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Friday, May 17, 2013

Perusing The Woodlands

May 17, 2013 – 12:00 pm
   

This is the only one of the homes to be featured in this Saturday’s AIA walking tour in the Woodlands that’s active on the market. With a view of Lake Woodlands at 34 East Shore Dr., the 6-bedroom, 8,400-sq.-ft., never-lived-in house designed by Bobby McAlpine is going for $5.2 million. The listing indicates that 5 open houses are scheduled for May and June — with the first this Sunday. The place also features a staircase that might induce a feeling of déjà vu. [AIA Houston; HAR; previously on Swamplot] Photo: HAR

12:00 pm | 6 Comments | Read more about Homes for Sale, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Open Houses, Quicklink
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Some Curvaceous Space To Office with a Fountain View in Spring

March 28, 2013 – 2:45 pm

And something like this 3-story, 2-building office complex should start going up this spring in Spring, reports the Houston Business Journal’s Shaina Zucker. Planned to sit on 7 and a half acres at 460 Wildwood Forest Dr., the 127,794-sq.-ft. Wildwood Corporate Center will be across the street from apartments and about 3 miles north of the ExxonMobil campus being built among comparatively tame woods where 385 acres have been clear-cut around the intersection of I-45, the Hardy Toll Rd., and the likely path of the Grand Pkwy.

Rendering: Houston Business Journal

2:45 pm | 3 Comments | Read more about Commercial Real Estate, Neighborhoods: Spring, Office Buildings, Office Space, Proposed Developments
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Monday, February 4, 2013

Woodlands Home Listing Photo of the Day: Keep Left

February 4, 2013 – 10:00 am

10:00 am | 13 Comments | Read more about Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The New Microsoft Store About To Open in The Woodlands Mall Will Close Soon

September 11, 2012 – 1:11 pm
   

Surprise! Microsoft will be opening a new store in The Woodlands Mall this fall “to meet expected demand for new Microsoft-enabled devices.” Meaning: the new Surface tablet computer and the tile-happy Windows 8 operating system. But don’t expect the store to stick around long after customers figure out the new interfaces — or give up on them for something more familiar. The Woodlands location will be one of 32 “pop up” stores around the country being thrown up for the selling season, which will more than double the software company’s retail presence for its big rollout. A schedule for the stores’ openings and closings wasn’t included in the company’s announcement. [Woodlands Online] Photo: Desman Associates

1:11 pm | 11 Comments | Read more about Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Openings and Closings, Quicklink, Retail
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Woodlands Shipping Container Co-Op Building: Open Source, Fully Leased

August 7, 2012 – 5:50 pm

The epic Software Group is now passing around pix of the “creative co-op” building the company painstakingly constructed next to its Woodlands headquarters over the last 18 months — out of 11 recycled shipping containers and a slew of other recycled materials. The 8-ft. x 40-ft. x 9-1/2-ft. containers, explains company president Vic Cherubini, are each 8-9 years old and still rated “sea worthy.” Around that core, the animation, multimedia and web development company production company built an almost-5,000-sq.-ft. building with a large video production studio inside. The assembly sits 50 ft. away from Epic’s own facility at 701 Sawdust Rd., and is now occupied by several creative companies in the area — who pre-leased it before completion.

How’d they put the thing together?

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5:50 pm | 6 Comments | Read more about Construction Materials, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, New Construction, Office Buildings
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Here’s That Photo of Sarah Palin Inside the Woodlands Mall Chick-fil-A

July 30, 2012 – 4:54 pm

And here’s a second shot she posted from her trip last Friday, with members of the Sassy Feet Dance Studio:

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4:54 pm | 95 Comments | Read more about Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Restaurants
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Woodlands Landing Huge New Pedestrian Complex

July 18, 2012 – 1:37 pm
   

The Woodlands’ next big mixed-use development will be named after famous aviator, philanthropist, and recluse Howard Hughes. Hughes Landing will sit at the upper east end of Lake Woodlands, west of The Woodlands Mall and north of the East Shore neighborhood. Its 66 acres will eventually be covered with 8 office buildings, a boutique hotel, shops and entertainment venues, and apartments. Plus: a boardwalk and pier jutting into the lake. First to go up in the new development will be another one of those Gensler-designed office buildings, One Hughes Landing, shown above. Construction on it starts this fall; the building is expected to be finished by the end of next year. [Business Wire]

1:37 pm | 5 Comments | Read more about Mixed Use, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Proposed Developments, Quicklink
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Friday, February 24, 2012

A Long Goodbye for the Woodlands Mall Sears

February 24, 2012 – 12:17 pm
   

The Woodlands Mall location is among the 11 anchor stores around the country Sears announced it will sell to mall operator General Growth Properties. All of the stores will remain open until 2013; a closing date will be announced within the next several months. [Retail Traffic] Photo: City-Data

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Second Woodlands Anadarko Tower: A Bit More Boxy and Taller Than the First

January 17, 2012 – 10:38 am

Note: Story updated and corrected below.

Anadarko Petroleum announced to its employees last week that the company is ready to begin constructing a second office tower just west of its existing headquarters building in The Woodlands Town Center, a source tells Swamplot. The new building will fit on the corner of Lake Robbins Dr. and Woodloch Forest Dr., just south of The Woodlands Mall, and like the current tower will be visible from miles south on I-45. At the announced 31 stories, the new structure would be one floor shorter taller.

According to the report, parking will account for the building’s first 10 floors, though the renderings included in the announcement (above) appear to show a garage a bit shorter than that. The remaining floors are planned to accommodate company growth. Construction is expected to be complete by the spring of 2014. Anadarko did not announce the building’s contractor or architect.

Update, 1:25 pm: Groundbreaking is expected in a few weeks, our source adds; workers are beginning to clear the lot this week.

Renderings: Swamplot inbox

10:38 am | 12 Comments | Read more about Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands Town Center, New Construction, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Skyscrapers
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Comment of the Day: Home Decor by the Numbers

October 18, 2011 – 11:29 pm
   

“I count eight framed jerseys. But I guess if you do the math — one jersey per 1150 sq ft — it’s not so bad.” [Carol, commenting on On the Market: Woodlands House of 1000 Pigments]

11:29 pm | Add a Comment | Read more about Comments, Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Neighborhoods: Grogan's Point, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Quicklink
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On the Market: Woodlands House of 1000 Pigments

October 18, 2011 – 11:31 am

No faux finishing technique — or potential painting surface — was spared in the latest redo of this 21-year-old 9,181-sq.-ft. Woodlands mansion in Grogan’s Point. You’ll count 6 or 7 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, a study, and gameroom, all with walls carefully protected by multiple coats of carefully splotched pigment. Those finishing touches put the many wall colors of this home beyond the reach of description.

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11:31 am | 34 Comments | Read more about Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Neighborhoods: Grogan's Point, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Kinds of Things You’d See in The Woodlands

March 31, 2011 – 12:35 pm

The Woodlands Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a new website that features 28 unique 360-degree virtual tours of various locations throughout the future township, produced by a local company. Showing up most often: The Woodlands Mall, with 5 separate panorama views, followed by the Waterway Marriott with 4 panoramas and Waterway Square and the Avia Hotel on Market Street with 3 each. Organization president Nick Wolba tells the Chronicle, “So many people in the Houston market think of The Woodlands as a place to live. We want them to know this is a great place to visit . . . It’s a very special place as a destination.”

Panorama: Epic Software

12:35 pm | 7 Comments | Read more about Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Real Estate Marketing, Tourism
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Comment of the Day: What Lies Beneath

September 21, 2009 – 1:21 pm
   

“. . . roads go over top of petroleum pipelines all the time with an agreement & bond to protect them. Citie$, countie$ and large entitie$ do it all the time. The whole of the Woodlands Town Center, including the regional mall there, is built atop a pipeline, which runs alongside the foundation of the Anadarko Tower. Even Lake Robbins, though it’s not at all deep, is on top!” [movocelot, commenting on Comment of the Day: Where the Townhomes Ain’t]

1:21 pm | 7 Comments | Read more about Comments, Hazards, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands Town Center, Pipelines, Quicklink
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Friday, September 4, 2009

Openings and Closings: Restaurant Revamp Edition

September 4, 2009 – 11:24 am

What’s new to eat?

  • Opening Soon: Lola, a diner-ish spot serving “American comfort foods” — in the restored and refashioned former Eckerd Drug across from the Heights Post Office on Yale and 11th. This’ll be the third Heights restaurant venture from Ken Bridge, who also runs Dragon Bowl and Pink’s Pizza.
  • Opened This Week: From famed New York, Las Vegas, and Dallas chef John Tesar, Tesar’s Modern Steak and Seafood, directly across from the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands. You’ll certainly want to eat everything on your plate when you visit: “Tesar’s entire menu will be one hundred percent sustainable created with a zero-waste food ethics in mind,” declares the restaurant website. Whole fish will be a specialty. Outside: a burger bar.
  • Closed: The Texadelphia in the fast-food-friendly strip center on Memorial Dr. and Asbury, across from Otto’s — reportedly on account of the parking lot being too darn clogged. No worries: You can still get your cheesesteak fix at 3 other Houston locations, and it’s now a bit easier to find a spot in front of the Kolache Factory.

More food fun:

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Swamplot Price Adjuster: Woodlands Waterway Faux

August 24, 2009 – 12:25 pm

The Swamplot Price Adjuster needs your nominations! Found a property you think is poorly priced? Send an email to Swamplot, and be sure to include a link to the listing or photos. Tell us about the property, and explain why you think it deserves a price adjustment. Then tell us what you think a better price would be. Unless requested otherwise, all submissions to the Swamplot Price Adjuster will be kept anonymous.

Location: 1 Waterway Ct., Unit 4-E, The Woodlands Town Center
Details: 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths; 4,314 sq. ft. in One Waterway Lofts
Price: $1,990,000
History: Just listed over the weekend.

The nominator of this property writes:

Who says the real-estate bubble is long gone? Right on the Woodlands Waterway, here’s a faux Venetian condo in the Waterway Lofts. Can’t you just feel the theme-home synergy? Anyway, it looks like there are some great views of a lot of new office buildings from the windows, and if you look down you can see the Waterway and pool.

Is all that wine included? That might help explain the price tag. That and the fact that the county tax assessment for the loft just about doubled between 2007 and 2008. Montgomery CAD has it at about $1.56 million, which still seems too high.

To be fair though, there are several other overpriced lofts currently for sale in the same building.

In a just world, this condo would rent for maybe just twice its $2,062 monthly maintenance fee, all those Disneytalian finishes would peel off, and you could return all the fixtures to Expo for a refund.

So . . . what would be a better price?

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12:25 pm | 21 Comments | Read more about Condos for Sale, Home Prices, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands, Neighborhoods: The Woodlands Town Center, Neighborhoods: Woodlands Waterway, Price Adjuster
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