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Surveying the Damage After an Overnight House Fire on E. 8th St. in the Heights
Builders of a home under construction in the 700 block of E. 8th St. in the Heights, near Antidote coffee house, are looking at the damage to the large structure after an apparent fire that took place...
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Comment of the Day: He Went There
“Careful where you place those toilets during construction. I uprooted one and moved it to temporary storage in the corner of a back room. At Christmas, my visiting father-in-law came up to me and...
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What a Fired Ironworker Left Behind at Kyle Field
The ironworker fired from his job at the Kyle Field construction site after hoisting a University of Alabama flag from a crane at the Texas A&M football stadium has been subjected to an even...
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A Lifeboat for the Royalton’s Corroding Crown?
Judging from court filings, there appears to have been some sort of resolution to the lawsuit filed more than 2 years ago by the condominium association of the 253-unit Royalton at River Oaks highrise...
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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Roofers
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Deforested Kirby Dr. Wendy’s Brings Back a Little Greenery
Passersby hoping to see for themselves precisely what hullabaloo was responsible for the larger-than-normal red tag placed by city officials on the door of the abruptly-paused-during-renovation Kirby...
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Knock from Forklift Leaves Bottom Floor of Knox St. Townhome with a Serious...
“Yesterday around 4:30 pm we heard a strange creak, and when we looked across the street, this is what we saw,” reports a Swamplot reader who was at the corner of Knox St. and Schuler in Woodcrest....
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Knocked Knox St. Townhome Brought Down a Few Floors, Yanked Straight
The upper floors of a townhome under construction at the corner of Knox and Schuler streets in Woodcrest were dismantled by workers over the weekend. Late last week, the mostly framed but still...
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Here’s One Way To Get Extra Long Driveways for Your Fifth Ward Townhome
How did these townhomes under construction on the northeast corner of Bayou and Baron streets in the Fifth Ward come by their extra-long, tongue-like driveways? It’s not exactly clear, but the reader...
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The Kind of Accident You Might Find in Front of Your Fifth Ward Townhome When...
As a cautionary demonstration of the hazards of the kind of wacky old-roadway-meets-new-driveway construction found in front of a set of under-construction townhomes at the corner of Bayou and Baron...
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Elan Heights Shows Off Its 4 Floors of Apartment Flooding Insurance
Future residents of Greystar’s Elan Heights: Do not fear high water. Sure, the Skylane Central on the same White Oak Bayou-fronting site regularly had floodwaters up to its second floor after rain...
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Comment of the Day Runner-Up: It’s Not What You Have, It’s How It’s Attached
“As an engineer who regularly performs inspections of homes/businesses, I don’t think there’s an issue with stucco itself. If properly installed and maintained, it works fine. Maintenance is just as...
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