Nancy Sarnoff reports that construction is about to begin on a new gated 52-townhouse development on South MacGregor, east of 288. The developer, Joseph Casimir of Cypresswood Capital, reports on the project’s website that the development
bears three distinctive yet integrated architectural flavors: Florentine, Venetian, and Romanesque, affording you a lifestyle of unparalleled comfort and understated sophistication.
The townhouse development is called The Modigliani, after an Italian artist who spent most of his adult life in Paris, and who died of TB at the age of 35, aggravated by persistent alcoholism and drug abuse.
The 4.3-acre site at 3028 S. MacGregor Way is next door to the University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center and across the street from Brays Bayou. Casimir bought it in 2006 for $4.6 million, then demolished the 1936 Wright Morrow estate on the property. The previous owner, the UT Health Science Center at Houston, had intended to build a mental health outpatient facility on the site, but put it up for sale after encountering vocal opposition from neighborhood residents and State Rep. Al Edwards.
Below: Elevations and a site plan!
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Prices begin at $650K (says Sarnoff; the Modigliani website says the townhouses are “valued from $599,000 to more than $1 million”).
- Medical Center’s health results in development [Houston Chronicle]
- UT gives way to civic pressure, sells land for mental institute [Houston Business Journal]
- The Modigliani [Cypresswood Capital]
- Amedeo Modigliani [Wikipedia]
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No pool? Ewwwwwww.
“…who died of TB at the age of 35, aggravated by persistent alcoholism and drug abuse.”
I’m just glad I’m not the only one who thinks that Amadeo Modigliani is a strange namesake for an apartment complex. Have they even seen his paintings, I wonder?