- Crowe Holdings Industrial Will Turn Former Goya Foods Manufacturing Site at 5750 Brittmoore into an Office Park [Houston Business Journal]
- Big Brother Big Sisters Lone Star Will Build New 3-Story HQ at Washington Ave and Franklin Downtown [Houston Chronicle]
- River Oaks’ Briar Club To Begin Second Phase of $30M Renovation, Including New Pools, Clubhouse and Teen Cente Expansions [Houston Business Journal]
- Historic Helm-McDonough House in River Oaks, Designed by Louis Antonio Glover, on the Market for $1.9M [Culturemap]
- Food Trucks Now Allowed in Central Business District, Texas Medical Center After Mayor Propane Regulation Revised [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
- Churrascos Opening a New Location in the Champions Area on September 30 [Prime Property]
- Shepherd Dr. Restaurant Triniti Rumored To Be Rebranding Its Bar as ‘Sanctuari’Â [Culturemap]
- B-Cycle Wants 100 Stations and 1,000 Bikes in Houston by the End of 2017 [Click2Houston; previously on Swamplot]
- The Woodlands To Request Design Services for New Town Center Transportation Terminal, Will Purchase 25 New Buses for Express Service [Houston Chronicle]
- Galveston Looking To Make Adjustments To Its Bus System [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- The ‘Message’ Behind PARK(ing) Day in Houston [OffCite]
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Sugar Land Worried Wild Hogs Will Destroy Its Pumpkin Patch [Click2Houston]
Photo of Deer Park Refinery: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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I hope you can add this among your headlines:
http://www.chron.com/homes/article/Houston-s-20-most-expensive-neighborhoods-5781376.php
No mention of the MURDER in Gables West Ave early Sunday morning?
When a house in Houston is deemed “Historic” I start listening for the bulldozers. It seems to developers the term historic is an aphrodisiac, it seems to possess them to destroy. This RO home of course has no protections and it wouldn’t matter if it did, either way it would be leveled in a fortnight. Houston doesn’t really have passion for Preservation, like say SA or New Orleans and it’s reflected in its cavalier attitude toward efforts to protect structures or neighborhoods. You’d have thought Parker, living in Montrose, would have championed Preservation, well I thought she’d champion gay rights too, so she’s a disappointment all around.
Shannon- No fan of Parker’s but in all seriousness with no snarkiness intended, what more on a local level could she do for gay rights? She’s certainly never hidden her marriage, she’s pushed the controversial job discrimination ordinance and has denounced discrimination. Seems like she has done more in this arena than any of her predecessors. Now if you want to trash her for public works, police and preservation, let the games begin.
As a former Big Sister, I am happy to see that BBBS is expanding. It’s a great organization and always looking for Bigs. A few weeks back, I met up with my little who is now a teacher and a coach and making plans for Graduate School and I couldn’t be more happy for all her success.
JT, SA has an anti discrimination ordinance put forth by Mayor Julian Castro a full 2 years before Houston. How is it possible that a gay mayor of a city with a strong mayor government didn’t even consider doing this until she was 5 years into her term! It’s fucking inexcusable. It’s like Houston electing a black mayor and that person allows Jim Crow. She had been a very poor mayor. I liked Lanier and White and at least Brown knew he was an idiot and just stepped out of the way. Parker has been needlessly antagonist, she’s squandered her enormous power all while being mayor during a boom. I’m ready for her to exit stage left.
I’d pick up that RO old POS for land value of about $1.5 mil, throw a couple of mil at it for new construction and sell it for right under $5 mil (numbers according to recent market conditions). And of course I would spend every single penny of the profits at Chick-Fil-A ;)
Shannon–Ok point noted.
Commonsense–Too funny!
JT-please don’t feed the trolls.
James, lighten up, dude, we’re not writing the Magna Carta here, it’s a fun blog.