New Park for Greenspoint
Redemption Community Development Corp. has raised $10,000 out of $75,000 it needs to turn a 16-acre site at 822 West Greens Road from a gang hangout to a park: “The corporation selected the site just...
View ArticleClosing the Greater Greenspoint Sprawl Gap
That 1,000-acre undeveloped green space south of Beltway 8 and just west of I-45 North will soon become Houston’s largest office/warehouse distribution business park: “The marketing package announces...
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Charles Gwathmey’s Greenspoint Strip
Diehard Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey, dubbed one of the “New York Five” (along with Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Richard Meier, and John Hejduk) in the early 1970s, passed away yesterday in...
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Plenty of Room in the Pool: What’s Available at Greenbriar Park North
Globe St.’s Amy Wolff Sorter says the buyer of the foreclosed Greenbriar Park North apartments near Greenspoint has “a strong track record” of rehabbing complexes. That should help: Wade Schmitz with...
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New Life for Greenspoint Multiplex, After Conversion
“The former six-screen AMC movie theater at 1100 Greens Parkway” just north of Beltway 8 at Ella, reports Nancy Sarnoff, “is becoming convention space that will house the International Faith Based...
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Before the Movies Start: What’s Eating JCPenney at the Greenspoint Mall
A new Premiere Cinemas multiplex is now under construction at Greenspoint Mall — if, that is, you count demolition as part of the construction process. Early this morning, demolition crews began their...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Report from Greenspoint Mall
“. . . A huge swath of it is basically closed (the part near Dillards)– storefronts with lots of signs letting you know they are available. There are still quite a few mall staples, as well as an...
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Waiting for the Renaissance: What Could $32 Million Buy at Greenspoint Mall?
The Triyar Cannon Group has been threatening to give shopworn Greenspoint Mall a $32 million makeover since 2006. Most of what appears to be planned shows up in this knock-’em-down video: a new...
View ArticleComment of the Day: What I Learned Early in the Houston Real Estate Biz
“In 1993, I was with a firm that looked at buying many of the run down apartment complexes in Greenspoint. Our intent was to renovate them, thinking that the many class A office buildings contained...
View ArticleGreenspoint 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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