August 19, 2009 – 10:36 am
The 2-story 1939 brick home at 1504 N. MacGregor Way, on the banks of Brays Bayou in Idylwood, has completed the Swamplot trifecta. In July of last year the home made its first appearance, as the subject of a Neighborhood Guessing Game (answer revealed here). In September, after the pre-Hurricane Ike storm surge brought about 2 feet of water in for an extensive tour of the first floor, the home was featured again: an after-Ike-cleanup poster house, still on the market for $359,000.
And then, this morning, a third and likely final showing on Swamplot: in our Daily Demolition Report.
A quick look back at the home’s better (and not-so-much better) days:
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Read more about: 77023, Brays-Bayou, Demolitions, Disaster Aftermath, Flooding, Hurricane Ike, Idylwood, Neighborhood Guessing Game
September 18, 2008 – 3:34 pm
Remember this house from July, featured as the subject of our weekly Neighborhood Guessing Game? Yeah, the one with the wacky carpet in the garage apartment. On the corner of N. Macgregor and Wildwood Way, on the left bank of Brays Bayou in lowest Idylwood.
Well, the pre-Hurricane-Ike storm surge brought it some problems. Sad photos below:
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Read more about: 77023, Brays-Bayou, Disaster Aftermath, Flooding, Hurricane Ike, Idylwood
Buried at the end of a Houston Business Journal report on a new Hilton Garden Inn that’s going to replace the Droubi’s boxcar at 7807 Kirby, between South Main and OST, is this gem:
Moody National had been on the hunt for more property in the area, and was especially interested in finding more land next to the Hilton site to create a larger footprint for the project. . . .
A 1.2-acre vacant lot on the northeast corner of Main and Braeswood, across from Moody National’s Residence Inn, also caught the developer’s eye, but the price was too high there as well. Moody says an offer of $140 per square foot was rejected by the owner, who said he would entertain an offer of $185 per square foot.
“The land has been extremely hard to come by,” Moody says.
Sure, that’s expensive, but there’s a premium for waterfront property.
Photo: Bradley Broom
Read more about: 77030, Brays-Bayou, Buying and Selling, Hotels, Land Prices, Lots, Reliant Park, South-Main, Texas Medical Center
