Comment of the Day: How To Make Your Neighborhood’s New Strip Center More...
“Just walk around to the other side and pretend that’s the front. Then the parking lot will be in the back! A walkable solution!” [Memebag, commenting on The Strip Center with Offices Above Planned...
View ArticleMeters Headed to Memorial Park Parking Spots
Among the many changes now slated for Memorial Park: parking meters. The $70 million gift the Kinder Foundation pledged in April to expedite park renovations came with a few spend-it-wisely...
View ArticleHiram Butler Gallery’s New Gay Conversion Therapy Parking Lot
The newest work showing at Hiram Butler Gallery occupies a special position on the grounds: It’s right outside along Blossom St., facing the townhouse that River Pointe Church owns and uses for...
View ArticleHere’s Everywhere Off-Street Parking Requirements Will No Longer Apply If...
The city’s latest proposal to eliminate off-street parking requirements in Midtown and East Downtown got a vote of confidence from the management districts of both neighborhoods when staff members...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Where Houston’s Parking Math Doesn’t Quite Add Up
“Is it typical for a municipality to use GFA (Gross Floor Area) to calculate parking requirements for businesses? Would Net Floor Area be more accurate and eliminate this debate? Gross Floor Area...
View ArticleHow Houston’s 2 Planned Robo-Parking Garages Compare in Size
The one that’d go next to the proposed Railway Heights food hall will be bigger: 89-ft. tall with a roughly 18,000-sq.-ft. footprint, reports Nancy Sarnoff. A site plan for the development at Wash Ave...
View ArticleWhy All the Food Trucks Vanished from East Downtown’s Truck Yard
Health department officials ousted all food trucks from the open-air structure pictured adjacent to outdoor seating in August — reports Samantha Morris over at Houston Food Finder — nearly 4 months...
View ArticleParking 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...
View ArticlePhoenix Tower Doubling Down on Parking
A new 8-story parking garage will be built next to the Phoenix Tower’s existing 8-story parking garage writes Ralph Bivins over at Realty News Report. The planned “garage annex,” he reports, “will...
View ArticleHeights Hotelier’s Next Teardown Target: The Florist on the Other Side of...
Wondering where the developer of that new boutique hotel on the corner 20th and Ashland St. plans to fit all the required 37 parking spots (one for each room)? After all, the property — home to that...
View ArticleNabbing an Empty Parking Spot Across the Street from the Oaks on Caroline Condos
A building permit filed yesterday reveals what’s going up on the half-acre vacant tract across Caroline St. from the Oaks On Caroline condo building: a 16,000-sq.-ft. parking garage. Home previously...
View ArticleWhen the Car’s Just Too Nice for the Garage
“It takes a little bit of maneuvering,” explains Nick, the proud owner of a blue-and-orange McLaren Senna and the reworked 1954 William Floyd bayou-side home just north of Woodway Dr. whose living...
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