Oak Forest: New West U or Mini Bellaire?
The Chronicle is out with its annual survey of area home prices. Sadly, this year’s online version doesn’t allow easy cost-per-square-foot comparisons, leaving Houstonians who like to build and buy...
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Yvonne Stern’s home on S. 3rd St. in Bellaire is now equipped with iron gates, floodlights, surveillance cameras, and bulletproof glass; there’s also an armored SUV currently being prepared for her...
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Feeder Farmers Market
Houston’s first freeway-side farmers market debuts this Friday at 3 pm in the parking lot of the HCC Southwest College’s West Loop campus. Appropriately enough, the market’s organizers at Urban Harvest...
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Real House, Remote Furnishings in Bellaire
Even the home staging is staged in this Bellaire listing. Vacant when shown locally, the home’s online profile features several fully furnished, clutter-free rooms. A virtual staging service enhanced...
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On Track with a Huge Hacienda in Bellaire
Yep. It’s pink, and a sun-baked shade at that. The adobe abode has Sante Fe styling in an age and area more prone to “Texas Tuscan.” Located in Bellaire’s Westmoreland Farms section, this 2000 home...
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Learn by Undoing
Bellaire City Council voted today to spend an extra $8,000 to allow Habitat for Humanity to practice “whole house recycling” and, in lieu of the usual one-fell-swoop, whiz-bang demolition,...
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Sitting Around a Stoned Ranch in Braeburn Country Club Estates
With its porch rockers, patios, and a heap of places to sit and kick back inside as well, this done-over 1948 home in Braeburn Country Club Estates seems to be hitting its 65th year with chillin’ in...
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Trash or Keep This School-Side Bellaire Cape
As brick and stucco construction of more recent vintage slowly transforms this Bellaire block near Condit Elementary School, an updated 1937 Cape Cod-style home — behind a winding front walkway and...
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San Jacinto Stone To Reopen at Wholesale Gardens in Bellaire
The new home of a new San Jacinto Stone is being set up here, behind the begonias and bamboo shoots at Wholesale Gardens in Bellaire. The stoneyard, dating to 1947, closed at 195 Yale St. at the end...
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Gym at Home: A Bellaire Spot for the Sporting Life
Neighboring homes to this 1955 Bellaire home, rejiggered in 2006, both sport swimming pools — including the one next door that HCAD shows as having the same owners. This relisted fitness-foremost...
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An Eighties Townhome Tucked Inside the Bellaire Border
Among the townhome clusters built off Newcastle back in the eighties is this full-of-shutters one with front-loading driveway on one of the development’s interior, double-ended cul-de-sacs. Zoned to...
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The Return of a Pioneering Turn-of-the-Century Solar Property in Bellaire
Some of the green that goes with this early player in energy-conscious home building in Bellaire could be the $200,000 price increase over its sale last July, when it went for $1.35 million. The ca....
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Park That Bus: Bernie’s To Open 3 Non-Mobile Locations
Justin Turner of the cheddar-colored, school-themed burger bus — a frequent visitor to the can-you-hear-me-above-the-generators Houston Food Park in East Downtown — tells Eater Houston that he’s...
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Spotted: Bernie’s Bellaire Triangle Burger Bus Depot Roll-In
Swamplot reader Dave spots the signs up for Bernie’s Burger Bus in the Bellaire Triangle, giving an actual address (5407 Bellaire Blvd., in the former Christian Community Service Center Sunshine...
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A Look at Lake Flato’s Designs for the Bellaire Park Replacing Teas Nursery
Architects of grocery stores, townhouses, and adaptively reused kayak rental places Lake Flato are now trying their hands at Houston park pavilions. These renderings appeared on the San Antonio firm’s...
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New Bernie’s Burger Bus Is Now Installed Inside the Latest Bernie’s Burger...
Where’s the bus in the new Bellaire location of Bernie’s Burger Bus? Parked inside, finally, after going in through the east-facing wall of the corner shopping-center storefront yesterday (as shown in...
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Bellaire Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Sitting Room
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