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Solar-Powered Shipping Containers Flee; It’s Apartments for the Mirabeau B.
Hey, what’s happening to those fancy solar-powered recycled shipping containers on the corner of Hyde Park and Waugh, meant to attract eco-minded buyers to the $400K+ condo units in the Mirabeau B.?...
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West Dallas Royal Norwegian
What’s happening to this brick office building on West Dallas, just east of Dunlavy? The Houston Business Journal‘s Jennifer Dawson reports it’s getting an energy-conscious renovation — overseen by...
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The Slowest Demo in Town: Karen Lantz Pulls a House Apart
Meanwhile in Ranch Estates, architect Karen Lantz is deconstructing this 1950 Rancher, piece by piece. Her goal: building a new home on the site — but only after finding new homes for most of the...
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Haven Is Open: Modern Texas Cuisine, Algerian Way
Opened yesterday across from the Taco Cabana drive-thru at 2502 Algerian Way, just north of the intersection of Kirby and 59: Randy Evans’s Haven. Evans, who last ran the kitchen at Brennan’s, teamed...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Houston Homebuilding Tales, Abbreviated
“Once upon a time we knew how to build homes to take advantage of [things] like prevailing winds, natural shade, the position of the sun at different times of the day and year. Then we started just...
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Green and Wiggly AstroWorld Redevelopment Plan Coulda Been a Contender
The ambitious mixed-use “eco urban” project shown here — intended for the site of the former AstroWorld — was the idea of a south Florida developer who had the property under contract for an extended...
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Spawn of the Grand Parkway: Huge New Woodlands-Like Development, Just South...
A New York land development firm called Coventry Development has just announced grand plans to establish a giant eco-friendly, mixed-use development modeled heavily on the ecological principles first...
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Pieces of Wind Turbine Fall Onto Street from Top of Hess Tower Downtown;...
Sometime before the Christmas holiday last year, “high winds” caused a part of one of the wind turbines mounted to the top of downtown Houston’s Hess Tower to “detach” from its mounting point. “Two...
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“well it would appear there’s lots of wind up there for harvesting!” [movocelot, commenting on Pieces of Wind Turbine Fall Onto Street from Top of Hess Tower Downtown; Blades on “Lockdown”]
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A New Paint Store Without That Fresh-Paint Smell
Opened over the weekend: a 1,500-sq.-ft. space at 6115 Kirby in the Rice Village that its owners are claiming is the country’s first non-toxic retail paint store. The Green Painter, a project of...
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Pods Appear on Downtown Building, Grab Solar Panels with Wrench and Garden Hose
Hanging out on the roof of Houston’s new Central Permitting and Green Resource Center at 1002 Washington Ave.: Solar panels, anchored by the first-ever commercial installation of Metalab Studio’s new...
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Garbage Program Still ‘Absolutely Doable,’ says Mayor Parker
So Houston’s “One Bin for All” idea didn’t win the $5 million grand prize in Mayor Bloomberg’s philanthrophic challenge — but it did tie for second. And that means $1 million will be coming Houston’s...
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