- Brookfield Office Properties Planning To Add More Outdoor Events, Music Programs, Concerts and Film Screenings at Its Properties [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Methodist Retirement Communities To Break Ground on League City Seniors Community Called ‘The Crossings’ [Prime Property]
- Houston Office Vacancy Rates Increased 0.1% to 11.9% from Fourth Quarter of 2013 to First Quarter of 2014 [Houston Business Journal]
- Average Wage Needed To Afford a 2-Bedroom Apartment in Houston is $17.81 an Hour, Finds Report [Prime Property]
- The Average Market Value of a Home in the Heights, Oak Forest Area Rose 27% in the Past Year [The Leader]
- City To Target 109 Blighted and Dangerous Properties Under Its ‘Make Safe’ Initiative [abc13]
- Metro Board Members Skeptical CAF USA Will Meet Revised Schedule To Deliver 39 New Trains for Light Rail Expansion [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- City To Host Final Mobility Meetings This Week for Heights-Northside, Northwest Areas [The Leader]
- 10-Foot-Tall Honeycomb with Thousands of Bees Discovered Inside Spring Home’s Garage [abc13]
- Bay City Rice Farmers Face Third Year in a Row Without Irrigation Water from the Colorado River [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Texans Encouraged To Plant Wildflowers To Help Monarch Butterfly Migration [AP]
- How To Get a Bluebonnet Patch in Your Own Front Yard [Houston Chronicle]
- Galveston Historic Homes Tour Running May 2-4, 10-11 [Covering Katy]
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RE: Heights prices…
I just bought a house around the $400k range in the heights, just got the HCAD statement, they’ve raised the value to $510k… All the previous increases for the property were in the 5-10k range.
It would be nice to hear that Brookfield was actually breaking ground on that skyscraper at Allen Center. Brookfield announced that building like 75 years ago (more like 4 but it feels like 75). On their website they make it seem like the building is imminent, when in reality it seems they don’t have the financing and it’s just real estate gimmick to make the company look like it has big plans for Allen Center—keep the “Art” and build the building you continue to advertise. If in like the 5th year of the boom you still can’t get this project off the ground maybe it’s time to remove the “imminent” from the discussion, just sayin’.