pine Chase Dr. on the site of a demolished 1970s-era apartment complex.

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by John Nova Lomax
Spring Branch
6 Comments
11/11/14 5:30pm
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Demolitions
What’s New Is Old

100 David Weekley Homes To Spring Up in the Branch Atop Former Flea Market Site

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Here lie the remains of the New Flea Market, the most recent occupant of a strip mall site at 8315 Long Point Rd. that once was home to the  Spring Branch K-Mart. Workers are scraping an 8-acre parcel of the larger site at the corner of Hillendahl Blvd. to make way for the Village at Spring Branch, a 100-home David Weekley development offering three-story townhouses and garden and patio homes ringing a pool and cabana. Blue-light specials will be offered around $400k; premium buys will go on sale at $700k. Retail — and the tiny, historic Hillendahl Cemetery (captured below in an old photo) — will remain along the Long Point frontage.

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by John Nova Lomax
Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Spring Branch, Uncategorized
33 Comments
11/11/14 11:30am
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Spring Branch Supermarket Shutdown

Supermercado de Walmart, America’s First and Last Latino-Themed Walmart Grocery Store, Has Closed Down for Good

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Supermercado de Walmart, 7690 Long Point Rd., Spring Branch, HoustonHouston’s (and America’s) first Walmart grocery store named and designed to cater to Latinos shut its doors at the end of last week. Supermercado de Walmart opened 5 years ago in Spring Branch in a converted 39,000-square-foot Neighborhood Market-style store at 7960 Long Point Rd., amid a fanfare of mariachi music and a smorgasbord of free food and drink samples. Those days are long gone: A reader sends in a pic (at right) of the far more offhand sign taped to the glass door. 

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by John Nova Lomax
Openings and Closings, Retail, Spring Branch
14 Comments
11/06/14 4:00pm
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Apartments
New Homes or Apartments?

Sale of Blalock Woods Apartments in Spring Branch Means Residents Will Likely Get Booted by Next June

Blalock Woods Apartments, 1111 Blalock Rd., Spring Branch, Houston

Developers have become very interested in Spring Branch, notes a Swamplot tipster. The latest evidence: the recent sale of the Blalock Woods Apartments (pictured above), just north of the Katy-Fwy.-side 99 Ranch Market at 1111 Blalock Rd. The new owner of the townhome-style complex is a group put together by investment and apartment-development firm Stanmore Partners. The property changed hands on October 1st; on the same date, residents of the Spring Branch apartment complex received a brief letter saying Greystar Management Services will be taking over management of all 316 units. The letter didn’t reveal the name of the property’s new owner, and didn’t say anything about shutting down the place, but a source tells Swamplot that no new leases are being written, and that a “departure deadline” of June 2015 is being planned.

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Buying and Selling, Spring Branch
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10/07/14 10:45am
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Attractions
Indoor Skydiving

This Mystery Steel Structure on I-10 Between Bunker Hill and Blalock Is a UFO

iFLY Indoor Skydiving Facility Under Construction, 9540 Katy Fwy., Spring Branch, Houston

A mere half-dozen readers have written Swamplot to ask about this strange multi-story steel-framed structure that’s been going up next to the Lowe’s on I-10 between Blalock and Bunker Hill — or its twin on the site of the former Casa Elena restaurant across the freeway from The Woodlands at 26824 Interstate 45 North. And we’re guessing a few more of you are curious as well, but just haven’t had the time to send in your photos and speculation. Capitalizing on the freeway mystery, the company behind the structure has set up a website at GuessWhatThisIs.com. (With indoor-skydiving facilities in 9 other U.S. cities already, iFLY has been through the drill before.)

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New Construction, Spring Branch
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10/06/14 1:30pm
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Brighton Place
Wraparound Pool

Brighton Place Contemporary Keeps Up Appearances, $730K Price Tag

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Over in the Brighton Place neighborhood in Spring Valley, a 1979 contemporary quietly observed its shift into middle age this year. The property has kept its bones but also updated some of the padding. It’s been listed since mid-September for $729,900.

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Spring Valley
1 Comment
09/29/14 4:15pm
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Buildings for Sale
Palm Motor and Hearth

Possibly the Finest Auto Repair Shop Residence in All of Houston

2050 Jacquelyn Dr., Hillendahl Acres, Houston

2050 Jacquelyn Dr., Hillendahl Acres, Houston

Or might it be the city’s finest home auto repair garage? It’s all a question of emphasis in this brand-new Hillendahl Acres (just south of Hammerly Blvd., east of Wirt Rd.) residential listing: The car-repair shop, known to customers for more than 20 years as Palm Motor Company, sits in the back of the almost-half-acre lot and has room for more than a dozen neatly parked cars. The home sits nearer to the street and contains 2 bedrooms. All this (minus the cars) could be yours for the $750,000 asking price. Care for a tour?

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Hillendahl Acres, Homes for Sale, Interiors
5 Comments
09/08/14 1:30pm
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Casa and Casita

On the Lookout for a $1.65 Million Maximum Mediterranean in Spring Valley

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Like an arrowhead, the groomed lot sprouting a custom 2007 Mediterranean comes to a point — though the tip, where Merlin and Ben Hur (drives) part ways south of Westview and west of Voss Rd., is separated from the base by a circular driveway linking the 2 streets within the Cedarwood section of Spring Valley. Listed a week ago, the property has a $1.649 million asking price. Does the lots-o’-lawn on the grand approach come with a back-lot equivalent? Judge for yourself:

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by CALwords
Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Spring Valley
2 Comments
09/04/14 2:45pm
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Price Drop

Sliding Through the Doors and Skylights of a $1 Million Mid-Century Hilshire Village Mod

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Apart from the snazzy red cars parked by the home’s courtyard entry, a flat-topped 1963 Hilshire Village property keeps a low profile beneath the canopy of mature trees on its large lot, which is located in the Burkhardt Plaza neighborhood west of Wirt Rd. and just north of the Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church on the eastbound I-10 feeder road. Updated in 2009, the midcentury modern with the not-so-modern decor landed on the market a week ago, asking $1.1 million. By the weekend, though, the price had dropped to $997,500.

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by CALwords
Hilshire Village, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Modern Design
9 Comments
08/25/14 5:00pm
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Saving Graces

An $840K Merlin Place Property Reclaims and Recreates the Worlds of Houses Gone By

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There are vintage, historical, and perhaps sentimental aspects of this place in Merlin Place, just north of Spring Valley: The listing notes the home was “modeled after” the owner’s previous property in Piney Point. And bits of old Houston, older Galveston, and really old New Orleans worked themselves into the 1995 custom home, which still has some unfinished rooms. Thursday’s listing of the Mansard-roofed property, located between Voss and Bingle roads and south of Westview Dr., has an $840,000 asking price.

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by CALwords
Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Spring Branch
13 Comments
07/18/14 5:00pm
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From the Seventies to You

Catching Some Air at a Hilshire Village Contemporary

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Like a pair of bookends, opposing wedges of a mushroom-hued 1977 contemporary in Hilshire Green seem to press against the home’s recessed double-door entry. The freshly painted property sprouted on the market with the weekend rains. It has a $715,000 asking price.

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by CALwords
Hilshire Village, Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Memorial Villages
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06/04/14 5:30pm
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