Meredith Deliso

• Residential Construction Activity Picking Up Again in Houston, Finds Report [HBJ ($)]
• Patterson-UTI Energy Leases Additional 11,600 SF of Office Space at Remington Square II [Realty News Report]
• Redevelopment of Bellaire Town Center Now Underway [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Suburban Millennial Population Grew 10.8% in Houston from 2010-2015, Finds Urban Land Institute [The Urban Edge]
• Urban Planner Mary Lou Henry on Houston Development, Density, and Flooding [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• U-Haul Ranks Houston the Top U.S. Destination City for 2016 [Culturemap]
• What Bedroom Wall Colors Might Mean for Home Sales in Houston [HBJ]
• Justin Yu’s Replacement Restaurant Inside Former Oxheart Space To Be Named Theodore Rex [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Bad Weather, Dangerous Conditions Force Free Press Summer Fest Organizers To Cancel Sunday Shows [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of the Luther Hotel: Patrick Feller via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Nitya Capital Acquires 510-Unit City West Apartments in Westchase Area [Realty News Report]
• Construction Underway on $9.4M Tool-Flo Manufacturing HQ in Pearland’s Lower Kirby District [Houston Chronicle]
• Museum of Fine Art, Houston Breaks Ground on New Kinder Building [abc13]
• New Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Tops Out Downtown [HBJ ($)]
• M.D. Anderson Facility Underway in The Woodlands [HBJ ($)]
• Restaurant Supplier Ace Mart Opens Fifth Houston Store [Houston Chronicle]
• Thousands of Bees Swarming Vacant Home in Northwest Houston Subdivision Windsong [abc13]
• According to a Lyft Press Release, Galveston and Katy are Within City Limits [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Hotel ZaZa: Patrick Feller via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Whitestone REIT To Build Additional 6-Story Office and Retail Complex Adjacent to BLVD Place [Realty News Report]
• Half of 550 Home Sites in First Phase of Katy Development Cane Island Either Sold or Under Construction [Houston Chronicle]
• Zoës Kitchen To Double Number of Houston-Area Locations in Next Few Years [Houston Chronicle]
• Restaurateur Ford Fry Rumored To Be Taking Over Bernadine’s and Hunky Dory Space [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Both Locations of Burger Restaurant Jerry Built Homegrown Have Closed [Culturemap]
• Was Super Bowl LI Really Worth $347M to Houston? [Texas Monthly; previously on Swamplot]
• Property Owners’ Suit Against Montrose District Back in State Court [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Only 47% of Houston Residents Live Within a 10-Minute Walk of a Park, Finds the Trust for Public Land Report [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• How Tape, Chalk, Trees, Traffic Cones, and Barrels Temporarily Restructured Live Oak and Dallas Streets [OffCite Blog]
• Houston Designers Join New Season of HGTV’s ‘Brother vs. Brother’ in Galveston [Houston Chronicle ($)]

Photo of the Pearl: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• How Far $1,000-Per-Month Rent Goes in Houston [HBJ ($)]
• The Current Status of Galveston’s Vacation Home Market [HBJ ($)]
• Webber To Break Ground on Renovation, Expansion of Stephen Austin HS [HBJ ($)]
• Economist Ted Jones on the ‘Best Little Downturn Houston’s Ever Had’ [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Tin Metal Homes Still Popular with Homebuyers in Houston [abc13]
• Sports Bar Owned in Part by New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees, Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar, Eyeing Houston [HBJ]
• San Francisco Giants Outfielder Hunter Pence Involved in Coffee Shop Coral Sword in the East End [Culturemap]
• Grafitti’s Closes on Union Street, Plans To Reopen in Bigger Location with Better Parking Later This Summer [Eater Houston]
• A Review of the New Levy Park [OffCite Blog; previously on Swamplot]
• Uber Back in Galveston, Lyft Set To Return to Houston Wednesday [abc13; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Jerry’s Artarama: Ruben S. via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• How Much the 2017 Super Bowl Brought to Houston, According to the Super Bowl Organizers [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Metrostudy: How Houston’s Homebuilding Market Stacks Up to Other Texas Cities [HBJ ($)]
• Galleria-Area Le Peep To Relocate to Westheimer [HBJ ($)]
• New Metro Plan Could Clear the Way for More Suburban Bus Service [Houston Public Media]
• Uber and Lyft To Relaunch Services in Austin on Monday [The Texas Tribune; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of CenterPoint Energy Plaza: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Downtown Class A Office Building Vacancy Has Doubled in the Last 3 Years, Finds CBRE [Realty News Report]
• It’s Cheaper To Own a Home Than To Rent in Houston, Finds Trulia [Houston Chronicle]
• Conroe Tops Census Bureau List of Fastest-Growing Texas Cities [The Texas Tribune]
• Renewable Biofuels Inks Lease for Headquarters in Hines’s New Office Building San Felipe Place [Houston Chronicle]
• Patterson-UTI Energy Expands New HQ by Nearly 30% at Remington Square II [Houston Chronicle]
• Los Angeles-Based Sichuan Restaurant Chengdu Taste Has Quietly Opened on Bellaire in Chinatown [Culturemap]
• López Mexican Restaurant Plans To Open Second Houston Location Later This Year in Richmond [HBJ]
• Sneak Peek at a 3-Bedroom Home in Briarmeadow/Tanglewilde To Be Featured on HGTV’s ‘House Hunters’ Tonight [abc13]

Photo of City Hall: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Midtown Property with Beyonce Link, Music World Properties, Sold to BMW Dealer [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• UH, Rice Accelerator Programs Lease Space in New Downtown Office Concept DesignHive [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• A Highlight of Hines’s 609 Main Is the Air-Conditioning System [Houstonia; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Basically Exports the Equivalent to the State of Texas Budget Every Year [Houston Public Media]
• Harris County Lost Affordable Housing Units Between 2000 and 2014, Finds Urban Institute [The Urban Edge; previously on Swamplot]
• In the Urban vs. Suburban Debate, Here’s Where Apartment Renters Live in Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Liquor Superstore Chain Total Wine & More Taking Over Two Goody Goody Locations in Houston [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Study: Texas Cities That Could Lose, Gain the Most Residents Fleeing the Effects of Climate Change [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of the George R. Brown Convention Center: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Land Tejas Reveals Details for First Large Sterilized Lake in Balmoral Master Planned Community [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Rolled Ice Cream Maker I-CE NY Plans To Open 5 Houston Locations in Next 2 Years, Starting with The Woodlands Mall in June [HBJ]
• Sideout Volleybar Officially Opening June 1 Near White Oak Music Hall with Bar Attached to Sand Volleyball Courts [HBJ]
• Getting to the Bottom of What Happened to the Proposed Original Ninfa’s at Uptown Park [Culturemap]
• Old MFAH Surface Parking Lot Closes as New Underground Parking Lot Opens [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• The First Comprehensive Database of Parks in the Houston Area [The Urban Edge; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston ISD Could Be On the Hook for Another $60M in ‘Recapture Fees’ [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Needs To Do a Better Job of Marketing Itself [Bisnow]

Photo: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Hines’s Downtown Tower 609 Main Signs First Energy Tenant [HBJ ($)]
• Avera Cos. Acquires 40 Acres in the TGS Cedar Port Industrial Park Near Baytown for Vinmar Distribution Facility [Realty News Report]
• Land Tejas Names Builders in West Lake Houston Development Etteridge [Houston Chronicle]
• The Zip Codes in Harris County That Face the Most Evictions in Court [The Urban Edge]
• Greater Houston Area Added 41,900 Jobs Over Past Year, According to the Texas Workforce Commission [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Ranks No. 9 in the U.S. for Startup Activity, Down 3 Spots from Last Year [HBJ]
• Galveston Bay Action Network App Lets People Report Pollution in Galveston Bay [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Flash Flood Watch in Effect for Southeast Texas, Including Houston Area, Until 1 p.m. Today [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of the KPRC demo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Hines’s 609 Main Skyscraper Opening Party Includes Giant Earth Harp, Performances of Board Meetings Gone Wrong  [Bisnow; previously on Swamplot]
• Wildwood Corporate Centre I Office Building in Spring Gains 2 Tenats [Realty News Report]
• B&B Butchers Owner Signs Lease for New Restaurant Inside Former Texaco Building Downtown [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Pet Supermarket Has Opened 3 Stores in the Houston Area, 7 More Planned [Houston Chronicle]
• Warby Parker Bringing First Houston Outpost to Heights Mercantile — Not River Oaks District [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Evelyn’s Park Restaurant Ivy & James Now Officially Open [Eater Houston]
• Galveston Finishes Multi-Million Dollar Sand Replacement Along the Seawall [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Galveston Bay Projects Could Receive $46M from BP Oil Spill Settlements [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Portions of I-45 Will Be Completely Closed This Weekend, Again [Houston Chronicle]
• Shepherd Park Plaza, Heights Residents Report Feeling Harassed By Drone Creeping Around Their Property [The Leader]
• Salaries, Rents Make Houston Appealing To New Grads, Finds Indeed and Trulia Report [HBJ]

Photo of Iglesia La Luz del Mundo: Patrick Feller via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Among Top 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World for Construction, Finds New Report [HBJ ($)]
• Greater Houston Partnership Director: Economic Recovery Slow but Steady for Region [Community Impact Newspaper]
• HP, ABS Campuses Begin To Take Shape in Springwoods Village [Houston Chronicle]
• Central Market at 3815 Westheimer Rd. Reveals $10M Facelift That Includes Chocolate Factory Bean to Bar [HBJ]
• Houston-Area Transit Ridership Grew by 4M Passenger Boardings in 2016 [The Urban Edge]
• Win for Uber as Texas Ridesharing Rules Bill Passes Through Senate [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Mapping Where Houston Saw the Most Violent Crime [Click2Houston]
• Smelly Sargassum Seaweed Shows Up on Galveston Beaches Again [KHOU]

Photo: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston No. 2 Nationwide in Housing Starts, Behind Dallas, Finds Metrostudy [Realty News Report]
• First-Quarter Home Prices in Houston Outpace Most Texas Cities, Finds National Association of Realtors [Houston Chronicle]
• Co-Living Startups Will Disrupt the Apartment Rental Market, Unless They Don’t [Houston BisNow]
• Houston Officials Apparently Haven’t Been Keeping Very Good Track of Low-Income Housing Funds [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• How the 1-Acre Morse-Bragg Cemetery Near Uptown Became a Historical Landmark [Houston Public Media]

Photo of KPFT at 419 Lovett Blvd.: Patrick Feller via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Unilev Capital Corp. Planning $3M Renovation of Galleria-Area Office Building Three Riverway [Houston Chronicle]
• New Greenway Plaza Owners To Upgrade the Urban Plaza [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Tool-Flo Starts Construction on New Pearland Headquarters [Houston Chronicle]
• Landry’s Bringing Shark Attack-Themed Amusement Attraction to the Seawall [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Gilmer: Houston Economy Headed for Lackluster 2017 with Overbuilt Office and Multifamily Markets, Tepid Job Growth [Realty News Report]
• 10 Cool Residences in Houston and Across Texas [abc13]
• Ordinance Banning Houston’s Homeless Encampments Goes into Effect [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of 1210 Bayport Blvd.: Patrick Feller via Swamplot Flickr Pool