- East Montgomery County Improvement District Now Talking with Developers About Building Grand Texas Theme Park Near New Caney Dinosaur Theme Park [Tomball Potpourri; previously on Swamplot]
- Investcorp and Griffin Partners Buy Pin Oak Park at Loop 610, Bellaire Blvd. for Undisclosed Amount [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Chuy’s Opening in Sugar Land’s Telfair Development Later This Year [Prime Property]
- Dickinson Partners Removing 56 Trees To Add 400 Single-Family Lots to Bayou Lakes Subdivision [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Galveston Home Sales Rose 9.1 Percent Last Year [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- 2 Years Behind Schedule, Project to Widen I-45 in Conroe Nearly Complete [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Flood-Risk Status of 20 Percent of Galveston Has Changed [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Texas Needs $19M Or Up to 20 State Parks Might Close [Star-Telegram]
- Menil Collection Given AIA’s 25-Year Award [Architect Magazine]
- Touring the ‘Really, Really Weird’ Bas-Reliefs of Rice University, Med Center, Hobby Airport [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Half the $70K Raised To Get David Adickes-Designed Bill Hicks Statue Near Old Comedy Workshop at Shepherd, San Felipe [KUHF]
- Houston One of the Times’ 46 Places to Go in 2013 [New York Times]
Photo: Candace Garcia via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Did the NYT note the irony of including Houston and then a bunch of places you should go before they’re “ruined” by minerals wealth?
I thought Texas had a huge surplus this year, how can they not have the money for the parks?
I have the same question, I thought we had a surplus, plus $19 mill doesnt sound like much for our states budget.
There are many other calls on the Texas ‘surplus’, not least of which is the Medicaid that was left unfunded so Perry could pose as a budget-balancer before the election. So that has to be paid. Also, K-12 education is in the courts trying to get their cuts restored, etc etc. Good luck with your parks!
Texas has a huge surplus, but Gov. Perry is going to squander it all on tax cuts instead of properly funding schools, parks etc.
Barf! Enough with the Texas pride already! While Houston needs a theme park, we don’t need a Texas themed theme park, when we already have the state for that. At this point, the Earthquest concept seemed original and more interesting.
It’s a numbers game. It could be a surplus or a deficit depending on how you want to spin it.