Greenspoint Apartment Takeover
A Houston firm that took over management of 3 foreclosed Greenspoint-area apartment complexes last month says it’s working with the HPD to open a police substation in one of them. Kaplan Management Co....
View ArticleComment of the Day: Heading for Points Greener
“Unless I’m missing something, the whole thing seems like an egregious example of waste. You build Greenspoint 30 years ago and then for various reasons it’s no longer ideal, so do you improve it?...
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Largest Skate Park in U.S. Gets Rolling in Greenspoint
Stoked by the success of the Lee and Joe Jamail Skate Park on Sabine St., the City of Houston earlier this week broke ground that’ll soon be smoothed over by 72,000 sq. ft. of concrete; the 10-acre...
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Developer of Houston Senior Living Communities Foiled in Bid To Overthrow...
The Austin-based developer of 3 Houston apartment communities was arrested Saturday in Virginia for his role in a failed coup of the West African nation of Gambia. According to an affidavit prepared...
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A Dry Interlude at Greenspoint Mall and Emergency Flood Shelter
From the space between Monday’s rain and today’s, here are some late-evening snaps of the scene around Greenspoint Mall, which became a staging center for flood rescue operations before dawn on Monday...
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Disaster Centers Open Around Town as Flood Insurance Rates Rise
A set of 4 new FEMA disaster recovery centers opened yesterday, sprinkled around the north and west sides of Houston hit hardest by the Tax Day flooding. The locations include a Greenspoint office...
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Comment of the Day: How Greenspoint Could Turn Over a New Leaf
“A 50 percent occupancy rate created because a company moved a slew of employees to a shiny new corporate megacampus is a good thing. . . . This is just a good composting of office space. The piles of...
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Earthman Cemetery’s New Neighbor: A Neighborhood-Sized Hole by Greens Bayou
Just south of the Earthman Resthaven Funeral Home and Cemetery on I-45 — and just north of Greens Bayou — the Harris County Flood Control District is in the process of digging up more than 2 million...
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Highpoint North Disciplinary Campus in Greenspoint To Go Through Rehab,...
The 20,000-sq.-ft. building at 11902 Spears Gears Rd. is getting cleaned up for a new gig as a school for Harris County students in recovery from addiction and substance abuse. The spot formerly...
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Comment of the Day Runner-Up: What It Took To Bring the Macy’s at the...
“I drive by Greenspoint Mall daily and it’s quite unusual to see the ‘beehive of activity‘ at the former Macy’s from it’s recent use as a shelter. I haven’t seen that many cars outside the building...
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How About a Quick Round of Golf at the Greenspoint Mall?
A couple of Houston architects have a proposal for the northern portion of the soon-to-be-shuttered Greenspoint Mall at the northeast intersection of Beltway 8 and I-45: Turning it into a driving...
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Parking Lot Carnival Still a Mainstay at Greenspoint Mall Despite the State...
What better way to make use of all those empty parking spots than with an good old fashioned carnival like this one? It’s been a tradition at Greenspoint Mall going back decades now to plant a few...
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