THE CHRONICLE’S PRIME PROPERTY BLOG had an interesting post just before Valentine’s Day on the Fannin Street “flower district,” long one of Houston’s cheapest places to pick up fresh flowers. Mike Snyder reports that where there were once a dozen or so shops, the number has dwindled to less than half a dozen (sadly, my favorite place to buy roses closed a couple of years ago).
Interestingly, some years back, cheerleaders for the Main Street light rail line promised all sorts of wonders for the coming Main Street Houtopia, including an enlarged flower market as centerpiece of the Fannin “flower district” (see Snyder’s original coverage of the cheerleading here).
As noted in the blog post, the “vision remains unfulfilled.”
