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Last of the Harold Farb Signs: It’s a Wrap
A reader tells us that the Harold Farb Apartment Homes sign at the Broadway Square Apartments hasn’t been taken down yet, but it has been hooded — with a new temporary fabric covering identifying the...
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Introducing the Swamplot Price Adjuster
Are you getting the sense that some properties on the market in the greater Houston area are priced a little . . . inappropriately? Then you’ll enjoy the brand new feature Swamplot is trying out. We’re...
View ArticleDoing Their Level Best
Latest poster child for the approximately 9,000 abandoned, vandalized, or dangerous structures the city is working bit by bit on demolishing: the 43-unit Park Place Apartments at 7410 Park Place Blvd.,...
View ArticlePark Place Apartment Demo Parks in Bankruptcy Court
“Not so fast on the daily demo report,” cautions a reader. There’s been a last-minute delay: Park Place Apartments owner Rodolfo Yannarella has thwarted city attempts to demolish the complex near Long...
View ArticlePark Place Apartment Fiberfest
Workers from Inland Environments will be taking “extra precautions” with the demolition of 4 apartment buildings at the corner of Park Place and Telephone Rd., the mayor’s office promises. There’s...
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Groovy Sixties Mod Church on Broadway Now for Sale, for $3.9 Million
The owners of the Park Place Baptist Church building and campus just south of the Gulf Fwy. at 4101 Broadway St. have put the 8.694-acre property up for sale, with a list price of $3.9 million. The...
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The Seismic Vibrators Shaking Up Some Southeast Houston Neighborhoods
A couple residents of Park Place Acre Villa are interested in finding out what the point was of this fleet of Boone Exploration seismic vibrator vehicles rolling up Detroit St. and Findlay St. this...
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Why These Seismic Vibrator Trucks Have Been Shaking Up Southeast Houston
A neighborhood resident tells Swamplot what George Henderson, owner of Premier Geophysical Services, told the Park Place Civic Club last week about what the firm’s seismic vibrator trucks have been...
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Kitschy Wedding Chapel on Gulf Fwy. Unveiled as Gay History Landmark in Drag
The Harmony Wedding Chapel at 8120 Gulf Freeway has been one of Houston’s most familiar freeway-side landmarks for 50 years, a little slice of backstreet Las Vegas that has now provided 5 generations...
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About That Room Full of Dangling Cartoons In Park Place
A few readers were curious about the detached backyard room densely strewn with drawings of clowns and other cartoonish figures that made an appearance as Swamplot’s Home Listing Photo of the Day late...
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1937 Log Cabin in Park Place Is Yours for Half a Million in Cash
Technically, that’s just $499,423, cash sale, only — but you get the idea. The former Monta Beach Boy Scout Lodge at 3003 Dover St. was build in 1937 and converted into a 2-bedroom house in the early...
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Last Remnants of Park Place Pharmacy Melt Away as Magnolia’s Ice Cream...
Magnolia’s Ice Cream & More is now grooming the former Park Place Pharmacy building 2 blocks west of the Gulf Fwy. for what’ll be its second creamery. Although the pharmacy building lost its...
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