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I heard on another forum that the owner of the new building is negotiating to buy out Someburger and just make additional parking. Anyone else heard this? I wonder what the rules would be to put Someburger in my front yard? LOL! Just kidding, but I'd hate to lose this place. I suppose it was inevitable when the new construction started.

How long until one of the residents of the $400,000 lofts complains about the grilled burger smell from Someburger and they have to close? Don't mess with my Someburger!

Anyone heard what's up with that? The gorgeous Woodland Heights "Wilson" home on Bayland Ave (205 Bayland for those wanting to look it up on HAR) is for sale.

The owners just finished remodeling the former halfway house barely 2 years ago and were going to be there a long time and now they are selling.

Also, $2.5 million seems a little steep, but maybe I'm wrong? Of course, if I had an extra 2.5 laying around....

Heard anything?

Anyone know whassup? I drove by yesterday and the fence was down and the ground around the house was being bulldozed. This is the big blue house on the NW corner (next to the old Eckerds/new Shopping center). House looks to be in pretty good shape, I hope it's not being torn down??

Saw a sign for "STAPLES" coming soon too...right behind Chilis it appears. I drove by and asked a guy in the parking lot about when they were opening, and he said "I have no idea, they keep pushing it back". I asked why and he said "no one wants to work here!"??? That's the oddest thing I've ever heard!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will check them out. I love the link with the pics of the houses as the search feature. Went through them all and didn't find ours but it was fun looking at them (and amazing how so many could be adapted to a design today). I'll have to check out the book suggestions and see if I can find something.

On a related subject, are there any recommendations on how to search the original history of our house? I know I probably need to start with finding out when the house was built originally and taking it from there I guess. A title search? Anyone done this and have some recommendations?

Does anyone know if there is a good online resource for old bungalow floor plans? I'd love to have a catalog of several hundred to look through and see if we could find ours. All I know is it was a built from a plan in a book, back in the 1910's.

I was hoping maybe someone somewhere tried creating a database of plans and elevations.

Oh! I should have figured that out. Sorry. Wow, Prince's? Where on Shepherd?

This target center is so close to my house i am glad they are building these stores here. Soon i wont have to drive on the other side of town to find the same stores and restaraunts. By the way Princess is going up on Shepherd.

What is Princess?? (other than the daughter of a queen of course).

At one point during my youth, my parents had a home on 2 acres. It boggles my mind to have 195 families living in that same space. I realize it's 4 stories up but still, it seems, as was said, so "un-Heights"....

The only things I think we know for sure are another bank, a Starbucks, Panda Express, Radio Shack, Chili's and Petsmart.

I don't think there is enough room there for any more bix box retailers. Petsmart will take the only really large enough parcel. I think everything else will be smaller retail in outbuildings...

I'm sure that in time, after a few years, as the industrial around SH fades away, they will come.

Read on a neighborhood forum that someone who has an inside connection at Riviana (Mahatma), and they said no intentions of moving and they are considering adding another line and moving the loading docks off of Sawyer street.

So who knows?

I work in the Copperfield area...there is a Super WalMart within walking distance of a Target, a Lowes next to a Home Depot whose parking lots are connected by a driveway, a Bed Bath and Beyond across the street from a Linens n Things, and a Petsmart one street down from a Petco!

And don't even get me started about the Starbucks inside the Borders bookstore, across from the Starbucks in the parking lot of the Target with the Starbucks inside!

Oh the pain...

It's hard to believe that in July, it will have been open a year, and all we have so far is a Payless and maybe a Mattress place by then. Amazing how different the original description was to the neighborhoods vs what has come about.

I work in the suburbs and I've seen three Target's built in the surrounding areas, new shopping centers at the same time, and I've never seen them go almost a year with nothing else developed around them in all that time. In fact, most are built with a huge center around them already constructed and waiting to be filled with tenants as Target starts drawing people in. I wonder if retailers and businesses are just leery of the area right now? Target seems busy enough, as far as pulling in traffic.

Apt complex is 350+ units, as I recall, so that's 350-700 additional cars in the area that will need parking. It's certainly not the most attractive thing I've seen. Looks like it should be attached to an office building of some sort.

OK, here's one I'm not sure if anyone will remember. The old Westwood Mall on 59 near Bissonnet...before it was remodeled into the neon thing it was before it became an office park. There used to be this convoluted series of steps in the main entrance and at the bottom was this place called "Olga's" something or other...they served these sandwiches that were sort of pita wraps, before their time. They were really really good. Used to eat there with my Mom everytime we went to that mall.

Anyone remember?

The old warehouse is coming down as I type this. Drove by just a little bit ago, the Northbound side of Studemont is closed and the wrecking ball is taking it all down.

I was driving down Washington while running errands this afternoon, and noticed someone changing the letters on the sign in the Pig Stand's parking lot. When I was headed home an hour or so later, it now read "Employees Fundraiser Tomorrow". No further details, and by that time the guy who'd been changing the letters was gone, or I'd have stopped to ask him about it.

A tchotchke pig auction perhaps??

If it's not going to reopen, I wouldn't mind a small ceramic/glass/metal/wood/whatever pig as a memory of the "good old days"....

First New Orleans Po' Boys, then Diedrich's, then Helios, now this...

Is every cool place in Houston under assault?......

I also read on the restaurant thread that Eatzi's closed last week! Holy cow, what's happening to our cool places?

I was just talking about that with a friend. With the right investor, some money poured into a general 'overhaul' of the place, keep the same menu, etc, that place is a Houston landmark that has potential. And with more and more traffic coming to the area because of Sawyer Heights, it's only going to get busier.

Just read another article (google news "Pig Stand") and it's definitely closed for "other" reasons than repair. They have been in bankruptcy for over a year and are delinquent in back sales tax. The owner is looking for a buyer but in the interim, the State of Texas ordered them all closed indefinitely.

Just read an article that all of the Pig Stands have closed?!?! It said the store in Houston and Beaumont and all the ones in San Antonio.

That really sucks.

A bank next to a bank. A starbucks in Target and a Starbucks out of Target (according to one plan). Let's just hope we don't get a Sprint next to a Cingular...

That's also why the Kroger stores are called Signature stores, they are the "signature" of the majority demographic population in their neighborhood. Hence the reason the reason the West Gray Kroger is so vastly different from the Shepherd Kroger, yet they are both Signature stores...I would guess more and more businesses will start to go in this direction...

Are the apartments listed somewhere else? On the Property Commerce website, they are gone from the plans now....personally, I'd rather have more retail than another apt complex...