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Robertson Design: http://www.robdes.com/robertson_design_pro...s_gramercy.html

again with that argument... it is true that any of "the people" with enough money (i would be curious about the numbers on that) to buy the property from Weingarten haven't stepped up - if any exist - but would they be good retail owners? that's what Weingarten does (and apparently really well). "the people" just wanted Weingarten to reconsider the redevelopment of this one property of many, many owned.

here is an article about the Waverly house the original owner sold the house to protect another... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/ar...ay/5207509.html

if my bearings are correct, that was the old Texaco building annex - lots of rumors about renovation of the Texaco building, none of which have happened obviously. i can't remember the exact reason of the third building demolition, but i'll post if i find out. here is another thread, though: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=7885

not to be crude...but did the owner of this house die or something? i don't understand how someone could own a home since 1994 and let it get this bad

the 40D seems like a nice camera...and i agree about always having a camera, whether it be a cellular or full size - you never know when and what you're going to see. i bought a fuji digital a while back, and while it seemed to have everything i wanted, i think i don't get what i want out of it because of my inability to use the camera properly. it has manual modes, but nothing ever looks right. i have a huge problem with glare and overexposure, no matter what i do. aaaaanyhow, i prefer simplicity...i would take one of my brownie box cameras around to take pictures, but they are so old and would probably jam all the time. and film is too expensive. as for the 40D - it's too expensive a camera to take along with me - i'd be too scared that i would hurt it.

funny, responsibility doesn't necessarily correlate with age. what's to say those folks wouldn't have repeated the same choices, just when they crossed that "adult" threshold...(not saying that it is better to have those things happen when you're a kid, but just sayin....)

another one to add to the list (29th this year): http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=...&id=5698660

there maybe a sense of security, but it involves more of a displayed status symbol, perhaps. of course, i lived in a gated community once, but it was an apartment complex i don't recall seeing them growing up in the immediate Houston area (only gated houses, like in RO), so i associate gates with apartment complexes and living "out there."

it's too far from work, or potential work. i am not too familiar with the area itself, though.

that has an interesting ring to it... really, though, someone's going to need to pressure-wash the Just-a-Dollar to make the area more "smell-purty"

yuck. i traverse the Main-Kirby section of Holcombe daily, and i just ignore the scenery (fast food and banks). almost all of the neat smaller places are gone (hoping i'm not jinxing Buon Appetito) - i wonder how long Happy All and the Sushi place will survive. with the new building going up where the old Towers was (across from the late Shamrock), maybe it will sustain all the fast food chains. anyhow, back to the Gallant Knight... here area couple blog posting with some more recent pictures and information: http://hcpark.blogspot.com/2007/02/farewell-good-knight.html http://blogs.chron.com/bartab/archives/2005/08/ will be on the lookout for more about Sammy et al.

cute house - i'll consider any part of town. move time is around April, so i have a little while to research. i am also on a job hunt, though, and Houston hasn't been so...receptive. if April nears and i'm in the same boat, i am not sure where i'll end up

A decade-plus restoration project is underway, along with Frank Lloyd Wright's massive "Water Dome" finally materializing as it originally should have. The campus has 12 Wright buildings - plans were made for 6 more that were never built. There is also a neat slideshow with the article. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=14933254

Take a drive along Brays Bayou too, from the Meyerland area to the Riverside Terrace area. There are some neat houses along N. Braeswood, and tons in RT (there are some threads around here with more specifics).

fei: http://www.heartland.org http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title...tland_Institute

The tour was sponsored by the Houston Renewable Energy Group and included homes and buildings using alternate energy sources and also the first homes in the LEED for Homes Pilot Program. Did anyone go to this on Saturday? Stops on the tour: -9245 Wickford Drive: LEED/still under construction -6535 Kury Ln.: Solar power -3319 Virginia St.: shooting for LEED Platinum, still under construction -13900 Hiram Clarke Rd.: The WareLoft, LEED-H pilot program -8 Caravelle St., Galveston: EVIA, the "home of tomorrow" -Animal Farm, Cat Spring TX: main house completely off the grid -St. Catherine's Montessori School (9821 Timberside): Houston's first LEED certified school -16711 Tankersley Dr., Rosharon: LEED-H Pilot Full descriptions and more information: http://www.txses.org/hreg/tour.php

still on the lookout for a (semi)local unmodified/non-screwed up Scout 80/800/800A.

yeah, rps said he met the director recently who said it would be on DVD soon, maybe through the MFAH... otherwise, Rice's library has an in-house-only copy.

I wish i could have made it to the house this afternoon...sounds great, especially if the pictures are only a hint of it all. fwiw, i spent the latter part of my childhood in a home about the same distance from 610 (though it is more elevated at this location), and i pretty much grew numb to the freeway noise. also, a while ago for a short period of time i lived on N. Braeswood just across the loop - it was extremely flood prone - obviously underwater during Allison, but also didn't have much tolerance for heavy rains much at all. the house does look a bit more elevated than the place i lived, though.

The Maharishi Global Development Fund, which owns the 30-story building that's been vacant since the late 1990s, said it is trying to sell it. "It's a good market right now," said David Humphreys, director of property management for the nonprofit group. "Something will happen soon." same old tale...oh well, you never know.

the "biggest demolition of protected and historic structures" in Dublin in 10 years good job, folks

scanning through the online TABC license records, here is 534 Westheimer's history: -Midnight Sun, 01/11/77-01/10/86 -Bayou Landing, 11/20/85-11/19/86 -Momma's Money (!), 02/06/89-02/05/91 -Depo Station, 04/08/91-04/07/92 -QT's, 06/15/87-06/14/98 (and the next license application was denied) 910 Westheimer has only had a license for Prive (03/11/99-03/10/08)

and here's a NY Times article, pre-restoration (1991): http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...757C0A967958260

i am sure others will chime in with more information, but here are a few other discussions on the board: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=5336 http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=9142 http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=6819