The sounds of silence are not always what they’re hyped to be. The hammers and saws have stopped at our newly remodeled home, and we’re moving out of Hotel Granduca, my residence for four months, and into the valet-less, housekeeping-challenged new house. No more room service, no ever-ready bar and piano player downstairs. (There is a bar in the house, but it’s not impeccably stocked. Where’s that seltzer when you need it?) So, ready or not, the dapper green moving trucks from Crowded House Services are on their way.
In a bigger move than mine, Mickey Rosmarin moves Tootsies down the street from Highland Village Shopping Center to the spanking new West Ave, corner of Westheimer and Kirby. I wish I were moving into 34,000 square feet and had all those clothes in my closet! Rosmarin and the powers at Gensler have been huddling 24/7 over plans for the delicious new design. Their move is scheduled for first of January 2011; until then, the HV store is open, brimming and bustling.
Still on the subject of momentum … I’ve just come out of a meeting with a dynamite Galveston-focused group: Dancie Ware and Marta Fredricks from Dancie Perugini Ware Public Relations (Ware lives in and is heavily involved in all things Galveston); Armin Cantini, VP of the Galveston Arts Center; Alexandra Irvine, exec director of the Galveston Arts Center; and Steph McDougal with McDoux Preservation. These phoenixes are saving Galveston’s historical buildings from the ashes right and left. Of course, Galveston has a beach and Schlitterbahn, but the gravitas — the strength of the city — lies in its historical architecture and arts. And that is exactly where our special Galveston section in PaperCity in May will focus.
Image credit: Fulton Davenport, pwlstudio.com