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Property Details
| VINTAGE COMMERCIAL SPACE IN EAST SUNSET HEIGHTS (Houston) |
I bought this space a couple of years ago with the intention of dozing it to build three nice Craftsman style houses on the corner lot but I got shanghaied by the City and my "neighbors" and the zoning got changed on the lot between the time I bought it and the time I applied for a replat. Doh! Shit happens.
The building was originally a commercial space of some kind--probably a corner / general store type set up. Some people have suggested that it might have been a post office but the location doesn't seem to support that theory. It's too far off the beaten path to be a post office from that era.
Right now she's got quite a roof leak that is gonna have to be addressed. And I've gutted out a lot of the interior since I was going to renovate the building when I first bought it and I was doing some exploratory surgery to see how bad the structure & mechanical systems of the building were.
When I purchased the property in 2005 it was a functioning duplex. If I restore the building I'll probably add a story to the main structure and build a 3-car garage with a 900 s.f. apartment above it--which I can do without going through the variance process again. (Though I always enjoy that game of charades.)
Right now I've got my hands full with other projects so I'm just letting it sit. Demolition is still on the table as well. I have several different plans for big, single-family houses that I've developed for that lot with my architectural collaborator, Albert Gamboa.
Another option would be to convert the space back to some kind of commercial use--perhaps use it as my main office... build a big, metal workshop out back... something like that.
Baylor St
Houston, TX 77009
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