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Friday, December 28, 2007

Sterling Senior Condo Sales Staff Retires

Sales Sign for Sterling at Memorial VillagesRemember that fancy 27-story condo tower planned for Voss between San Felipe and Woodway? The one that was “for seniors only” and featured three floors of assisted living? Where you could buy a spacious 950-square-foot unit for just a tad under $500K?

Well, neither did we.

But if you were too busy pursuing an active lifestyle to notice that the sales center had shut down and the website disappeared, today’s Houston Business Journal makes the official announcement: The Sterling at Memorial Villages is dead, for lack of interest.

The project site holds a shuttered retail facility where a Chipotle formerly operated. The western-most part of the site, which is not owned by [Sterling developer] Sunrise Senior Living, is being marketed for sale by McDade Smith Gould Johnston Mason + Co. The eastern portion of the property — where the condo was to be built — is now being marketed by Wheless Properties.

The public company will see what offers it gets for the land, but [Sunrise Senior Living rep Jamison] Gosselin says it also is considering developing a rental property at the site.

Not mentioned in the article: Links to The Sterling of The Woodlands on the company website no longer work either.

Photo: HAIF user BuilderGeek

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Monday, December 10, 2007

CompUSA Boxes Available Soon

Empty Willowbrook CompUSA store

Looking for a couple strategic locations on Westheimer for Big Box stores . . . say one near the Galleria, the other near Kirkwood? You’re in luck: CompUSA is toast.

Turnaround firm Gordon Brothers Group has acquired computer manufacturer CompUSA for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, Boston-based Gordon Brothers is closing all 103 CompUSA stores, which will remain open through the holiday season.

Sound familiar? CompUSA shut down 176 locations nationwide this past February, including stores in Sugar Land, Baybrook, Willowbrook, and another on FM 1960.

Photo of empty Willowbrook CompUSA: Ailona Gellert

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The Fairmont on San Felipe: Close Enough for Comfort

Site Plan of The Fairmont on San Felipe, Houston

Sure, there’s Post Properties, the Sonoma in the Rice Village and all those tired old buildings downtown, but most Houston developers won’t put apartments on top of retail unless they’re dragged kicking and screaming. And really, the idea of living next to a strip center evokes a much warmer, more folksy feeling. Isn’t that what Houston is all about?

The latest: The Fairmont on San Felipe, on the southeast corner of San Felipe and Winrock. A couple of apartment courtyards, connected by a central garage, behind two strips ready for 41,500 square feet of retail. It’s now under construction, on the site of the old Regency Arms apartments, which burned last year after it had already been vacated for demolition.

Update, 2/14/08: Looks like they have been dragged!

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Monday, September 24, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Beneath the Roses

4422 N. Roseneath Dr., Houston

Another day, another round of Houston demolitions. Find out where the action is in our list of structures approved for destruction—after the jump.

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Friday, September 21, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Out Cold

Yet another warehouse on Studemont goes down. Plus more homes in and around town. Our daily address list of demolition sites is after the jump.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Falling from the Heights

1411 Allston St., Houston

A home from the 1930s comes down from the Heights. Plus: an Intercontinental casualty. See our daily address list of destruction—after the jump.

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Out with the Houses

A special all-residential edition of our daily list of demolition permits begins after the jump.

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Friday, August 3, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Heading Down Around Town

A lovely and diverse group of demolitions in today’s edition. See them after the jump.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Pain Management

Backyard of 1920 Woodbury Street

A doctor’s office with a wacky backyard goes down to make room for a new residential tower. Three lost homes too, in today’s report.

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Simply Smashing

An all-residential edition of the demo report begins after the jump.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Builder’s Choice

Facade of New Home at 628 E. 6th 1/2 Street by Choice Development

New developments cleared for landing. Where? See today’s list, after the jump.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: What’s Going Down in Greenview Manor

Fourteen soon to be forgotten houses have a date with destruction. Our list begins after the jump.

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Thursday, June 7, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Earth Scrapers

Six houses bite the dust today, including a pair on adjacent sites on Houston Avenue, just north of Downtown. The list is below.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Selling Your Home: How To Give Buyers a Good First Impressionism

2078 Augusta Dr 6/49 Living Room

Home buyers want a masterpiece! So why should your home listing suffer from bad, poorly lit, unimaginative photographs? Why, with a little bit of camera-phone artistry, you can make your home look like a Van Gogh!

Here’s a great example. Yes, this beautiful, Galleria-area impressionist interior can be yours, for a mere $165,000:

2 Bedroom, 2 1/2 bath Townhome with living room, kitchen and half-bath downstairs and bedrooms up. Master bedroom has cathedral ceiling and there is a large round skylight in the staircase. Light and bright throughout. Great location . . .

No, we didn’t alter the photo above (okay, we did enlarge it). But we do recognize artistic genius. Great photos like this hide carpet stains, too!

How can you make your home look like it’s worth a lot of Monet? Learn from the masters! After the jump, more of ERA broker Al Rafat’s unadulterated images of this notable home.

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