Warehouse Rock
Bringing you the happening sounds of the vacant former Morse Wholesale Paper Co. on the east side — live, via YouTube! Can’t get enough of this sort of thing? More Industrial: * * * 3302 Canal St. and...
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Goodbye, Uncle Ben: East Side Silos Are Coming Down
The new owner of Texas Rice’s old Fidelity St. property has already begun demolishing the grain silos on the site, which are just visible from the East Freeway. A reader sends Swamplot this photo...
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Disasters Seek Redemption in Harris County Second-Chance Warehouse
Looking for a safe place to keep its voting machines after the previous storehouse on Canino Rd. was destroyed in a mysterious fire last year, county officials have at last found the perfect uh,...
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Karbach Brews Houston’s Newest Beer Can Warehouse
This metal-sheathed warehouse at 2032 Karbach St. in the industrial area off Dacoma St. near Dyer Stadium used to be home to craft and imported beer distributor C.R. Goodman. Now a bunch of former...
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At Home in a Tomball Parkway Warehouse
Is all that living space on the second floor of this metal warehouse building right off the Tomball Pkwy. frontage road near the end of Jones Rd. really window-free? Built a decade ago, the...
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A Mixed Use Medley off Main
The three buildings listed as 6204 Main St. lie not on the tree-lined block near Rice University, but rather its mixed-use counterpart on North Main. Asking $260,000, the property includes a vacant...
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Warehouse Turned House Turned Mobile: Start’s East Downtown Startup Incubator
This 1963 warehouse on the corner of Delano and Dallas in East Downtown was converted into an ultramod residence in 2003. But its new owners, who purchased it about a month and a half ago, are turning...
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Downtown Warehouse To Sober Up, Get a New Life
Additions and renovations to this metal-clad warehouse building tucked between the Eastex Fwy. and the Chenevert St. entrance ramp headed north from Minute Maid Park have begun, the city announced...
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The Mullet Manages To Pay Rent
The graffiti training ground known as The Mullet spent much of this week pleading on Facebook for donations to help cover $2,000 in rent and avoid a lock out of the repainted warehouse at 10902...
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Owners of Houston Studios Seeking Tenants: Will Tear Down To Suit
This relatively gritty Warehouse District warehouse appears to be the subject of some real estate speculation, reports Hair Balls’ Richard Connelly: A website for the Houston Studios building — home...
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Amazon Has Begun Seeking Humble Fulfillment Near IAH
Humble-area news website HKA Texas has a few exterior pics of the new Amazon.com fulfillment center that opened last week at 8120 Humble-Westfield Dr. between Kenswick Dr. and Lee Rd. in Houston — a...
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The New Trucking Company Craft Brewery Opening This Fall in the Northside
Beer and trucking: 2 great Texas pastimes will unite under one roof this September, once the brand new SpindleTap Brewery opens up its brewing operation and tavern inside the brand-new tilt-up...
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Eureka Heights Brewing Will Dive Into the Craft Beer Flood at the Edge of the...
Eureka Heights Brewing Company employees will get to work on beer as soon as they’re done “powerwashing the hell out of this warehouse” — that 22,000-sq.-ft. one formerly occupied by Jake’s Finer...
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Big Ass Showroom To Butt Into Spring Branch Office Park, Tell Everyone To Chill
Comically large ceiling fixture purveyor Big Ass Solutions (the Kentucky-rooted parent company of exactly-what-they-sound-like Big Ass Fans and Big Ass Lights) will be opening its first...
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Brick-Faced Polk St. Warehouse Marketers Propose Increased Transparency,...
A construction fence has gone up around the former King’s Wholesale building in East Downtown, a reader tells Swamplot. The rendering above shows a planned renovation for the structure at the corner...
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The Warehouse Bar Coming Up Just Past the Curve in Navigation
What’s happening at the corner of Navigation Blvd. and Engelke in the East End? A mix of alcohol and demolition: Mixed beverage, late-night, and beverage cartage permits were issued by the TABC last...
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Pitch 25 from Brian Ching: An EaDo Soccer Bar with a Soccer Field Inside and...
Interior demo work is mostly complete on a 75-year-old single-story brick warehouse lining Walker St. in East Downtown, ahead of its opening next spring as what its promoters are calling Houston’s...
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‘The Rebirth of Our Nationality’ Now Rebirthing on Canal St.
Leo Tanguma‘s 240-ft.-long, 70-character 1973 mural slowly peeling from the southern facade of the former Continental Can Company warehouse in the East End (pictured above in 2013) was whitewashed...
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Warehouse Removal Project Begins on Commerce St., Where the Block Will Extend...
A Swamplot reader sends photos of the partial demolition now underway along Commerce St. just off Colby in the Second Ward just north of East Downtown. Ancorian bought 3 warehouses between Commerce...
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