For residents aching for a grocery store in their northeast Houston neighborhood, a long-vacant shopping center stands as a symbol of lost chances and unanswered questions.
City officials in late April ordered the property owner of 9929 Homestead Road, which once housed a Kmart, to either demolish or repair it within 90 days, because the city deemed the property unsafe. But that’s not the the first time a similar deadline was put down.
The city had issued a demolition order for the building in 2011, according to previous Chronicle reporting. In 2013, the Cohen Advertising Group sold the property under the condition the new owner would demolish or repair it…