The West Mansion is a 17,000 square-foot Italian Renaissance style home located in the center of a 35,000 acre ranch in Clear Lake. Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon Twitter: DR34M (formerly Akeem Olajuwon) (The Dream, Little Moses) Position: Center Shoots: Right 7-0, 255lb (213cm, 115kg) . “And Pasadena, where the mansion is, has no local protections at all.”Owner Hakeem Olajuwon, a basketball legend in Houston for his stints with the University of Houston and the Rockets, was unavailable for comment Friday.The mansion was built by taciturn, hat-and-boot-wearing owner James M. West Sr. It was said that shoppers arrived by helicopter.The Dr34m line, though, appears to be over. The 17,000-square foot mansion is the headquarters and showroom for the clothing line, which features leather goods for men and women, men's suiting and custom shirts and shoes. Near the lake, snakes abounded — not just on the institute’s land, but even inside its buildings. The sale included a deed restriction amendment requiring that the building be preserved for at least 20 years.In 2006, the Pappas family sold the mansion and land to Olajuwon Farms LLC, Olajuwon’s real estate company. It appears that the deed restriction had been forgotten: Olajuwon soon announced plans to level the mansion and subdivide its land for apartments. The West Mansion, a historic landmark in the Clear Lake area, is being demolished by its owner, Hakeem Olajuwon, former Rockets and UH basketball star.Photo: Leslie Plaza Johnson, Freelancer / ContributorIn 1987, the West Mansion served as NASA's Lunar and Planetary Institute.NASA's Lunar and Planetary Institute, formerly the Jim West mansion, 3303 NASA Rd. Olajuwon purchased the land in 2000. Eventually, worried that it would attract vandals, Humble donated the house and an enormous tract of land to Rice University, to be used as an earth-science research institute.But history had other plans. Hakeem Olajuwon may not be setting any new records on the Houston basketball court, but the Rocket-turned-Raptor continues to score in the local real estate market. Instead of becoming an earth-science institute, the West Mansion housed the new Lunar Science Institute (later renamed the Lunar Planetary Institute): a place where scientists from all over the world gathered to study NASA’s images and rocks ferried back from the moon.“I was just going through historic photos of the institute, from when we were in the mansion,” said Renee Dotson, who manages the Lunar Planetary Institute’s library and publications. Outside, there was an eight-car garage, a barn, tennis courts and a swimming pool.The house faced Clear Lake, but West didn’t like its salty water. ( Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle )Houston Rockets' legend Hakeem Olajuwon's up-scale clothing line, DR34M, at the West Mansion, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, in Clear Lake. The West Mansion — once the very image of Texas wealth, one of the biggest, grandest houses built in Texas in the 1920s and ’30s — began falling to a backhoe Thursday, stunning Clear Lake-area fans of history and architecture.Never mind that the mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Texas Historic Landmark.

Olajuwon played for 20 consecutive seasons in Houston, first collegiately for the University of Houston Cougars and then professionally with the Houston Rockets. The 17,000-square-foot home and 41 acres has been sold to Hakeem Olajuwon. Olajuwon splits his time between Jordan, where he mov… And once again, the area’s residents goggled at the scene outside the mansion. David Bush, then of the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance, figured that finding such a clause was a long shot, but he pulled the deed of sale, and there it was, requiring the house to be preserved until 2012.Olajuwon sold the property to a group that planned to preserve the house as the centerpiece of a senior-living development, but that group defaulted on its loans. The showroom was open by appointment only. The 17,000-square foot mansion is the headquarters and showroom for the clothing line, which features leather goods for men and women, men's suiting and custom shirts and shoes. Akeem Olajuwon Kearse, 34, faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Jason Becker, 33, according to the 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office. ( Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle )Houston Rockets' legend Hakeem Olajuwon's up-scale clothing line, DR34M, at the West Mansion, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, in Clear Lake.

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