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What Rex Supply’s Harrisburg Complex Would Look Like with Restaurants,...
The rendering at top from Texas real estate firm Hunington shows off what Rex Supply’s double-block complex along the Green Line would look like redone with a shop-lined pedestrian zone dubbed Rex...
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Moon Tower Inn’s Old Patio Is Now Completely Plowed Following the 3-Day...
Drink specials set the stage not only for what Moon Tower Inn billed as a “gluttonous celebration” of its 8-year anniversary 2 weeks ago, they also helped management get rid of all its inventory so...
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Why All the Food Trucks Vanished from East Downtown’s Truck Yard
Health department officials ousted all food trucks from the open-air structure pictured adjacent to outdoor seating in August — reports Samantha Morris over at Houston Food Finder — nearly 4 months...
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Downtown Block 77 Goes Back to School
“Houston must have looked huge to Lyndon Johnson as he drove toward it across the flat Gulf plains in his battered little car,” writes Robert Caro in his biography of the former president. Johnson’s...
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Southwest Key Seeks Contract Extension for Facility It Hasn’t Opened Yet
A spokesman for Southwest Key, the nonprofit that houses immigrant kids, tells the Chronicle’s Mike Morris that federal officials are giving it more time to open its stalled Casa Sunzal facility 3...
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The Impromptu Collapse of a Congress Ave. Strip’s Most Worn-Out Pioneer
The vacant, red-brick building on Congress Ave. shown above just west of Bastrop St. demolished itself this morning, leaving a gap between its turn-of-the-century contemporaries to the south and the...
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Comment of the Day: Congress Ave. Collapse Was a Long Time Coming
“Yeah, if you look on the street view of the building prior to collapse: nice big cracks in the masonry, which looks like a double or single wythe on the front and triple wythe in the sides. All of...
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Meet East Downtown’s Most Colorful New Self-Storage Facility
Get a load of this multi-chromatic character that’s recently taken shape on York St., between Lamar and McKinney streets: EaDo Storage. Built in place of the Randolph Office Furniture Exchange...
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A Look Around the Miabella Apartment Building That Could Be Plopped in the...
This 4-story glass and stucco box dubbed Miabella got pulled from the agenda before Houston’s city planning commission could take a look at it yesterday, but renderings of it are still floating around...
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Truck Yard Is Now Renting Out One of Its Shipping Containers as a...
East Downtown’s self-styled “come-as-you-are beer garden & adult playground” Truck Yard is now taking reservations from parties of up to 20 people who want a spot where they can sing like nobody’s...
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Victorian’s Barbecue Bails on the East End Building That Bears Its Name
Despite its new paint job, the low and flat building on the corner of N. York and Sampson will not play host to Victorian’s Barbecue, pitmaster Joey Victorian announces on Instagram, “but that’s not...
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True Anomaly in Local Robo-Journalism
New sour-beer hotspot True Anomaly Brewing Company, which opened last month in the former electrical warehouse at 2012 Dallas St. just west of the main East Village campus in East Downtown (and...
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