- SkyHouse Houston Set To Open Downtown Next Month Almost a Quarter Preleased [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
- Restaurant and Bar Weights + Measures, Slow Dough Bakery Planned for Former Parking Garage Building at 2808 Caroline St. in Midtown [Culturemap]
- Red Dessert Dive and Coffee Shop Now Open at Studewood and 11th St. [Eating Our Words]
- Bernie’s Burger Bus Restaurant with Actual Indoor Bus Opening Sometime This Week in Bellaire [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- Downtown Coffee Shop, Bake Bar, and Cocktail Spot The Honeymoon Now Open on Main St. [Eater Houston]
- Niko Niko’s To Open Inside Pearland H-E-B Plus at Texas 288, FM 518 in 4–6 Weeks [Prime Property]
- Ricky Craig, Ronnie Killen’s Joint Heights Steakhouse Falls Through, Craig To Go Forward with New Concept [Culturemap]
- La Cevicheria Opens Down the Street from La Fisheria [Food Chronicles]
- Historic Gus Wortham Golf Course To Remain a Golf Course if Citizens Can Raise $15M for Renovations [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
- Thieves Steal Potted Plants from Porches ‘All the Time’ in Woodland Heights, Say Residents [Click2Houston]
- Alligator Caught at McDonald’s Drive-Thru at FM 1093 and FM 1463 in Fulshear [Covering Katy]
- Dioxin Superfund Site Partially Submerged in San Jacinto River Highly Vulnerable to Storm Surge, Says A&M Scientist [MyFoxHouston]
- Beer Can House, Cadillac Ranch, Big Tex Voted Among Best Quirky American Landmarks [USA Today via Culturemap]
- ‘Funnel Tunnel’ Selected Among the Top U.S. Public Arts Projects by the Public Art Network Year in Review [Glasstire; previously on Swamplot]
- Midtown Properties Tenant Says She Got Evicted After Complaining to Houston Press About Parking Policy [Hair Balls]
Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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On Gus Wortham,
By the mayor’s logic… should we expect every park in this city to turn a profit? Ridiculous. I can’t believe I voted for her.