{"id":6176,"date":"2012-07-10T00:56:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T05:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2012-07-10T01:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:00:22","slug":"houstons-low-country-grill-3800-north-main-street-2-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6176","title":{"rendered":"Houston's Low Country Grill, 3800 North Main Street: 2 July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080447.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080447_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080447_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080447_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080448.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080448_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080448_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080448_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080449.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080449_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080449_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080449_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080450.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080450_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080450_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080450_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080451.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080451_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080451_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080451_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080452_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080452_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080452_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080453.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080453_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080453_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080453_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080454.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080454_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080454_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080454_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080458.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080458_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080458_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080458_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080459.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080459_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080459_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080459_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080460.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080460_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080460_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080460_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080461.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/07\/p1080461_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080461_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080461_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, we've been talking about this today in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4935#comment-1021060\">Have Your Say<\/a>, but let's make it \"official\": <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wltx.com\/news\/story.aspx?storyid=193152\">Houston's Low Country Grill on North Main closed on 2 July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That makes it the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4110\">second restaurant that I know of in North Main plaza to close<\/a>.  Restaurants close all the time, this site is full of them, and while it is always a shame when somebody's venture fails and people are out of work, that is just the way things sometimes work out in the normal course of events: People get new jobs, maybe the owners try again later with more success.  What makes this closing a bit different is that as I understand it, the city used tax dollars to build <i>North Main Plaza<\/i> and tax dollars to recruit and subsidize tenants.  There's certainly nothing wrong with a business taking the best deal it can find, but perhaps those tax dollars could have been better spent than in offering it.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Jimmy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we've been talking about this today in Have Your Say, but let's make it \"official\": Houston's Low Country Grill on North Main closed on 2 July. That makes it the second restaurant that I know of in North Main plaza to close. Restaurants close all the time, this site is full of them, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[241,20,923,240,3],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-eau-claire","tag-main-street","tag-north-main-plaza","tag-north-main-street","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}