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• State Approves $90M in Emergency Funding To Help Expedite Debris Removal from Hurricane Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Harvey-Damaged East Houston Regional Medical Center Will Not Reopen [HBJ]
• Potholes Popping Up on Hurricane Harvey-Flooded Roads [Fox 26]
• Texas A&M University Flood Scientist Calls for Changes Like Building Homes 3 Ft. Above Flood Level [NPR]
• Lessons for Houston from Hurricane Sandy Recovery [abc13]
• Texas Library Organizations Win Nearly $300K in Grants for Harvey Recovery [Houston Chronicle]
• Nitya to Upgrade 35-Year-Old Norfolk Tower, Rename It Nitya Tower [Houston Chronicle]
• Navy Federal Credit Union To Open First Houston Branches [HBJ ($)]
• Farmers Market at Sugar Land’s Imperial Market To Close To Make Way for New Development [abc13]
• Grand Parkway Marches On Despite Arguments, Lawsuits, and Ethical Conflicts [Houston Chronicle]
• Mayor Orders ‘Deep Cleansing’ of Homeless Encampments Near Midtown and Minute Maid Park [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston First Corp.’s Augmented Reality App Lets You Explore Houston [HBJ]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Home Sales Continue Rise After Harvey, Latest HAR Numbers Find [HBJ]
• Best Buy To Build 550,000SF Distribution Facility in Fort Bend County [HBJ ($)]
• Meyerland Plaza Refinanced for $93M, Opening Door for Potential H-E-B Move-In [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• LePeep Leaving Westheimer Location After 30 Years, Relocating to Nearby Westheimer Location This Month [Houston Chronicle]
• Disappearing Neighborhoods a Cost of Selling a Flood-Damaged Home After Harvey [NPR]
• Analyzing Need After Harvey Through Calls to United Way of Greater Houston’s 211 Helpline [The Urban Edge]
• House Flood Insurance Program Reform Vote Delayed Until Next Week [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of 1500 Louisiana St.: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Ikea Inks 1M-SF Lease for Customer-Fulfillment Center in Baytown’s Cedar Port Industrial Park [Houston Chronicle]
• Saudi Aramco Subleases 200,000 SF in Downtown Tower [HBJ ($)]
• Fund with Backing from Eva Longoria and Chris Paul Buys Bridges of Cypress Creek Apartments in North Houston [Realty News Report]
• San Antonio-Based Joeris General Contractors Opens First Houston Office in Northwest Houston [HBJ]
• LGI Homes Sees Record-Setting Quarter [Houston Chronicle]
• Co-Working Company Spaces Opening First Houston Location on Sixth Floor of Kirby Grove Next Year [HBJ]
• Voters Overwhelmingly Support $495M in Public Improvement Bonds [Houston Chronicle]
• How Houston’s Newest Homes Survived Hurricane Harvey [Los Angeles Times]
• Making Houston Feel More Urban and Walkable [The Urban Edge]
• What To Expect for This Year’s Houston Via Colori Street Painting Festival [Houston Press]

Photo of the Astros World Series Parade: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• NAI Partners Broker: EaDo May Be Houston’s Next Hot Office Market [Houston Chronicle]
• Heights Mercantile is 99% Leased [The Leader]
• Australia Developer Caydon Property Group Secures Financing for $200M Midtown Residential Tower [HBJ]
• Katy’s Cane Island Community Now Links to I-10 with Opening of New Cane Island Pkwy. at U.S. 90 [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston’s Economic Fortunes Hinge Most on Whether the Oil Industry Regains Its Footing [Houston Chronicle]
• Texas Added More Construction Jobs Than Any Other State in the Month After Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Restaurant Sales Rebounded in Houston After Harvey [Nation’s Restaurant New]
• Real Estate Firm Stewart Information Services Might Put Itself Up for Sale After Falling Profits Blamed in Part on Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Three Stories, Out of Tens of Thousands, That Show a Houston Rebuilding After Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Korean Fried Chicken Chain Bonchon Opening Second Houston Location in Sugar Land [Eater Houston]
• Chain Restaurant Golden Krust Opening First Texas Location in Houston at 8236 Kirby Dr. [Eater Houston]
• Voters To Determine Future of Heights Liquor Laws at the Polls Today [Eater Houston]
• Mapping Where Tesla Plans To Open More Supercharger Stations in Houston [HBJ]
• Week-Long Closure of Connection from Eastbound U.S. 290 to Loop 610 Westbound Starts Thursday [Houston Chronicle]
• Texas Ranked Among the Top 10 Cheapest States to Live In by Student Loan Hero Report [HBJ]
• Texas Has Highest Percentage of Residents Wanting To Move Within the State Rather Than to Another, Finds LendingTree [Culturemap]

Photo of the Astros World Series parade: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• $70M Mixed-Use Project The Cannon To Start Construction Next Year Near I-10 and the Beltway [HBJ]
• Where Home Prices Have Increased and Decreased the Most Since Harvey [HBJ]
• What Downtown Houston Might One Day Look Like Tailored to Driverless Cars, Electric Vehicles, and Ride-Sharing Apps [Houston Chronicle]
• Bar Planned for Historic James Fadden Building on the Strand in Downtown Galveston [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• El Burro & the Bull Chef Opening Grocery in the Sixth Ward [Houstonia]
• International Smoke Restaurant Headed to Former Straits Space at CityCentre in 2018 [Houston Chronicle]
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Pops Up in Heights Mercantile [Glasstire]
• Property Owners Speak Out Against Montrose Management District [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
• The Health and Economic Problems Posed By the Sand Harvey Left Along Bayous [Houston Public Media]
• Some of the Research Studies Underway After Harvey [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Press Says Hurricane Harvey Was the ‘Final Straw’ As It Ends Print Publication [Houston Press]
• The Problems with the Government-Run National Flood Insurance Program [New York Times ($)]
• Houston Arboretum & Nature Center Plans Landscape Changes as Part of Restoration Effort  [Houstonia]
• Why Houston Needs More Protected Bike Lanes [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Sunday Streets Shuts Down Stretch of Gulfton to Traffic [Houston Chronicle]
• Crowd of Nearly 1 Million Turns Out Downtown for Astos World Series Champions Parade [MLB.com]

Photo of the Astros World Series victory parade: thranth via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Median Houston Home Sales Price Up 7.6% to $233,900 Year-Over-Year in Third Quarter, Finds NAR [Houston Chronicle]
• Pelican Builders Says 11 Sales Have Already Closed in Almost-Complete 96-Unit Wilshire Condo Tower on Former Westcreek Apartments Site [Houston Chronicle]
• Self-Storage Company Life Storage Reports Multimillion-Dollar Damage from Hurricanes in Texas, Florida [HBJ ($)]
• Cleanup Begins in Buffalo Bayou as Water Levels Now Low Enough to Reach Debris [Houston Public Media]
• Harvey Revealed New Challenges for Houston’s Power Grid as Substations Flooded [Houston Public Media]
• Sketch City Founder Jeff Reichman on the Volunteer Tech Team He Led During Harvey [The Urban Edge]
• With $500M in Ike and Dolly Relief Still Unspent, Will Texas Do Better After Harvey? [The Texas Tribune]
• U.S. Job Growth Expected To Be Up in October as Businesses Reopened and Rebuilding Work Began After Hurricanes Harvey and Irma [AP]
• TxDOT Acquiring Rights of Way Along 14 Miles of I-10 in La Marque for Expansion Project [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Houston ISD Closed Today After Nearly 1,000 Staffers Reportedly Requested Off [abc13]
• Opinion: What the Astros’ Win Means for Houston [New York Times ($)]

Photo of Downtown Houston after the World Series: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• City Council Refers MetroNational, Meritage Homes Plan To Build Spring Brook Village in Floodplain on Pine Crest Golf Course Back to Mayor [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• After Repeated Flooding, Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Now Plan To Move Out of Former Compaq Campus Next to Cypress Creek [HBJ]
• Dallas-Based HistoryMaker Homes Plans To Double Homes Underway in Houston in Harvey’s Wake [Houston Chronicle]
• What FEMA Applications Reveal About Harvey’s Impact Across Houston [The Urban Edge]
• There Are Enough Harvey Cases in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims To Warrant Its Own Drop-Down Search Menu [Houston Chronicle]
• A Tale of Two Neighborhoods on Opposite Sides of Houston After Harvey [Houston Public Media]
• The Difference Another Foot of Water Could Have Made at the Barker and Addicks Reservoirs [Houston Public Media]
• Airbnb Bookings Saw a 40% Boost Last Weekend During the World Series in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Sean Finn Acquires 2525 North Loop West Office Building [Realty News Report]
• NAI Partners Broker: Downtown Houston Has Enough Residents to Support More Grocery Stores [HBJ ($)]
• Houston Ranked Among 10 U.S. Metros That Have Changed the Most in 10 Years by MoneyMagnify [Culturemap]
• Astros World Series Victory Parade To Be Held Friday in Downtown Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Russian Facebook Pages Orchestrated Simultaneous Anti- and Pro-Islam Rallies at the Islamic Da’wah Center of Houston on Travis St. Downtown Last Year [The Texas Tribune]

Photo of shop on Gentry St. in Old Town Spring: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Report: Houston Rents Up 1.2% Over the Past Month [Apartment List]
• About the Same Number of Houston Apartments Were Rented in the Month After Harvey as They Are in a Typical Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Gov. Abbott’s $61B Harvey Package Includes New Houston Reservoirs, Buyouts of Thousands of Properties [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• City Council Scheduled To Vote Today To Allow Hundreds of Homes To Be Built in Spring Branch Floodplain [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Flood Recovery Czar Marvin Odum’s Rebuild Pitch Asks for 10M Volunteer Cleanup Hours [abc13]
• Housing Choice Vouchers for Flooded-Out Residents of Forest Green Townhomes Came from Oklahoma City Housing Authority [Houston Housing Authority; previously on Swamplot]
• Moody National Cos. Starts Construction on a Residence Inn by Marriott Near NRG Stadium [Houston Chronicle]
• Rolled Ice Cream Shop Chills 360 Will Squeeze Between Velvet Taco and East Hampton Sandwich Co. in Ruggles Grill Replacement Building on Westheimer at Montrose [Bisnow]
• Mayor Turner Testifies in Defense of City Ban on Temporary Structures [Houston Chronicle]
• How Philadelphia Used Tax Policy To Replace Off-Street Parking Spaces with Housing [Streetsblog USA]
• Charges Against Manafort Highlight Use of Airbnb for Real Estate Scams [Bloomberg]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• New Greater Houston Flood Mitigation Consortium Looks To Guide Regional Response After Harvey [Houston Chronicle ($); website]
• Houston Ranked Low for the Sustainability of Its Transit System in New Arcadis Report [HBJ]
• How Long Will Houston’s Post-Harvey Multifamily Market Rebound Last? [Bisnow]
• Mayor Turner: City Could Have To Make Adjustments About Granting Permits in Flood-Prone Areas [Houston Public Media]
• League City Residents Have Until Friday To Get Harvey-Related Debris on Curb for Removal [HBJ]
• National Science Foundation Grants UH Funds to Research Coastal Protection and Water Contamination After Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• League City Has $9.6B in Flood-Control Wants [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Harvey Sparks Renewed Interest in Dickinson Bayou Flood Mitigation [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Importance of Design in the Rebuilding Process [OffCite]
• H-E-B Store Expected To Be Built in Parking Area of Meyerland Plaza [Realty News Report]
• Pappy’s Cafe Relocating to Former Texas Land & Cattle Restaurant Space Next Year After 34 Years in Memorial Village [Houston Press]
• Despite Rumors to the Contrary, Brasserie 19 Is Not Relocating Amidst The Driscoll at River Oaks Construction [Culturemap]
• New Houston Mod Book Showcases Work of Midcentury Architects Arthur Evan Jones and Lloyd Morgan Jones [OffCite]

Photo of Discovery Green: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Oil Industry Swings Back as ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips Report Surging Third-Quarter Profits [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• New Homes Sales Rise, Prices Dip in Houston in September, Finds HomesUSA.com [Houston Chronicle]
• Allied Orion Group’s Eighteen25 Apartment Complex Near the Pierce Elevated Now Complete [Realty News Report]
• Commerce Green Office Park in Sugar Land Now Fully Leased [Houston Chronicle]
• Here’s a Look at the New Plans for Uptown Park [HBJ ($)]
• $15.9M Funding Request for Post Oak Bus Lanes Project Held Up [Houston Chronicle]
• Freedmen’s Town Could Become a UNESCO World Heritage Site [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• The Complete Story of the WWII-era Tank Parked on River Oaks Blvd. [Texas Monthly]
• Harvey-Damaged Sugar Creek on the Lake Office Complex Reopening Nov. 15 without Tenant Telecheck Services [HBJ]
• Last Harvey Shelter at Greenspoint Mall Emptied Just as World Series Came in Houston [ESPN]
• Emmett’s Idea for Regional Floodwater Management Organization Makes a Lot of Sense [Space City Weather]
• Latest Tally for Rebuild Texas Relief Fund Puts Donations at $78.3M [Houston Chronicle]
• Hurricane Harvey Drove Houston’s Undocumented Population Further Underground [HuffPost]
• Stars of HGTV’s ‘Fixer Upper’ Give a Hand Rebuilding Harvey-Damaged Houston Home [abc13]
• Harvey Brought Houston One Of Its Most Crime-Free Days in Recent Memory [Houston Chronicle]
• Here’s Another Chance To Get Well-Water Testing from Texas A&M [Houston Chronicle]
• Sylvester Turner: Houston Is Bouncing Back Thanks to Its People [HuffPost]
• Carmelo’s Ristorante Italiano on Memorial To Close Later This Year After 37 Years in Houston [Eater Houston]

Photo of Critical Mass on Allen Pkwy.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Falls 20 Spots on ULI’s Annual List of Real Estate Markets to Watch [HBJ]
• Infrastructure Repairs After Harvey Expected To Exceed $100M in Harris County [Houston Public Media]
• Home Repair Permits Quadruple in Wake of Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Tenants at Harvey-Damaged Legacy Apartments in Northeast Houston Say They Were Given 6 Days To Evacuate [Houston Public Media]
• KHOU Scoping Out a New Location After Studio Flooded During Harvey [mikemcguff.com]
• Chef Bryan Caswell’s Harvey-Damaged Midtown Restaurant Reef Plots Comeback with Major Interior Revamp [Eater Houston]
• How Hurricane Harvey Might Affect the Houston Housing Market [Urban Institute]
• City’s Plan To Address Homeless Camps Near Minute Maid Park [Click2Houston]
• Freshwater Species Caught in Harvey Runoff Turn Up in Coastal Fisheries [Houston Chronicle]
• Slideshow: Take a Tour of FedEx Ground’s New Cypress Facility [HBJ]
• Texas 146 Expansion Project Prompts Popular Seabrook Sandwich Shop Neptune Subs To Close [Houston Chronicle]
• Annise Parker: How Houston Reduced Homelessness [The San Diego Union-Tribune]

Photo of Axelrad: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Some Homeowners May Not Get Harvey Relief Funding Until 2020 [Houston Chronicle]
• New Class-Action Lawsuit Seeks At Least $500M for Damage from Barker and Addicks Flooding [Houston Chronicle]
• After Harvey Damage To Its HQ, McDermott Subleases Almost 200,000SF from GE Oil & Gas [HBJ ($)]
• Private Water Wells in Harris County Test Positive for Contamination After Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Suspended Since Harvey, Curbside Recycling To Resume Nov. 13 [Houston Chronicle]
• Dickinson Council Removes Israel Pledge from Harvey Relief Applications [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• NAI Investment Fund Picks Up Spring Park Village in Spring [Houston Chronicle]
• Hobby Center Restaurant Artista To Be Replaced Next Year [Houston Food Finder]
• Pizaro’s Pizza Planning Third Houston Location [HBJ ($)]
• The Threat of Evictions to America’s Renters [Apartment List]
• Syrian Artist Creates Tableaus Inside Suitcases, Showing the Homes Refugees Left Behind [Mashable]

Photo of Heights Mercantile: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• After Fighting To Repeal Dry Law, H-E-B Breaks Ground on New Heights Store [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Pennsylvania-Based REIT Starts Construction on 2 Spec Buildings Near Port Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Weingarten Sets March 2018 Date To Break Ground on New River Oaks Shopping Center Residential Tower [HBJ]
• FedEx Building $18M Distribution Center in Conroe Park North Industrial Park After Tax Abatement Approved [Houston Chronicle]
• Harris County Commissioners Court Approves Buyout of 34 Harvey-Damaged Properties [Houston Chronicle]
• Assessing Harvey’s Impact on the Real Estate Industry 2 Months Out [Realty News Report]
• Environmentalists Worry Industry Could Thwart Cleanup of San Jacinto Waste Pits [The Texas Tribune]
• Data-Powered Map HealthyEnviron Highlights Environmental Hazards in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside Houston’s Swankiest Hotel Suites Catering to the World Series [abc13]

Photo of Minute Maid Park World Series watch party: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Where Houston, Other Texas Metros Fall on Moody’s Amazon HQ2 Rankings [HBJ]
• Houston’s Amazon Pitch Centers on ‘Innovation Corridor’ Along Metro Light Rail Line from Downtown to Medical Center [Houston Chronicle]
• How Midway Is Pitching Its East River Development To Companies Like Amazon in New Promotional Video [HBJ]
• Velocis Acquires Two Sugar Creek Office Building in Sugar Land [Realty News Report]
• Crowne Plaza Hotel Slated To Open in Oak Ridge North Dropped [Community Impact Newspaper]
• ‘Harvey-Like Rains’ Inside Fluff Bake Bar Force Bakery To Close Temporarily [Eater Houston]
• True Food Kitchen Opening Second Houston-Area Location Next Year with Spot in Woodlands Mixed-Use Development Market Street [HBJ]
• West University Place To Spend $4.2M on Cameras at Every West U Entrance and Exit [InstantNewsWestU.com]
• TxDOT Seeking Environmental Clearance on I-10 Project Slated To Begin in 13 Years [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston County Won’t Be Reappraising Harvey-Damaged Properties [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Digging in Houston Ship Channel Sediment To See What Toxic Substances Hurricane Harvey Spread [Houston Public Media]
• Most Major Houston Attractions, Hotels, Restaurants, Parks and Stadiums are Back Up and Running After Harvey [New York Times ($)]
• Opinion: Who Will Protect the Workers Cleaning Up Houston? [The Guardian]

Photo of Market Square Park: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Home Sales Up 4% Year-Over-Year in September Following August Slump, Finds National Association of Realtors [CNBC]
• Texas AG Investigating Debris-Removal Companies That Might Be ‘Overpromising and Under-Delivering’ [Houston Chronicle]
• Applications for Harvey Repair Grants in Dickinson Include Language from State Law Requiring Applicants To Certify They Agree Not To Boycott Israel [Huffington Post]
• Houston Lost Nearly 25,000 Jobs in Harvey’s Wake [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Harvey Might Deepen Houston’s Economic Divides [NBC News]
• Slideshow: Inside Houston’s First ‘Micro Condos’ at Parc @ Midtown [Houston Chronicle]
• Tilman Feritta’s Post Oak Project Slated To Open Early Next Year [Realty News Report]
• Heights Retail Center Crossroads at Cavalcade Going Up at 20th and Main St., Adjacent to NewQuest Properties Retail Project [Culturemap]
• Houston-Galveston Area Council Seeking Additional $15.9M in Federal Funding for Uptown Bus Lanes [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Consumer Website MagnifyMoney: Houston One of America’s Most Dramatically Changed Cities [HBJ]

Photo of Discovery Green: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool