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Biggio's is a sports bar and restaurant in Houston, Texas. [1] It has been described as the largest sports bar in Texas. [2] Created in partnership with Craig Biggio and the Houston Astros, as well as Marriott Marquis Houston, [3] [4] the bar has been described as MLB-owned by the Houston Press.
Braes Heights, located west of Buffalo Speedway, [13] consists of 13 sections, numbered 1 through 13. [14] Blocks 1 and 2 of Section 1 are in the City of Southside Place. [15] [16] As of 1995 Braes Heights has 896 houses. [17] Katherine Feser of the Houston Chronicle said that Braes Heights had "a broader range of properties" than Southern Oaks ...
Development in Old Braeswood in 1940 and 1941 made use of some architects new to the neighborhood including Wolf and Hoyt, Otto F. Woestemeyer, Theo G. Keller, G. Ancira, Irving R. Klein, Dixon and Greenwood, and Ben F. Greenwood. [13] Then, legal restrictions on non-essential construction during World War II brought a temporary halt to ...
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...
By the first half of the 20th century, suburbs of Houston had reached the banks of Brays Bayou. Rice University was established on a large plot of land adjacent to Harris Gully, a tributary of the bayou, in 1912, and the University of Houston was established just north of the bayou in the Third Ward in 1927. Harrisburg was annexed by the city ...
Spec's Wine, Spirits & Finer Foods, is a Texas family-owned liquor store chain, [1] with headquarters in Midtown, Houston. Vicki Vaughn of the San Antonio Express-News said that Spec's is "known for its sprawling stores". [2] It is the largest vendor of liquor in Greater Houston. [3]
Braeburn is a community of subdivisions in southwest Houston, Texas along Brays Bayou west of Hillcroft Avenue and south of the Sharpstown community. The first of these middle class subdivisions was developed after World War II at a time when the Richmond Farm-to-Market Road (later renamed as Bissonnet Street) provided the route into the city ...
Mary's, originally called Mary's, Naturally and sometimes referred to as Mary's Lounge, was an iconic gay bar located in the Montrose neighborhood in Houston, Texas, in the United States. [1] The bar opened in 1968, and by the time of its permanent closing in November 2009, it was the oldest gay bar in Houston and one of the oldest in Texas. [ 2 ]