Meredith Deliso

• Negative Perception of Houston’s Economy Hurting Industrial Activity, Finds CBRE Report [HBJ]
• Houston’s Emerging Eastside ‘Petrochemical Corridor’ Shows Signs of Strength [Realty News Report]
• Lake Houston and West Lake Areas Seeing ‘Tremendous Growth’ [Houston Chronicle]
• City Acre Brewpub Off US-59 Now Officially Open [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston-Based Homebuilder Frankel Building Group a 2015 LEED Homes Award Winner [Culturemap]
• Sims Luxury Builders Shelves 40-Unit Aurora Condo Project in Uptown [HBJ ($); previously on Swamplot]
• UT Professors Suing Over New Campus Carry Laws Going into Effect Next Month [abc13]
• Health Officials Warn of Possible Contaminated Drinking Water for Residents Near San Jacinto River Superfund Site [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Yale Street Bridge over White Oak Bayou: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Energy Tower in Energy Corridor Lands 4 More Tenants, Now Nearly Three-Quarters Leased [Houston Chronicle]
• Iconic Village Arcade Sign in Rice Village Taken Down Amid Revamp [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Move-In Date for Floors 9 to 12 of the Hanover Set for Mid-August, Rest To Follow by End of the Year [Montrose District; previously on Swamplot]
• Virtual Reality Tours Launch at Luxury Apartment Project The Carter’s ‘Preview Center’ [HBJ]
• ‘Restaurant Impossible’-Featured Gratifi Kitchen + Bar in Montrose Closing July 13 [Culturemap]
• Alief Residents Push Back on ‘Little Saigon’ Proposal [Houston Press]
• Downtown Ramp Closings Along I-45 To Start Friday Night, Last Through September [Houston Chronicle]
• The Tax Day Floodwaters Have Finally Finished Draining from Addicks and Barker Reservoirs [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park: thranth via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Rent Growth ‘Close to Disappearing’ Amidst Oil Slump, Finds MPF Research [HBJ]
• Median Price per Square Foot in Sharpstown Country Club Terrace Has Gone Up 54% from 2011-2015 [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Apartment Units Rank Among the Largest in the Nation, Says RentCafe Study [HBJ]
• Texas Children’s Pediatric Outpatient Care Center at Alabama Furniture Site in the Heights Scheduled for January Opening [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• JLL Sells 2 Self-Storage Facilities in Houston [Realty News Report]
• Harrisburg Blvd. Overpass To Start Carrying Cars and Trains on July 12 [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Walkable Urban Places Gaining Ground in Nation’s Largest Metros Including Houston, Finds Report [Realty News Report]

Photo of Jersey Lake in Jersey Village: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston’s 10 Largest Office Leases from the Second Quarter [HBJ]
• Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene Expands to 25 Sales Offices Around Houston with Conroe, Fairfield Additions [HBJ]
• Armadillo Palace Expands to 4,000 SF Texas Dance Hall-Style Venue [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Food Truck Luv Me Tenders Opening Brick and Mortar Next Week at Crosstimbers and Yale [Eater Houston]
• Councilman Calls for Designating Bellaire/Dai Lo Saigon from Turtlewood to Cook Road ‘Little Saigon District’ [Houston Chronicle]
• Harris County Flood Victims Eligible for FEMA Aid for May and June Storms [Houston Chronicle]
• Lead Architects Picked for Obama Presidential Center in Chicago [Obama Foundation]

Photo of Satellite Bar: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• County Approves Amazon’s Tax Abatement for Warehouse in Pinto Business Park at I-45 N and Beltway 8 [HBJ]
• 123K-SF Kroger Marketplace Now Open in League City [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Austin Boutique Kick Pleat Joins Houston’s ‘Retailer Row’ with Store at Kirby Drive and Westheimer Road [Houston Chronicle]
• 4 Stoplights, 4 Crosswalks Being Added to Allen Parkway To Improve Pedestrian Safety [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• 6 Things To Know About Interstates in Houston on the 60th Anniversary of the Federal Highway Act [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Rice University: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Harris County Commissioners Accept Astrodome Underground Parking Garage Plan [Click2Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Marlowe Condo Tower Breaks Ground with Fewer than Half of Its Units Sold [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• How Oil is Dragging Houston Down, in One Chart [Houston Chronicle]
• Rents Have Jumped as Incomes Have Fallen in Houston, Finds Apartment List Study [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston’s Fifth Trader Joe’s Opening July 29 at 11683 Westheimer [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Fast-Casual Pizza Joint Blaze Pizza To Open New Houston Location in Webster [HBJ]
• Metro Considering New Midday Park and Ride Service Between Downtown and Southwest Houston [Houston Public Media]
• Ride-Hailing Company Get Me Expands To Unlimited Number of Drivers in Galveston [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Why ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria Scares Shouldn’t Keep You Off Texas Beaches [TribTalk; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of the Seawall: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Riverway Properties Shelves Plans for Glass House-Themed Montrose Luxury Condo Midrise Following Sales Decline [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• What It Costs To Own a Home in Houston Neighborhoods with Restaurant, Retail, and Art Access [Houston Chronicle]
• Nobu Sushi Restaurant Slated for Galleria Mall Expansion in Late 2017 [HBJ]
• The Original Ninfa’s on Navigation Looking for Location for Another Original Ninfa’s [Houston Press]
• Taste of Texas in Houston To Expand To Include Butcher Shop [HBJ]
• Ride Indoor Cycling Opens New Gym in The Woodlands’ Hughes Landing [HBJ]
• Multilevel Parking Garage Proposed for Seawall [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Construction Starts on 3 Paths To Close Gaps on White Oak Bayou Trail [Houston Public Media]
• UH Follows Through on Threat To Sue over South Texas College of Law’s Rebranding [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• New Book Explores the Art and Science of Place Attachment [Locavesting]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston’s Downtown Trophy Towers Performing Strongest in Class A Market, JLL Report Finds [HBJ]
• First Look Inside Phillips 66’s New Westchase District Headquarters [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Lessons in Mixed-Use Development from Midway’s CityCentre [Bisnow]
• Minnesota Vikings Running Back Adrian Peterson’s Woodlands Estate on the Market for $8.5M [HBJ]
• The Townhome Takeover of the Heights, Oak Forest, Garden Oaks Area [The Leader]
• Kroger Marketplace Anchoring New Shopping Center in Spring [Houston Chronicle]
• Long-Delayed Speedsportz Racing Park at Grand Texas in New Caney Now Underway, To Open Later This Year [HBJ]
• Powers Brown Architecture Relocating from Downtown to Midtown’s Central Square [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Attorneys To Argue Over Value of Bolivar’s Rollover Pass in Eminent Domain Case This Week [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Best Spots in Houston for a Selfie [Houstonia]

Photo: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Greensheet Property in Midtown Sold, To Be Redeveloped for Retail, Office, Event Space [Realty News Report]
• South Heights Retail Center Trades Hands [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Co-working Space Level Office Expanding Downtown Location at 405 Main To Meet Demand [HBJ]
• Porsche of North Houston Relocating to 64,000-SF Dealership [HBJ]
• The Durham House in Former Woodrows Heights Location To Close Saturday [Culturemap]
• Torchy’s Tacos To Open in Westchase Shopping Center [HBJ]
• Post Oak Bus Lanes Likely Won’t Be Ready for Passengers Until March 2019 [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• San Jacinto River Superfund Site Extremely Vulnerable to Hurricanes, Warns Flooding Expert [The Urban Edge; previously on Swamplot]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Development with Hotel, Housing, Shops, Office Tower Planned for Remaining 6 Acres of Gillette St. Incinerator Site in Fourth Ward [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Lennar Corp. Building Luxury Townhomes in Knoll Park Community in Spring Branch [HBJ]
• Homeownership Decreases in Houston Amid Tight Mortgage Credit, Limited Housing Supply, Finds Study [Houston Chronicle]
• 3 Ways Houston Homebuyers Can Get a Competitive Edge [HBJ]
• Southern Goods Owners To Open New Restaurant 60 Pioneers in the Heights [Houston Chronicle]
• A Look Back at 25 Montrose Restaurants That Have Closed in the Past 5 Years [Houston Press]
• Documentary Exploring History of Post Oak Blvd. Airing June 27 on PBS [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of the Williams Tower: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Patterson-UTI Energy Leaving Greenspoint for New Headquarters in Remington Square II Office Park [Houston Chronicle]
• The River Oaks Condo Project To Open Sales Center [HBJ]
• The Groves Master-Planned Community Adds Perry Homes, Westin Homes To Lineup of Builders [Houston Chronicle]
• Morgan Group To Implement Package Locker Rooms Across Its Pearl Apartments [HBJ]
• Abandoned Shopping Carts Add To Houston’s Flooding Issues, Says City Councilman [Click2Houston]
• High-Tech Mosquito Traps by Microsoft To Be Placed in Houston Area over Next Few Weeks To Combat Zika Virus [KHOU]
• Port of Houston Prepared To Take Giant Ships Going Through Expanded Panama Canal [Houston Public Media]
• Chase Tower Sky Lobby Closure Takes Something Wonderful Away From Houstonians, Tourists [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Commercial Building Permits in Houston $400M Behind Pace Set Last Year from January to April [HBJ]
• Carson Cos. Starts Third Phase of Bayport Industrial Park, Adding 397,775 SF Across 4 Buildings [Houston Chronicle]
• Dow Chemical Latest Tenant for Clay Development’s Deerwood Office III Office Building in Deer Park [Realty News Report]
• The Market at Springwoods Village Now 80% Leased After Signing Torchy’s Tacos, Chick-fil-A, MOD Pizza [Houston Chronicle]
• This $13M River Oaks Unit Might Be the Most Expensive Penthouse Ever Listed for Sale in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Sneak Peek Inside The Grand at LaCenterra, the First Midrise Apartment in Katy [HBJ]
• Elon Musk-Chaired Solar Power Installation Company SolarCity Expanding to Houston Market [HBJ]
• How Houston Stacks Up On Transit Equity [The Urban Edge]
• New Houston Bike Plan Expected To Go Before City Council for Adoption in August or September [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Has the Qualities Millennials Want in a City But Fewer Than 1% Want To Live Here, Finds Abodo Study [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of the San Jacinto Monument: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Hines Completes First Phase of Beltway Southwest Business Park [Realty News Report]
• How ExxonMobil’s North Houston Migration Has Shaped Houston [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• D.R. Horton/Express Homes The Biggest Builder in Houston as Entry-Level Homes Expand [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Oil Market to Stabilize at Some Point This Year, Forecasts BP Economist [HBJ]
• Healthcare Dominates Houston Job Growth as Energy Hurts [Houston Chronicle]
• Leading GDP per Capita, Rise in Patent Count Make Houston a City of the Future, Says AT Kearney [Tech Insider]
• What Houston Can Do About All Those Floods [Texas Observer]
• Fulshear, Cinco Ranch Ranked Among the Best Suburbs in the Houston Area To Raise a Family by Niche [Houston Chronicle]
• Remembering Tootsie’s Founder Mickey Rosmarin [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Rice University: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• MetroNational Office Building in Memorial City Tops Out, Slated To Open in Early 2017 [HBJ]
• How Houston’s Vast Jurisdiction Leaves Its Fringe Suburbs in Limbo [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston May Be on the Brink of Recession, According to Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Report [UPI]
• Heights Restaurant Zelko Bistro Has Permanently Closed Following Appearance of Lease Sign [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• What Does the YIMBY Movement Want, Exactly? [The Urban Edge]
• What Houston Looked Like Before and After Densification Reforms Were Adopted in 1999 [City Observatory]
• Houston Homeowners Take 1 Year, 5 Months on Average To Break Even on Their Purchase, Finds Zillow [HBJ]
• Slideshow: The Winners of the Houston Apartment Association Honors Awards [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Buc-ee’s Closes on 15 Acres for Katy Location at I-10 and Cane Island Pkwy. [HBJ]
• Skanska’s Downtown Capitol Tower Won’t Break Ground Until Market Improves [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• So Far About Half of the 520 Homes in First Phase of 4,000-Home Lago Mar Community in Texas City Have Been Built [HBJ]
• New Owner to Renovate Historic Houston Bar Center at 723 Main into Upscale Hotel [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Single-Family Home Sales in Houston Up 10% Year-Over-Year in May, According to HAR [Realty News Report]
• Average Price of 1-Bedroom in Houston Decreased $1,482 to $1,398 from May to June, Finds Abodo [Culturemap]
• Latest Liberty Kitchen Location Now Open in Garden Oaks [HBJ]
• Houston Had Its Wettest 60-Day Period on Record from April 14-June 12 [Space City Weather]
• Lessons from How Pensacola, Florida, Reacted After Its 200-Year Flood in 2014 [Houston Public Media]

Photo of San Luis Pass: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool