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I drove by a couple months ago, quickly glanced and thought I read a sign that said "open soon" or something similar. Can anyone tell me if Ruggles on Westheimer near Montrose is still open? It looks like it is on their website, but when I called I just received a busy signal. Any info is welcome!

Maybe there is another thread? but I wondering if there are nY updates of these two historic houses just off Stanford street?

Saw some workers painting the outside and there's a front window that is out. A bunch of boxes stacked up. The 4X optical plus 5X digital zoom on my new Pixel juuuuust not enough to discern what was in the boxes from the TJ's parking lot.

Google Maps shows both buildings are boarded up, guessing either apartments or townhome farm.

Anyone know what is being built here? Was the River Oaks Kingdom Hall. Zero signs posted as to what was being built. It's behind the Montrose Target on Westheimer and S.Shepherd and Starbucks facing S. Shepherd.

I think all three of these properties are for sale. That seems like a huge amount of connected land. Is there information on plans to combine and develope?

Looks like something is happening here. Maybe a car wash to compliment the one across the street?

http://thecampanile.com/images/4503/4503-Montrose.jpg map: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...7&encType=1 http://thecampanile.com/home.htm

This building is in bad shape with graffiti all over the front. I was thinking it could be a good place for UsLiving to house their construction offices since it's across the street from 3615 Montrose project. Looks like they are gutting the interior but don't see any demo permits for it yet. No longer listed at Loopnet.

Saw this in Cohen's enewsletter- $25,000. Doesn't seem like much to begin developing a park.The "future Park" is one city lot, covered in black top and surrounded by wrought Iron fence, Cyprus trees in the ROW on Whitney street side.COH/parks is beginning to hold community meetings to gather residents input. Hopefully a name will be chosen. Seems most residents would like simple, minimalist park because of size--something that might pay tribute to Avondale development in 1907. I took that to mean that everyone is hoping it won't be a grass lot with many 20 gallon ubiquitous live oaks trees. Some of the residents were concerned about the "current" trend in developing green spaces after watching the "beautification" MMD is putting in on west side median at Lovett and Montrose? Yep, a n updated green space of concrete and live oaks. The developers of Avondale pooled their money in 1911 to have a box card load of palm trees delivered brought to Houston.many were planted down the middle of MEDIAN down Montrose Blvd south towards museum district( all were removed last time MONTROSE Blvd got redone--MONTROSE Blvd conservancy would like to put back the median but won't consider replanting palm trees due to COH restrictions.) and a few can still be seen within Avondale.So everyone is hoping Live Oaks won't be the tree of choice. Not sure if there will be access to water at this park, so probably xerescaping should be considered plus keeping the wrought iron fencing might not be a bad idea either. Would using recyclable materials keep costs down? no idea. Still everyone seems to love the idea of recycling so guess that should be considered also. That seems a lot to keep in mind when developing a park, the next open meeting is Aug. 16 upstairs at The Women's Home 6:30pm.I was hoping the Civic association would offer a money prize to university architecture students to submit a plan for this park, keeping all those restrictions in mind. It would be great to see what the young talent of Houston could come up with. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic but it seems an opportunity is presenting itself why not take advantage of it. _________________________ PARK UPGRADES - $355,000 This funding provided for new park design costs, playground equipment replacement, sidewalk repair, and other improvements to parks throughout District C. $240,000 - TC Jester Park: Playground equipment replacement $60,000 - Meyerland Park: Playground equipment repair $25,000 - Future Park at 424 Westheimer: Design costs $20,000 - Oak Forest Park: Tennis court repair $10,000 - Peggy Shiffick Park: Sidewalk repair

A new mural has been added.

These apartments consist of 3/4 of the block. The northwestern portion is boarded up, the southern and western portion still seem to be lived in. I'm willing to bet these will be demolished sometime in the future. Probably waiting out the leases on the remaining units. They are in very rough shape. Looked at HCAD to see who owns them. A company called "Montrose Multifamily Members III LLC" owns these. They are part of larger group of older apartments in Montrose owned by Montrose Multifamily Holdings CBJMInvestments. https://montroseholdings.cbmjinvestments.com Google Map's images. 4 buildings on the southeastern corner they don't own.

I see a dumpster parked out front, and looks like a permit was pulled last September by Heights’ sushi hand roll restaurant Handies Douzo. Are they opening a second location?

Saw the demo permit for this, I wonder if they are combining the 2 lots for one project.

Anyone know details on City Vista apartments that are being built on Dallas and Columbus (near Montrose). they're supposed to be completed this spring, and the concept drawing on site shows what looks like possible ground floor retail. I just bought a condo down the street so I was curious.

I saw a story about this building yesterday but I can no longer find it, I think it is an architect's home and office.

Montrose, near the intersection of Dunlavy and Westheimer is getting a small boutique hotel. This was on the April 25th agenda asking for a variance request. From the renders it looks like it will be 9 rooms. Its nice that the area is getting stuff like this. I don't know of any other hotels except for the AirBnB hotel concept that is near Agora. Anyone else know of more info? Images Below: Apparently this is being held up due to some strange situations in city ordinances that dictate that a hotel that is under a particular threshold of units can't be built in a high percentage of residential. The variance is to argue the case that its near a major transit corridor and commercial corridor and that the normal methods which enforce this particular restriction doesn't have merit because of the specifics of the site. Interesting situation, but I hope this goes through. Nice Fine grain type development.

Learned something new today! Joseph Finger designed a Battelstein's Department Store in Montrose located at 2010 South Shepherd Drive. Very cool!! I wasn't aware of this store. From the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated May 6, 1964: Now Available at Battelstein's The Amazing New Finnish Sauna Portable Sauna Bath Have a Beauty SPA in your own home for pennies a day! It cleanses the body, relaxes tension, offers much pleasure and well being. Battelstein's 2010 South Shepherd Interior photo I found online: Interior of Battlestein’s Department Store, 2010 South Shepherd, ca. 1950. This suburban Battlestein’s was designed by Joseph Finger who also designed earlier downtown incarnations of Battlestein’s. The store’s interior was reminiscent of Foley’s Department Store, which opened in 1947.

There was a fire that took over the building at 1540 Westheimer last night. It was a really bad fire, one person ended up in the Hospital. I drove past the building this morning and it doesn't look salvageable but I could be wrong. Video in the link below https://abc13.com/montrose-tattoo-shop-fire-texas-emporium-houston-deparment-westheimer/12935052/

Anyone know what the plan is for 4444 Montrose? Used to be Etheria Salon & Day Spa, but looks like it was sold to HWM Properties, LLC in 2020. Lot size is 17,325 sq ft. HWM Properties appears to be owned by Wayne Martin, founder of Applied Finish Systems, a drywall company. Martin also owns Chateau Cocomar.

Curious as to what is planned for these 2 lots.

Couldn't find if there was an existing thread. But the pier one imports is being demolition and replaced with a chase bank. Drove by today and noticed half the building was already gone. Chase has an entire building directly across the street, could they be rebuilding and moving? It would make sense because they've done this with their other locations like the one on Westheimer and Beltway 8. If they did, their current building across the street could be redeveloped into something big! Building across the street

Does anyone know anything about this building? Looks boarded up and abandoned, no signs of life online

There were 3 demolition permits issued this week for this. Anyone know what's happening here? Loopnet listing https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/1732-1744-Richmond-Ave-Houston-TX/3832638/