Meredith Deliso

• $70M Mixed-Use Project The Cannon To Start Construction Next Year Near I-10 and the Beltway [HBJ]
• Where Home Prices Have Increased and Decreased the Most Since Harvey [HBJ]
• What Downtown Houston Might One Day Look Like Tailored to Driverless Cars, Electric Vehicles, and Ride-Sharing Apps [Houston Chronicle]
• Bar Planned for Historic James Fadden Building on the Strand in Downtown Galveston [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• El Burro & the Bull Chef Opening Grocery in the Sixth Ward [Houstonia]
• International Smoke Restaurant Headed to Former Straits Space at CityCentre in 2018 [Houston Chronicle]
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Pops Up in Heights Mercantile [Glasstire]
• Property Owners Speak Out Against Montrose Management District [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
• The Health and Economic Problems Posed By the Sand Harvey Left Along Bayous [Houston Public Media]
• Some of the Research Studies Underway After Harvey [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Press Says Hurricane Harvey Was the ‘Final Straw’ As It Ends Print Publication [Houston Press]
• The Problems with the Government-Run National Flood Insurance Program [New York Times ($)]
• Houston Arboretum & Nature Center Plans Landscape Changes as Part of Restoration Effort  [Houstonia]
• Why Houston Needs More Protected Bike Lanes [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Sunday Streets Shuts Down Stretch of Gulfton to Traffic [Houston Chronicle]
• Crowd of Nearly 1 Million Turns Out Downtown for Astos World Series Champions Parade [MLB.com]

Photo of the Astros World Series victory parade: thranth via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Median Houston Home Sales Price Up 7.6% to $233,900 Year-Over-Year in Third Quarter, Finds NAR [Houston Chronicle]
• Pelican Builders Says 11 Sales Have Already Closed in Almost-Complete 96-Unit Wilshire Condo Tower on Former Westcreek Apartments Site [Houston Chronicle]
• Self-Storage Company Life Storage Reports Multimillion-Dollar Damage from Hurricanes in Texas, Florida [HBJ ($)]
• Cleanup Begins in Buffalo Bayou as Water Levels Now Low Enough to Reach Debris [Houston Public Media]
• Harvey Revealed New Challenges for Houston’s Power Grid as Substations Flooded [Houston Public Media]
• Sketch City Founder Jeff Reichman on the Volunteer Tech Team He Led During Harvey [The Urban Edge]
• With $500M in Ike and Dolly Relief Still Unspent, Will Texas Do Better After Harvey? [The Texas Tribune]
• U.S. Job Growth Expected To Be Up in October as Businesses Reopened and Rebuilding Work Began After Hurricanes Harvey and Irma [AP]
• TxDOT Acquiring Rights of Way Along 14 Miles of I-10 in La Marque for Expansion Project [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Houston ISD Closed Today After Nearly 1,000 Staffers Reportedly Requested Off [abc13]
• Opinion: What the Astros’ Win Means for Houston [New York Times ($)]

Photo of Downtown Houston after the World Series: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• City Council Refers MetroNational, Meritage Homes Plan To Build Spring Brook Village in Floodplain on Pine Crest Golf Course Back to Mayor [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• After Repeated Flooding, Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Now Plan To Move Out of Former Compaq Campus Next to Cypress Creek [HBJ]
• Dallas-Based HistoryMaker Homes Plans To Double Homes Underway in Houston in Harvey’s Wake [Houston Chronicle]
• What FEMA Applications Reveal About Harvey’s Impact Across Houston [The Urban Edge]
• There Are Enough Harvey Cases in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims To Warrant Its Own Drop-Down Search Menu [Houston Chronicle]
• A Tale of Two Neighborhoods on Opposite Sides of Houston After Harvey [Houston Public Media]
• The Difference Another Foot of Water Could Have Made at the Barker and Addicks Reservoirs [Houston Public Media]
• Airbnb Bookings Saw a 40% Boost Last Weekend During the World Series in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Sean Finn Acquires 2525 North Loop West Office Building [Realty News Report]
• NAI Partners Broker: Downtown Houston Has Enough Residents to Support More Grocery Stores [HBJ ($)]
• Houston Ranked Among 10 U.S. Metros That Have Changed the Most in 10 Years by MoneyMagnify [Culturemap]
• Astros World Series Victory Parade To Be Held Friday in Downtown Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Russian Facebook Pages Orchestrated Simultaneous Anti- and Pro-Islam Rallies at the Islamic Da’wah Center of Houston on Travis St. Downtown Last Year [The Texas Tribune]

Photo of shop on Gentry St. in Old Town Spring: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Report: Houston Rents Up 1.2% Over the Past Month [Apartment List]
• About the Same Number of Houston Apartments Were Rented in the Month After Harvey as They Are in a Typical Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Gov. Abbott’s $61B Harvey Package Includes New Houston Reservoirs, Buyouts of Thousands of Properties [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• City Council Scheduled To Vote Today To Allow Hundreds of Homes To Be Built in Spring Branch Floodplain [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Flood Recovery Czar Marvin Odum’s Rebuild Pitch Asks for 10M Volunteer Cleanup Hours [abc13]
• Housing Choice Vouchers for Flooded-Out Residents of Forest Green Townhomes Came from Oklahoma City Housing Authority [Houston Housing Authority; previously on Swamplot]
• Moody National Cos. Starts Construction on a Residence Inn by Marriott Near NRG Stadium [Houston Chronicle]
• Rolled Ice Cream Shop Chills 360 Will Squeeze Between Velvet Taco and East Hampton Sandwich Co. in Ruggles Grill Replacement Building on Westheimer at Montrose [Bisnow]
• Mayor Turner Testifies in Defense of City Ban on Temporary Structures [Houston Chronicle]
• How Philadelphia Used Tax Policy To Replace Off-Street Parking Spaces with Housing [Streetsblog USA]
• Charges Against Manafort Highlight Use of Airbnb for Real Estate Scams [Bloomberg]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• New Greater Houston Flood Mitigation Consortium Looks To Guide Regional Response After Harvey [Houston Chronicle ($); website]
• Houston Ranked Low for the Sustainability of Its Transit System in New Arcadis Report [HBJ]
• How Long Will Houston’s Post-Harvey Multifamily Market Rebound Last? [Bisnow]
• Mayor Turner: City Could Have To Make Adjustments About Granting Permits in Flood-Prone Areas [Houston Public Media]
• League City Residents Have Until Friday To Get Harvey-Related Debris on Curb for Removal [HBJ]
• National Science Foundation Grants UH Funds to Research Coastal Protection and Water Contamination After Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• League City Has $9.6B in Flood-Control Wants [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Harvey Sparks Renewed Interest in Dickinson Bayou Flood Mitigation [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Importance of Design in the Rebuilding Process [OffCite]
• H-E-B Store Expected To Be Built in Parking Area of Meyerland Plaza [Realty News Report]
• Pappy’s Cafe Relocating to Former Texas Land & Cattle Restaurant Space Next Year After 34 Years in Memorial Village [Houston Press]
• Despite Rumors to the Contrary, Brasserie 19 Is Not Relocating Amidst The Driscoll at River Oaks Construction [Culturemap]
• New Houston Mod Book Showcases Work of Midcentury Architects Arthur Evan Jones and Lloyd Morgan Jones [OffCite]

Photo of Discovery Green: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Oil Industry Swings Back as ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips Report Surging Third-Quarter Profits [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• New Homes Sales Rise, Prices Dip in Houston in September, Finds HomesUSA.com [Houston Chronicle]
• Allied Orion Group’s Eighteen25 Apartment Complex Near the Pierce Elevated Now Complete [Realty News Report]
• Commerce Green Office Park in Sugar Land Now Fully Leased [Houston Chronicle]
• Here’s a Look at the New Plans for Uptown Park [HBJ ($)]
• $15.9M Funding Request for Post Oak Bus Lanes Project Held Up [Houston Chronicle]
• Freedmen’s Town Could Become a UNESCO World Heritage Site [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• The Complete Story of the WWII-era Tank Parked on River Oaks Blvd. [Texas Monthly]
• Harvey-Damaged Sugar Creek on the Lake Office Complex Reopening Nov. 15 without Tenant Telecheck Services [HBJ]
• Last Harvey Shelter at Greenspoint Mall Emptied Just as World Series Came in Houston [ESPN]
• Emmett’s Idea for Regional Floodwater Management Organization Makes a Lot of Sense [Space City Weather]
• Latest Tally for Rebuild Texas Relief Fund Puts Donations at $78.3M [Houston Chronicle]
• Hurricane Harvey Drove Houston’s Undocumented Population Further Underground [HuffPost]
• Stars of HGTV’s ‘Fixer Upper’ Give a Hand Rebuilding Harvey-Damaged Houston Home [abc13]
• Harvey Brought Houston One Of Its Most Crime-Free Days in Recent Memory [Houston Chronicle]
• Here’s Another Chance To Get Well-Water Testing from Texas A&M [Houston Chronicle]
• Sylvester Turner: Houston Is Bouncing Back Thanks to Its People [HuffPost]
• Carmelo’s Ristorante Italiano on Memorial To Close Later This Year After 37 Years in Houston [Eater Houston]

Photo of Critical Mass on Allen Pkwy.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Falls 20 Spots on ULI’s Annual List of Real Estate Markets to Watch [HBJ]
• Infrastructure Repairs After Harvey Expected To Exceed $100M in Harris County [Houston Public Media]
• Home Repair Permits Quadruple in Wake of Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Tenants at Harvey-Damaged Legacy Apartments in Northeast Houston Say They Were Given 6 Days To Evacuate [Houston Public Media]
• KHOU Scoping Out a New Location After Studio Flooded During Harvey [mikemcguff.com]
• Chef Bryan Caswell’s Harvey-Damaged Midtown Restaurant Reef Plots Comeback with Major Interior Revamp [Eater Houston]
• How Hurricane Harvey Might Affect the Houston Housing Market [Urban Institute]
• City’s Plan To Address Homeless Camps Near Minute Maid Park [Click2Houston]
• Freshwater Species Caught in Harvey Runoff Turn Up in Coastal Fisheries [Houston Chronicle]
• Slideshow: Take a Tour of FedEx Ground’s New Cypress Facility [HBJ]
• Texas 146 Expansion Project Prompts Popular Seabrook Sandwich Shop Neptune Subs To Close [Houston Chronicle]
• Annise Parker: How Houston Reduced Homelessness [The San Diego Union-Tribune]

Photo of Axelrad: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Some Homeowners May Not Get Harvey Relief Funding Until 2020 [Houston Chronicle]
• New Class-Action Lawsuit Seeks At Least $500M for Damage from Barker and Addicks Flooding [Houston Chronicle]
• After Harvey Damage To Its HQ, McDermott Subleases Almost 200,000SF from GE Oil & Gas [HBJ ($)]
• Private Water Wells in Harris County Test Positive for Contamination After Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Suspended Since Harvey, Curbside Recycling To Resume Nov. 13 [Houston Chronicle]
• Dickinson Council Removes Israel Pledge from Harvey Relief Applications [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• NAI Investment Fund Picks Up Spring Park Village in Spring [Houston Chronicle]
• Hobby Center Restaurant Artista To Be Replaced Next Year [Houston Food Finder]
• Pizaro’s Pizza Planning Third Houston Location [HBJ ($)]
• The Threat of Evictions to America’s Renters [Apartment List]
• Syrian Artist Creates Tableaus Inside Suitcases, Showing the Homes Refugees Left Behind [Mashable]

Photo of Heights Mercantile: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• After Fighting To Repeal Dry Law, H-E-B Breaks Ground on New Heights Store [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Pennsylvania-Based REIT Starts Construction on 2 Spec Buildings Near Port Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Weingarten Sets March 2018 Date To Break Ground on New River Oaks Shopping Center Residential Tower [HBJ]
• FedEx Building $18M Distribution Center in Conroe Park North Industrial Park After Tax Abatement Approved [Houston Chronicle]
• Harris County Commissioners Court Approves Buyout of 34 Harvey-Damaged Properties [Houston Chronicle]
• Assessing Harvey’s Impact on the Real Estate Industry 2 Months Out [Realty News Report]
• Environmentalists Worry Industry Could Thwart Cleanup of San Jacinto Waste Pits [The Texas Tribune]
• Data-Powered Map HealthyEnviron Highlights Environmental Hazards in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside Houston’s Swankiest Hotel Suites Catering to the World Series [abc13]

Photo of Minute Maid Park World Series watch party: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Where Houston, Other Texas Metros Fall on Moody’s Amazon HQ2 Rankings [HBJ]
• Houston’s Amazon Pitch Centers on ‘Innovation Corridor’ Along Metro Light Rail Line from Downtown to Medical Center [Houston Chronicle]
• How Midway Is Pitching Its East River Development To Companies Like Amazon in New Promotional Video [HBJ]
• Velocis Acquires Two Sugar Creek Office Building in Sugar Land [Realty News Report]
• Crowne Plaza Hotel Slated To Open in Oak Ridge North Dropped [Community Impact Newspaper]
• ‘Harvey-Like Rains’ Inside Fluff Bake Bar Force Bakery To Close Temporarily [Eater Houston]
• True Food Kitchen Opening Second Houston-Area Location Next Year with Spot in Woodlands Mixed-Use Development Market Street [HBJ]
• West University Place To Spend $4.2M on Cameras at Every West U Entrance and Exit [InstantNewsWestU.com]
• TxDOT Seeking Environmental Clearance on I-10 Project Slated To Begin in 13 Years [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston County Won’t Be Reappraising Harvey-Damaged Properties [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Digging in Houston Ship Channel Sediment To See What Toxic Substances Hurricane Harvey Spread [Houston Public Media]
• Most Major Houston Attractions, Hotels, Restaurants, Parks and Stadiums are Back Up and Running After Harvey [New York Times ($)]
• Opinion: Who Will Protect the Workers Cleaning Up Houston? [The Guardian]

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

• Houston Home Sales Up 4% Year-Over-Year in September Following August Slump, Finds National Association of Realtors [CNBC]
• Texas AG Investigating Debris-Removal Companies That Might Be ‘Overpromising and Under-Delivering’ [Houston Chronicle]
• Applications for Harvey Repair Grants in Dickinson Include Language from State Law Requiring Applicants To Certify They Agree Not To Boycott Israel [Huffington Post]
• Houston Lost Nearly 25,000 Jobs in Harvey’s Wake [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Harvey Might Deepen Houston’s Economic Divides [NBC News]
• Slideshow: Inside Houston’s First ‘Micro Condos’ at Parc @ Midtown [Houston Chronicle]
• Tilman Feritta’s Post Oak Project Slated To Open Early Next Year [Realty News Report]
• Heights Retail Center Crossroads at Cavalcade Going Up at 20th and Main St., Adjacent to NewQuest Properties Retail Project [Culturemap]
• Houston-Galveston Area Council Seeking Additional $15.9M in Federal Funding for Uptown Bus Lanes [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Consumer Website MagnifyMoney: Houston One of America’s Most Dramatically Changed Cities [HBJ]

Photo of Discovery Green: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• EPA Approves Plan To Stabilize Riverbed Near San Jacinto River Waste Pits [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• The Daunting Task Ahead for County Appraisal Districts Determining Property Values in Harvey’s Wake [The Texas Tribune]
• Harvey Damage to Metro Buses, Trains, and Facilities Estimated at $9.4M [Houston Chronicle]
• Housing, Equity Top Concerns for HUD Money as Houston Rebuilds After Harvey [The Urban Edge]
• FEMA Aid Deadline Extended to Nov. 24 for Harvey Victims [Houston Chronicle]
• A Look at What Houston Highlighted in Its Amazon HQ2 Proposal [HBJ ($)]
• HealthSouth’s Pearland Hospital To Open, Already Plans To Expand [HBJ ($)]
• Video: Latest Look at New Retail Development 33 1/3 @ Thirtyfourth Under Development at 34th and Ella [YouTube]
• Hakeem Olajuwon Opening a Red Mango Yogurt Cafe in Mont Belvieu Today [Houston Chronicle]
• Spring Street Beer & Wine Garden Now Open in the First Ward [Eater Houston]
• White Oak Music Hall Allowed 4 More Outdoor Concerts Before Going to Court on Dec. 11 [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of home under construction in Lynn Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Pontikes Development To Break Ground on 3M-SF Distribution Center in Baytown [HBJ]
• Meyerland Residents Concerned Buyout Talk Would Negatively Affect Neighborhood’s Jewish Community [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• What Does a More ‘Resilient’ Houston Mean and How Do We Get There? [OffCite]
• Video: Raising Houses in Meyerland After Harvey with Arkitektura Development [Houston Public Media]
• What It Takes To Clean Up a Restaurant After Harvey [Eater Houston]
• Political Momentum for Flood Control Could Fade Quickly, Warns SSPEED’s Jim Blackburn [Houston Public Media]
• Rice University ‘Supportive’ of Houston’s Bid for Amazon HQ [Realty News Report]
• City Council Goes Against Mayor Turner, Votes for Slightly Lower Property Tax Rate [Houston Public Media]
• 81% of Houston Renters Want To Own a Home at Some Point, Finds Zumper Survey [Culturemap]
• River Oaks Seafood Restaurant SaltAir Seafood Kitchen’s Last Day Will Be October 27 [Culturemap]
• D-SNAP Benefits Site at Duessen Park Expected To Draw Thousands on Day 2 [abc13]
• Monitor Earthquakes in Texas in Real Time at New Site from UT’s Bureau of Economic Geology [Houston Public Media]

Photo of construction in West University: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• TransCanada Expands Footprint in Downtown’s Soon-To-Be-Renamed Bank of America Center [HBJ]
• Houston Industrial Leasing Slowed Down in the Third Quarter [Houston Chronicle]
• Aside from Restaurants and Fitness Centers, Houston Retail Has Slowed Down Its Leasing Activity [HBJ ($)]
• 8th Wonder Opening Distillery Across the Street from Its Dallas St. Brewery [HBJ]
• Frankel Building Group Launching New Company To Offer Build-on-Your-Lot Services [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• TxDOT Has Removed About 10M Cubic Ft. of Harvey Debris from State Highways [abc13]
• Long-Delayed Project Brays Component That Would Rebuild 8 Bridges Over Brays Bayou Moves Forward [Houston Public Media]
• How To Get Serious About Flood Control at the Federal, State and Local Levels [The Urban Edge]
• Houston’s Views on Flood Management Circa 1977 [OffCite]
• Debating Whether a Statue of Texans Owner Bob McNair Should Be Erected on NRG Park Grounds [abc13]
• Houston’s Most Popular Biking and Running Spots, According to GPS App Strava [Houston Chronicle]
• Utility Luminant To Close 2 Coal-Fired Power Plants in Texas Next Year [The Hill]
• Goldhagen: What a Building Looks Like Affects Your Emotional State [Here & Now]
• Google Parent Company Alphabet To Help Redo Toronto’s Waterfront with ‘Smart City’ Features [The Globe and Mail]

Photo: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• BuildFax: Harvey Cleanup and Rebuilding Period Could Last Upwards of 20 Months [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston County Cities Waiving Some Fees, Streamlining Permit Processes for Flood Repairs [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Residents, Management at Odds Over Living Conditions of Kingwood Lakes Apartment Complex [Houston Public Media]
• Multifamily Developers Say They’re Hesitant To Invest in New Houston Product After Harvey [Bisnow]
• The Deliberate Flooding of West Houston [Houstonia]
• Houston, the City That Will Be Building and Rebuilding Forever [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Harris County Residents Have 3 More Days This Week To Apply for Disaster Food Assistance [Houston Chronicle]
• Comparing Harvey and Ike Power Outages [HBJ ($)]
• Greater Houston Partnership To Submit Amazon HQ Proposal by Oct. 19 Deadline [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Generation Park’s Case for Getting the Amazon HQ [abc13]
• Moody’s Analytics Ranks Houston 52nd Among Cities Vying for Amazon’s New North American Headquarters [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Memorial Hermann Health System Planning New Patient Tower at Woodlands Medical Center Amid Montgomery Population Boom [HBJ]
• More Poke for Houston: Wiki Poki Opens in Asiatown on Bellaire Blvd. [Eater Houston]

Photo of One Allen Center: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool