Meredith Deliso

• Redfin Launches New Home Value Estimate Tool in Houston [HBJ]
• The Houston Neighborhoods Where Rents Are Rising and Falling the Most [HBJ]
• New Temenos Building That Provides Services for the Homeless Opens Near Downtown [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• The Last of the Blair House Apartments at 4139 Bellaire Blvd. [Houston Streetwise; previously on Swamplot]
• Dallas Firm CyrusOne Opens First Phase of Houston West III Data Center at Its Massive Campus in the Energy Corridor [HBJ]
• Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Expanding To Sugar Land’s Imperial Market [Houston Chronicle]
• State Officials To Detail Plans for Elevated Managed Lanes Along Loop 610 at Meeting Next Week [Houston Chronicle]
• Pemex Opens First Gas Station Outside of Mexico in Houston, More Planned [Houston Chronicle]
• Ranking the Houston-Area Suburbs with the Most Things To Do [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Sunset Coffee Place: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Proposed La Porte Town Center Would Include a New Mickey Gilley’s Dance Hall [Houston Chronicle]
• Kroger-Anchored Retail Center Shadow Creek Marketplace in Pearland Changes Hands [Realty News Report]
• Co-Working Space The Headquarters Aimed at Technology and Creative Class Opening in the East End [HBJ]
• Final Steel Beam of Smart Financial Centre Under Construction in Sugar Land Installed [Houston Public Media]
• The Blue Fish Will Complete Restaurant Row at Hughes Landing in The Woodlands When It Opens Early Next Year [HBJ]
• New 20-Acre North Houston Bike Park Will Feature a BMX-Sanctioned Race Track, BMX Freestyle Amenities, Street Courses [Houston Chronicle]

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

• Long-Abandoned Melrose Building in Downtown Houston Being Developed into a Le Meridien Luxury Hotel [Houston Chronicle]
• Hanover Co. Under Contract To Buy Land in the Galleria Area Likely for New Luxury Apartment Project [HBJ]
• In Wake of ExxonMobil’s Move To The Woodlands Greenspoint Has Lowest Occupancy Rate of Any Houston Submarket [Houston Public Media]
• The Most Expensive Homes in Houston Are in Memorial, West University, Fulshear [HBJ]
• Top 10 Most Expensive Houston Neighborhoods To Rent an Apartment, According to Transwestern [HBJ]
• How the Fight Against Urban Renewal Shaped 1970s Houston [CityLab]
• Dick’s Sporting Goods To Open 5 Stores in the Houston Area Next Year [HBJ]
• Brookstreet Bar-B-Que Opening Fifth Houston-Area Location, First in the Inner Loop, in Montrose Next Spring [Culturemap]
• Mattress Firm To Acquire HMK Mattress Holdings in Deal Valued at $780M [HBJ]
• Photos of Abundant Parking Space on Black Friday Get Anti-Sprawl Activists All Riled Up [Strong Towns]

Photo: thranth via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Smithco Development, Mischer Investments Break Ground on HEB-Anchored Cypress Creek Plaza in Cypress [Realty News Report]
• Phase 3 of BLVD Place in Uptown in the Works, Will Look Just Like Phase 2 [HBJ]
• Gulf Coast Commercial Group Considering Building Stacked Big-Box Retail Development at Tarkett Site Near Downtown [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• A More Pronounced Slowdown May Be Materializing in Houston, Caution Macquarie Analysts [Business Insider]
• Cresa’s André Granello on the Current Office and Industrial Conditions in Houston [Realty News Report]
• What Houston Can Do To Create More Affordable Housing [HBJ]
• Japanese Dollar Store Daiso Planning To Open 50 New Stores in Texas Starting Primarily in Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth [Houston Chronicle]
• Pinkerton’s Barbecue Opening at 1504 Airline Drive in the Heights Area Early Next Year [Culturemap]
• Galveston City Council Approves $4.9M Contract To Install Long-Awaited Improvements on Seawall Blvd. [Galveston County Daily News ($)]

Photo of Sri Meenakshi Temple in Pearland: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Piney Point Village Has the Largest Homes in Houston and the Nation [HBJ]
• Historic Woodland Heights Prairie-Style Mansion at 205 Bayland Taken Off the Market, Will Be Remodeled [Houston Chronicle]
• West Loop, Southwest Fwy., Northwest Fwy. Segments Ranked Among Top 50 Worst Bottlenecks in the U.S. [abc13]
• Houston’s Outgoing Director of the Office of Sustainability on the City’s Green Future [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Discovery Green: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Former ExxonMobil Office Space at Greenspoint Place Now Leased By Champion Pipe & Supply [HBJ]
• University of Houston Regents Approves $60M Hofheinz Pavilion Renovation [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Pelican Builders Opens First Model Units in Luxury Residential Project Ashlar Commons in Montrose [HBJ]
• How Scientists Are Working To Save Native Texas Plants Threatened By Climate Change [Houston Public Media]
• Montrose Homeowner Fighting To Protect American Elm Tree Being Chopped Down To Make Way for Concrete Fence [abc13]

Photo of Houston Via Colori 2015: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Shelved Regent Square Mixed-Use Project at Site of Former Allen House Apartments ‘Ready To Go’ [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Construction To Start on First Phase of Texas A&M Maritime Campus in Galveston This Month [Realty News Report]
• Downtown’s Louisiana St. the 15th Most Expensive Street in America with Average Rent $43.67 Per Square Foot, Finds JLL [Culturemap]
• The Texas Medical Center Has Ambitious Plans for a New Houston Campus [The Urban Edge]
• Hakkasan Group, Simon Property Group To Open Chinese Dim Sum Teahouse Yauatcha at the Galleria Next Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Bernie’s Burger Bus Opening Third Houston Outpost in the Heights at 22nd and Yale Street in Late Summer 2016 [Houston Chronicle]
• El Tiempo Cantina To Open Latest Houston Location at 21810 Kingsland Blvd. in Katy in February [HBJ]
• Art Studios Made from Shipping Containers Coming to the Fifth Ward Near I-10 off US-59 [HBJ]
• Pearland Officials Planning Pear Art Sculpture Trail To Foster City’s ‘Sense of Place’ [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• OrangeStone Capital Closes on 8989 Westheimer, Plans To Redevelop Office Building [Bisnow]
• Avanti Senior Living To Break Ground on Assisted-Living Community in Tomball Next Year [HBJ]
• San Antonio-Based McIver Properties Opens First Houston Office, To Specialize in Commercial Real Estate Land Acquisitions [HBJ]
• Mobility, Air Connectivity Key Concerns for State as ‘Texas Triangle’ Expected To See Massive Growth in Coming Years, Says CBRE Research [Realty News Report]
• Galveston City Council Approves How To Spend Remaining Hurricane Ike Recovery Money [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Mapping Which Houston Neighborhoods Have Higher Rates of Heart Attack, Stroke, Asthma [Click2Houston]

Photo of McGovern Centennial Gardens: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• McCord Development Planning New Hotel, Office/Retail Building, Apartment Project Called Redemption Square in Generation Park [HBJ]
• Video: Inside First Phase of Baybrook Mall’s Massive Expansion [HBJ]
• New Retail, Restaurants and Entertainment Options Coming to CityCentre [Houston Chronicle]
• Goode Co.’s Armadillo Palace on Kirby Drive Undergoing an Expansion That Will Triple It in Size [HBJ]
• Nature-Themed Parks Becoming More Prevalent in Houston Master-Planned Communities [Houston Chronicle]
• University of Houston Architect Students Design Urban Farm Proposed for Sunnyside [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston Eyes Ways To Stop Erosion Along Highland Bayou Canal Near Homes in Hitchcock Subdivision [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• 12-Foot-Long Alligator Captured Outside First Colony Commons Shopping Center in Sugar Land [abc13]

Photo of Minute Maid Park: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Wulfe & Co. To Develop East Shore Placed Mixed-Used Project in The Woodlands [HBJ]
• Johnson Development Corp. Buys 590-Acre Tract in Richmond for 2,500-Home Master Planned Community [Realty News Report]
• New Redevelopment Project with Retail, Office Space Planned for East Montrose [Montrose Management District]
• How Houston Can Avoid a Negative Moody’s Downgrade [HBJ]
• Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty Presidents Martha Turner, Tom Anderson Step Down into Chairman Emeritus Roles [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston City Council Set To Approve $38.5M of Remaining Hurricane Ike Recovery Money [Galveston County Daily News ($)]

Photo of The Treehouse at Memorial City: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Galleria Office 4600 Post Oak Place Sold for Undisclosed Amount [Houston Chronicle]
• Oden Hughes Acquires 18.7 Acres Near Katy Mills Mall and Grand Pkwy. To Build New Parkside-Branded Class A Apartment Project [HBJ]
• Houston Likely at Midpoint of Downturn That Will Last Another 12-18 Months, Says Greater Houston Partnership’s Patrick Jankowski [HBJ]
• Houstonians Are Better Off Buying Than Renting a Home, According to Zillow [HBJ]
• 8th Wonder Brewery Opens New Taproom, Beer Garden at Its East Downtown Location [HBJ]
• 11.9-Mile Segment F-1 of Grand Pkwy. Between U.S-290 and State Hwy. 249 On Track To Be Completed This Year [Your Houston News]
• Why Houston Isn’t Getting a Price Break on New Pavement Despite Low Oil Prices [Houston Public Media]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Urban Land Institute Panel Says Downtown Living Initiative Could Spur More Development in the East End [HBJ]
• Transwestern Predicts Houston’s Commercial Real Estate Market Will Soften in 2016 [HBJ]
• Wulfe & Co. Chairman and CEO of Ed Wulfe on the Future of Houston’s Shopping Center Scene [Realty News Report]
• First Hotel Opens in Springwoods Village Near Exxon Campus [HBJ]
• Houston Community College Plans To Funnel $8.5M Back into Delayed North Forest Campus Included in 2012 Bond Package [Houston Chronicle]
• Original Killen’s Steakhouse Set To Close Saturday in Pearland, New Killen’s Steakhouse Set To Open Monday in Pearland [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston-Dallas High-Speed Rail Won’t Go into Downtown, U.S. 290 and Loop 610 Likely End of the Line [Houston Chronicle]
• TXDOT Proposes Lowering the Speed Limit on I-10 to 65 from 75 on a 15-Mile Stretch Between Houston and Beaumont [Houston Public Media]
• Top 5 Neighborhoods with the Worse Streets in Houston [Click2Houston]
• Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Transformed Billboards into Works of Art Along 2,400 Miles of I-10 [Smithsonian]
• One of the Hottest Architecture Books on the Market Right Now Is a Coloring Book [The Urban Edge]

Photo of McGovern Centennial Gardens: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Phase Two of 2100 Post Oak Blvd. Office Tower On Hold For Now [HBJ]
• Houston-Area Home Sales Fell 10% in October, The Biggest Drop Since Spring 2011, Finds HAR [Houston Chronicle]
• Average Houston Rent Hits Record High, Climbing 6.5% Year-Over-Year in Third Quarter to $1,007, Finds Marcus & Millichap [Houston Chronicle]
• H-E-B Now Open in La Porte as Anchor of Deer Park Shopping Center [HBJ]
• Dave & Buster’s Opening Entertainment/Dining Complex at Baybrook Mall on Monday [Houston Chronicle]
• Why Houston is More Congested Than Dallas [The Urban Edge]

Photo: Jackson Myers via Swamplot Flickr Pool