Inside a Hollowed-Out River Oaks Shopping Center Corner Where Perry’s...
A reader sends photos looking inside a gutted corner of the southern River Oaks Shopping Center building east of McDuffie St. Formerly home to California Pizza Kitchen, Evolve Fitness Studio,...
View ArticleGreased Lightning Burger Building Now on the North Montrose Menu
The owners of the hamburger, Mexican food, barbecue, and fish restaurant on the northwest corner of Taft and Peden — dubbed “Greased Lightening Pit Stop” by the sign hanging on it for over a decade —...
View ArticleKHOU’s Abandoned Allen Pkwy. Studio Has Been Reduced to Rubble
This just in: Photos from a Swamplot reader show the wreckage at KHOU’s 58-year-old Buffalo Bayou–side headquarters, abandoned since staff fled it for Houston Public Media’s less flood-prone Elgin St....
View ArticleNail-Tique Flameout Leaves Salon, Steinway Piano Gallery Shuttered Next to...
The east side of the building that fronts McDuffie St. — next door to the River Oaks Theatre — has been quiet since an early Monday morning blaze torched Nail-Tique salon, doing some damage to the...
View ArticleWhat Johnny Steele Dog Park Looks Like Completely Submerged Again
On-the-ground footage from KHOU reporter David Gonzalez shows just how much water the Johnny Steele Dog Park — redone and reopened 3 weeks ago following its last flood — took on yesterday. By the...
View ArticleExcavators Sink Their Teeth into River Oaks Shopping Center’s Café Ginger...
It’s crunch time at the vacated original Café Ginger in the northern portion of the River Oaks Shopping Center, where a new 30-story apartment tower dubbed The Driscoll is planned to rise up over W....
View ArticleNew Laundry Tag Could Soon Hang from Gibbs Boats’ Redone Building as a Sign...
Next Saturday, Houston’s historic commission is set to consider a request that new old signage be installed on the former Gibbs Boats building at 1110 W. Gray as part of the renovation to turn it into...
View ArticleKhun Kay Thai Cafe’s Second-Gen Owner Now Tracing Out 20-Story Highrise in...
The outline of a 20-story apartment building called Montrose Gardens made its first public appearance late Friday in the city’s planning commission agenda, where its footprint covers over that of the...
View ArticleHines Picking Up Less Than an Acre Across from Montrose Whole Foods Parking Lot
The developer entered into an agreement earlier this year to buy the property at the corner of Waugh Dr. and D’Amico St., reports the HBJ’s Olivia Pulsinelli in her round-up of recent North Montrose...
View ArticleMontrose Greased Lightning Burger Zapped by New Owner
The owner of the abandoned restaurant storefront on Taft St. south of W. Gray didn’t waste much time in trashing the place after acquiring it in June. A demo permit filed last month condemned both the...
View ArticleThe Allen’s Latest Mixed-Use Map Nixes the Pedestrian Bridge Across Allen Pkwy.
Remember that pedestrian bridge that previous maps and renderings for The Allen showed crossing Allen Pkwy. in order to link the planned development to Buffalo Bayou Park? Well, it appears to be gone...
View ArticleEmpty Luke’s Locker To Become Barry’s Bootcamp’s Newest Recruit
International fitness chain Barry’s Bootcamp plans to pick up where Luke’s Locker left off in the easternmost portion of the River Oaks Shopping Center south of W. Gray, and before doing so, will...
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