Upswing at troubled Meyerland complex slow amid city, county lawsuit

Houston Chronicle · Tanya Babbar · 2026-11-02 20:07 UTC

Harris County Attorney Abbie Kamin said the city's 2025 lawsuit against the complex hasn't seen a lot of progress.

Six months ago, Alan Lipman and his wife came to their home in Meyerland to find a a bullet hole in their bathroom window and a bullet lodged in the wall.

Lipman called Houston police, who said the bullet’s trajectory indicated it had come from the nearby Life at Jackson Square. It's a sprawling apartment complex that's had a troubled history of shootings, fires, abandoned units and repeated trash problems. Two weeks ago, a firefighter was injured after a fire broke out at some empty units at the complex.

Lipman, who lived at the complex in the early 1980s when it was not mired in disrepair, had said he was ready to move out of his neighborhood but has since changed his mind.

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