Meredith Deliso

• Caldwell Releases New Renderings, Video for Mixed-Use Waterfront Project The Boardwalk at Towne Lake [HBJ]
• Dallas-Based Regis Property Management Buys 6-Story Boutique Uptown District Office Building at 770 S. Post Oak Lane [HBJ]
• Pearland Town Center Retail, Hotel, Restaurant, and Residential Project To Now Also Include a 60K-SF Office Building [Prime Property]
• Venterra Realty Acquired 420-Unit Multifamily Community The Preserve at Colony Lakes in Stafford [Realty News Report]
• Real Estate Investor John Beeson Picks Up 73.2 Acres of Undeveloped Katy Land Along Katy Hockley Rd. Likely for New Homes [HBJ]
• Chevron To Cut 950 Jobs in Houston By the End of This Year Amid Low Oil Prices [Fuel Fix]
• Retrospect Coffee House To Open in Former Gulf Coast Oil Gas Station at W. Alabama and La Branch This Fall [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Harris County Commissioners Approve $848M Bond Proposal That Will Primarily Go Toward Improving Roads [Houston Public Media]
• Metro Officials Looking for Ways To Reduce Number of Rail Accidents After Record-Setting 17 Crashes in June [Houston Chronicle]
• Lane Closures on Allen Pkwy. To Start Monday as $11M Redesign Project Begins [Culturemap]
• City Considering Charging Homeowners $15-$20 a Month to Cover Trash Collection and Recycling Expenses [Click2Houston]
• Dredging Project That Will Add 20 Blocks of Galveston Beach Between 61st and 81st Streets Start Aug. 15 [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• 4-Alarm Fire Guts at Least 60 Units at the Gentry House Apartments at 9001 Kempwood Last Night [Houston Chronicle]
• A Loose Cobra Was Roaming the Halls of The Rice Luxury Downtown Apartments Over the Weekend [Houston Chronicle]
• New Program at Texas A&M’s Disaster City Preparing Firefighters for Accidents Involving Crude-Carrying Trains [Houston Public Media]

Photo of former Kirby Court Apartments on Steel St.: Swamplot inbox

• Braun Enterprises Redeveloping 3 Buildings on West Gray and Dunlavy into 1 or 2 Restaurants, Retail [HBJ]
• Lone Star College Building a 8.3-Acre Process Technology Center in Generation Park [HBJ]
• Westcase District’s Campaign To Increase Occupancy Rates in Its Class B Office Space [Prime Property]
• Houston Neighborhoods That Are Hot, and Somewhat Hot, for Multifamily Development Amid the Oil Slump [HBJ]
• The Median Home Price in Texas Was $209,500 in June, Up from $193,400 a Year Earlier [Prime Property]
• Home Buyers in Harvest Green Community at West Airport and the Grand Pkwy. Can Elect To Get a Backyard Vegetable Garden [Prime Property]
• Mayor Parker Tweets That There Have Been 285 Tickets Issued on Downtown’s Protected Bike Lane Since Its Debut [The Highwayman]
• Oil Prices Hit a 4-Month Low Yesterday at $47.39 Per Barrel [Click2Houston]

Photo of Alexan Wilcrest at I-10 Frontage Rd. and N. Wilcrest Dr.: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• New Owners of EaDo’s Old Cheek-Neal Coffee Building Might Restore It as a Boutique Hotel or Hub for Creative Workers [Houston Chronicle]
• Detering Co. Consolidates Buildings on Washington Ave. To New HQ at 6800 Helmers St. [HBJ]
• How Houston Has Become a ‘Tenants’ Market’ Amid Low Oil Prices [National Real Estate Investor]
• Hinze’s BBQ To Rebuild Restaurant in Wharton Near U.S. 59; Will Keep Temporary Location Open, Too [Houston Chronicle]
• Poscol Reopens a Few Blocks Down Lower Westheimer from Its Previous Location [Food Chronicles; previously on Swamplot]
• TXDoT Wants To Sell the Land Under the Pierce Elevated, Killing the Idea of a Pierce Elevated Park [Houston Strategies; previously on Swamplot]
• Metro Preparing for a 25% Increase in Rider Complaints Once New Bus Routes Go into Effect Next Month [Houston Public Media]
• Slideshow: A Look at the Winners of the 2015 AIA Houston Design Awards [Culturemap]
• David Adickes Is Making a 100-Ft.-Tall Astronaut Sculpture for a Webster Business Park [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Gulf Coast Commercial Group Buys 21-Acre Tarkett Site Near Downtown from Texas Tile Manufacturing for $40M [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Senterra Behind a 16-Story Office Tower at 3003 Louisiana on Former Van Loc Site [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston’s Industrial Market Is Tighter Than Any Other Major Metro Area in Texas with Vacancy Rate of 4.8%, Says CBRE [HBJ]
• Salata Chain Opens New Downtown Location in Greenstreet Redevelopment at 1201 Fannin [Food Chronicles]
• Woodrows Heights on Washington Ave Closed for Renovations Since June Reopening Aug. 21 as The Durham House Cajun & Craft [Culturemap]
• MOD Pizza Signs Leases on 5 Houston Locations, Plans To Open Another 30 Within the Next 4 to 5 Years [Prime Property]
• McMurtrey Gallery on Colquitt St.’s Gallery Row Closing After 35 Years [Glasstire]
• How the City of Houston, Metro, and Harris County Are Splitting Up the $23M BP Settlement [Houston Public Media]
• The City of Houston Has Paid Contractors $1.1M Over the Past 3 Years To Cut the Grass on Its Vacant Lots [KHOU]
• Slideshow: 10 Texas Lakes During the Worst of the Drought vs. the End of the Drought [Houston Chronicle]
• Metro Reviewing HOV Lane Violation Tickets After Board Member Mistakenly Stopped [MyFoxHouston]
• Allen Brothers Were Just Stand-Ins for the Real Founder of Houston, and They Didn’t Even Stick Around [KHOU]

Photo of Fountains at Memorial City parking garage mural: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Landlords Offering Free Rent for 6 to 12 Months, Parking Allowances To Tenants During Soft Office Market [Realty News Report]
• Houston Suburbs of Richmond, Brazoria County See Strong Retail Growth, Finds CBRE Research [Realty News Report]
• The Story of the Colorful, Modern, Affordable Housing Development Avenue Place in Near Northside [The Urban Edge]
• Developer of the Domain West Apartment Project Near the Energy Corridor to Cover ‘Eyesore’ Parking Garage [Houston Chronicle]
• George Bush Intercontinental Airport To Open American Express Centurion Lounge in New Terminal D in 2016 [HBJ]
• Remodeled TGI Fridays with ‘More Modern’ Interior Reopens in Pearland at 2600 Smith Ranch Rd. [Prime Property]
• Houston-to-Dallas High-Speed Rail Moves Forward as Developer Texas Central Partners Raises $75M in Private Investments [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside the Montrose Townhouses of David Lackey, Proprietor of David Lackey Antiques & Art and ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Appraiser [PaperCity Magazine]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Retail Rental Rates Increased in the Second Quarter to $23.46 Per SF on Average from $22.21 Per SF, Finds CBRE [HBJ]
• 23,700 Apartment Units Are Currently Under Construction Across the Houston Area, According to CBRE [Houston Chronicle]
• Richland Cos. Picks Up 550 Post Oak in Galleria Area for New HQ, Planning Renovations To Make it a More ‘Boutique-Type Building’ [HBJ]
• Heights Theatre, Victorian 308 Main St., Historic Homes in Southampton and River Oaks Set to Become Historic Landmarks [Prime Property]
• Salt N Pepper Group Looking Into Opening a New Restaurant in Downtown’s Sweeney Coombs & Fredericks Building [HBJ]
• Brenner’s on the Bayou Has Re-Opened After Closing in May Following Floods [Eater Houston]
• A Second Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Pearland Slated To Open in October [Prime Property]
• Webster, Stafford, Katy, Deer Park, and Texas City Among Top 10 Texas Cities for New Businesses, According to NerdWallet [Houston Chronicle]
• Montgomery County Officials Want To Make Sure Proposed Houston-to-Dallas High-Speed Rail Stays Out of Montgomery County [Houston Public Media]
• Clean Harbors San Leon Wants To Dump Up to 350,000 More Gallons a Day of Treated Stormwater and Wastewater from Oil and Petroleum Waste into Dickinson Bayou [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• A Map of Houston Tow Truck Violations in 2015 [Houston Chronicle]
• Not a Single Texan Is Still Impacted By Drought Conditions, According to the Newest U.S. Drought Monitor Report [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Pearl Residences and CityCentre Pearl: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Stowers Building Currently Being Transformed into Aloft Hotel, Will Open Next Summer [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Developers Working on 1,170 Home Lots in Texas City [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• WalletHub: Houston, Dallas, Austin Have Best Real Estate Climate in U.S., Just Not When It Comes to First-Time Homebuyers [Prime Property]
• Helen Greek Food & Wine Set To Open Tomorrow in Former Kahn’s Deli Space at 2429 Rice Blvd. [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Azuma Group’s New Japanese Bar Izakaya Set To Open ‘Any Day Now’ at 318 Gray in Midtown [Food Chronicles]
• Sub Zero Ice Cream & Yogurt Franchise Enters Houston Market with Lease in Vintage Marketplace [Prime Property]
• Shuttered 6-Month-Old Wash Ave Restaurant Beirut Fine Lebanese Cuisine Relaunching as Fig & Wasp Mediterranean Cuisine [Food Chronicles]
• Can Car-Crazy Houston Become Bike-Friendly? [Texas Observer]
• Ash Ward’s Paintings of Houston Architecture, Including City Hall, the Old Macy’s Building, Now Up at Ladybird’s [Houston Chronicle]
• The Complicated Legacy of Victor Gruen, aka the Father of the American Shopping Mall [Quartz]

Photo of the Mosaic Condos: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Pelican Builders To Break Ground on 17-Story, Galleria-Area Condo Tower The Wilshire on Site of Former Westcreek Apartment Complex on Aug. 4 [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• ‘Scattered-Site’ Public Housing in Galveston May Be Replaced with Mixed-Income Housing Development [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Houston Neighborhoods with the Biggest Home Value Growth, According to Zillow [Prime Property]
• Inside Brick & Mortar Kitchen, the Restaurant Adjacent to the New Grand Pkwy. Gallery Furniture [Culturemap]
• Behind-the-Scenes Photo Tour of Houston Hobby Airport’s New Terminal Currently Under Construction [AirlineReporter; via Houston Chronicle]
• Circular Bus Services Expansion in Houston Driven By Construction Boom [Houston Chronicle]
• Year-Long, $10M Renovation of Upper Kirby District’s Levy Park To Begin Today [Prime Property]
• On Average the City Is Repairing a Stretch of Lawndale Near Pasadena Every 6 Weeks [abc13]
• Rice Military Residents Fighting Speeding, ‘Frequent’ Accidents with New Traffic Management Program [The Leader]
• Neighborhood Feud Brewing Over Horse Sanctuary and Deed Restrictions in Semi-Rural Spring Hills Subdivision [Houston Chronicle]
• League City Implementing Stage 2 of Its Drought Contingency Plan During Repairs To Main Water Supply Line [Click2Houston]
• Another Labor Filmed with a GoPro on a Houston Highway, This Time on Beltway 8 [MyFoxHouston; previously on Swamplot]
• Swamplot Illustrator and Her Business Partner Will Draw You as a Cat [Kickstarter]

Photo of Brays Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Johnson Development Unveils Master Plan for Development of Former Camp Strake Property in Conroe [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Buyer of San Jacinto Mall Plans To Tear All or Most of It Down, Start Over [Houston Chronicle]
• Pace of Leasing Slowed Down While Vacancy Rates Went Up in Houston in the Second Quarter, Finds Colliers International [Realty News Report]
• Strength of Midstream and Downstream Energy Industry Fueling Demand for Apartments in East Houston [HBJ]
• Houston Rent Became Unaffordable for Millennials Late Last Year, Following Other Big U.S. Cities [Bloomberg; via Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Has the Lowest Rate of Market Penetration for Solar Power Among Major Texas Markets, According to BuildZoom [HBJ]
• Residents Near the New Domain West Apartment Complex Petition Against ‘Ugly’ Open-Air Parking Garage Behind Beautiful Strip Center [Houston Chronicle]
• A Map of Houston’s Civic Center Circa 1937 [Houston Chronicle]
• The DIY Aerial Photos of Instagram User ‘HoustonHeroe’ [Houston Chronicle; stream]
• In Texas ‘Colonias,’ Third-World Conditions Are the Norm [The Urban Edge]

Photo of Comet Cleaners, 2612 S. Shepherd Dr. at Westheimer: Allyn West

• More Houston Single-Family Homes Were Sold in June Than in Any Month on Record, Reports HAR [Prime Property]
• Houston Second in the Nation in Number of Apartment Permits Issued Over the 12 Months Ending in May, Finds Axiometrics [HBJ]
• NewCoast Properties Starts Construction of Seagrass Beach Development on Bolivar Peninsula [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Nation’s Largest ‘Creative Campus’ Taking Shape Around Proposed Artist Alley in First Ward [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Developers Hoping First Ward Art, Washington Ave Cultures Will Mix at New Brewery in Artist Alley Next to Silver Street Studios [Houston Chronicle]
• Ellington Spaceport Anchor Tenant Intuitive Machines Foresees Eventual Consolidation of Company HQ on Site [HBJ]
• Katy-Based Academy Sports + Outdoors Relocating Spring Store, Opening 2 New Locations in Missouri City and Cypress [HBJ]
• Krispy Kreme’s Anticipated Houston Return Now Bumped to End of August [Isiah Factor]
• After Contractor Default, Work To Resume on Stalled Segment of U.S. 290 Widening Project in October [The Highwayman]
• New ‘My Galveston’ Campaign Aims To Lure Young Professionals To Live and Work in Galveston [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Recounting the Strange History of the Vacant Property at 731 E. Eighth St. in the Heights [Houston Press]
• Philly House That Launched Postmodern Architecture Now Available for $1.75M [Curbed]

Photo of “Preservons la Creation” at 2800 San Jacinto: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• China’s Strategic Capital Buys 372-Unit Broadstone Post Oak Apartments Just South of the Waterwall [Realty News Report]
• A List of the 9 Residential Projects Currently Under Construction Downtown and the 9 More on Tap [HBJ]
• Goody Goody Liquor Taking Over Woodway Square Shopping Center Space Vacated by Whole Foods Market [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
• Sugar Land’s Awkwardly Named $84M Performance Center Aiming for a Fall Opening [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Midway Says It Had Downtown Post Office Under Contract Before Lovett Commercial Until Negotiations Fell Through [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• A List of Houston’s 15 LEED Platinum-Certified Projects [Prime Property]
• Houston Adding More Restaurants, Bars, and Hotels per Resident Than All but 6 Other U.S. Cities, Finds SelfStorage.com [Culturemap]
• Houston Graded a ‘D’ by Renters for Quality-of-Life Metrics in National Study by Apartment List [Prime Property]
• Reports Hint at Future Sea-Level Impacts in Texas [Texas Climate Change]
• How the Original Clear Lake City in 1974 Compares to the Community Today [Prime Property]
• Dallas and Houston Becoming Too Expensive for Artists Who Don’t Want To Be Broke [Glasstire]
• Winter Descends in an Air-Conditioned Houston [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Millennium Kirby: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Analysis of Early HAR Data Shows June May Have Been Highest-Dollar Residential Real Estate Sales Month Ever [Tom Plant’s Houston Real Estate Blog]
• Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio Saw an Average 1% Drop in Condo Sales from January to May Over Same Period Last Year [Culturemap]
• Slideshow: What ExxonMobil Colony Springwoods Village Looks Like Now, 5 Years After It Was Announced [HBJ]
• Second Building at DCT Northwest Crossroads Logistics Centre Now More Than 50% Full After Sunny Sky Lease [HBJ]
• Noble Energy To Close Rosetta Resources’ Downtown Headquarters at 1111 Bagby St., Lay Off Staff During Acquisition [Fuel Fix]
• After Completion of Glassy Renovation, People Are Actually Noticing the Mickey Leland Federal Building Downtown [Houston Chronicle]
• New Pearland Salata Features Revamped Design with an ‘Instagram-able’ Iced Tea Tap [HBJ]
• New Microbrewery Holler Brewing Slated To Open in the First Ward at 2206 Edwards St. [HBJ]
• State Holds 60,000 Acres in Undeveloped Park Lands [Houston Chronicle]
• New Study To Explore How To Create a More Walkable Museum Park District [Prime Property]
• How Houston Can Sprawl Gracefully To Accommodate 10M People in the Next 20 Years [Houston Strategies]

Photo of skywalk traffic at the corner of Woodway and S. Post Oak: Swamplot inbox

• Packers Plus Energy Services Consolidating Houston Operations into Single Campus in Tomball Business and Technology Park [Prime Property]
• Sempra Energy Moves Its Southeast HQ from South Carolina to Houston [HBJ]
• San Antonio, Houston, Austin, DFW Top List of Metro Areas at Risk for Home Price Declines, Finds Arch Mortgage Insurance Co. Report [Prime Property]
• CDC Houston Planning 3 New Neighborhoods in Springwoods Village [HBJ]
• Homes in Springwoods Village Neighborhoods Harper Woods, Audubon Grove Selling for More Than Originally Expected [HBJ]
• Residents of Creekside Park Neighborhood in Harris County Want It To Be More Like the ‘Real’ Woodlands [Houston Chronicle]
• Saltair Seafood Kitchen Now Open in Former Brio and Pesce Spot at 3029 Kirby [Food Chronicles; previously on Swamplot]
• Ridership on Metro’s 2 New Rail Lines Less Than Expected So Far [Houston Chronicle]
• Sugar Land City Council Approves $500K Contract To Expand Hwy. 6 from Brooks St. to Lexington Blvd. [Your Houston News]
• Kemah Officials Consider Making Main Streets Near Boardwalk One-Ways To Improve Traffic Flow [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• How Other Cities Have Taken Down or Rethought Central Freeways [The Urban Edge]

Photo of West U Marketplace Shopping Center in former Bellaire Theater: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Imperial Market at Shuttered Sugar Land Refinery ‘Not Just a Shopping Center Site’ [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• UH System Looking for New Site in Katy for State-of-the-Art Academic Building; Bonds for $50M Expansion Approved by State [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Ryko Development Looking To Add 50 Acres of Strip Centers, Big Box Stores, and Pad Sites Along Westpark Tollway at Grand Pkwy. [HBJ]
• 35 of 740 Homes Sold So Far at The Reserve at Clear Lake City [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• D’Amico’s Owner Opening Fellini Gelato & Caffe in CityCentre in August; Considering Downtown and Rice Village Locations [HBJ]
• Nourish Juice Bar Opening Later This Month at 1000 W. Gray [Eater Houston]
• Jersey Mike’s Subs Opening Next Week at 3091 College Park Dr. in The Woodlands [Your Houston News]
• Aerospace Company Sierra Nevada Plans To Add More Employees, Infrastructure in Houston Following Spaceport Approval [HBJ]
• $8.7B Infrastructure Plan Passes City Council [Houston Public Media]
• Walking in Houston is a Horrific Adventure, a Pleasure Endangered [Houston Chronicle]
• Los Angeles Unveils Houston-Like Plan for Improving Bus Service [The Highwayman]
• Fox Orders Modern Adaptation of the 1980 Film ‘Urban Cowboy’ to Pilot [Houston Chronicle]
• Bellaire Resident Holding Benefit Concert To Help Replace Car Totaled During Memorial Day Weekend Floods [Houston Public Media]
• Why All the Small Gaps and Missing Streets in Google Street View? [PCWorld]

Photo of Kirby Court Apartments demolition: Swamplot inbox

• Timeline for CityPlace, Springwoods Village’s Town Center, Delayed; Office Building Planned To Be Done This Year Won’t Break Ground Until Next Year at the Earliest [HBJ]
• Construction Began Last Month on The Mark at CityPlace Springwoods Village Apartment Complex [HBJ]
• Dallas Company Buys East Houston Packaging, Tires, and Plastics Warehouse on Market St. Next to Budweiser Plant and Ship Channel [Realty News Report]
• Gracepoint Homes Planning 15 Four-Story Townhomes Named ‘Rebekah’ Near Taft and W. Drew St. in East Montrose [Prime Property]
• Allied Orion Group Breaks Ground on Southfork Lake Apartments, Backing up to 288, in Manvel [HBJ]
• Trash Catches Fire at River Oaks Highrise Condo Conversion at 3433 Westheimer [Culturemap]
• Starwood Planning New Aloft Hotels in The Woodlands and the Energy Corridor as Well As in Stowers Bldg. Downtown [HBJ]
• Expanded HQ at 16720 Park Row for Salad Chain Salata Will Include Room for Training, Dressings, Soups, Sauces [Prime Property]
• Dallas-Based Pizza Restaurant Cane Rosso Signs Lease for Montrose Office-Building Location; Heights Spot Already in the Works [Culturemap]
• Closed Since May 27 After Floods, Brazos Bend State Park Now Reopen [Houston Chronicle]
• Week-Old Traffic Signal at Greenbriar and US-59 Was Installed Too High To See, Say Drivers [KHOU]
• Missouri City Cyclists Have New Designated Bike Lanes Along Thomas Taylor Pkwy. [Houston Public Media]
• Galveston Kite Store Can’t Fly Kites Above Business Because It’s Against City Code [Galveston County Daily News]
• ‘Bee Czar’ Walter Schumacher of the American Honey Bee Protection Agency Is Here To Help [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of White Oak Bayou: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool