Thursday, Rice University and the City of Houston — along with a whole host of community partners ranging from Station Houston to University of Houston — announced that the old Sears building in Midtown will be transformed into the anchor of Houston's new innovation district.
The Sears building — owned by Rice — is a 75-year-old Art Deco masterpiece buried under the rubble of several lousy renovations, some of which were designed to barricade the building from the urban neighborhood around it.
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