LEADER LISTING The Leader • Saturday, December 28, 2019 • Page 1B
Boulevard Realty celebrates another banner year in both sales and social responsibility By Boulevard Realty
Contributed photo Boulevard Realty broker and owner Bill Baldwin commissioned a mural highlighting Houston neighborhoods from a local artist for the co-working space housed in the firm’s office at 927 Studewood St.
Jellyfish Sushi opens at Ella Plaza Jellyfish Sushi & Grill replaces Flying Pho at 3434 Ella Blvd. Classic and specialty rolls as well as salads, hibachi entries and noodles and rice are on the menu. Dine in and take out is available. Early reviews of the restaurant have been positive. New tenant at Heights Mercantile Outdoor Voices, an Austin-based active wear brand, opened in Heights Mercantile at 645 Heights Blvd. It is the first location for the store in Houston with 10 other shops in the country, including locations in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
Contributed photo Aztec/Shaffer, LLC, renewed its lease at 601 W. 6th St.
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Bryan Clary and Zack Hiller were college roommates who wanted to find a way to work together. The answer as Clary announced on Facebook recently is William Price Distilling, which will occupy space at 970 Wakefield Dr., the former site of an engine repair company. “We’re taking over the lease in February,” Clary said. Clary said he and Hiller have received their Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Their federal permit from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is being processed. Clary said there will be significant renovation of the building, with the addition of a cocktail lounge and a tasting room. The cocktail lounge will two stories to show off the 20-foot stills from Scotland that will be added. “Our goal is to make a flagship bourbon and we’ll sell our souls to get there,” Clary said. They also will make gin and vodka, sourcing rum, rye and some bourbon from Kentucky.
“Our success with over $240 million in sales and hundreds more home sales under our belts over this past year, the lion’s share being in the Heights, is something that fills us with immense pride and gratitude, but it is the fact that those numbers allow us to pay it forward that makes us all even prouder and more grateful” proclaims Baldwin, adding, ”To us, it is all in a day’s work, and we will continue that work throughout 2020 and for many years to come.”
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ed in 2006 to create opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to achieve their potential, as well as the FestEve! Night for the Arts benefiting the Community Artists Collective, an organization that has been fostering artists and promoting art in Third Ward for over 30 years, which Baldwin also co-chaired. Meanwhile, the Houston Relief Hub, initially formed by Baldwin and volunteers after Hurricane Harvey, was revived intermittently throughout the year to provide donations and support for Furloughed Federal Workers affected by the 2018-2019 Partial Government Shutdown, Hurricane Barry, and Tropical Storm Imelda.
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embarked upon his own run for City Council in a heavily crowded race. In addition to those endeavors, Baldwin co-chaired a fundraising event for the Houston Aphasia Recovery Center with his partner Fady Armanious, was appointed an inaugural Board Member for the Freedmen’s Town Conservancy, and shepherded both the expansion of Market-Based Parking through City Council and the Walkable Places Framework through the City’s Planning Commission. While its niche is as a hub and incubator for community engagement, the company also engages in traditional corporate social responsibility, sponsoring the H.E.A.R.T. Luncheon to raise funds for the program found-
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borhoods, which has been strategic for Baldwin. “We want to see all of Houston’s neighborhoods both thrive and maintain their unique character, so we consciously promote the same level of civic engagement that we have in the Heights to other neighborhoods,” explains Baldwin, adding, “Education and empowerment are really how we want to measure our impact and success as an organization.” For his part, Baldwin has steadfastly added to his track record of philanthropy and neighborhood advocacy throughout the year, even as he has delivered weekly free educational courses for Realtors, political candidates, and neighborhood groups and
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With continued year-over-year growth and a now firmly established Studedwood headquarters that has become as familiar to the community as its founding location on Heights Boulevard, Boulevard Realty ends 2019 celebrating the ongoing success of a model that puts long-term investment in the community first. According to the firm’s broker/owner Bill Baldwin, that is the true role of the Realtor and real estate brokerage today. “When you live in a highly desirable neighborhood like a Heights, Timbergrove, Garden Oaks, or Oak Forest, it can get tiresome that the real estate industry often treats our neighborhoods as if it’s only increased home sales that puts you on the map,” expresses Baldwin. “The reality is that decades of work in community strengthening and preservation goes into the anatomy of what we consider a ‘great neighborhood,’ and we see it as our duty to be a part of those efforts in addition to and as an extension of our duty to represent home buyers and sellers here with the utmost skill and experience.” In 2019, that is precisely the sort of work Baldwin and his team of 60 agents continued to do in their homebase of the Heights and beyond. The real estate veteran sees this neighborhood focus as key to both their past and long-term success. Locally, the firm continues to support the neighborhood associations that it believes still maintain the fabric of the historic communities where it does business. Boulevard is the longest sustaining Platinum Sponsor of the Houston Heights Association and recently came on board once again as a Gold Sponsor of the Lights in the Heights, organized by the Woodland Heights Civic Association. The reach of the company’s advocacy today, however, extends far beyond the Heights into other neigh-
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Contributed logo William Price Distilling will make spirits on Wakefield Drive.
Outdoor Voices was founded in 2013 by CEO Tyler Haney. It designs and sells women’s and men’s athletic apparel. Aztec/Shaffer signs new leases, including on West 6th According to a news release from Colliers International, Aztec/Shaffer, LLC, which is comprised of Aztec Events & Tents and Shaffer Sports & Events, renewed and signed new leases totaling 250,697 square feet in Houston. Aztec Events & Tents renewed its 125,697 square foot Houston lease with its landlord at 601 W. 6th St. In addition, Shaffer Sports & Events has relocated its warehouse business from
Birmingham, Alabama, to Houston and into a renovated multi-tenant, 125,000 square foot location at 10901 Tanner Rd. Aztec Events & Tents is a party rental and tenting company with a 30-year history in Houston, providing services for events such as the Super Bowl and NCAA Final Four as well as the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. “Our organization’s consolidation of our two key divisions will enable our company to serve our national clients more efficiently and being located in the same marketplace will allow us to leverage our resources,” said A. Kelly Williams, managing director of Aztec/Shaffer.
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Contributed photo A student from St. Pius X High School poses with students from St. Rose of Lima Catholic School.
St. Pius X hosts St. Rose students for reading event From Staff Reports High school students from St. Pius X read books to elementary students from St. Rose of Lima Catholic School earlier this month as part of the schools’ first Holiday Book Soiree. Fifty youngsters from St. Rose of Lima visted the library at St. Pius X, where first graders competed to see who could best decorate
sweater name tags. The elementary students also played holiday bingo with STEM prizes and watched “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” while eating their sack lunches. Eighteen St. Pius X students read to the kids from St. Rose of Lima. The high school at 811 W. Donovan St. also donated 85 books to the students and faculty at St. Rose of Lima, located at 3600 Brinkman St. in Garden Oaks.
Contributed photo American Legion Post 560 in Garden Oaks recently donated toys for the Blue Santa drive.
American Legion Post 560 contributes to Blue Santa drive From Staff Reports American Legion Post 560 in Garden Oaks, with help from the surrounding community, helped to make the holidays more enjoyable for children in need.
The local post collected more than 100 toys for the Houston Police Department’s annual Blue Santa drive as well as $100 in cash donations that were used to purchase gift cards to two fast-food restaurants. The donations were
collected last week by officers from HPD’s North Division. “Many thanks to everyone who stepped up to help make this holiday brighter for those who need it most,” Post Commander Tony Moreno said.
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Tips for deterring visits from feral cats Dear Tabby, We have lots of neighborhood strays who frequent our yard. While I like the fact that they help control the rodent population, I’m not keen on them being in my yard all of the time. Any advice on how to make our yard less hospitable for the neighborhood strays? Unhappy Hosts in the Heights
lavender and lemon balm all around your yard to discourage the cats from visiting. Cats do not like the scent of these herbs. You can also spray diluted lemon juice around the yard to further deter the cats. 3. Lock the lids on the garbage: If a cat can get into your delicious garbage, they’ll keep coming back for more. Attach bungee cords to the lid to make your cans impenetrable to cats and other creatures of the night. 4. Inquire about a trap/
Dear Unhappy Hosts, You’ve got a very common problem on your hands, unfortunately. According to Citizens for Animal Protection, feral cats are the largest cause of pet overpopulation in Houston. Thousands of feral cats are born into homelessness every year, often right in our own neighborhoods. Left unattended, feral cat colonies can grow out of control. We’ll discuss ways to help control the feral cat population in a bit, but first, here are a few tips from the website Realtor.com on how to keep stray cats from frequenting your yard: 1. Cover the sandbox: Keep a lid on your kid’s sandbox to discourage cats from using it as their personal toilet. Also, the lid will protect the sandbox from rain, leaves and other things that can cause the sand to get dirtier more quickly. 2. Plant fragrant herbs: Plant herbs like rosemary,
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neuter program in your neighborhood. Citizens for Animal Protection (CAP) has an active Trap-NeuterReturn (TNR) program and can help you tackle your cat problem. According to CAP, TNR is the most humane and effective strategy for reducing the feral cat population. It has been proven that trapping and euthanizing feral cats only contributes to the population problem. Cats are territorial and when cats are removed and euthanized from a location, new cats will
move in and the survivors will breed to capacity. This well-documented phenomenon is called the vacuum effect. TNR stops the problem because it stops the breeding and the colony will gradually diminish over time. To learn more about CAP’s Trap-Neuter-Return program, visit its website at www.cap4pets. org.
St. Rose groundbreaking Leaders of St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Garden Oaks held a groundbreaking ceremony earlier this month to commemorate the start of construction of a new education building. The upcoming building will be two stories and measure 36,000 square feet. The St. Rose of Lima campus is located at 3600 Brinkman St.
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George P. Bush teaches Texas history at Highland Heights By Betsy Denson betsy@theleadernews.com
Kimberly Day’s fourthgrade class figured out quickly that it was looking at a really old map of Texas. For one, it didn’t have the shape of modern-day Texas. The students noticed the names of various colonies as well as the fact that what is now southern Texas was then part of Mexico. And they were also up to speed on who brought the maps to their classroom recently - Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush. Bush wrapped up a 50-school statewide education tour earlier his month at Houston ISD’s Highland Heights Elementary School and Lanier Middle School. In addition to the reproductions of one of Stephen F. Austin’s original maps from the Texas General Land Office, Bush also brought a cannonball fired at the Battle of the Alamo which students got to hold – albeit with white gloves. Karina Erickson, a spokesperson for the Texas General Land Office, said that each year the commissioner has a theme he organizes his time around. One year, the theme was veterans. Another, it was coastal concerns as related to hurricane recovery. For education, Bush said he wanted to visit a variety of schools. During his tour he went to public, charter, homeschool, private, rural, urban, and suburban schools. “As a former educator and one of the largest financiers of public education in the state, I felt it was important to get an inside look at what our students are doing in the classroom, lend a helping hand and speak with administrators and teachers,” Bush said in a news release. Bush taught in a public high school in Florida before attending law school at the University of Texas.
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In Day’s classroom at Highland Heights, Bush, along with principal John Flowers and other administrators, led the students on an examination of the 1830s map. He explained the meaning of a primary source, like a map, and asked each table to come up with observations about it. Group discussion centered on all the data about the topography of the area as well as information about where wild cattle and horses were abundant. In a time even before the railroads, cars and certainly Google, students saw the value in a map like this for potential settlers. Then and now, with 1,000 people moving to Texas daily, Bush made the point that the state has long been a draw for newcomers. “The map was made for the Mexican government,” Bush said. “But it was also made for people in the United States, too – in Philadelphia and New York.” Bush told the students the Texas General Land Office Archives and Records had thousands of digitized maps they could access from their classroom if they wanted to learn more. When it came time to hold
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