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Saw this plat several weeks ago, thought it might be a townhouse farm but now seems to be a small apartment project. Jonathan Farb grandson of Harold Farb, built the two buildings next to this that are now called The Parker. https://farbhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HC_12_2013_3.pdf https://farbhomes.com

Someone sent this info to me. Www.swamplot.com/tag/topic-Montrose

San Felipe Plaza, Sunset, originally uploaded by zoomanderson1. San Felipe Plaza bids adieu to another day in Houston. The architect, Richard Keating, once told HAIF that it was one of his favorites. Shame about the location, though. It so often gets overlooked. A little closer to Uptown or downtown would have done wonders. Thanks to zoomanderson1 for the photo from the HAIF Flickr group.

The Bowery On Montrose was never built. I really liked the architectural design on this building. I wonder if they could re-use the architectural design for another multifamily building in a different part of the city? Rendering for the (now cancelled) never built project. Oddly enough, the project is still active, and displayed, on the developer's website (as of 10/05/2022) https://farbhomes.com/apartmenthomes/montrose/

Anyone know who originally developed this garden style apartment complex? I wonder the date as well.

Nob Hill Apartments In Meyerland For Sale. https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/development/2020/02/19/meyerland-apartment-community-nob-hill-is-for-sale/

This will go up across the street from the Birdsall Memorial Apartments. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/sarnoff/article/Apartment-frenzy-near-Memorial-Park-intensifies-5023325.php?cmpid=btfpm

Check this out! Great Newschron.com

I lived in West Point for a short while in my early 20's. good times. Volleyball and swimming next to the Bayou.

I remember all the brouhaha a few years back about the city's plan to spiff up the rathole apartments along Broadway to make them look nice for people coming into Hobby from out of town. Anyone else? Well, apparently it didn't really work out: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/07/broadway_apartment_grants.php

Are those properties still around Houston under that name?

One thing that always interests me is why certain older complexes go condo. I lived in the Westpoint Apartments, some old Harold Farb apartments on Westheimer just east of Fondren, when I first moved back to Houston after college, and lived there from the Summer of 1998 through the end of 1999. My parents gave me a lot of perspective on this complex's life cycle when they found out I was moving in there. Seems when they moved to Houston as a young newlywed couple in 1970, Westpoint was one the hip complexes to live in, even boasted its own nightclub - Barbery Coast. When I was living there, Barbery Coast had become the fitness center, and the occupants weren't young and hip, mostly strippers from Babydolls who would sun themselves out by the pool (thus turning me off permanently to strip joints once I saw what strippers look like in the light of day) and all sorts of burnouts, interesting characters, and recent immigrants.

found this magazine on my bookshelf and haven't the slightest how it got there... ULTRA from 1985 --- the houston international issue (ULTRA the perfect reminder of you --- month after month.) (ULTRA texas' monthly lifestyle magazine for those who are rich in mind and spirit.) there's a few cultural things i'd like to scan and share with you folks but they have a few houston lists (20th century fortunes, rich roots, heirs & heiresses, young turks, up and coming ladies, hot hostesses, fashionable florists, choicest clubs, power brokers, legends in their own time, crowning coiffeurs, culture heroes...) here's the more interesting ones: places to be seen (houston 1985): armando's avalon drug store beautique boccaccio butera's carlton house the carlyle the red room charley's 517 the wine cellar glassel school of art classes hart galleries estate sales houston ballet academy body conditioning studio houston ballet, opening night houston grand opera, opening night houston polo club, sunday games jamil and son's food market, on kirby maxim's maxine's sunday column memorial park, jogging neal's ice cream, on kirby one's a meal on west gray ousie's paradise bar and grill the remington, for tea river oaks boulevard, jogging river oaks grill river oaks international tennis tournament sotheby's SRO bar and grill tiffany & co, at christmas time tony's whole foods market (unfortunately no summit club ) exports of note (houston 1985): debbie allen phylicia allen james a. baker III barbara bush george bush walter cronkite dianne dewitt shelley duvall kelly emberg lisa hartman dennis quaid randy quaid dan rather kenny rodgers jaclyn smith tommy tune jack valenti jobeth williams 25 of houston's best restaurants (houston 1985): armando's atchafalaya river cafe brennan's brenner's butera's cafe annie the carlyle charley t's cleo's twenty one damian's cucina italiana fuji japanese restaurant goode company barbecue india's kim son la columbe d' or la reserve maison de ville maxim's nino's ouise's table the remington on post oak park rivoli rotisserie for beef and bird tony's uncle tai's hunan yuan edit: is it bad that i had to look up coiffeurs? coif

in addition to carlyle, i wonder about sotheby's - i know they have an office here, but never hear about them in houston otherwise...were people hanging out at the auctions? or am i missing something?