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Third Montrose Skylane Apartment Building Turns Over
The proud new owner of the scuzzy former Skylane Apartments on the corner of Richmond and Hazard St. is the same real-estate agent who snapped up and renovated the 2 smaller Montrose Skylane...
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A Hotsheet Montrose Residency for Artists
Patrons of the fast-paced arts, you have less than 55 hours left to fund the hotsheet action planned for Richwood Place’s Skydive exhibition space next month. In a somewhat compressed version of the...
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State Orders Montrose Apartment Owner To Get Rid of the Crime or Shut the...
Declaring the 42-unit Montrose complex a “common nuisance,” the county attorney’s office and the state of Texas have filed a lawsuit against the owner of the former Skylane Apartments at the corner of...
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Montrose La Tapatia Returns from Month-Long Smoke Break
The Richmond Ave branch of La Tapatia at the corner of Woodhead St. is back in operation this week after the late summer toasting of its 1969 building, a few readers report. Up top is a shot of the...
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Starbucks and Oil Changes Planned Next to Ruthie’s Place on Richmond, Scooped...
From beneath yesterday’s sunset glare off the new Big Tex Storage midrise on Richmond Ave, a reader captured the splintery wreckage of long-empty Cierra Interiors at the corner with Woodhead St. Plans...
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Original 59 Diner Spot Stripped Back Down After Latest Costume Quick-Change,...
As a couple of commenters pieced together recently, the original 59 Diner spot at the curvy intersection of Farnham St. and Shepherd Dr. is back up for lease again, after a number of name- and...
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Piecemeal 59 Bridge Blackouts Just Part of the Post-Super Bowl Plan
Just because the crossings over US-59 were broadcasting football team colors in time for the Super Bowl last month doesn’t mean they were totally finished, Sarah Gandy from Gandy² Lighting Design...
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Starbucks Store No. 48023 Comes to Richmond Ave
The mocha-colored drive-thru Starbucks that’s been brewing at 1801 Richmond Ave. since its predecessor building was torn down in January now appears just about ready to serve. Landscape crews are...
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Take 5’s Richmond Ave Coffee-Adjacent Oil Changeover
Here’s the other new purveyor of brownish fluids at the corner of Richmond Ave and Woodhead: The 13th area Take 5 Oil Change — and the chain’s fifth location in Houston proper — is now open for...
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Comment of the Day: The Montrose Dual Dealership Welcome That Wasn’t
“Too bad . . . I had imagined an identical building being constructed, and as bookends would have made a fantastic ‘gateway‘ into the Montrose/Museum area.” [city cynic, commenting on Stahlman Lumber...
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