Central Market

Update: Ablon-Caven Gayborhood High-Rises, Central Market Changes, McKinney/Boll Residential High-Rise

By Jon Anderson / January 25, 2021 /

A new year deserves some updates to previously reported projects. Since the December Oak Lawn Committee (OLC) where Caven Enterprises with developer and former Mayoral candidate Mike Ablon presented their vision for their holdings on Cedar Springs Road, a few things have happened. Time for an update. Ablon and Caven Gayborhood Plan First, the project did…

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H-E-B Brings Mobile Kitchen to Preston Royal Shopping Center To Serve Community

By Joanna England / October 23, 2019 /

With the Central Market at Preston and Royal currently closed, the absence of healthy, no-prep meals is acutely felt in Preston Hollow. To remedy that, H-E-B has brought one of their disaster response fleet to the Preston Royal Shopping Center. The mobile kitchen arrived today and will be available to serve meals to first responders,…

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Read This: August Consumer Reports Tracks Appliance Reliability, Grocery Chains

By Jon Anderson / July 9, 2019 /

Consumer Reports is a magazine most of us don’t read often enough. Sure, when we need a new TV or car, we scour the library for back issues, but this is hit and miss. Last weekend, sipping a cool drink outdoors at a local watering hole, I needed armor, so I bought and brought the…

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OLC Vets Five Projects: New Lemmon Central Market Revealed, Lincoln Katy Trail Returns

By Jon Anderson / November 14, 2018 /

Tuesday night’s Oak Lawn Committee meeting was chockablock with five projects. The first peek will be of the proposed Central Market in the perennial unsuccessful supermarket location on McKinney between the Lemmon split. You may recall it as Albertsons or more recently Minyards. At first glance, this is pretty spanky and cool, but the devil…

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DCAD’s Free Pass on HEB’s Throckmorton Townhouses: Twists, Turns, a Loophole and a Democrat

By Jon Anderson / June 6, 2018 /

Beginning in 2014, Central Market parent HEB began snapping up parcels on the city block bounded by Lemmon and Bowser Avenues between Reagan and Throckmorton Streets. Their intent was to open a Central Market. That plan has been abandoned for what I last heard was a Central Market planned for the old Albertson’s location on…

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