LOCAL Houston | The City Guide October 2016 | Page 40

WHERE ARE

THEY NOW

Ed Wulfe

By Carla Valencia de Martinéz

LOCAL has been publishing for over 18 years and we have the archives to show it.
With this column we continue to reach back into our old issues to see “Where are they now?”
OCTOBER 2016

Photography by Gittings

Photography by Phoebe Rourke-Ghabriel

FEBRUARY 2006

VOLUME 8 | ISSUE 86 | FEBRUARY 2006
BUSINESS AS USUAL
IN FEBRUARY 2006, CURRENT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF TIM
MOLONEY (THEN A CONTRIBUTING WRITER) DESCRIBED ED
WULFE AS “THE MAESTRO OF MEYERLAND, THE GURU OF
GULFGATE AND THE PRINCE OF THE PAVILION.” THE
INNOVATIVE DEVELOPER AND POWER BROKER WAS
PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE PAVILION, WHICH IS NOW GONE,
AND THE DEVELOPMENT HE WAS INTERVIEWED ABOUT – ITS
REPLACEMENT, BLVD PLACE – IS A VIBRANT AND BUSTLING
REALITY. WE DECIDED TO CATCH UP WITH WULFE AND FIND
OUT WHAT HE’S BEEN UP TO DURING THE PAST DECADE.

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In 2006, when we interviewed you for our cover, BLVD Place hadn’t
even broken ground. Fast forward ten years later – is it everything you
imagined it would be?
Not quite, but it is well on its way. When we started, we believed this
property was strategically located at the epicenter of Houston and
primed for new state-of-the-art activity and development to raise the bar
and take us into the 21st century. We envisioned a new and major
urbanization effort since not much had happened in the District over the
last 20–25 years. With BLVD Place we felt that we needed to be a catalyst to encourage and stimulate further development of the area, and
that has happened big time. Thousands of high rise apartments have
been built, hundreds and hundreds of condos have been constructed,
major Class A office buildings have taken shape; and we built BLVD
Place, a mixed-use development anchored by Whole Foods and Frost
Bank featuring seven new restaurant concepts in the very heart of it at
Post Oak Boulevard and San Felipe.