Forget It, Jake. It’s Asiatown
The Chronicle quietly debuts that new, more inclusive name for the pan-Asian strip along Bellaire Blvd. between 59 and Highway 6 formerly known as Chinatown: Asiatown. A recent email describing...
View ArticleThe Land of Oz: Ready to Rise Again?
Here’s a surprise: a construction permit for a new 23-story Chinatown Asiatown condominium tower was issued yesterday for Park 8 Place. Remember Park8? That’s the freeway feeder megastrip project...
View ArticleBuddhists Retreating to Houston’s Far Northwest
Many of the buildings on the campus were completed last August, but this weekend marked the official grand opening of “one of the largest Buddhist developments in the nation,” just northeast of...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Still Waiting for Park 8 To Arrive in the Land of Oz
“Do you have any update on this project? I’m very curious to find out more about the status and what the projected outcome will be for the many buyers of this condo that is 3 years behind schedule.”...
View ArticleThe Bellaire Corridor Donut: There’s an International Zone Between the Loop...
University of Houston architecture professor Susan Rogers explores the Bellaire-Holcombe corridor from Highway 6 to the Med Center and finds a donut in her path. For each census tract that intersects...
View ArticleYour Condo Hard Sell Is No Longer Needed
It’s not clear exactly who it was that first noticed the oh, maybe 9- or 10-inch-tall object sitting upright in the background of a bathroom photo included in the for-sale listing on Cressida Glen Ln....
View ArticleRelief in Alief: The Condo Hard Sell Gets Results
That was fast: Yesterday, just a day before Valentine’s Day — and almost exactly 2 weeks after a seemingly candid photo of one of the home’s 2 full bathrooms gained attention all over the internet —...
View ArticleTurtlewood Square: The Rough Road to Little Saigon
Update, 6/20: Hoang has issued a statement about his nanny. Mayor Parker has requested a separate city investigation into whether council member Al Hoang forged the signatures of 16 neighbors in a bid...
View ArticleThe Nanny Didn’t Do It
In a statement released last Friday, council member Al Hoang clarifies statements he made earlier to the Chronicle and KHOU 11 News’s Jeremy Rogalski that appeared to place blame for the forging of 16...
View ArticleBehind the Curtain in the Land of Oz: The Collapse of Park 8
Whatever happened to that Park 8 condo tower, hospital, and strip-mall development planned for Beltway 8 next to Arthur Storey Park, just south of Bellaire Blvd.? The Chronicle‘s Purva Patel surveys...
View ArticleSomebody Forged Turtlewood Square Signatures, but It Wasn’t Hoang
Who forged neighbor signatures on a petition circulated to change the name of Turtlewood Dr. to Little Saigon Dr.? Someone who submitted them to city council member Al Hoang, a preliminary inquiry by...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Neighborhood Names Stick
“Alief didn’t start getting rebranded as the International District till about 3 years ago; as a matter of fact, no one that lived there knew anyone was calling it something other than Alief. It wasn’t...
View ArticleHouston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Odd Couple
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View ArticleHouston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Nothing To See Here
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View ArticleWhat’s Next for Halliburton’s Empty Oak Park Campus on Bellaire?
A newly-formed group of real estate experts is now brainstorming ideas for Halliburton’s 48-acre former Oak Park campus at 10200 Bellaire Blvd., just west of Beltway 8. Included in the brain-trust:...
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