- Grand Pkwy. Expansion, Access to ExxonMobil’s New Campus Drive Sale of Pines Business Park [Houston Business Journal]
- 17K Houston-Area Multifamily Units Expected To Be Completed This Year [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- City of Manvel Expecting 10,000 New Homes Over Next 15-20 Years [abc13]
- Former Photobooth Space in Montrose Will Become First Inner Loop Location of  Local Pizza Chain Pepperoni’s [Culturemap]
- New Siphon Coffee on West Alabama Will Open in March, Serve Actual Siphon-Brewed Coffee [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- Marco’s Pizza Chain Expanding in Houston with 10 Locations Set To Open This Year [Houston Business Journal]
- Latest Cycling Hit-and-Run Fatality, on Harrisburg at 81st, Shows Houston Hasn’t Done Enough To Provide Safe Places To Ride, Say Advocates [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Rice Students’ Rack Prototype Would Allow Buses To Carry an Additional Bike [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Aerial Video Offers Views of Downtown, Battleship Texas, Fred Hartman Bridge, Industrial East Side, and More [HAIF]
- This 1856 Shot of the 300 Block of Main is the Oldest Known Photograph in Research Center Archive [Houstonia]
- Seven Developments That Could Only Exist in Houston [Next City]
Photo of the Houston Ship Channel: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Headlines
Is there an unspoken rule about blogs not posting a URL that will go to the story w/o having to be a paid subscriber?
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When I go to this link:
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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Multifamily-market-should-continue-to-thrive-in-5142570.php
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The story about the new apartments loads up just fine. Which makes me curious why we’d be directed to a different link from here.
The cyclist killed on Harrisburg…. well isn’t the rider at least partially responsible? It is known fact that it is dangerous to ride on the streets (laws or no laws). There’s a law that if a blind person raises his walking cane, the traffic has to stop on the street and yield to him, but if I was the blind guy I certainly wouldn’t raise and go for it.
Grand Parkway: The first (hopefully only) ring road that won’t have a big bridge over the Buffalo Bayou.
“”vehicular crimes” that could result in felony arrests”
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Nice victim blaming “commonsense”, so is it a LEGITIMATE felony?
Like all trolls you post from a place of great privilege and it shows in your sociopath rancor.
The only Felony Crime is that the driver fled, had he stayed, it would have been a simple ticket (an accident).
If I stick my head in an alligators mouth and the alligator chomps it off, am I a blameless victim?
For more old photos of Houston, check out the blog Design + Construction Management: http://www.designpluscm.com/2013/05/historic-preservation-in-houston.html?m=1