{"id":40857,"date":"2025-11-08T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40857\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:26:22","slug":"former-houstons-restaurant-sold-to-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40857\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Houston\u2019s Restaurant sold to developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2024\/12\/06\/customers-stunned-after-houstons-restaurant-east-memphis-closes-suddenly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2024\/12\/06\/customers-stunned-after-houstons-restaurant-east-memphis-closes-suddenly\/\">former Houston\u2019s Restaurant<\/a> in East Memphis was sold to a new owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston\u2019s Restaurant at 5000 Poplar Avenue in East Memphis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2024\/12\/05\/houstons-permanently-closing-restaurant-announces\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2024\/12\/05\/houstons-permanently-closing-restaurant-announces\/\" target=\"_blank\">closed suddenly and permanently<\/a> in December of 2024 and has been vacant since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Owners in part cited crime in Memphis as their reason for leaving, stating \u201cthe operating environment in the vicinity has become increasingly difficult over the years, both with respect to staffing and public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The property was sold on October 31 for $2.1 million to an entity known as 5000 Poplar, LLC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s unclear what the new owner plans to do with the property. Action News 5 will keep you updated once those plans are revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; The former Houston\u2019s Restaurant in East Memphis was sold to a new owner. Houston\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24962,254,12506,24961,24957,24960,56,58,57,24966,24955,11721,24954,24959,24958,24963,24968,4375,24967,24964,24965,24956,24951,24953,24952],"class_list":["post-40857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bartlett","tag-breaking-news","tag-closed","tag-collierville","tag-east-arkansas","tag-germantown","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houstons-restaurant","tag-i-40","tag-memphis","tag-mid-south","tag-missouri-boothill","tag-north-mississippi","tag-olive-branch","tag-owner","tag-severe-weather","tag-sold","tag-southaven","tag-west-memphis","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wmc-action-news-5","tag-wmc5","tag-wmctv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}