When last we visited the lonely blue-glass office building next to the former site of the River Oaks Hospital, just west of Greenway Plaza, the brand-new structure had only a single tenant — a doctor. That was more than 2 and a half years ago. But Cushman & Wakefield’s latest flyer for River Oaks Plaza at 4140 Southwest Fwy. (it’s been on the market ever since) lists the 5-story, 105,000-sq.-ft. building as “fully leased.” Was there a huge influx of tenants in the meantime? Not exactly, though a second doctor’s office did move into the building a bit later. In fact, both offices are leaving the building. That’s so the Art Institute of Houston can move in, beginning in July. The institute and its 2,300 students will relocate from this somewhat less see-through 6-story building at 1900 Yorktown, in the Galleria area:
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- Art Institute’s new home [Houston Chronicle]
- Previously on Swamplot: The Loneliest Doctor in Houston
Photos: Cushman & Wakefield (4140 Southwest Fwy.), Moody Rambin (1900 Yorktown)
art institute will be one of the schools featured on the upcoming PBS frontline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist
I’m going to miss seeing all of those artsy fartsy/culinary types making their way down Yorktown in the mornings. They gave my decidedly non-artsy fartsy neighborhood something interesting to look at.
Hoar Construction is setting up equipment to do something to the former 12 Oaks or River Oaks Hospital building. I do not know what the plans might be.
As for the lady who knew that 12 Oaks was closing, she may have noted that supplies were held up due to no payment and some forms wete Xeroxed rather than printed. Or that the owners had sold the land under the hospital.