Results tagged “firstward”

Today, shelterporn takes you to an incredibly cool, incredibly modern house in the First Ward, within spittin' distance of downtown. Outside, the house is wrapped in a stone and glass skin that makes it look a little bit like an office building — but the expanses of glass provide some stunning downtown views, so who really cares if people occasionally think you live inside some kind of corporate headquarters? We're sure this house comes...

So if you're an enterprising auto burglar, we suppose a lot where row upon row of unattended cars are parked would be almost irresistible. But remember this: If that lot happened to be a police impound facility, it's probably not a good idea to go sniffing around — if you don't believe us, ask the guy who was caught this morning at a First Ward impound lot. The man was seen jumping the fence at...

If you've ever thought to yourself, "Self, I wish I could live right next door to a Target store so I could go there all the time," have we got some exciting news for you: Houston-based developer Martin Fein Interests is building a four-story loft project at Sawyer Heights, the new Target-anchored shopping center at I-10 and Taylor in the First Ward. The building will be located at 2424 Spring St. on the site of...

Police found a man who had been shot to death in a car at a southwest Houston apartment complex yesterday afternoon, but they don't know who he is or who killed him A psychiatrist testified Friday that he warned Andrea Yates not to have more children when she attempted suicide after the birth of her fourth child in 1999 There's been a crime spike in the Fort Bend County suburbs in recent months, the KTRK...

So things are looking pretty good for the local real estate market: Last month, the average single-family home price in Houston topped $200,000 for the first time. The average price for a single-family house in May was $204,005, up 8.2 percent over last year's average, the Houston Association of Realtors reports. Meanwhile, the median home price in Houston also reached a record $152,000. (In case you're wondering, yes, that is much less than the national...

The staggering amount of concrete in Houston — whether it's in the shape of strip malls, freeways, parking lots or society matrons' hair — is one of those things you learn to live with around here. A nice old building gets torn down to make way for a parking lot and we just shrug and say, "Eh, all in a day." But now there's something new: an effort to install art in a parking lot....

The Chronicle has a story today on the last residential holdouts in the path of First Ward progress — namely the new Target and Sawyer Heights Village shopping center near downtown. Oscar Trevino and his mother have lived in a house adjacent to the Target site for more than 45 years, but they said they're not going to hang around when the shoppers start coming this summer. "We didn't want to sell," Trevino said, "but...