Earlier this afternoon I saw a KTRK-TV Channel 13 truck doing some filming and I'm sure they had a segment.
It's nice to see the coverage. It really makes me sad. I strolled through the garden last night after dark for one last time and it's a shame to see so many budding plants that will likely go to waste. I began to cry. I'm starting to cry again just writing this. Damn, I must be getting old.
From the Houston Chronicle:
Midtown community mourns loss of garden sold in $1M real estate deal
A thriving community garden in the heart of Midtown has become a casualty of Houston's booming economy as real estate development forces out those who have enjoyed maintaining it for the past four years.
It's a bittersweet end to a project that began with a simple mutual agreement and by all accounts brought a neighborhood together.
The plot of private land where the the Midtown Community Garden lived was sold for $975,000 to developer Urban Living to make way for new town homes, according Heidi Dugan with Greenwood King Properties.
There doesn't seem to be any community anger about the development, but there is some sadness.
"It's business. They see this plot of land as one thing and we see it as something else," said Wing Tse, one of the directors of garden. He was there Thursday morning to pull up his plot.
Tse understands it's private land and the owner had every right to sell it, but he had high hopes for it to last longer. He said a lot of hard work went into the garden. There was a vision here.
Four years ago, the Midtown Community Garden board contacted the owner of the land through deed records and got permission plant there. The city provided a water meter and gardeners paid fees to help with costs. Dugan said the land owner was happy to have the land maintained and not become an overgrown vacant lot. It soon became a community attraction.
There is much more here.
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