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    TMC Helix Park! wow!! 1 Dynamic Way with BCM's logo: Amazing!! The first company signage in the TMC Helix Park campus! Collaborative Building: Two parcels ready for development. Let's go!!! Helix Park Section 2: Helix Park Section 3: Helix Park Section 4: Mixed-Use Garage: The glass facade looks so good!! I hope the rendering we saw for the retail wing around the garage sure gets built. That whole gym setup with the roof top pool and the TMC Helix Park signage looked amazing! Highly anticipated!!
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    The land for sale is now on Loopnet!! Yaalx Realty Group is listing the 367 Acres with an address of 700 Holmes Rd. I watched the listing go live. The price changed a few times, and now has been removed from the listing. The latest price was $255,800,000. I sure hope nobody else would be interested in this property for $250 million. The TMC has the political power and (potential) financial backers to make this happen. Loopnet link and the old screenshot including the price: https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/700-Holmes-Rd-Houston-TX/28452325/ What is going on with the slender parcels on the right on Holmes Road? Apparently everything highlighted in blue is Reddy's land. The TMC BioPort proposal did not include those parcels. Were the slender parcels just added as available land? In the latest TMC BioPort Master Plan, the final slide calls for a 24 month extension to the Purchase and Sale Agreement. In one of the press release interviews with McKeon, he stated construction could start in two years. These timelines ad up. I don't think TMC BioPort is cancelled. For one, in this recession, who has $250 million to spend on vacant land? I remember how long TMC Helix Park took to take off. TMC3 was planned for about 6 years before construction started. I'm sure the TMC just needs more time to work out the land transactions and financials. One can hope!!
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    Site work construction continues!!
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    The first concrete mat pour was a few weeks ago. Awesome!!
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    Levit Green Boulevard is now open!! I took a drive and snapped some photos from the street.
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    Sorry, no pictures but there is utility work going on at the outskirts of this property. There is about two be 2 towers going up at the same time, so the neighboring work could be related. Any week now!!
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    Love how the garage looks from this intersection. A beast!!
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    I was browsing Ebay for historical Houston items and came across an extremely rare restaurant on South Main! Roland Busch's Famous Seafood Lobster House At 8419 South Main Street. Kinda of confusing. Roland Busch was the owner of the restaurant Pier 21 located at 7001 Old Main Street Road. Was this Roland's first business? Or was this after Pier 21? Very cool stuff! A lot of the 1940s/1950s famous South Main restaurants did not make it to the 8400-block area. Would love to see this building. Apart of a retail strip center or a stand alone building?
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    I was looking around Ebay for historical Houston things and I noticed a skating rink from the 1940s!! This is interesting, because there was also another South Main Roller Rink located at the intersection of Main and Holcombe in the TMC. I wonder if this Midtown, 900 Blodgett address is the second location of this business? Actually, after researching, the M&H address was in the 1930s, so I believe this came after.
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    Fluor Corporation leased the whole building, will get building signage.
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    Has anyone ever gone to see the Texas Medical Center Orchestra? Here's the website and a glimpse of the current season. https://tmcorchestra.org/ TMCO announces its 2022-2023 season, Mindful Transformations, which is dedicated to mental health and mindfulness. The first concert will focus on The Power of the Human Spirit. The second concert will focus on The Power of Life and the human ability to embrace the gifts and struggles that life holds for us. The last concert will focus on The Power of This Moment, the human ability to cultivate mindfulness and to be fully present and aware of where we are and what we're doing, without being overly reactive or influenced by what's going on around us. Hope to see you at our next concert!
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    I was reading the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated February 6, 1964 and came across an apartment listing for Greenwillow Apartments located at 10825 Greenwillow Street. Crazy to see a 1 bedroom apartment going for $112.50. In present day, I'm sure it's 7 times as much! For the same apartment, just upgrading plumbing pipes, etc. Greenwillow Apartments 10825 Greenwillow / Apply Apt. 11 New . . . 1 and 2 bedroom apartments 2 full Baths - Spacious Walk-in Closets - All Electric Kitchens - Centrally Air-Conditioned - Individually Controlled Apts. - Drapes - All Utilities Paid $112.50 up / For information phone PA 9-1971
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    I was reading the magazine House & Garden dated July 1940 and came across a business advertisement for Johnson Pottery Gardens located at 6519 South Main Blvd. Can't seem to find it at the moment, but the business also changed hands. This was also called California Pottery Yard. "Visit Houston's Show Place on Highway 90 - 6519 So. Main - Lehigh 4742." For amateur Constance Sprys is this "Flower-Doer", containing every thing the devote of flower arranging will need. There are shears for cutting wire or flowers; tying wire; chicken wire; five pin-cushion holders; plastilene; and a spray for watering. It's $4.50 from Johnson Pottery Gardens, 6519 South Main Blvd., Houston, Texas
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    The school has went through several names. St. Thomas College, Houston's First College Preparatory School for Boys, and finally St. Thomas High School. From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated August 8, 1906. St. Thomas' College Largest Private Day-School For Boys in Houston. Largest building. Largest grounds. Largest Attendance. Largest Staff. Complete courses in Classics, Science, Languages, Commercial and Preparatory. Monthly reports. Satisfaction guaranteed. For terms and other information write, phone, or call on Rev. N. Roche, President. 2039 Austin Street. Corn. Hadley Avenue. From a STHS blog: The St. Thomas College on Austin Street in 1903 (or 1910.) https://www.sths.org/austin-street-c-1910/
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    I was browsing the publication Electrical South dated August 1955 and came across an article detailing a grand opening for a new business along South Main Street. The business was called Wade Electric Company Store No. 2 located at 6706 South Main Street. Does anybody recall this place? I wonder what ever happened to the company? Houston contractor opens second store Grand Opening of Wade Electric Company's Store No. 2 was held recently at 6706 South Main in Houston, Texas. The company's main store is located at 1233 Waugh Drive. At present, the electrical contracting firm specializing in the sale, installation, and wiring of air conditioners.
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    I was browsing the newspaper Jewish Herald-Voice dated May 15, 1980 and came across a business advertisement for Round Up Cafe & Bar located at Loop 610 at South Main next to Sonny Look's. I couldn't find an address, but Look’s Sir-Loin Inn was located at 9810 South Main Street. I'm guessing there was once a slender retail strip center where the current surface lot is that once held a few businesses. Anyone recall going here? Share your stories!! Was it a club as well? Round*Up Cafe & Bar Loop 610 at So. Main 669-0949 (next to Sonny Look's) For Steaks & Burgers Salad Bar & Soups Corn on the Cob Sautéed Mushrooms Casual Atmosphere .. and more Craig Howard invites you to Houston's newest Country Western Restaurant. Open Mon. - Fri. 11 a.m. - 2 a.m., Sat. - Sun. 5 p.m. - 2 a.m. Available for private parties, bar mitzvahs, weddings, etc.
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    I was reading the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated September 19, 1956 and came across an article about a proposed/forthcoming Southwestern Bell Telephone Company building located on South Rice Avenue near South Willow Drive. Not exactly sure where this is located. South Rice is in Bellaire/Uptown but South Willow is in Westbury. Article mentions down S. Post Oak so maybe it is near Gasmer/South Willow? I'm not sure where "Parkview" is located. Must have been a residential subdivision in Westbury? New Telephone Building Going Up In Area Southwestern Bell Telephone Company has awarded the general contract for the construction of the new Parkview Dial Telephone Building to the W.S. Bellows Construction Company of Houston. Henry H. Mudd, division manager for the telephone company, side the total cost of the Parkview project will be in excess of $2 million. The new dial system will serve about 4,300 customers initially in the fast-growing area South of Bellaire in the South Post Oak Road area. The one-story and basement building will be constructed on property located on South Rice Avenue just south of South Willow Drive in the old Willow Creek Estate addition, the division manager said. “We are happy to announce the work will begins on the Parkview building which will be the biggest single telephone project here in the past few years,” Mudd said. “On completion the new dial system will make possible thousands of new customers in this rapidly expanding section of Houston.” “Construction of the building is expected to be completed by the middle of 1957, and the new dial system will be but into service in the spring of 1958,” Mudd said. “We’ll have groundbreaking ceremonies to mark the start of construction of the modern Parkview dial building,” the division manager said. Architect for the new building is Wyatt C. Hedrick of Houston. Contracts for heating, plumbing, electrical, ventilating and air condition work will be awarded in a few days, Mudd said. The new Parkview project is part of the Southwestern Bell’s $45 million expansion program in Houston for 1956-1957.
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    The Hanging Oak and Hangman’s Grove: Wyatt C Hedrick, a Fort Worth designer, developed plans for a Harris County Criminal Courts and Jail building in 1927 at 624 Bagby Street of eight stories in the Greek classic style for $750,000. The structure rose from a two story red granite course of Grecian fretwork belt to an Indiana limestone cornice. A parapet wall with ornamental stone cresting formed the main entrance of two Doric columns of polished granite supporting an entablature of two-story balustrade portico. The rear façade had a central jutting pavilion extending the full height of the edifice. Granite steps near the immense spreading oak tree (Hanging or Stanley Oak) lead to the main doorway. Prisoners were kept on the fourth floor with the insane and male prisoners on the fifth floor. The eighth floor was reserved for a chapel and exercise room. https://historicalcommission.harriscountytx.gov/Information-Education/Historic-1910-Courthouse
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    Not involved with the future mixed-use but there is about to be a bridge going from a surface lot to the stadium. The bridge will be built at 8400 Kirby Drive.
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    Looks like I found the Grocers Supply Company office building/warehouse in Produce Row. The Ebay photo, is apparently, dated 1935. There was a huge flood and the photos show all the produce row (?) companies surrounded by water.
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    The Houston Fire Alarm Building designed by Mackie and Kamrath. One book, mentions the address was 1012-1016 Bagby Street but I can't find any additional information to support that. I'm not sure of the validity. A decade-old Swamplot article mentions a City of Houston Fire Alarm Building was being demolished and had an address of 333 Preston Street. I also cannot find any supporting articles for that address. Most likely a different building all together. I heard, from the Swamplot comments, the Mackie and Kamrath building was demolished in the 1970s. Postcard I found on Ebay: Located in Houston’s new Civic Center and constructed in 1938, this building has received international acclaim as an outstanding example of modern contemporary architecture. In it culminates the vast network of City Automatic Electric Fire Alarm System. This room located on an intermediate upper level in the building contains the many electric panel boards of the Automatic Fire Alarm System. Sufficient extra space is allowed for the systems expansion to serve population of 1,000,000 people.
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    I was browsing the Harris County Tax Office and discovered a Gables plat called "O.S.T. Apartments" that has since been sold and converted into condominiums called City Plaza Condominiums located at 1330 Old Spanish Trail. Pretty cool find. Looking on HAIF, I do not see Gables has a (current) multifamily property in the Texas Medical Center. Maybe they should build a new one! No date given. I'm assuming the 1980s or 1990s.
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    One Discovery Way: Parcels A & B being cleared of debris. I wonder if they will sit for a while? Both of the parcels being empty with brown dirt still looks good! Two Discovery Way: Helix Park, section 2: Helix Park, section 3: Helix Park, section 4: Collaborative Building: Mixed-Use Garage. wow!! This building is amazing!
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    One of the Holmes Road parcels was recently in violation and flagged by the city for high weeds and debris. The current condition of Buffalo Speedway/Holmes Road is just incredible for such high valued land. Let's do something!! Maybe if the TMC paid an extra $100 million they could secure and buy the land?? Here's the parcel where building 12 is planned to go:
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    Awesome!!
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