Comment of the Day: What Do You Call the Transformed Industrial District...
“I think the stretch of land North of Washington but South of I-10, where all the big-box retailers are going in, should be called Katyville.” [el duderino, commenting on Grocers Supply Sale Will...
View ArticleYour Steel-Framed McDonald’s Is Going Up on Studemont Now
Reader Debnil Chowdhury sends in these pics, taken yesterday, of the steel-framed structure that’s appeared over the last month just north of the new Studemont Kroger gas station in the formerly...
View ArticleTarkett Shutting Down Its Manufacturing Facility Behind Sawyer Heights Target
A filing with the Texas Workforce Commission indicates that Tarkett, which operates one of the last industrial installations in the stretch of parking-lot-heavy retail south of I-10 that’s come to be...
View ArticleResidents of 2100 Memorial Senior Highrise Now Have 5 Days To Move Out of...
A notice sent yesterday to all tenants of the 2100 Memorial senior-living facility just west of Downtown declares that the 14-story former Holiday Inn has been rendered “totally unusable for...
View ArticleInside 2100 Memorial, Where More Than 180 Elderly or Disabled Residents Have...
The apartments inside 2100 Memorial are “quite hale and hearty,” a reader tells Swamplot — and were not individually affected by the flooding that caused enough damage to the building’s fire-safety...
View ArticleHousing Authority Says It Won’t Enforce Saturday Deadline for 2100 Memorial...
A spokesperson for the Houston Housing Authority tells Swamplot the city agency is not and will not be enforcing the previously announced 5-day deadline for all residents of 2100 Memorial to move out...
View Article2100 Memorial Lawsuit: Let These People Stay
Three tenants of the Sixth Ward senior housing facility known as 2100 Memorial filed suit against the Houston Housing Authority on Friday, a day before Saturday’s unenforced deadline for all residents...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Behind the ‘Everybody Out’ Order at 2100 Memorial
“I’ve volunteered there and can tell you the entire ‘sub-basement’ electrical/fire control room was completely submerged. I assume that entities receiving government rent subsidies must meet current...
View Article2100 Memorial’s Eviction Order, Completely Transformed
A statement from the Houston Housing Authority yesterday says it “is making every effort to comply” with a judge’s temporary restraining order issued last week ordering the public agency to fix the...
View ArticleOriginal Beaver’s Still Closed, but Street Side Now Shows New Openings
The doors aren’t open yet, but the windows are in at Beaver’s’s 10-year-old bar and barbecue joint on the corner of Sawyer and Decatur St., closed since early July. The photo at top shows 3 of the 4...
View ArticleNew Wash Ave MURAL Replaces Historical Wall Art as Shell Shack Primes Old...
The biggest eye-level change to the former Social Junkie restaurant building is the one shown over the Acura in the photo at top. And while it’s definitely less of a statement than its predecessor — a...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Diagonal Line Between First Ward and Sixth
“. . . Congress Street was used as a boundary in the ward system, but that boundary, extended, does not run along Washington Avenue. It instead runs well north of Washington. A look at 1913 and 1920...
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