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The City of Houston participated in the City Park project to provide jobs, lower housing prices, and encourage the development of retail businesses in the surrounding area. [3] The first subdivision, built on former farmland, was intended to provide living space for people who work in the Texas Medical Center and Downtown Houston. The project ...
In 2003 Nancy Scott, a real estate agent of John Daugherty, Realtors West Houston, stated that these houses had "more-modern kitchens and baths than most houses had" in the late 1970s and that "they were very innovative in their designs". [3] 1980s-built houses included traditional patio and "soft contemporary houses". Houses built in the early ...
Maplewood South/North is a group of subdivisions in Houston, Texas. It is southwest of Downtown Houston and south of Uptown Houston. [1] In 2007 S.K. Bardwell of the Houston Chronicle said that Maplewood South "has one of the largest, most powerful civic associations in Houston, and its residents reap the benefits each year in increased ...
John Seckar can’t even hear the words “homeowners association (HOA)” without it sounding like a “cuss word” to him. The Houston man pays over $6,000 a year ($550 a month) in HOA fees for ...
The Braeswood Place Homeowners Association was charted in 1951. [1] On September 19, 1988, [2] a group of robbers murdered 66-year-old Gloria Pastor in her Braeswood Place house. Police traced the first suspect to an apartment in the Link Valley area, less than 2 miles (3.2 km) away.
West 11th Street Park, in TMCC, [5] is a 20.2-acre (8.2 ha) City of Houston park property; the community already used it as a park by the 1950s. The Timbergrove Sports Association uses the baseball diamond there. The Hogg Foundation, the original owners, gave it to the University of Texas (UT). In the 1950s HISD acquired the property from UT.
In 2005 Houston City Council Member Mark Goldberg and Jim Myers, head of the nonprofit group Southwest Houston 2000 Inc., lobbied the state government, asking the state to create what was originally called the Fondren Ranch Management District. [6] In June 2005 the 79th Texas Legislature created the Brays Oaks Management District in the area. [7]
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