Editor’s Note: This is the third column in a three-part series reporting on problems with bar and club activity in Houston’s neighborhoods. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
More than 20 years ago, Stacie and Mark Fairchild met in a Midtown bar and started their lives together in the Rice Military neighborhood off Washington Avenue near Memorial Drive.
It was an enticing community with a mix of residential and commercial real estate. There were only a handful of bars and clubs in the area then. Occasionally, things got a little noisy and rowdy. That was about it…