Comment of the Day: A Brief Guide to Meyer Park Shopping Center Waterfowl
“I would bet a dollar to a donut that these are domesticated Muscovy Ducks. Muscovy Ducks are non-migratory and are frequently bought to stock artificial ponds (they are not native to Texas). They are...
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For the Glory of Old Navy: Purple Martins’ Majesty Meets 59 Feeder Road...
An enormous flock of Purple Martins has gathered in and around the parking lot of the Fountains Shopping Center facing the Southwest Freeway in Stafford, where they’ve taken up a noisy nighttime roost...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Shopping Center Parking Lot of the Apocalypse
“This is how I imagine the end of the world begins.” [Justin, commenting on For the Glory of Old Navy: Purple Martins’ Majesty Meets 59 Feeder Road Shopping Center Parking Lot]
View ArticleMore Jolts from Buffalo Grille Coffee
Now in the H-E-B Buffalo Market parking lot at Buffalo Speedway and Bissonnet, on the site of what used to be the Buffalo Grille: the first in a network of eVgo electric vehicle charging stations to be...
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Feeder Farmers Market
Houston’s first freeway-side farmers market debuts this Friday at 3 pm in the parking lot of the HCC Southwest College’s West Loop campus. Appropriately enough, the market’s organizers at Urban Harvest...
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Big Breakup Outside the Northwest Mall
What’s going on at the east side of the Northwest Mall parking lot? a reader wants to know. It sure looks all torn up over something or other. The parking surface outside Macy’s looks freshly cleared,...
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Downtown Parking Lot Playland
The 4 full-block surface parking lots along the rail line just east of the ExxonMobil building bounded by Leeland, Fannin, Clay, and Travis streets downtown will soon have a small blot on their perfect...
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Taking Away a Downtown Surface Parking Lot, for the Children
A reader who normally parks in the full-block surface parking lot on Clay St. on the east side of the Bell light-rail station downtown was shocked to discover his usual parking option vanished when he...
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Rodeo Buys Half of AstroWorld To Use as 48-Acre Parking Lot
Longtime speculation that the entire vacant 104-acre site formerly occupied by the AstroWorld amusement park might someday be turned into some sort of singular mixed-use development took a hit...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Parking Lot in Front
“Is it possible that any place in our region that doesn’t have a huge field of suburban-style parking in front of it starts at a big disadvantage? Even patron reviews I read regarding otherwise popular...
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Roger Goodell: 2,500 Extra Parking Spaces Does Sound Pretty Good
The study paid for by the Texans and the Rodeo that found the Astrodome could be torn down and replaced with 2,500 parking spots for $29 million — the one Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said he’s...
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East Downtown’s Food Truck Parking Park
This is where Houston’s food trucks will come to loiter — er, idle: The so-called Houston Food Park is opening in about a week here at 1504 St. Emanuel in East Downtown, in the parking lot beside the...
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No Parking: Idylwood Residents Want Parks Board To Move Proposed Hike and...
First a Walmart, and now a parking lot? Some Idylwood residents are organizing opposition to a 20- or 30-space parking lot proposed for this site by the Houston Parks Board for the Bayou Greenways...
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The Menil Shows Drawings of New Cafe, Entrance Sequence
Architecture firm Stern and Bucek has come up with this rendering of the Menil Collection’s new cafe, part of the free museum’s long-planned expansion of its Montrose campus. The design for the cafe —...
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Meanwhile, Across the Driveway from a North Loop Whataburger
From reader David Hille comes this report of the latest parking lot pad site takeover: “After a morning run to the ‘Brinkman’ Home Depot on 610 near N. Shepherd, I became curious about the temporary...
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The 19 Spots in Houston Where You’re Most Likely To Get a Parking Ticket
Surprise! The spot in Houston where the most parking tickets have been issued over the last 2 years is . . . the place where people go to pay for their parking tickets. That would be at the surface...
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Hines Market Square Takes Over a Surface Parking Lot Downtown
Here’s some evidence that Hines Residential is ready to go ahead with construction of its 33-story apartment tower at the corner of Travis and Preston, catty-corner from Market Square: The surface...
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Mr. Santos Is Still Open for Alterations and New Dress Construction, but...
Construction on the lot behind the Mr. Santos Fashion Design HQ on Westheimer Rd. at Kingston doesn’t mean Mr. Santos is closing up shop. It just means that his neighbor, the St. Anne Parish, is...
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What’s Going Down — and Up — in the Old South Beach Parking Lot Off Montrose...
The asphalt and branches were flying this morning at the storied former South Beach parking lot off Montrose between California St. and Missouri (more recently home to cars whose owners are visiting...
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Houston Methodist’s New Suburban-Style TMC Helipad
From reader Stephen J Alexander comes this pic of the new helistop that’s landed at the corner of Bertner Ave. and S. Braeswood, just over the southern (Brays Bayou) border from the Texas Medical...
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