Meredith Deliso

• Everson Developments Planning Retail, Medical, and Commercial Development on 11 Acres at Research Forest Dr. and Egypt Ln. in Magnolia [Prime Property]
• San Jacinto College Building New 57-Acre Campus in Generation Park [Prime Property]
• Worthing Cos. Planning 328-Unit Apartment Complex on 15.4 Acres in East Village Section of Harper’s Preserve [Prime Property]
• Tipler Design & Build Starts Construction on 147 Resort Homes in Tiger Woods Golf Course Community Bluejack National [HBJ]
• More Details on La Grange, the Cantina Opening May 26 in Former EJ’s Spot in Montrose [Culturemap]
• B&B Butchers and Restaurant Opening May 26 in Dittman Bakery Building at 1814 Washington Ave. [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Clear Lake Shores To Host Trial Run of Food Truck Park This Weekend at 1002 Marina Bay Dr. [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Apartment List Survey Grades Houston a ‘D’ on How Satisfied Renters Are To Live Here [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Ranks in Bottom Third of National Parks Survey, with Low Marks on Accessibility [Houston Public Media]
• Animated Map TRAVIC Shows Mass Transit on the Move in Major Cities Across the Globe, Including Houston [The Highwayman; map here]

Photo of Greenway Plaza: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Tool-Flo To Move into New 80K-SF Headquarters, Manufacturing Facility in Pearland [HBJ]
• Groundbreaking Ceremony for Midtown Superblock Scheduled for May 28 [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• A Week After Opening, Bayou Bend Business Park in Southwest Houston Is 63% Leased [HBJ]
• Most Expensive Real Estate in Houston, per SF: A Plot in Glenwood Cemetery [HBJ]
• The 40 Most Expensive Houston Neighborhoods To Rent an Apartment, According to Apartment List [HBJ]
• Framing Goes Up on First-Floor Addition of Jacked-Up Heights House at 500 Teetshorn [Prime Property]
• I-10 Toll Rates To Increase by up to $1.20 Starting May 30 To Help Ease Congestion During Peak Hours [Houston Chronicle]
• The Evolution of Houston’s Light Rail [Houston Public Media]
• Sprawl Creates Challenges for New On-Demand Delivery Services Setting Up in Houston [HBJ]
• Industry-Friendly Bills Would Weaken Citizens’ Ability To Request Environmental Hearings by Putting Burden of Proof on Protestors [Houston Chronicle]
• Lakeside Homeowners Want To Suspend Plan To Tap Lake Conroe for Drinking Water [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Wood Partners apartments, 4020 Koehler St.: Swamplot inbox

• Kirksey Report Predicts Recent Increases in Core and Shell Construction Costs for Houston Office Buildings Will Flatten This Summer, May Drop in Fall [HBJ]
• Greenville, South Carolina-Based Land Brokerage Firm National Land Realty Expanding into Houston [HBJ]
• Select Specialty Hospital — Houston Heights at 1917 Ashland St. To Close by July 3 [HBJ]
• Sneak Peek at La Grange, Opening in Former EJ’s Spot in Montrose [Eater Houston]
• Fluff Bake Bar To Open in Midtown at 314 Gray on May 28 [Food Chronicles; previously on Swamplot]
• Full Text of Metro’s Agreement with U.S. Rep. John Culberson for University Line Referendum, Commuter Rail Line on U.S. 90A [Houston Chronicle]
• Bill Signed into Law by Gov. Abbott Will Make It Tougher for Cities To Regulate Oil and Gas Drilling, Fracking [Houston Public Media]

Photo of I-10 at Yale St.: Swamplot inbox

• Construction Begins Today on 2-Story 30K-SF Strip Center in Magnolia, off FM 2978 and FM 1488 [Houston Chronicle]
• Tomball To Build 153-Acre Grand Parkway Town Center off Texas 249 and Grand Pkwy. with a Sam’s Club and Everything [Houston Chronicle]
• Renoir and Gotham Residents Withdraw Request for Temporary Restraining Order Against Senior Living Facility Planned Between Them [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
• Drees Custom Homes To Build in Spring, Richmond, and Cypress Neighborhoods [Houston Chronicle]
• A Tour of the Native Plants, Trails, Waterways, New Trees, and Oil Drilling Sites in Cross Creek Ranch [Houston Public Media]
• Montrose Restaurant Eleven:Eleven Closes in Former Biba’s Location After Owner Sells Building [Culturemap]
• Mala Sichuan Now Open in Former Mo Mong, Dua Spot at 1201 Westheimer Rd. [HBJ]
• Williams Brothers Construction Wins Contracts for 2 More Segments of U.S. 290 Covering More Than 25 Miles from Loop 610 [The Highwayman]
• River Oaks District Will Offer App-Based Valet Service, Free Self-Parking When It Opens [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Third Ward Homeowner Discovers Tombstone in Back Yard [abc13]
• For First Time in 3 Years, No Part of Texas Falls Within U.S. Drought Monitor’s Most Severe Classification [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Atropos Key by Hannah Holiday Stewart at Miller Outdoor Theater, Hermann Park: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Conceptual Plan for Dense, 30-Acre ‘TMC3 Innovation Campus’ Immediately South of Main Texas Medical Center Campus Includes Retail, Hotel, Conference Center, Medical Space [Prime Property]
• Almost a Year After Oil Prices Began Their Slide, It Still Feels Like a Boomtown in the Bayou City [Dallas Morning News]
• Average Home Sale Prices in Cinco Ranch, Cross Creek Ranch, and Firethorne Were Lower This April Than Last [Covering Katy]
• Why a German Investment Firm Bought 1000 Main After Other Potential Buyers Dropped Out [HBJ]
• The Challenges Developers Like Hines Face in Constructing Energy-Efficient Buildings [Urban Land Magazine]
• Senior Housing Real Estate Sector Has Remained Untouched By Oil Slump, Says CBRE Executive [HBJ]
• Why Some Millennials Are Putting Off Homeownership [Houston Chronicle]
• La Fisheria Will Close 4705 Inker Spot in 2 or 3 months, Relocate to a More ‘Visible’ Downtown Spot, Add Woodlands Location [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• Metro Convinces Rep. Culberson To Include Language in Bill That Would Allow Federal Funds To Be Used for University Line if New Referendum Is Approved By Voters [Houston Tomorrow]
• Houston Ranked No. 7 on WalletHub’s List of the Most Diverse Cities in America [Culturemap]
• Video Sanctum Buys 100,000-Plus-Item Inventory from Shuttered Audio/Video Plus [Video Sanctum; previously on Swamplot]
• The Logistics Behind Midtown’s First Try at an Art-Inspired Crossing, at Elgin and Louisiana [Houston Chronicle]
• Self-Guided East End Cultural District Open House Tour This Sunday Will Show Area’s Boom in ‘Craft Industrialism’ [Culturemap]
• Buildings by Houston Firms KinneyMorrow Architecture, Glassman Shoemake Maldonado Included in 2015 Design Awards [Texas Society of Architects]
• Now You Can Own a ‘Mattrose’ T-Shirt [The Texican; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Downtown: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Home Sales Record Strongest April Ever with 6,502 Single-Family Homes Sold, Says HAR [Realty News Report]
• Downtown Houston Population Could Be 10,000 in 5 Years, According to Nonprofit Downtown Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• ULI Report: Millennials Can’t Afford to Live Downtown [Realty News Report]
• $1.5M in Improvements Planned for Downtown’s Lyric Centre Include Updates to Lobby, Elevator Cabs, and Deli, New Fitness and Conference Centers [PRWeb]
• Council Member and Architect David Robinson Renovating Downtown Warehouse at Hutchins and Bell for Lighting & Electrical Sales Company [The Architect’s Newspaper]
• ULI Conference Visitors Tour Astrodome for Inspiration on Renovation [Click2Houston]
• Real Estate Brokers Formerly Part of UCR’s Houston Office Rebrand as Streetwise Retail Advisors [HBJ]
• Tiny House Proponents Work To Change City Codes To Allow More Houses on a Lot [MyFoxHouston]
• Persona Wood Fired Pizzeria Enters First Houston Franchise Agreement; 5 Locations To Open Over Next 4 Years [HBJ]
• Houston Needs More Public-Private Partnerships To Fund Education, Infrastructure To Attract Top Talent, Says Rich Kinder [Fuel Fix]
• City Council Approves Plan To Add More Cameras To Monitor Illegal Dumping [Houston Chronicle]
• The Cucumber Dirigible That Will Be Flying Over Houston Airspace This Weekend [Houston Chronicle]
• 4 Venomous Snakes Someone Living in the Greater Houston Area Might Encounter [Houston Press]

Photo of McGovern Centennial Gardens: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Sale of Downtown Post Office, Shutting Down This Friday, Now “in the Process of Negotiations” [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
• Morgan Group Lured Whole Foods Market into Its Smith St. Apartment Complex with Additional Half-Block Acquisition, Closing of Rosalie St. [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• U.S. Silica Co. Signs On as First Tenant in Katy Ranch Phase I Office Building Under Construction at 24275 Katy Fwy. [Prime Property]
• Archway Properties Relocates 2 100-Year-Old Oak Trees in the Way of the Second Phase of Wildwood Corporate Centre [GlobeSt.com]
• KB Kasuals Now Open in Hughes Landing in The Woodlands [Houstonia]
• River Oaks Theatre ‘Is, Like, a Really Old Theater’ [Houston Chronicle]
• Controversial Buffalo Bayou Redo Known as the Memorial Park Demonstration Project Now Open for Public Comment Through June 5 [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• Pearland, Dayton, Friendswood, Fresno, Cleveland Have the Worst Commutes in Houston, Proclaims Nerdwallet [HBJ]
• City Council To Decide This Week Whether or Not To Add More Cameras To Monitor Illegal Dumping [KHOU]
• How Houston Could Take Mattress Marketing to the Next Level [Not of It; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Yale St. Market at former site of San Jacinto Stone: Swamplot inbox

• Crow Holdings Capital Fund Buys 27 Industrial Buildings in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth [Realty News Report]
• Toll Brothers Holding Grand Opening of Woodson’s Reserve off Grand Pkwy. Extension Project June 13-14 [HBJ]
• Heritage Home Builders Planning Apartments Near Texas Medical Center for Medical Tourists [HBJ]
• Aldi Opening Its 20th and 21st Houston Stores on May 14 at 10064 Almeda Genoa Rd. and 14130 FM 2100 [HBJ]
• Sneak Peek at Lawless, Opening on the Second Floor of the Rice Lofts This Month in Former Capitol Club [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Austin Juice Bar Juiceland Set To Open Houston Location in the Heights at 3210 White Oak Dr. in August [Eater Houston]
• Galveston Residents Plan To Sue City Over Permit for Seawall Hotel [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Metro To Celebrate Opening of 2 New Light Rail Lines on May 23 with Free Ne-Yo Concert [MyFoxHouston]
• Brick Street View Shows Houston Built By Legos [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Hardy Toll Rd.: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• United Airlines, Houston Airport System To Break Ground on IAH’s New Terminal C North Concourse Today [HBJ]
• Archway Properties To Break Ground on 8-Story Spec Building at GeoSouthern Energy’s Wildwood Corporate Centre Campus in May [HBJ]
• Three Hughes Landing Office Building, Embassy Suites Simultaneously Top Out in Hughes Landing [HBJ]
• Home Sales To Begin in Village of Sawmill Lake, the Last Major Undeveloped Part of Sienna Plantation [HBJ]
• Darling Homes Built the Most Houses in The Woodlands Last Year with 85 New Home Sales [Prime Property]
• Stag Provisions Opening in the Former Buffalo Hardware Location in Upper Kirby/River Oaks on May 22 [Houstonia]
• What $325,000 Buys in and Around Houston Right Now [Houston Chronicle]
• Brazoria Residents Shoot Down $1.75M Bond Referendum That Would Have Funded a Christian-Themed Water Park [Houston Chronicle]
• I-45 Widening from 3 to 5 Lanes from Dixie Farm Rd. to Bay Area Blvd. To Offer Relief to Commuters, Beach-Goers by Late 2017 [Houston Chronicle]
• Metro To Debut New High-Tech Tools for Customers, Bus Routes in Fewer Than 100 Days [Click2Houston]
• Mapping Rice Village’s Lot and Street Parking Inventory [Kinder Institute for Urban Institute]
• Montgomery County Voters Reject More Than $350M in Proposed Road Bonds — Again [Houston Chronicle]
• League City Commuter Bus Service Connect Transit Working To Provide Service into Downtown Houston [Houston Public Media]
• Since 2014 More Than 6,600 Citizens Have Complained About Parking Meters to Houston’s 311 Hotline [KHOU]
• Unlike Other Cities, Houston Doesn’t Pay for Pothole Damage [KHOU]
• Galveston Tourism Reached New Highs in 2014 with 6M Visitors Who Spent More Than $723M [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• As EPA Pushes for Cleaner Air, Refineries Push Back [Houston Public Media]
• Volunteers on the Lookout on Galveston Beach for Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Nests [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Most Energy-Efficient Home in Houston [MyFoxHouston]

Photo of former American Rice Growers storage silos: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Archway Properties To Break Ground Next Month on 8-Story, 200K-SF Spec Office Building 1 Mile North of ExxonMobil’s New North Houston Campus [Realty News Report]
• Oil Prices Have Bottomed Out, Limiting Potential Damage to Houston Economy, Says TIAA-CREF Economist [Houston Chronicle]
• Multiple Offers but No Purchase So Far of Historic Heights Theater on the Market for $1.9M [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• Tilman Fertitta Building 5 Private ‘Villa’ Suites at the San Luis Resort in Galveston; Will Open Early This Summer [Prime Property]
• Walter’s Downtown Raises $20K To Pay off Debt and Stay Open in 8 Days Through Indiegogo [Houston Public Media]
• Outlaw Dave’s Worldwide Headquarters at 6502 Washington Has Closed [Houston Press]
• Transform or Tear Down? 3 Ideas for What To Do with the Pierce Elevated If I-45 Gets Re-Routed [City Lab; previously on Swamplot]
• New $14.5M 2,200-Car ‘EcoPark II’ IAH Parking Lot Will Be Built on Current Site of Cell Phone Lot on Will Clayton Pkwy. [Houston Chronicle]
• Montgomery County To Vote Tomorrow on Bond Issue That Includes Proposed Woodlands Parkway Extension [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Swamplot inbox

• Transwestern Sells 4 Houston Multifamily Properties Totaling 704 Units [Realty News Report]
• Hines’s 17-Story River Oaks Office Tower San Felipe Place On Track for ‘Substantial Completion’ in Mid-June, 30% Leased So Far [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Planned Community Developers Acquires 5-Acre Site on Brooks Lake in Sugar Land for New Office Building, Hotel [HBJ]
• Houston Homebuilders Got More Permits in First Quarter of 2015 Than Same Time Last Year, Finds U.S. Commerce Department Data [HBJ]
• The Top 25 Houston Housing Market Areas with the Biggest Price Increases from 2010 to 2014 [Houston Chronicle]
• Kimberly and Beau Harding of the Kimberly Harding Group Open ReMax Franchise in League City [HBJ]
• Bernie’s Backyard Food Truck Park and Entertainment Venue To Open This Summer on I-45 in Tomball [Community Impact Newspaper]
• Gourmet Grocery Concept Planned for 2701 Broadway in Galveston [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• A Jacked-Up Woodlands Heights Bungalow Renovation at 500 Teetshorn [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Places Third on Financial Times’ List of the ‘American Cities of the Future,’ Behind San Francisco and New York [Houston Chronicle]
• National Trust for Historic Preservation’s ‘This Place Matters’ Social Media Campaign Returns [Next City]
• Missed Connection on U.S. 59 Near Texas 242 [Houston Chronicle]
• High-Speed-Rail Opposition Group Says It’s Coordinating Lobbying Efforts with Southwest Airlines, but Southwest Claims It Isn’t [CityLab]

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

• Midway Says One Grove Street in Upper Kirby Is 60% Leased [Realty News Report]
• Texas Home Sales Up 4% in First Quarter of 2015 Over Same Quarter Last Year, Inventory at All-Time Low, Says Texas Association of Realtors [Realty News Report]
• Judge Ed Emmett’s Visit to Germany’s Tropical Islands Showed Him Astrodome Plan is ‘Clearly Doable’ [Houston Public Media]
• Bernie’s Burger Bus Will Open Its Second Location, in La Centerra in Katy [Culturemap]
• Maryam Afshari Moves Shepherd Dr. Boutique Baanou To Her Tanglewood Home [Houstonia]
• Gateway Design Planning New Museum Park Coworking Space and Home at 2004 Binz St. [HBJ]
• The Past and Future of I-45 [Houston Chronicle]
• Southwest Airlines Claims It’s Not Involved with Group Fighting Proposed High-Speed Rail Between Houston and Dallas [Texas Tribune]
• An Ode to Hermann Park [Texas Monthly]
• Texas Bill To Boost Water Desalination Projects in the State Moves to Senate Committee [HBJ]
• Nearly 150,000 Fort Bend County Homeowners Sent the Wrong Property Tax Bill [Click2Houston]

Photo of Discovery Green: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Songy HighRoads’ 325-Room Hyatt Regency Hotel Houston Galleria at Sage and W. Alabama Has Topped Out [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Johnson Development Adding Restaurants, Shops, Offices, Maybe a Grocery Store to Riverstone in Sugar Land [HBJ]
• Harris County Ranked ‘Below Average’ for Income Mobility [Houston Chronicle; more here]
• Stafford City Council Approves Plan for Mixed-Use Project on 192-Acre Texas Instruments Site [Realty News Report]
• Everything We Know So Far About ExxonMobil’s Springwoods Village Campus [Urban Land]
• Houston Home Sales Up 0.2% Year-Over-Year in the First Quarter, According to the Texas Association of Realtors [HBJ]
• Toll Brothers Planning 850-Home NorthGrove at Spring Creek Near Magnolia [Houston Chronicle]
• 4 Custom Builders from The Woodlands To Create ‘South Carolina Lowcountry’ Homes for New Stillwater Development South of Conroe [HBJ]
• Renderings of Gensler’s Design for the Houston Chronicle’s News Digs in the Former Houston Post Building [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
• Austin-Based Pluckers To Open Second Houston Location Early Next Year on Site of Shuttered 59 Diner at 10407 Katy Fwy., Just Inside Beltway 8 [Prime Property]
• Dosi Restaurant & Soju Bar at 2802 S. Shepherd To Close May 10, Reopen as a New Restaurant May 15 [Food Chronicles]
• Bubba’s Shrimp Palace To Take Over Former Sudie’s Seafood House Spot at 325 I-45 N. [Galveston County Daily News]
• Inside Variedades Puebla, a Tiny Shop That’s Survived 23 Years in Monrose on Richmond Avenue [Montrose District]
• More Than 2 Dozen of Brett Zamore’s Shotgun-Meets-Dogtrot Kit Homes Have Been Built in the Houston Area [Houstonia]
• Houston Leading the Way in Large-Scale, Ambitious Urban River Projects [Urban Land]

Photo of Downtown: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Fort Bend County Leads the Way in Diversifying Houston Area, Finds Kinder Institute Survey [Houston Chronicle; full report]
• Slow Dough Bread Co. Buys Whole Foods Market’s 40K-SF Production Kitchen at Beltway 8 and US-59 [Culturemap]
• Why Houston’s Housing Market Hasn’t Crashed Yet [Wall Street Journal]
• Artists Hold ‘Vigil’ for Boarded-Up House on Jefferson St. in EaDo Sold as Part of Eminent Domain Action To Make Way for HISD High School [KHOU]
• HCC System’s List of Questionable Real Estate Deals Include ‘Worthless’ Land in Floodplains, Vacant Warehouse [abc13]
• Some of ‘City’s Oldest and Most Established Families’ Launching New ‘Brand’ of Multi-Million-Dollar Spec Homes Called the Hampton Lane Collection in River Oaks, Tanglewood [Culturemap]
• Houstonia Magazine To Take Over Storefront at George Bush Intercontinental Airport [HBJ]
• First TMC Building Gets a Historic Plaque [Culturemap]
• The $75M-$100M in Improvements Planned for the Addicks and Barker Dams [Houstonia]
• New $1.2M White Oak Bayou Greenway Bridge Connecting to Heights Hike and Bike Trail Now Complete [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Why Downtown and the Pierce Elevated in Particular Are Congested Even Outside of Rush Hours [Purple City]
• Houston One of the Most Diverse and Most Segregated Cities in the U.S., According to FiveThirtyEight Analysis [Houston Chronicle]
• Ozone Leves Still Suck, but Houston Ranks Among the Cleanest Cities in the Country for Short-Term Particle Pollution, Says New American Lung Association Report [Culturemap]
• Residents of River Oaks Apartment Complex at 2001 Westheimer Warned Not To Use Their Balconies Because of Potential Railings Glitch [Click2Houston]
• Sebastien Boileau’s 150-Ft.-Long Ed-U-Gator Mural Now Complete Near UH-Downtown at Main and I-10 [Houston Chronicle]
• Kicked Out of Kyle Field, Bats Invade Texas A&M Buildings [Texas Tribune]

Photo of Dairy Land, now open at 310 Cavalcade St.: Brent Oldbury

• Houston Ranks Third Among U.S. Metro Areas for Construction Jobs Added Over Past Year [Houston Public Media]
• Downtown Boosters Boost Downtown [Houston Chronicle]
• How BG Group Place Took Off In Spite of Downtown Setbacks [Urban Land Magazine]
• Food Town Buys Gerland’s from the Levit Family for an Undisclosed Amount, Gains 6 New Stores [HBJ]
• Buffalo Bayou Event Space The Dunlavy Could Open by October [Culturemap]
• Sellers Bros. Grocery Store That Anchors the Stella Link Shopping Center To Close [Prime Property]
• Traffic the Biggest Quality of Life Problem in Houston, Finds Kinder Institute’s 2015 Houston Area Survey [HBJ]
• TxDOT To Solicit Bids for $410M, 26-Mile Tollway Project from FM 1774 in Pinehurst to Texas 105 Near Navasota [Houston Chronicle]
• Texas House Approves Bill That Would Devote More Than $3B in General Sales Tax Revenue Each Year to Highway Fund [Texas Tribune]
• Fire Guts Hampton Inn in Seabrook, Near Johnson Space Center [Houston Chronicle]
• Greater Houston Chapter of the Community Associations Institute Launches HOA Hotline [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside the Former Soviet Military Hangar Converted to a Tropical Resort Judge Emmett Is Checking Out in Germany [abc13]
• Officials Think They’ve Found Astrodome Time Capsule Beneath Concrete Footing in Retaining Wall, But Decide Not To Dig It Up [Houston Chronicle]
• Couple Says Homeowner Kicked Them Out of Airbnb Rental in Galveston Because They’re Gay [Click2Houston]
• Good Brick Tour and Galveston Historic Homes Tour To Take Place This Weekend [Houstonia]

Photo of 1400 Hermann Dr.: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool