- Cousins Properties Closes on Greenway Plaza for $950M [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
- Houston on List of Nation’s Improving Housing Markets [Prime Property]
- Hotel, IAH Officials Want $40M Renovation of City-Owned Marriott [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- The Bolivar Peninsula, Five Years After Ike [KUHF]
- Rainy-Day Money Helped Seabrook Recuperate After Ike [The Bay Area Citizen]
- Harris and Fort Bend Counties Being Invaded by Aggressive Salt Marsh Mosquitoes [Houston Chronicle ($)]
Photo of Pasadena refineries: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Er, isn’t the airport hotel conspicuously absent from the IAH master plan? (See brochure at: http://www.fly2houston.com/hou-Master-Plan )
Sure, it’s going to be around for quite some time yet (it’s not going to be there in the “long term”), and you don’t want to get too far into “deferred maintenance”, but I wouldn’t go spending too much on that thing.