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There is a liquor licenses permit on the window at the former Citgo station. I would assume this confirms the rumor. Also 927 Studewood is being demolished today. Future Glass Wall expansion?

I know personally in the past that Friends for Life next door expressed interest in the Alabama Furniture property.

Anyone have information about this property? Its next to the Glasswall property. Fencing has been put up around it and looks like maybe a pending demo?

True. Looking closer, this particular design requirement speaks more to mid-block signals. The Walmart and Target ones are located at existing streets and are therefore ok with the requirements. Since this newly proposed signal is at an existing street Summer St I guess I could see it getting approved also. However if they had built this one on Summer St before the Kroger light, the Kroger light probably wouldn't have been approved because it is mid-block. I reread the signal design requirements and it uses words like "avoid" and "should" so they probably have a lot of free range to do what they want.

That light is extremely unlikely to approved. While there isn't a law, there are design requirements which state that new signals should be spaced at least 1/4 mile away from existing signals.

I remember that picture from the Houston Chronicle tropical storm Allison coverage which is about the largest storm you can ever expect. The elevation of the Greystar property is at about the same elevation so if they put any parking lower than ground level it will likely flood once every 50+ years or so.

I am sure it is next to impossible to close down for a couple weeks and retain that large of a staff.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2014/08/chef_randy_evans_talks_havens_closing_and_whats_next_for_him.php "Evans is taking the closure in stride and already making plans to open a new venture sometime in the future, possibly in the Garden Oaks/Heights area." Someone needs to use that Stella Sola space. Just saying.

Church's on Heights Blvd. is leaving in October. http://www.commgate.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=property.detailFL&ln=233479

http://io9.com/the-glass-is-a-liquid-myth-has-finally-been-destroyed-496190894

Not sure how some of these retail experts on here decide on what constitutes "normal people shopping" and "normal person places". Isn't it a little conceited to suggest anything they themselves don't frequent to be abnormal? Likely these experts couldn't afford the Rice Village area, settled on the Heights, and are frustrated when they can't figure out why they still don't have a Starbucks or a GAP down the street?! Here is a prediction! In 5 years on 19th there will be a few more restaurants, a few more "junk stores", and maybe somehow a Pier 1 slips in for the retail experts. Everybody wins!

Now where is this going in at? http://blog.chron.com/29-95/2013/04/feasts-knight-to-open-heights-restaurant-with-down-house-team/

You can call 311 and have ROW maintenance remove them or at least fine the homeowners. Putting boulders next to the ditch would be like someone with curb and gutter putting permanent orange cones out. Another version of this are those people who illegally fill up their ditch with rocks to make an unpermited parking pad and then think that means nobody else can park there. A neighbor of mine once called a tow truck and threw a fit that somebody would have the audacity to park in his parking pad! waaaah!

Thanks for the help! I will talk to both.

Moving from the suburbs (Copperfield) to the Heights. Anyone have a recommendation on movers? THANKS!