- Westchase District’s Transformation from Suburban Outlier to Business Mecca [Houston Business Journal ($)]
- Austin’s CapRidge Partners Buying 12012 Wickchester Office Bldg. in Energy Corridor [Prime Property]
- $5.3M Renovations Begin on Sunset Coffee Building at Allen’s Landing [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
- Skanska’s Capitol Tower Downtown First Houston Development To Get LEED v4 Platinum Pre-Certification [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- Parade of Second Ward Rowhouses Rolls Down Commerce St. [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
- Max’s Wine Dive Set To Open Fairview Location on Jan. 28 [Food Chronicles]
- Spring Water Park SplashTown Getting Revamped Look, Name [Culturemap]
- New Houston-Area Storage Units Include Manager Apartments Amidst the Boxes [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Houston-Galveston Area Council Wants Public Input on Woodlands Transit Plan [KUHF]
- Light Rail’s First Decade Featured More than 400 Collision ‘Incidents‘ [BlogHouston]
- Car Crashes into Kiddie Train at Hermann Park [KHOU]
- Project Row Houses Fights To Keep Third Ward Culture Alive as Gentrification Looms [Houston Chronicle ($)]
Photo of Paris Theater, 4010 Old Spanish Trail: David Hollas
Headlines
If Grand Texas Theme Park is going to open in the spring of 2015, they better get cracking.
The appropriate headline for the second to last story would be “Kiddie Train Crashes into Car at Hermann Park”. Regardless of who is at fault in the accident, the train clearly hit the car in the side, not the other way around. +1 for melodrama. -1 for journalistic integrity.
I know many Swamplot readers have seen this before, but in honor of todays double dose of train crash stories, here’s a link to the Greatest Hits montage from Metro onboard cameras:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2rdGX4JYc
P.S. How adorable is it that the kiddie train is trying to be like big brother? Although, the imitation goes the other way when it comes to passengers; a lot of my fellow Metro riders are prone to childish outbursts, are unable to bathe themselves, and have negligible bladder control.
Kind of a random picture–do any of these headlines have anything to do with the Paris Theater?