Meredith Deliso

• New Houston REIT To Own Greenway Plaza, 4 Other Office Properties Post-Cousins/Parkway Merger [Realty News Report]
• Ikea Distribution Center Planned Near Baytown Just the Tip of the Iceberg for New Retail Warehouses [Realty News Report]
• Gracepoint Homes Opens First Model Home in Woodsy Luxury Community Stillwater in Conroe [HBJ]
• City Wants To Do Its Own Study on a Downtown Terminal for Proposed Dallas-to-Houston High-Speed Rail [Houston Public Media]
• Super Bowl Light Show Proposed for Astrodome That Would Project Images Through Roof and Onto Walls [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Former Houston Mayor Annise Parker Lands New Gig as Member of Rice University Faculty [HBJ]
• Taking a Closer Look at Houston’s Official Flag [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Waterwall Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Behind the Purchase of More Than 300 Acres in Southwest Houston for University of Texas’s Planned Houston Campus [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Digesting the West Side’s Oversupply of Office Space Could Take 3-5 Years [Realty News Report]
• Proposed Modern $100M Bridge Between Pelican Island and Galveston an ‘Economic Game Changer’ for Area [Houston Chronicle]
• NewCoast Properties Set To Open Luxury Beachfront Community Seagrass Beach on Bolivar Peninsula Next Month [HBJ]
• City To Close Soon on Abandoned Oakbrook Apartments Then Knock Them Down [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• Midtown’s Sparrow Bar + Cookshop is ‘Currently Closed,’ Whatever That Means [Culturemap]
• Altitude Trampoline Park To Open 34K-SF Space at Crossing at Katy Ranch This Summer [HBJ]
• West Wharton More Vulnerable to Flooding Than East Wharton, Say Residents [Houston Chronicle]
• Why Houston Weather Predictions Were So Far Off Last Week [Space City Weather]
• How To Track the Water Levels at Barker and Addicks Reservoirs [Covering Katy; previously on Swamplot]
• Illegal Dumping Causing Worse Flooding in Houston [KHOU]
• 7-Acre Urban Farm Hope Farms Being Built in Sunnyside To Help Address Community’s Food Desert Problem [Houston Public Media]
• Texas Supreme Court Blocks Houston from Using Tougher Clean-Air Laws [AP]
• 11 Signs Houston Will Succeed [Opportunity Urbanist]

Photo of the Fifth Ward: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston and 4 Other Cities Leading the Way in Urban Innovation [Wall Street Journal]
• Why Houstonians Are Optimistic About the Economy Despite Low Oil Prices [The Urban Edge]
• Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau Wants To Increase Houston Visitors to 20M by 2018 [Houston Chronicle]
• Demolition of San Jacinto Mall in Baytown Begins as Part of Redevelopment Project [HBJ]
• Ikea in Talks To Lease Distribution Space at Cedar Port Industrial Park [HBJ]
• UH Architecture Students Envision New Housing, Amenities for Third and Fifth Wards [University of Houston]
• That Article About a Houston-Based ‘Grand Theft Auto’ is Fake [Houston Chronicle]
• Alligator Displaced by Recent Flooding Caught After Approaching Fort Bend County Porch [abc13]
• National Weather Service Issues Flash Flood Watch for Houston Area This Weekend [Houston Public Media]

Photo of EaDo: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Roughly $5B in Medical Construction and Development Underway in Houston, According to Transwestern [HBJ]
• Woodbranch Investments Corp. Begins Preleasing Downtown’s Amenity-Filled Market Square Tower [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Randalls Seeks Variances To Expand 14-Year-Old Midtown Store [Houston Chronicle]
• Dallas Luxury Boutique Forty Five Ten Opening in the River Oaks District This Fall [HBJ]
• A Call To Stop Building Neighborhoods That Cause Other Neighborhoods To Flood [Houston Chronicle]
• Repairs Underway This Week on Houston Roads in the Wake of Last Week’s Flooding [abc13]
• Uber Threatens To Leave Houston if the City’s Ridesharing Regulations Do Not Change [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Grants Approval of A&M’s Campus Carry Policies Kicking in This Fall [Texas Tribune]
• Where Are the Women Architects? [OffCite Blog]
• The Strange Beauty of a Houston Thunderstorm, as Captured by Ray Kuglar in The Woodlands [Houston Press]

Photo of Meyerland: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Dangerously Flooded Underpasses Targeted in Harris County Judge Ed Emmett’s Interim Plan [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Homeowners Might Face Higher Flood Insurance Premiums Through FEMA [Houston Press]
• More Houston-Area Residents Prefer To Live Near Parks and Trails Than Ever Before, Finds New Rice Survey [HBJ]
• Video: Sneak Peek Inside the Bigger Saks Fifth Avenue Opening Tomorrow in the Galleria [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Biggest Brisket House Yet Now Slinging Barbecue on Cypress Creek Parkway in Northwest Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston’s Second Kenny & Ziggy’s Location To Debut Week of May 2 in West U Area [Houston Chronicle]
• Ãœberrito Mexican Grill To Open Fourth Houston Location at 7705 Westheimer on Cinco de Mayo [HBJ]
• Oak Forest-Area Residents Back to Pushing for a 34th Street Quiet Zone Near Train Tracks [The Leader]

Photo of the Williams Tower: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Is Houston As We Know It Sustainable, and Other Big Questions Post-Flood [Texas Monthly]
• Congresswoman Jackson-Lee Calls for Widening the Bayous and Even Buying Out Developments To Move People Out of Flood Plains [KHOU]
• Why Houston Can Lead Urban Change in the Sun Belt [Next City]
• 3 Things That Must Change if Houston is Ever To Be Considered a Great City [Houston Press]
• Midway Planning 2 More Office Towers Totaling 750,000 SF in West Houston [Realty News Report]
• Katy Green II Shopping Center in West Houston Sold to CH Retail/Acquisitions [Houston Chronicle]
• Mixed-Use Development The Boardwalk at Towne Lake Names 5 New Tenants [HBJ]
• St. Bernard Sports Opens First Houston Storefront in the River Oaks District [HBJ]
• Fire Destroys Houston’s 75-Year-Old Cleburne Cafeteria at 3606 Bissonnet St. [abc13]
• Traffic the No. 1 Issue on the Minds of Houstonians, Finds Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s 2016 Study [HBJ]
• How a Deadly Cloud in Houston 40 Years Ago Led to Today’s ‘Shelter-in-Place’ Strategies [Houston Public Media]

Photo: Ruben Serrano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Early Estimates Predict the Total Economic Impact of the Floods Could Be as High as $1.9B [HBJ]
• Flooding Could Delay Homebuilding Projects, Make Labor Harder To Come By [Builder Magazine]
• More Than 560 Abandoned Vehicles Have Been Towed So Far Since the Floods Started [Houston Public Media]
• CBRE’s Randy McCaslin: There is a ‘Drastic’ Need for More Luxury Hotels in Houston [Realty News Report]
• Houston-Based Halliburton Cut 6,000 Jobs Worldwide in the First Quarter [Fuel Fix]
• All-Cash Home Sales Down 4% Year-Over-Year in January, Finds CoreLogic Inc. [HBJ]
• The Average Houstonian Needs To Earn Nearly $61,000 Per Year To ‘Live Comfortably,’ According to GoBankingRates.com [Houston Press]
• Midtown Redevelopment Authority Founder F. Charles LeBlanc Passes Away [HBJ]
• Las Vegas is Betting It Can Turn Itself into a Hub for Innovative Water Technology [Politico]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Flooding Woes Have Meyerland Residents Anxious About Neighborhood’s Curbside Appeal [Houston Chronicle]
• Is Meyerland Now a Detention Pond for the Texas Medical Center? [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• Public Works Didn’t Install Barriers for 27 Flood-Prone Underpasses Because It Assumed Drivers Would Ignore Them [Houston Press]
• Bison Found Roaming in Floodwaters in Bear Creek Park [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Tiger Evacuated from Harris County Rescue Farm Captured After Seen Wandering the Streets of Conroe [CNN]
• The Scene from the Westador Subdivision in North Houston, Which is Still Flooded and Without Power [Houston Public Media]
• Available Houston-Area Office Space at a 16-Year High of Nearly 20%, According to NAI Partners [Houston Chronicle]
• Midway’s Mixed-Use Development Memorial Green Signs 6 Commercial Tenants [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• BHGRE Gary Greene Opens 23rd Houston-Area Sales Office in Tomball [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Homeowners Carry One of the Highest Mortgage Debt Loans Nationally, Finds Wallethub [HBJ]
• Southeast Houston Railroad Crossing on Mykawa near Long Considered Among the Most Dangerous in the U.S. by the FRA [KHOU]
• San Francisco First Major U.S. City To Require All New Buildings 10 Stories or Under To Have Solar Panels [The Guardian]

Photo of Midtown: Jackson Myers via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• How To Develop Houston Through Market-Based Solutions That Discourage Building in Floodplains [Houston Chronicle]
• What You Can Do To Protect Houston’s Forested and Prairie Wetlands [Houston Chronicle]
• Officials Monitoring ‘High Risk’ Addicks and Barker Dams and Reservoirs Following Storms [AP; previously on Swamplot]
• Highway 6 Between Clay and Park Row Could Be Closed for up to 6 Weeks in Wake of Houston Floods [Houston Chronicle]
• 2 Southwest Houston Synagogues Near Brays Bayou Flooded for the Second Time in Less Than 2 Years [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Ways To Help Flood Victims in the Houston Area [abc13]
• After the Houston Rains Will Come the Mosquitoes [Houston Chronicle]
• Developer Jerome Karam Acquires Former Site of Dickinson Country Club and Golf Course for Gated Community [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Down Payment a Major Hurdle To Homeownership for Houston Millennials, Finds Apartment List [HBJ]
• The Top Features That Sell a Home in Houston, According to Zillow [HBJ]

Photo of Main Street: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Insurance Companies Prepare for Deluge of Claims Following Flood [HBJ]
• How Parts of Houston Got 5 Months’ Worth of Rain in 1 Night [Forbes]
• A Quick Formula for Converting Paved Area to Potential Additional Flood Damage Costs [Marketplace]
• Houston’s Flood Control Efforts Haven’t Kept Up With Population Growth and Urban Sprawl [AP]
• Houston Will Flood Again if More Land is Paved Over Without Developers Controlling Excess Runoff [Houston Chronicle]
• Homes Will Be Ruined Until Officials Fix Brays Bayou and Addicks and Barker Dams [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• National Weather Service’s New Flood Forecasting System Could Warn About Flooding Up to Days in Advance [Houston Public Media]
• City Has Installed 19 High Water Flashing Lights Since May, 8 More Planned [abc13]
• Houston Sublease Space Increased to 9.2M SF in First Quarter, According to Colliers International [Realty News Report]
• Purple Time Space Swamp Tumblr Captures the Abandoned Gas Stations, Rundown Storefronts, Concrete Expanses of Houston [Houston Press]
• Slideshow: The 6 Homes Featured in This Sunday’s Garden Oaks Homes Tour [HBJ]

Photo of I-45: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• More Flooding Possible as Thunderstorms Hit Houston Area Today [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Losses Could Be in the Billions After ‘500-Year Flood’ [Houston Chronicle]
• At Least 4 Deaths in Harris County, 1 in Waller County Blamed on Flooding as Hundreds Flee Their Homes [CNN]
• Eyewitness News Reporter Helped Rescue Man Trapped in High Water on Studemont Street on Live TV [abc13]
• Capturing Houston’s Flooded, Abandoned Freeways [Houston Chronicle]
• Photos of Neighborhood Flooding and Destruction from Houston Residents [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Could Better Data Keep Houstonians Safe During Floods? [The Urban Edge]
• Phoenix Tower on the Market, Could Fetch $104M According to Real Estate Alert [Realty News Report]
• Realtors Added 11,466 New Listings to the Houston Housing Market in March, Raising Inventory to 3.7 Month Supply, Finds Redfin Corp. [HBJ]
• A Sneak Peek at the Galveston Historic Homes Tour Kicking Off April 30 [Houston Press]

Photo: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Ongoing Flash Flood Warning Issued as Severe Weather Moves Through Houston [abc13]
• NAI Partners’ Joel Michael on Selling Cedar Port Industrial Park, America’s Largest Industrial Park [Realty News Report]
• Second Select Specialty Hospital in Houston To Close This Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Lavish Open Houses, Gift Cards, Technology Upgrades, Assistance with Closing Costs on the Table as Sales Slip [Houston Chronicle]
• Group Wants To Use BP Oil Money To Shield Galveston Beachfront from Future Development [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Eureka Heights Brew Co. To Open in Greater Heights This Summer [HBJ ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Planned Woodlands Goode Company Barbecue and Cantina Spot Will Include 2 Separate Adjacent Restaurants [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Area Could Have Fewer Jobs at the End of This Year Than It Started With [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of the Kemah Boardwalk: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Named One of the Best Cities for First-Time Home Buyers by SmartAsset [Realty News Report]
• Houston a Case Study in How Non-Zoning Regulations Can Produce Sprawl [The Urban Edge]
• Japanese Grocery Giant Hidejiro Matsu’s Ashford Village Shopping Center Supermarket Named Seiwa Market [Houstonia]
• Heights Resident Considers Moving to Avoid Traffic from Next Week’s 18-Month-Long Yale Street Bridge Closure [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• An Aerial Look at the Construction Progress Thus Far of Schlitterbahn Galveston’s Massive Watercoaster [abc13]
• ExxonMobil Seeks To Block Subpoena Over Climate-Change Documents [AP]
• Art Blocks at Main Street Square Aims To Activate Downtown Houston [Not Of It; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Travis Street: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Home Sales Fell 2.2% as Inventory Increased to 3.6 Months Last Month, Finds HAR [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston-Area Home Market Shows Resiliency Amid Oil Downturn [Houston Chronicle]
• Tunnels to Close as Houston Chronicle Building Becomes Parking Lot [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• New Hope Housing To Break Ground on First Mixed-Use Development This Week [HBJ]
• Sneak Peek Inside Martin Fein’s Olympia at Willowick Park Luxury Apartments [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Downtown Galveston Frost Bank Office Building Eyed for Apartments [Galveston County Daily News]
• City Approves $5M in Loans for Acquisition of Abandoned Crestmont West Apartment Complex [Houston Public Media]
• Booker T. Washington HS Breaks Ground on New $51.7M Campus [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• Astro Craig Biggio To Open 2-Story Sports Bar Biggio’s Inside the Marriot Marquis This November [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• More Details on Tout Suite’s Planned Second Houston Location Inside the Memorial City Mall [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Residents of TIRZ 17 Call for Self-Selected Representation on TIRZ Board Amid Flooding Concerns [Houston Press]
• Houston Homebuilder Casa Villarreal Builders Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy [HBJ]
• A Computer-Generated Video Ride of the World’s Tallest Watercoaster Coming to Schlitterbahn Galveston [Houston Press]

Photo of former Houston Chronicle building: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Academy Sports & Outdoors To Join Kroger Marketplace and Sam’s Club at Valley Ranch Town Center Near Porter [Houston Chronicle]
• Zara To Open Store in Recently Renovated Willowbrook Mall by December [HBJ]
• Kiran’s Indian Restaurant Signs Lease at Midway Mixed-Use Project Kirby Grove in Upper Kirby [Realty News Report]
• FreeRange Concepts Breaks Ground on The General Public, Its Second Restaurant Concept in CityCentre [HBJ]
• Kirby Ice House from Little Woodrow’s Owner Now Open at 3333 Eastside St. [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• 14-Acre Crestmont West Apartments in South Acres Abandoned Since Ike Now Eyed for Redevelopment [Houston Chronicle]
• HAR.com Adds Austin Home Listings, Now Offers 92% of All Real Estate Listings in Texas [HBJ]

Photo: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool