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Houston’s historic Kirby Mansion demolished to make way for convenience store
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:05 pm
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Preservationists in Houston are up in arms after a historic mansion dating back to 1894 was demolished to erect a convenience store.
On Friday, demolition on Kirby Mansion began but was quickly halted by Houston Public Works after it was discovered that a demolition permit had been applied for but not approved.
Dozens of locals held a candlelight vigil on Sunday to protest the demolition, but the permit was approved over the weekend. Demolition resumed and was completed on Monday morning.
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/houston-kirby-mansion-demolition-brake-time-convenience/
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Over its 132-year history, the mansion hosted presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and George H.W. Bush, as well as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
This past September, OB Texas Properties LLC, a company owned by Omair Bashir, purchased the property for more than $9.3 million. Bashir and his brother, Usman, are the owners of Brake Time Corner Market, a fast-growing convenience store and gas station chain.
In September 2025, Brake Time announced it would be opening 35 new convenience stores across Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, and Kansas through the end of 2026, with three planned for Houston.
This past June, OB Texas Properties filed a plan for a 13,254-square-foot, one-story commercial building at an address within the mansion’s property boundaries. The filings included a hemp registration—indicating consumable hemp products would also be sold at the location.
Didn't even take the books out of the library
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:08 pm to Shexter
frick those people. Why are Earth was this not an historically designated thus protected building?
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:08 pm to Shexter
It is sad how little preservation is valued here, and I’ve lived here a long time. Doesn’t need to be full on NIMBYism or anything but it would be nice to keep some history around from the area
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:15 pm to Shexter
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Dozens of locals held a candlelight vigil on Sunday to protest the demolition, but the permit was approved over the weekend. Demolition resumed and was completed on Monday morning.
Shame on that Board.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:16 pm to Shexter
Locusts
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:17 pm to Shexter
If you want to preserve it buy it yourself
Not your property
Not your property
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:19 pm to udtiger
Pakistanis just throwing our history in the garbage.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:19 pm to Shexter
we must eliminate the remnants of our white past to make space for the opportunities of our brown present.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:20 pm to Shexter
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Didn't even take the books out of the library
Damn.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:24 pm to Shexter
Damn shame. They better have good security once the gas station is built. That area is thick with homeless and drug addicts. Can’t see how they will make money as a gas station at that location. There’s a chevron two blocks up.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:26 pm to Shexter
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but the permit was approved over the weekend.
Bureaucrats in Houston working on the weekend?
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:27 pm to Shexter
Oh thank god, we’re finally getting a middle eastern owned gas station that sells vapes.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:29 pm to Shexter
I work with the new American c-store and vape store owners with my job.
Not a fan.
Not a fan.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:29 pm to Shexter
Never heard of it. Doesn’t really affect me.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:30 pm to Shexter
Put this man to work!
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:31 pm to Shexter
Over its 132-year history, the mansion hosted presidents... George H.W. Bush,....
----tear it down
----tear it down
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:32 pm to biglego
they tore down Kay's Lounge to put in condos. they closed down the village Half-Priced Books to put in what appears to be a chocolate bar (?) and some other generic retail space. that entire part of the city used to be pretty fun and unique, now it's just generic shlock.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:32 pm to Shexter
Moar gas stations is just what we need in Houston.
My understanding is a pause was put on issuing permits for new gas stations?
We already have too many gas stations inside the Loop.
My understanding is a pause was put on issuing permits for new gas stations?
We already have too many gas stations inside the Loop.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:34 pm to jclem11
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We already have too many gas stations inside the Loop.
And half of them are already owned by Arabs and smell
Like arse
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:34 pm to jclem11
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Moar gas stations is just what we need in Houston.
My understanding is a pause was put on issuing permits for new gas stations?
We already have too many gas stations inside the Loop.
It's so much more than a gas station, it also sells weed products.
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