Meredith Deliso

• Bellaire Retailers Relocating To Make Way for 2-Story H-E-B [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Baker Katz Buys Foodarama-Anchored Retail Center in Timbergrove at 1805 Ella Boulevard [HBJ]
• Sugar Land To Buy Old Prison Grounds for Training Center, Potential Business Park [Community Impact Newspaper]
• Developer Behind The Sophie Says Houston Has an Untapped Market for Condos [HBJ]
• Lennar Corp. Expands NextGen Home Line Across Houston for Multigenerational Living [HBJ]
• River Oaks’ Briar Club Almost Done with $33M Renovation To Add Clubhouse, Pool, Tennis Courts [Houston Chronicle]
• An Early Look Inside White Oak Music Hall’s Music Hall, Opening Later This Summer [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Outdoor Bar Part & Parcel Being Added to Whitehall Hotel Downtown [HBJ]
• Houston and Dallas Customers Complain State’s ‘Power to Choose’ Electricity Website Is Rigged [Houston Public Media]
• A Recap of the Year Since Metro’s 2 New Purple, Green Rail Lines Opened [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• University of Houston System Approves New Katy Campus Inside Failed Grand Parkway Mall Ring Road [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Construction Underway on $4.2M Emergency Shelter on Bolivar Peninsula [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Home Builders Positive So Far in 2016, Says Metrostudy Senior Advisor Lawrence Dean [Realty News Report]
• Pearland the 7th Fastest-Growing City in U.S., According to Latest Census Bureau Data [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Unemployment Rate Tops National Average for First Time in Nearly 10 Years [Houston Chronicle]
• Texas Water Development Board’s Plan To Not Run Out of Water [HBJ]
• Are Houston’s Sinking Suburbs Suffering Worse Flooding? [Houston Public Media]
• Why Houstonians Can Worry Less About Smog [Houston Chronicle]
• Some Advice on What To Do If Your Home Floods in Houston [HBJ]
• Houston Among Top U.S. Cities for Registered Commercial and Hobby Drone Users [MarketWatch]
• Chicago Declares Houston Its Newfound ‘Nemesis’ and Beer-Sales Rival [Chicago Tribune via Houston Chronicle]

Photo: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Second Phase of Mixed-Use Project Regent Square Moving Forward Near Buffalo Bayou [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Grand Opening Held for New Hines Building at Pinto Business Park [Houston Chronicle]
• Memorial Hermann Health System To Build 5-Story Patient Tower at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital Campus in Humble [HBJ]
• Hotel Alessandra Under Construction Downtown Won’t Open in Time for the Super Bowl After All [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• The Fibs That Helped Build Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Behind the Chronicle’s Makeover of the Former Post Building [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Head to Fort Bend County for the Lowest Home Closing Costs in Houston [HBJ]
• Pearland’s King’s Biergarten Owners Opening King’s Bierhaus in the Heights at 2044 East T.C. Jester [Houston Chronicle]
• Sterling House Restaurant Opening in Historic Sterling House in Midtown To Feature ‘Girl-Friendly’ Menu [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• A Few Suggestions on Areas in Houston That Could Use a Pedestrian Plaza or Protected Bike Lane [The Urban Edge]
• Houston’s Rapid Growth, Heavy Rains Heighten Flood Risk [Wall Street Journal]

Photo of St. John Church at Sam Houston Park: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• ExxonMobil’s Abandoned, 24-Acre Brookhollow Campus Sold for Potential Retail Redevelopment [Realty News Report]
• Houston Home Values Rising at Slower Rate Amid Oil Slump, Finds Harris County Appraisal District [HBJ]
• What $2,000 a Month in Rent Gets You Inside the Loop Versus Out in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• An Aerial View of Bridgeland, the Third-Largest Residential Community in Houston by Acreage [HBJ]
• Slideshow: A Look Back at the Rice Building Downtown in Honor of Its 103rd Birthday [Houston Chronicle]
• Central Market at Westheimer and Weslayan To Undergo $10M Renovation To Add 10K SF [Houston Chronicle]
• Third Houston Location of Jerry Built Burgers Opening May 30 in Memorial City [Houston Chronicle]
• Peli Peli Opening New Location in LaCenterra at Cinco Ranch [HBJ]
• What Houston Can Learn from New York City About Becoming More Bike- and Pedestrian-Friendly [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Now About 424K Residents Behind Chicago, on Track To Becoming Third-Largest U.S. City in About 10 Years [Chicago Tribune]
• FEMA Has Paid More Than $3B for Flood Losses in Metropolitan Houston Since 1998 [AP]
• Flash Flood Watch in Effect for Southeast Texas Today from 10 a.m. to Midnight [abc13]

Photo of Smith Street: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston No. 1 in the Nation for Retail Construction with Nearly 3.3M SF on Track for This Year [Houston Chronicle]
• 40-Story Market Square Tower Set To Welcome Residents in October [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• How Legends of Memorial’s Micro-Unit Apartments Have Become a ‘Profit Center’ for Veritas Equity Management [HBJ]
• They Know How to Build Apartments in Houston [Bloomberg via Houston Chronicle]
• Downtown Private School Incarnate Word Academy Raising $15M To Build 18,500-SF Academic Building and Parking Lot [HBJ]
• Customizable Event Space Life htx Opening May 19 in Montrose [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Jinya Ramen Planning To Expand to Katy and Sugar Land in Coming Months [Eater Houston]
• Great Heights Brewing Company Signs Lease for Brewery and Taproom at 938 Wakefield Dr. [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• At Least 2 Years of Job Losses, Sluggish Growth, Softening Home Sales in Houston Before a Rebound, Forecasts UH [Houston Chronicle]
• Mature Trees Removed from Lovett Boulevard as Part of Esplanade Improvement Projectin Montrose [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of I-45 at US-59: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Moody National Buys Le Renaissance Apartment Property in Memorial for Site of Mixed-Use Development [Houston Chronicle]
• Condo Midrise The Sophie at Bayou Bend Now Slated To Rise on Site of Former Piazza Lucca Townhome Community Near Memorial Park [HBJ]
• Houston-Based NewQuest Properties Latest Texas Real Estate Company to Venture into Self-Storage Facilities [HBJ]
• Austin’s Tacodeli Announces Fall 2016 Opening of First Houston Location at 1902 Washington Ave [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Kinder Institute Project To Turn Empty, 2,400-SF Lot By Metro’s Melbourne North Lindale Station into Bike-Focused Park Space [The Urban Edge]
• Street Repairs Begin Around NRG Park in Advance of the Super Bowl [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Bracing for Possible Flooding This Week [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Named a Top 10 City in Which To Start a Career by WalletHub [HBJ]

Photo of Knollwood Village pour: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Dallas Overtakes Houston as Top U.S. Homebuilding Market, Finds Metrostudy [HBJ]
• Houston Methodist in Katy To Expand with 6-Story Building [HBJ]
• Specialty Care Centers the Future of Healthcare Delivery in Houston [Realty News Report]
• BASF Corp. To Consolidate Houston Offices in Energy Tower IV by July or August [HBJ]
• Houston Sales Tax Revenue Sees Ninth Straight Year-Over-Year Decline [Houston Chronicle]
• More Than 3,000 People Have Signed Up for Tours of the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern in Coming Weeks [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• 13 Ideas That Houston Should Steal from Other Cities [Houston Chronicle]
• The Best Places To Live in Texas, According to Rentlingo’s Interactive ‘Charm Index’ Map [Rentlingo]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Daikin Industries Nearing Completion on Largest Tilt-Wall Project in the World in Northwest Houston [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• How No Zoning Laws Works for Houston [The Federalist]
• UH Students and Professors, Third Ward Community Group Envision a Revitalized Dowling Street [Houston Chronicle]
• LeBron James-Backed Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza Now Serving Travelers in Terminal A at Bush-Intercontinental Airport [Houston Chronicle]
• SoulCycle Already Planning Second Houston Location, Set To Open in the Woodway Collection Shopping Center in September [HBJ]
• HISD Board Approves the New Names for Schools with Confederate Ties [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Uniting the Previously Divided Second and Fifth Wards as Both Neighborhoods Face Redevelopment [The Urban Edge]
• Downtown District’s Banner Installation Features Quotes About Houston from 100 Past and Present Residents Including Beyoncé [Houstonia]
• In Search of the Quirky Heart of Houston [The Washington Post]

Photo of James Turrell’s skyspace at Rice University: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Housing Home Sales Slightly Slip Year-Over-Year in April, Finds HAR [HBJ]
• Houston Housing Market Proving Resilient Even as Job Growth Slows [Houston Chronicle]
• Sneak Peek at the Houston Oaks Family Sports Retreat in Former Waller County Golf Club [HBJ]
• Slideshow: Inside the Most Expensive Home on the Market in Houston, a $43M Mansion in the Memorial Area [abc13]
• Fort Bend County Named Among Best Places in the Country To Live by SmartAsset [Realty News Report]
• Breaking Down the Houston Botanic Garden-Glenbrook Golf Course Debate [OffCite Blog]
• United Airlines Planning 5 Restaurants in IAH’s New Terminal C North Concourse with Notable Houston Chefs [Culturemap]
• Harold’s Tap Room Opening by May 19 in the Harold’s Complex in the Heights [Houston Chronicle]
• A More Complete Incomplete List of What Was Burning in That Spring Branch Warehouse Fire [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Group Threatens To Sue HISD Over Plan to Rename Schools with Confederate Ties [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• More Than 1M People in Texas Are Now Licensed To Carry Handguns [New York Times]

Photo of Lynn Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• General Electric Power Conversion To Move North American Headquarters to Houston [HBJ]
• St. Francis Episcopal Day School Planning New High School on 23-Acre Plot in Piney Point Village [HBJ]
• Mark’s American Cuisine in Montrose Suspending Restaurant Service May 29 To Become Events Space [Houston Chronicle]
• RDG + Bar Annie on Post Oak Going Back to Former Cafe Annie Name [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• More Than 21% of Houston Millennials Live at Home With Their Parents, Finds Zillow [HBJ]
• Montgomery and Fort Bend Added to List of Counties Eligible for Post-Flood FEMA Aid [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• More Than 10,000 Households Experienced Some Form of Flooding Last Month, Latest Report Shows [Space City Weather; previously on Swamplot]
• Parts of Westheimer Parkway and Clay Road That Were Formerly Flooded Reopen [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• BG Group To Vacate BG Group Place Downtown by the End of the Year Following Shell Merger [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Single-Family Home Price in Houston Rose 3.8% to $208,000 Year-Over-Year in the First Quarter [Houston Chronicle]
• $3.5M, 55-Bedroom, 55-Bathroom Pearland Home Has Been on the Market for Over a Year [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• NFL Star Adrian Peterson Behind New 35K-SF Houston Gym O Athletik with Indoor Soccer Field, Sand Volleyball Pit, Running Hill [ESPN]
• Austin Export Hopdoddy Burger Bar Opening First Houston Location in River Oaks District on May 30 [Culturemap]
• Uber Competitor Wingz Launches at Hobby and George Bush Intercontinental Airports [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• How Houston Starting City Planning Without Land Use Restrictions [The Urban Edge]
• Where Are Houston’s Great Suburban Parks? [Houston Chronicle]
• City, Lakewood Church, Clay Walker To Host Flood Victim Benefit Concert Featuring Brian McKnight, Regina Belle, Tim McGraw, Kid Rock, Darius Rucker [abc13]
• 40-Ft.-Tall Inflatable Bunnies Go Up in Front of 1600 Smith Street with More on the Way [Culturemap]

Photo of Beck’s Prime at 2615 Augusta Drive: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• St. Thomas To Convert HISD Criminal Justice Campus into Sports Facilities, Student Center [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Darling Homes Prepares To Launch Sales for Second Section of Energy Corridor Parkway Terrace [HBJ]
• CBRE: Inner Loop, Energy Corridor, and Areas Around The Woodlands Have the Softest Rents in Houston Right Now [Realty News Report]
• Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern To Open to the Public This Friday [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Christian’s Tailgate on Washington Ave To Close May 24 as Chain’s Previous Owner Retires [Houston Chronicle]
• Rice Village Nightlife Institution Bronx Bar Has Closed After 18 Years [Culturemap]
• Houston Will Soon Be Home To 3 Different Grilled Cheese Restaurants [Eater Houston]
• Public Health Officials Warn Houston Vulnerable To Spread of Zika with ‘Perfect Storm’ of Poverty, Rain, and World Travelers [The Urban Edge]
• Dead Animals Piled Up Along Spring Branch Creek Following Warehouse Fire Chemical Spill [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Opera ‘After the Storm,’ Set During a Galveston Hurricane, To Premiere at the Wortham Center [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Mid Main: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• City Selling Protected-Historic-Landmark-Designated Heights Pumping Station Property [Houston Chronicle]
• Downtown’s 600 Jefferson To Be Renovated, Rebranded as 1801 Smith Street as United Prepares To Depart [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Everyone Needs To Chill Out About Houston’s Multifamily Market Amid Oil Downtown, Real Estate Experts Say [Houston Chronicle]
• Rising Prices, Lack of Inventory in Houston Putting New Homes Out of Reach of First-Time Buyers [Houston Chronicle]
• How the Bank of Mom and Dad Affects Your Chances of Buying a Home [The Washington Post via The Urban Edge]
• Residents Question Houston’s Zoning Laws After Yesterday’s Massive Warehouse Fire in Spring Branch [KHOU; previously on Swamplot]
• Some Light Rail Seats Found To Be Dirtier Than an Average Toilet Seat [abc13]

Photo of Rice University: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Saw Record Number of Visitors in 2015 with 17.5M, Up 18% from Year Before [HBJ]
• Family of Late Judge Roy Hofheinz Files Petition Ahead of UH Renovation To Keep Hofheinz Pavilion Named Hofheinz Pavilion [Houston Chronicle]
• Sneak Peek Inside Luxury Apartment Project One Hermann Place, Nearing Completion Across from Hermann Park [HBJ]
• Imagining What To Put on Houston’s Empty Lots [The Urban Edge]
• FEMA Assessing Flood Damage in Montgomery County To Issue Disaster Declaration [Houston Public Media]
• 7 Local Features That Make Houston an Interesting Place to Live [Houston Press]
• 3,000 Standalone Mattress Stores Have Opened Nationwide in the Last Decade [Marketplace]
• Interactive Visual Tool Lets You Explore Diversity Over Time in U.S. Metro Regions [CityLab]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Average Price of New Houston Home Dropped 1.2% from Last Quarter of 2015 to First Quarter of 2016, First Such Drop Since 2009 [Houston Chronicle]
• Miami-Based Investor One Real Estate Investment Unloads 4 Houston Apartment Complexes for Nearly $50M [Houston Chronicle]
• Citigroup Inks Lease for Nearly 50K SF in Galleria Tower I at 2700 Post Oak [HBJ]
• Sneak Peek at 4 University of Houston-Designed Tiny Houses Planned for Fifth Ward [Offcite Blog]
• Fresh Market To Close All Texas Stores, Including 4 in Houston Area [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Construction Underway at Steel City Pops’ First Houston Location at 420 E. 20th Street [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Now You Can Take a Virtual Tour of Houston’s Parks and Trails with Google Street View [The Urban Edge]
• Galveston County Looking To Expand Beach Reconstruction Program to State Highway 87 on Bolivar Peninsula [Galveston County Daily News ($)]

Photo of the West Loop: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool