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Grace Community Church and the Giant Crosses on I-45
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=dkUjSpRr93Q 400 330] The two “Marking Our City” billboards near Grace Community Church‘s north and south I-45 locations depict a plain white cross, an American flag,...
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Sagemont Cross: New Higher Power Lines Beltway 8
What’s this? A new clean, modern design for the high-voltage power line structures along the Sam Houston Tollway, just west of I-45 South? Naah — it’s Sagemont Church’s new 170-ft.-tall steel cross,...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Home of the 150-Ft. Buddha
“I don’t think there would be outrage over a Buddha. Everybody would think it was ‘cute’ and look for the adjacent Chinese restaurant.” [EMME, commenting on Sagemont Cross: New Higher Power Lines...
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La Maison in Midtown: The Power of a Good Night’s Sleep
There’s a new $2 million bed and breakfast going up in Midtown? The Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff reports that the project’s developers were “able to persuade a lender” to finance construction of their...
View ArticleComment of the Day: There’s Black Gold in Them Thar Church!
“I was involved 7 years ago to save the old church but it was a battle then. The people of Immanuel don’t know what they have. They want to demo the church so they can move on to phase three . . . of...
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Annunciation Orthodox Looks for More Parking Places in Montrose
Some neighbors of the Annunciation Orthodox School and cathedral in Montrose are not too happy about the institutions’ plans to build a parking lot on the site of an apartment complex at the corner of...
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Real Estate Works In Mysterious Ways: Houston Agrees To Sell Lakewood Church...
Houston’s City Council voted 13-2 yesterday to sell the former Compaq Center to the nation’s largest megachurch for a grand total of $7.5 million dollars. Sure, that’s considerably less than the $22.6...
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A House of Worship in the Domain of Saint Germain
Does the Saint Germain Foundation qualify as a church? That’s the story the listing agent sticks to in her description of the property for sale on the corner of Greenbriar and Portsmouth. As a...
View ArticleComment of the Day: At the Edge of Exemption
“Churches and private education getting a pass on property taxes is just wrong wrong wrong. it opens up too many loopholes. things become clouded, like when 2nd baptist buys the adjacent shopping...
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Unloading Galveston’s Bishop’s Palace
The Galveston-Houston Archdiocese has put up for sale the 1892 Bishop’s Palace, a.k.a. Gresham’s Castle, at 14th and Broadway. The price? $3 million. But the archdiocese isn’t going to let just anyone...
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Galveston Historical Foundation Closes On Bishop’s Palace
With the Moody Foundation’s $1.5 million donation as a nice starter, the Galveston Historical Foundation was able to raise the rest of the $3 million it needed to buy the 1892 Bishop’s Palace from the...
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