Happy New Year from Baytown!
That beautiful flare glowing from atop ExxonMobil Chemical’s Olefins plant in Baytown last Thursday night wasn’t just a pretty New Year’s display for the city. It came with a couple of bonuses: two...
View ArticleDeer Park: What’s in that Water?
The water in Deer Park has been looking a little cloudy lately: As Aimee Carroll pours a glass of water at her home in Deer Park, she cringes at the thought of drinking it. She says the nine people...
View ArticleOpenings and Closings: Lost Outpost of the Space Cowboys
A quick roundup: Closing in January: NASA hangout the Outpost Tavern, an army barracks building turned spacesuit-and-bikini-festooned party site, down NASA Rd. 1 from the Johnson Space Center at 18113...
View ArticlePicking Up Cash for the Chemical Spew
How did Harris County government swing half a million dollars in cash from Shell Chemical? The company is turning over that amount as part of a settlement covering 5 unreported chemical releases...
View ArticleWhat Will Become of Deer Park Prairie?
The Bayou Land Conservancy is really pushing to raise $4 million in the next week or so in order to outbid a homebuilder on a 50-acre patch of prairie in Deer Park. The video above is part of what the...
View ArticleChunk of Change Delays Deer Park Prairie Deadline
Apparently, the owner of that would-be-sold-and-developed 53-acre patch of prairie in Deer Park has been persuaded to give the Bayou Land Conservancy 3 more weeks to come up with the rest of the money...
View ArticlePreserving the Deer Park Prairie with Sardonic Teevee Power
The mad dash to raise the $4 million to buy up 53 acres of the Deer Park Prairie and save it from development got an early $2 million boost from a minor Houston celebrity, long-time environmental...
View ArticlePreservationists Purchase Deer Park Prairie
No thanks to Stephen Colbert, but enough money has rolled in from more than 1,000 donations — including $2 million from Terry Hershey — for the Bayou Land Conservancy to buy up those 53 acres of...
View ArticleA Crisp, Seventies Irving Phillips Custom Contemporary in Deer Park, Air...
Crisp cutouts and angled volumes designed into a 1974 custom contemporary in Deer Park give light, air, and views multi-level pathways throughout the tilt-topped property. Architect Irving Phillips,...
View ArticleGiant Refinery Smoke Plume after Lightning Strike Nothing To Worry About,...
Yesterday’s entry in Houston’s recurring game of what’s-that-mysterious-black-cloud was brought to you by LyondellBasell’s Pasadena refinery at 12000 Lawndale St. (the same one that caught fire back...
View ArticleDeer Park Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Capsule
1308 E. Norwood St. [HAR] … Read More
View ArticleDeer Park City Hall Moves Next Door Tomorrow
Deer Park’s government officials are taking a long weekend in order to move out of their existing 2-story, brick city hall building on E. San Augustine St. and into the new, 5,000-sq.-ft. bigger one...
View ArticleDeer Park Home Listing Photo of the Day: Dead End
2214 Canterbury Ct. [HAR] … Read More
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