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InnerLoopCondos Wants To Know: Would You Prefer Ugly, Pretentious, or Simply...
Group LSR, aka InnerLoopCondos.com, wants to build a new condo building in Montrose — and you get to play the stylist! What should the new development look like? Entry-arches-gone-crazy Apartment...
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Piazza Townhomes: Fountain Below
The planter cutouts next to the garage doors . . . the single-sided, shingled pediments . . . the cast-in-foam detailing . . . the security fence. Yes, it could only be another themed stucco townhouse...
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Styling the Bistro Vino Condo Tower: Low Voter Turnout
Remember back in July, when the folks from InnerLoopCondos.com sent out a survey about a new development proposed for 819 W. Alabama — the former site of Bistro Vino — and wanted you to help them...
View ArticleHistoric Win for Audubon Place
City council voted last week to designate Audubon Place Houston’s 13th Historic District. The district stretches north of W. Alabama roughly to Hawthorne, between Roseland and Audubon Place. [Guidry...
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Montrose: All the Little Neighborhoods
Reader rdan weighs in on Swamplot’s recent discussion about the boundaries of Montrose: In order to address the confusion/questions over Montrose neighborhood designations, I dug up the attached map...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Neighborhood of the Traveling Pants
“My friend lives in a small Montrose (Audobon Place) apartment complex. He had a pair of pants and a sweatshirt stolen out of the dryer. He called the police AND THEY CAME OUT! For a pair of pants! I...
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What’s Happening to That Spanish Bookstore on West Alabama?
Roving Swamplot photographer Candace Garcia spots a for sale sign up at the Libreria Española on the north side of West Alabama between Stanford and Audubon: I know the owner/manager was elderly, but...
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Leasing Garden Apartments on a Vacant Lot in Audubon Place
For almost 2 years after it caught fire in October 2008, the 2-story home at 803 Kipling St. in Audubon Place stood vacant on the property as a burnt skeleton. Now the recent purchaser of the lot that...
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Houston Apartment Listing Photo of the Day: The Stool Garden
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The Mercantile Is Coming to Montrose, for Your Coffee Convenience
A northern branch of Mercantile, the combo espresso bar and mini-mart that opened a few months ago in the Rice Village, will be opening up in the vacant First Stop Food Store spot shown above at the...
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Montrose Mercantile Works a Little Strip Center Redo Magic
The sign has been changed and the green hues have been removed from the mansard-roofed exterior of the former First Stop Food Store at the corner of Stanford and Hawthorne in Audubon Place. That’s...
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This Wheelchair-Accessible Bungalow-Meets-Studio Compound in Audubon Place Is...
An expansive deck with pool for physical therapy (top) links a home and its back-of-lot studio apartment at a Montrose compound, which started October as a $795K listing. Recent updates to the 1922...
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Next Up for Shuttering Audubon Place Community Garden: New Historic Home...
Last week a for-sale sign went up at the 8,400-sq.-ft. vacant lot at the corner of Kipling and Stanford that’s been used for the past several years as an Audubon Place community garden. And there it...
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Organic Garden on Lot for Sale in Audubon Place Historic District on Its Way...
The community garden at 803 Kipling St. in Audubon Place listed for sale earlier at the end of last month is set to be purchased by the City of Houston and turned into a neighborhood park, according...
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Duplex Plans Germinating on Former Community Garden Plots in Audubon Place
Greenleaf Gardens appears to be getting ready for some less-communal, more-perennial planting on the corner of Kipling and Stanford streets in Audubon Place. A reader snapped a few photos at the...
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Comment of the Day: Misplacing the Audubon Places
“TIL that Audubon Place (the street in 77006) is not in Audubon Place (the subdivision in 77027). The whole time I was scouring the neighborhoods in and around Westmoreland for a house, I thought the...
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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Bed Spread
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Texadelphia’s Takeover of the Wooden Box on Montrose Blvd. Now Nearly Complete
With construction on Houston’s second Texadelphia now wrapping up ahead of its planned opening, it appears the restaurant’s remodelers have opted to preserve the woodsy exterior decor originally added...
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New Designated Drinking Pen Takes Over Old Youth Homeless Shelter Parking Lot...
Houston’s latest Bacco-branded wine venue Bacco’s Wine Garden has begun its takeover of 3611 Montrose Blvd. by adding this corral to the house’s front parking lot, although nothing’s being consumed on...
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Bacco’s Montrose Patio Gets Plastered with Hundreds of Wine Bottles To...
The aftermath of Bacco’s Wine Garden’s latest design choice at 3611 Montrose Blvd. has the place looking a little less like a homeless shelter and more like a bar. Empty bottles were as close as the...
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