Four month timeline for abatement and demolition - wow.
Here's our post, with link to pictures: https://www.facebook.com/archarchive/posts/2154010627989482
Mackie Dee Oil and Development Company also shows up the September 1, 1911 issue of the Houston Post under "New Houston Corporations"
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443220/m1/55/?q=mackie
Even with the hyper/overdesigned Camry, it's still stodgy - and the grill now makes it looks like it has an annoyed, pursed mouth. The Lexus is just a costlier extension of that.
E-Tron namesake for new Audi electric crossover:
http://jalopnik.com/the-first-all-electric-audi-suv-will-just-be-called-e-t-1787877501
As for the design, yuck. Maybe it'll grow on me but with that grill and Dodge-ish feel, bleh :'(
Yeah, this is definitely not a (NOT an!!! ugh) historic renovation - it is a modern renovation of an old shell of a building that was badly neglected for a long time. But those are just nitpicky words - I'm glad to see prime waterfront property repurposed by a nonprofit entity any day.
Speaking of nitpicky - does anyone know when this building actually housed Sunset? I have only seen it referred to as International or Cleveland Coffee..
Thanks! I have quite a few in the list to visit including the Gessner one which was Sav-On, then Sunflower Cleaners, then Queen Oak Cleaners well into the 1980s.
Resurrection of an old topic, but as many probably guessed, this one was demolished in 2012:
http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-the-new-frontier/2012-05-25/