Meredith Deliso

• BBVA Compass Stadium To Undergo Further Renovation, Seat Upgrades [HBJ ($)]
• Port of Galveston Had its Busiest Month Ever for Cruises in December [HBJ]
• Owner of Bar Next Door to 2520 Robinhood Condos Says He’s Sold Property to Highrise Developer, Leaves Taunting Messages on Roof and Parking Lot [PaperCity Magazine; more info]
• Inside HPD’s Harvey-Damaged Evidence Room [Click2Houston]
• Hurricane Harvey a Key Political Issue This Year in Houston [The Texas Tribune]
• A Harvey Tax Break Reminder from Sen. Cruz and Mayor Turner [Houston Chronicle]
• 27,000 Run in Chevron Houston Marathon in 30-Degree Weather [KHOU]
• Opinion: Houston’s Building Codes Limit City’s Growth [Houston Chronicle ($)]

Photo: thranth via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Eagle Energy Inc. To Move Out of Downtown Office [HBJ ($)]
• Super Bowl and World Series Boosted Airbnb Visitors to Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Willie G’s Seafood Opens at Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston [Click2Houston]
• Studies Show Benefits of Houston Light Rail on Property Values, Commercial Development [The Urban Edge]
• How Metro Falls Short of Its On-Time Goals for Bus and Rail Service [Houston Chronicle]
• Meyerland’s Los Tios Restaurant Reopens After Harvey Flooding [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston’s City Beautification Efforts Might Also Fight Future Flooding [Grist]
• 5 Harvey-Damaged Houston-Area Libraries Getting Grants from The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries [Houston Chronicle]
• Buffalo Bayou Partnership To Reconsider Master Plan Post-Harvey [Houston Public Media]
• 5 Questions Facing Houston in 2018 [The Urban Edge]
• Environmental Working Group: Texas Has the Most Contaminated Drinking Water in the Country [Houston Chronicle]
• All the Road Closures for Sunday’s Chevron Houston Marathon [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Sawyer Yards: Mark Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Real Estate Market Hit New High for Home Sales in 2017, Finds HAR [Houston Chronicle]
• JLL: Houston Retail Market Ended 2017 with Positive Net Absorption [HBJ ($)]
• Jackson Walker Law Firm Expands Footprint at 5 Houston Center [Realty News Report]
• Crossmark Global Investments Moving HQ to Skanska’s New West Memorial Place Campus in the Energy Corridor [Houston Chronicle]
• Dallas-Based Callbox Storage Expands to Houston [HBJ]
• Fourth Houston Snooze Location Opening Jan. 24 in the Heights [Culturemap]
• East Coast Chain B.GOOD Planning 10-Restaurant Franchise in Houston, Starting in Springwoods Village [QSR Magazine]
• What Should Houston’s Regional Transit Network Look Like in 2045? [The Urban Edge]
• Harvey-Damaged Johnny Steele Dog Park Could Reopen by Late Spring, Minus the Large Dog Pond [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• City Council Approves 15-Year Contract with FCC SA To Process Houston’s Recyclables [Houstonia]
• Why Many Houstonians May Be Unaware They Live in an Evacuation Zone [Houston Public Media]

Photo of 619 Bomar St.: Swamplot inbox

• Houston Expected To Lead Nation in New Home Sales This Year, Says CoreLogic [Realty News Report]
• Pontikes Development’s Massive Industrial Park Port 10 Logistics Center To Break Ground on Jan. 11 in Baytown [HBJ]
• Braun Enterprises Closes on Uptown Office Building 5757 Woodway, Plans Renovations [HBJ ($)]
• Harris County OKs Deal with Montgomery County To Seek State Funds for Flood Control Study [Houston Chronicle]
• Texas Churchs’ FEMA Relief Applications Will Be Considered Following Rule Change [Houston Chronicle]
• Slideshow: Renderings of Projects That Could Have Shaped Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• What Little It Takes To Create, and Then Delete, a Fake Restaurant on Google Maps [Dallas Observer]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou–White Oak Bayou Bike Connector: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Camden Property Trust’s Paused Downtown Houston Apartment Tower Receives Building Permits [HBJ]
• Amazon’s Warehouse Expansion Driving Up Industrial Land Prices [HBJ ($)]
• New York Investor Acquires Nearly 122,000 SF of Industrial Properties Near the Port of Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• FanReact Building New Esports Arena in Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille To Expand to Inside the Loop with River Oaks Shopping District Location [HBJ]
• New Orleans Hot Dog Chain Dat Dog Opening First Houston Location Near Rice University This Summer [Eater Houston]
• Harris County Commissioners Court Slated To Vote Today on Buyout of 39 Flood-Prone Homes [Houston Chronicle]
• How a Starbucks Near Brays Bayou Withstood Harvey Flooding [Texas Architect Magazine]
• Flooded Kingwood H-E-B Flooded To Reopen This Month [HBJ]
• Video: How Post-Harvey Pollution Hurt Houston’s Latino Communities [YouTube; more info on filmmaker]
• Independence Heights Included on Redfin List of Neighborhoods That ‘Have It All’ [Houston Chronicle]
• See How Houston ISD and Other Districts Segregate or Integrate Students Through School Zoning [Vox]

Photo of Mariott Marquis terrace and beyond: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• 10 Houston Developments Make John Burns’ List of Nation’s 50 Best-Selling Master-Planned Communities [HBJ]
• Lyric Market To Feature Up To 24 Tenants, Including Some from Clark Cooper Concepts [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Ruggles Green Replacement Bellagreen Coming to Webster [Houston Chronicle]
• North Carolina-Based Duck Donuts Opens First Texas Franchise at 3157 W. Holcombe [Houston Chronicle]
• King’s Bierhaus To Expand to League City This Spring [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Texas Can’t Get Congressional Funding To Build $12B, 60-Mile-Long Coastal Barrier [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Audio: How Thousands of Houston Homes Were Built Inside Reservoirs Designed To Flood [The Texas Tribune]
• Houston Thinks About Revising Temporary Home Ordinance So Harvey Victims Can Put Mobile Units in Front of Their Homes [abc13]
• Hurricane Harvey Victims Grappling With Their Mental Health Months After Disaster [AP]
• Houston Spotlighted on PBS Series Samantha Brown’s Places to Love [Culturemap]

Photo of Sam Houston Monument at Hermann Park: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• CoreLogic: Houston-Area Home Prices Are Overvalued [Houston Chronicle]
• Average Price for Industrial Parcel in Houston Up 14% from a Year Ago, Finds CBRE [Houston Chronicle]
• Two Riverway Building in the Galleria Area To Get Rebranded Comerica Bank [Houston Chronicle]
• Long-Awaited Luxury Tower Hanover River Oaks Underway in Upper Kirby [HBJ]
• Oregon Investor Acquires Stoneleigh on Spring Cypress Apartment Community in Spring [Realty News Report]
• Sears Store at West Oaks Mall To Shutter Amid Mass Closings [abc13]
• Texas Cities Have ‘Passing Grade’ When It Comes to Luring Amazon HQ2, Says CNBC [HBJ]
• Recent Bad Weather Halts I-45 Project Near Tiki Island [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• FEMA May Pay Texas Churches To Rebuild After Harvey [The Texas Tribune]
• How Harvey Hurt Houston, in 10 Maps [ProPublica]
• Christopher Columbus Statue in Museum District’s Bell Park Once Again Defaced [abc13]
• The Artist Painting NSFW Work on Montrose Trees [Houstonia]

Photo of Discovery Green: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• JLL: Sublease Deals Had Highest Share of Houston Leasing Activity on Record in 2017 [Houston Chronicle]
• 3.3M SF Worth of Warehouse Space Broke Ground in Fourth Quarter of 2017, Finds CBRE [Realty News Report]
• Kirby Collection Adds 3 More Retail Tenants [HBJ]
• New Montrose Restaurant Night Heron Under Construction in Former Lowbrow Space [Culturemap]
• Longtime Baytown Business C&D Grocery and Bakery Destroyed by Fire [Houston Chronicle]
• A Breakdown of Each Metro Board Member’s Bus and Light Rail Use [Houston Chronicle]
• Texas Likely To Get $209M in Volkswagen Emissions Settlement [HBJ ($)]
• Houston City Council Again Delays Consideration of $37M Recycling Deal [Houston Chronicle]
• 4 Major Questions About Recovery 4 Months After Harvey [The Texas Tribune]
• Houstonians Petition for I-45 ‘Be Someone’ Graffiti To Be Made Protected Landmark [Click2Houston]
• Houston Astros World Series Mural In Progress in the Heights [Houston Chronicle]
• How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘Not in My Neighborhood’ [New York Times]

Photo of Discovery Green: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• National Property Holdings Planning 380,210-SF Industrial Project East of Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• 96-Unit Wilshire Condo Tower on Former Westcreek Apartments Site Has Just Over a Dozen Residences Remaining [Houstonia]
• Food Truck Flip ‘n Patties Opens First Brick-and-Mortar Location in the Energy Corridor [Eater Houston]
• Carmelo’s Ristorante Italiano on Memorial To Stay Open After All [Culturemap]
• Golden Bagels & Coffee Opening on White Oak Dr. in the Heights Next Week [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Slideshow: Transportation Projects That Will Shape Houston in 2018 [Houston Chronicle]
• Why People Are Driving So Fast on Houston’s Roads [Houston Public Media]

Photo of River Oaks: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Zillow: Houston Housing Stock Reached $393.4B in 2017 [Houston Chronicle]
• Mac Haik Hospitality Opens the Embassy Suites by Hilton Houston West-Katy [Covering Katy News]
• All the H-E-B Stores Slated To Open in the Houston Area in 2018 [HBJ]
• Austin-Based HandleBar Now Open on Washington Ave [Eater Houston]
• Residents of Harvey-Damaged Homes Struggling To Stay Warm During Houston Cold Snap [KHOU]
• High Volumes of Freshwater, Polluted Water Released by Hurricane Harvey Could Harm Large Coral Reef off Galveston [Houston Chronicle]
• About a Third of the Waugh Bat Colony Population Remains Post-Harvey [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Weapons, Ammo Found in Guest’s Room in Hyatt Regency Downtown on New Year’s Eve [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Marriott Marquis: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Former Houston Rockets Player Luis Scola Selling 2 Pearland Homes [HBJ]
• The Gap Between the Flood-Insured and the Uninsured in Post-Harvey Houston [Dallas Morning News]
• FEMA Auctions Off Disaster Trailers for Cut-Rate Prices Despite Victim Demand [AP]
• Hurricane Harvey Victims Remain Locked Out of FEMA Trailers [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Video: What Texas Learned in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey [The Texas Tribune]
• U.S. Oil Industry Will Likely Take Less Risks in 2018 [Houston Chronicle]
• Investigating the Mysteriously Feel-Good Texas Turnaround [Wired]

Photo of KPRC, 8181 Southwest Fwy.: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Tax Reform Adds Uncertainty to Houston’s Weak Affordable Housing Supply [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Texans Preparing for Future with Raised Homes, Private Flood Gates After Harvey [NPR]
• ‘Recovery Czar’ Marvin Odum on What Recovery Looks Like for Houston [Marketplace]
• City Launches New Website To Track Federal Funding Requests at PostHarvey.org [Click2Houston]
• Costco-Anchored Retail Center Near Greenway Plaza Changes Hands [Houston Chronicle]
• Luxury Retailer Events Gifts Leaving River Oaks Shopping Center After 30 Years for Westheimer Location [HBJ]
• Jersey Village Red Barn Furniture Closing For Good in February [Community Impact Newspaper]
• Metro Saw Its 2nd-Worst Month for Train Crashes in November Despite Recent Safety Solutions [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• The Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians in Texas [Houston Press]
• The Most Congested Roadways in Texas, 2017 Edition [The Urban Edge]
• Fire Destroyed About 35 Units in South Houston’s Ashton Place Apartments Yesterday [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Hermann Park: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• American Furniture Warehouse Co. Building $50M Distribution Center and Showroom in Southeast Houston [HBJ ($)]
• New Montrose Honky-Tonk Goodnight Charlie’s Has Opened [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Hopdoddy Burger Bar Appears To Be Eyeing CityCentre for 4th Houston Location [Eater Houston]
• U.S. Home Sales Climb to 11-Year High in November [Houston Chronicle]
• Average Rents for Class A Apartments in Greater Houston Have Increased More Than $70 Since Harvey [Houston Public Media]
• The State of Meyerland 4 Months After Harvey [Click2Houston]
• Flooding Lessons from the Netherlands [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• FEMA-Required Spray-Foam Insulation Could Cause Problems in Houston’s Climate [Houston Public Media]
• Ashley Furniture Opening Temporary Dickinson Store in Former Palais Royal Space [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Reflecting on What It Means To Stay in a Flood-Prone Area [The Urban Edge]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• The 10 Biggest Houston Real Estate Stories of 2017 [Bisnow]
• A Few Renderings of Bank of America Center’s $15M Renovation [HBJ]
• Indianapolis-Based Duke Realty Purchases Bayport Distribution Center II in Pasadena [Houston Chronicle]
• Mattress Firm Shuttering 200 Stores Over the Next 18 Months [HBJ]
• Heights Art Space 14 Pews To Close, Converted Church To Go On Sale in Late February [Houston Chronicle]
• Delayed Downtown Beer Garden Frank’s Backyard Could Debut Early Next Year [Eater Houston]
• Tax Bill Preserves Historic Tax Credit That Saved Some of Houston’s Oldest Buildings [Houston Chronicle]
• The Winners of Houston Mod’s 2017 Biennial Preservation Awards [Houston Chronicle]
• Mayor Turner Has Asked Governor Abbott for $200M To Speed Up Harvey Recovery [Houston Public Media]
• Senate Delays Voting on $81B Disaster Aid Package [CBS News]

Photo of Market Square Park: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Renovated Galleria Office Tower I Lands 2 New Tenants [Houston Chronicle]
• Talos Energy Moving Headquarters from One Allen Center to Three Allen Center [Houston Chronicle]
• The 7 Major Skyscrapers That Were Completed or Came Close to It in Houston in 2017 [Houston Chronicle]
• Harris County Moves Forward with Final Phase of Brays Bayou Flood Control Project [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Downtown’s Barringer Bar & Lounge Will Close To Make Way for New Restaurant at 108 Main St. [HBJ]
• Zagat Ranks Houston Among the 30 Most Exciting Food Cities in America in 2017 [HBJ]
• Houston Eclipses Dallas as Public Storage’s Largest Market in Texas [Houston Chronicle]
• How the U.S. Renter Population Has Changed Since 1930 [Apartment List]
• A Review of Jim Blackburn’s A Texan Plan for the Texas Coast [OffCite]

Photo of South Colleges Servery at Rice University : Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool