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Friday, July 3, 2009

La Maison in Midtown: The Power of a Good Night’s Sleep

There’s a new $2 million bed and breakfast going up in Midtown? The Chronicle’s Nancy Sarnoff reports that the project’s developers were “able to persuade a lender” to finance construction of their 3-story “New Orleans-style” B&B, which has already broken ground at 2800 Brazos, at the corner of Drew St.:

“It was a little challenging early on in the process,” [developer Genora] Boykins said. “The thing that made the difference is we really didn’t give up on the vision we have.” . . .

That sort of positive thinking is apparently nothing new for Boykins, an attorney for Reliant Energy who serves on the Downtown Management District board of directors — along with her La Maison partner, Centerpoint Energy community relations VP Sharon Owens.

Kirbyjon Caldwell, the pastor of 14,000-member Windsor Village United Methodist Church, provides more insight into Boykins’s real-estate techniques in Chapter 3 of his now-decade-old bestseller, The Gospel of Good Success: A Road Map to Spiritual, Emotional and Financial Wholeness:

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Snuff Is Not Enough: South Post Oak Lubricated Walking Tour

South Post Oak Blvd. at W. Bellfort, Houston

Veteran Houston hoofers John Nova Lomax and David Beebe and a guest suffer a vehicle breakdown on their latest walking tour — from West Fuqua up South Post Oak to W. Bellfort. The trip, says Lomax,

ended up as little more than a Bataan death pub crawl, taking in three unjustly obscure near southwest side strip mall taverns.

But . . . oh, the sights!

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