2008-08-20T18:13:10Z http://wpccblog.winlowplace.org/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blog tag:wpccblog.winlowplace.org,2008-06-02:1089823 Anonymous 2008-06-02T07:56:48Z 2008-06-02T07:56:48Z tag:wpccblog.winlowplace.org,2008-01-31:801919 Cyndy Bhattacharya 2008-01-31T09:21:08Z 2008-01-31T09:21:08Z tag:wpccblog.winlowplace.org,2007-04-08:314737 Vernon Durke http://winlowplace.org 2007-04-08T12:56:13Z 2007-04-08T12:56:13Z winlowplace.org
click on the link to membership forms and you can print out a form. Mailing istructions are included.

Vernon Durke]]> tag:wpccblog.winlowplace.org,2007-04-05:312567 Michael Suazo http://www.spiritans.org 2007-04-05T14:38:07Z 2007-04-05T14:38:07Z tag:wpccblog.winlowplace.org,2007-03-21:295768 Vernon Durke 2007-03-21T14:55:01Z 2007-03-21T14:55:01Z Not all people are going to agree on the size or style of homes and we are not going to stop new construction in Winlow Place, but we have strong deed restrictions. I know, I helped get them passed and I support them. They are available for anyone wanting to move into the neighborhood.
What will cause Winlow Place to fall on hard times is not what brick and mortar is built or torn down, but the destruction of relationships between neighbors and the unwillingness to reach out in fellowship and understand our neighbors point of view.
If we are willing to take that extra step and try to understand each others values and points of view, we can solve any problem.

Vernon Durke
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Jennifer Gonzalez-Reinhart, left, and Anastasia Pappas curl up with coffee and their work at Diedrich Coffee on Westheimer before the hangout closed last week. The details of what led to the lease not being renewed are not clear.
Carlos Antonio Rios: Chronicle
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Nov. 12, 2006, 2:03AM
Community hangout
Coffeehouse's 10-year run in same spot is over; tenant wanted to stay, but landlord has final say
Popular or not, the lease is up


By DAVID KAPLAN
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

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Resources For the past 10 years, Diedrich Coffee on Westheimer has had a huge following. Many of its regulars considered it the most beautiful and pleasing coffeehouse in Houston. The thriving business doubled as an unofficial neighborhood community center.

Last Sunday, it shut down.

Its lease was not renewed, and Diedrich owner Dirk Smith said he doesn't know why.

Smith said he was about to sign a new lease until landlord Bradford Schmalfuss, vice president of T-Con Properties, suddenly changed his mind with no explanation. Smith said he is perplexed because Schmalfuss once told him that Diedrich was the center's best tenant, although Schmalfuss denies ever saying that.

"It's our decision who our tenants are" and "what the community feels is irrelevant," Schmalfuss said.


A decade of popularity
Diedrich Coffee, located in the Winlow Westheimer District, has been a popular hangout for 10 years.

It served as an informal study hall for neighboring Lanier Middle School students and teachers, as well as undergraduate, medical and law school students from across the city.

Sometimes, however, the community's and the landlord's wishes are different.

The Upper Hand, a salon and spa next door, will expand into the soon-to-be-vacated Diedrich space.

A flier distributed by a Diedrich customer implied that the landlord and Upper Hand jointly forced out the coffeehouse, but the Upper Hand's owner said it isn't true.

"It makes us look like corporate moguls pushing Diedrich out," owner Rachel Gower said, but in fact, she and her husband, Brian Williard, learned that the space was becoming vacant after Schmalfuss decided not to renew Smith's lease, and only then did they get the idea to expand, she said.

T-Con's attorney, Alex Cosculluela, offered three reasons Diedrich's lease isn't being renewed:

•Getting rid of one tenant and having an existing tenant expand cuts a landlord's administrative costs. The fewer tenants a landlord has, the more efficient a center is to operate, he said.
•When Diedrich's corporate office announced in May that it didn't want to renew its lease, leaving franchise owner Smith responsible, it raised concerns, he said.
•During lease negotiations, Smith failed to provide the financial records Schmalfuss had been asking about for]]> tag:wpccblog.winlowplace.org,2006-11-11:170574 anonymous 2006-11-11T13:34:56Z 2006-11-11T13:34:56Z tag:wpccblog.winlowplace.org,2006-10-22:151228 Joe http://Winlowplace.org 2006-10-22T09:25:10Z 2006-10-22T09:25:10Z