HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The quaint storefronts of Rice Village will quickly stand shoulder with a brand new high-rise, and companies say it is already inflicting issues.
The Chaucer, which is about to deal with 32 multi-million-dollar condos, is being constructed on a 17,500-square-foot plot of land on Rice Boulevard.
Final month, David Gibbs Associates, which owns the Village Sq. purchasing middle subsequent door, filed a lawsuit towards the developer, the Randall Davis Firm.
The swimsuit claims building crews broken an indication, destroyed a part of the concrete car parking zone, and erected a fence one foot past the property line.
Village Sq. tenants like British Isles proprietor Man Streatfeild level out that the brand new fence encroaches on an already slender driveway.
“It feels like a small quantity of property, but it surely’s truly fairly vital,” Streatfeild mentioned.
Different enterprise homeowners Eyewitness Information spoke with complained concerning the closed sidewalk alongside Rice Boulevard and a closed lane of visitors.
“It appears so ludicrous {that a} 20,000, lower than 20,000 sq. foot plot, might home a 12-story condominium,” Streatfeild mentioned.
David Gibbs Associates declined to touch upon the lawsuit.
Neither the Randall Davis Firm nor Leach Constructors responded to requests for remark, however in a courtroom submitting, Randall Davis mentioned it denied all allegations specified by the lawsuit.
Nonetheless, courtroom data present that final week, Randall Davis agreed to a brief injunction barring the corporate from encroaching on David Gibbs’ property.
Building continues on the high-rise itself, which Streatfeild labelled a “pretentious abomination.”
“I relatively want that JK Rowling might carry Harry Potter alongside and wave his magic wand, and the entire thing would disappear,” he mentioned.
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