Headlines

• Firm Behind Market Square Park Tapped to Design New Downtown Houston Park [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• UH President to Present Board with Two Potential Sites of New Medical School [Houston Chronicle]
• Studies Suggest Downtown Skyscrapers, Metro Land Development Exacerbated Harvey Flooding [News and Tribune]
• Vacation Rental Management Company Partners with Developers and Property Managers to Make Vacant Units Airbnb-Ready [Houston Chronicle]
• Katy Boardwalk District to Break Ground on First of Two Apartment Complexes in Early 2019 [Community Impact]
• Fulshear, West U, Highland Village, Friendswood Among Top 50 Safest Cities in Texas [Houston Chronicle]
• Spicy Wings and Boba Tea Chain Coming to Westchase in April 2019 [Eater]
• Restaurateur Behind Reef, El Real Opening Washington Ave. BYOB Beer and Wine Spot near Timbergrove [Houston Chronicle]
• Green Space, Trees Prioritized in Woodlands Development [Community Impact]
• Orangetheory Fitness Adds 18th Houston Location on Louisiana St. in Midtown [Houston Chronicle]

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

• Developer Breaks Ground on Second Ward Warehouse Redo Between Commerce and Canal St. [HBJ ($), previously on Swamplot]
• Construction Underway on Four-Story Senior Living Apartments on Augusta Pines Dr. in Spring [Houston Chronicle]
• Bike Sharing Service Adds Five Stations to Texas Southern University Campus [Houston Chronicle]
• City Council Reaffirms League City’s Palomino Bridge Project as Residents Object [Community Impact]
• Interview with Rice’s Jim Blackburn on How Katy Prairie Landowners Could Help Houston Fight Flooding [Houston Chronicle]
• Officials Hopeful for $1B Federal Harvey Recovery Aid Within the Month [Texas Monitor]
• Florida Company Removes Woodlands Waterway Cruisers Damaged in Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
• Travis St. in Midtown Among Tex-Mex Chain Fajita Pete’s 10 New Locations [Restaurant News]
• City of Pearland Considers Resident’s Proposed 3.75 Acre Animal Slaughterhouse on Garden Rd. [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Elgin St. at Main St.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• How the East End and Alief Could Make Use of Federal Opportunity Zone Funds [Bisnow]
• Grand Prize, Cantina Barba Owners Partner for Restaurant and Bar in Former Moving Sidewalk Space on Main St. [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• The Harp on Richmond Ave. Closes for Real This Time [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Imperial Sugar Mixed-Use Redo Still On Track Despite Foreclosure [Bisnow; previously on Swamplot]
• Chicago Investment Firm Signs 8-Year Lease on Post Oak Pkwy. in Uptown [HBJ]
• Waste Management Relocating to Capitol Tower in Largest Downtown Office Lease of the Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston First Seeks Restaurant or Entertainment Venue for Ground Floor Space in GRB [HBJ]
• New Midtown Irish Pub Jack & Ginger’s Opens this Week on Brazos St. [Eater]
• Bellaire City Councils Approves Development of Existing Buildings on Former Chevron Property [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Capitol Tower and Pennzoil Place: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Rice Village Tapas Restaurant Mi Luna Shutters [Houston Chronicle]
• Darkhorse Tavern on Washington Ave. Closed Monday After Driver Crashes into Building [abc13]
• University of Houston-Clear Lake Campus Adding Its First Residence Halls [Community Impact]
• 609 Main St., Heights Mercantile, Moody Gardens Redevelopment Among ULI Houston’s Annual Awards Finalists [HBJ]
• UBS Wealth Management Moving from Galleria Location to Town & Country Blvd. [Houston Chronicle]
• Coworking Space Leases First 3 Floors of Two Post Oak Central on Post Oak Blvd. [Houston Chronicle]
• Pokeology’s Sawyer Yards Location Debuts Over the Weekend [Eater; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Heights Mercantile: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Imperial Sugar Factory Intended for Mixed-Use Afterlife Gets Sold in Foreclosure [Houston Chronicle, previously on Swamplot]
• Houston To Start Fundraising for a Pressure Wash, Window Upgrades, Other Work on Its 1939 City Hall Building [Houston Public Media]
• Painting Hanging Behind Door at MFAH’s Rienzi River Oaks Satellite Museum Turns Out To Be a Diego Velázquez Original [Houston Chronicle]
• Developer Behind Bridgeland in Cypress to Start Road Work on Another 6,000-Acre Portion of the Development [HBJ]
• All West Loop Southbound Lanes To Close at Woodway This Weekend for Construction on METRO’s Northwest Transit Center to Post Oak Blvd. [Culturemap]
• Construction Underway on Tandem Seafood Restaurants in River Oaks District [HBJ]
• Global Shipping Company Signs Lease at Concourse at Westway, Off Beltway 8 Near Clay Rd. [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Preston St. at Main St.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Apartment Developer Buys Hermann-Park-Adjacent Building, Renames It Broadstone Lofts at Hermann Park [HBJ ($)]
• Aptly Named Vegan Doughnut and Gelato Shop Vegan Donut & Gelato Opens on Clay Rd. Near Hwy. 6 [Eater]
• New Mural Spells ‘Optimism’ on 59-Facing Side of 2011 Leeland St. [Culturemap]
• Finn Hall Planned Inside Former Gulf Oil Building Slated to Open Dec. 3 [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Maine-ly Sandwiches Shutters Shepherd Dr. Location [Houston Streetwise]
• Meet CAMH’s New Curator Rebecca Matalon, Arriving Next Year from Los Angeles’s MOCA [Glasstire]
• An Interview with Harris County Judge-Elect Lina Hidalgo [Houston Public Media]

Photo of East Downtown: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• A Closer Look at the Kirby Collection’s 199-Unit Apartment Portion [Houstonia; previously on Swamplot]
• New Cafe and Bar Coterie Opens on Market Square Tower’s Ground Floor [Houston Food Finder]
• California Sandwich Restaurant Mendocino Farms Slated to Open in Uptown Park Shopping Center Next Year [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Voters Oust County Judge Ed Emmett in Favor of Newcomer Lina Hidalgo [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Votes in Favor of Prop A [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of downtown Houston skyline: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Former UH and Current UT Football Coach Tom Herman’s Former Braeburn Country Club Estates Home Back on the Market [Culturemap]
• Multi-Chromatic Retail Building on Main St. at Commerce Ready to Rent [Houston Streetwise]
• NASA Now Flying Supersonic Jets Around Galveston To Find Out How Loud They Sound on the Ground [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Amazon Plans To Split HQ2 Between NYC, Washington DC Suburb [New York Times]

Photo of Main St. at Buffalo Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• 6-Floor Tangley St. Condo The Moderne Rice Village Opened This Weekend [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston Construction Firm Picked To Build 6-ish-Mile Section of Border Wall in Hidalgo County [HBJ]
• B.B. Lemon Opening This Thursday in Wash Ave’s Former Caddy Shack Restaurant Space [Eater; previously on Swamplot]
• Group Behind Coltivare Following Up Newly-Opened East Downtown Pizza Joint with 2 More Adjacent Offerings [Houston Food Finder]
• California Chain Restaurant with a Separate Menu for Dogs Plans First Houston Location in Cypress Crossing [Eater]

Photo of Washington Ave. at Sawyer St.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Sprouts Sets Opening Date for New Sugar Land Store on University Blvd. [HBJ]
• South African Chain Peli Peli Heading to Former Mi Cocina Space in The Woodlands Mall [Eater Houston]
• Hyde Park Wood Fired Kitchen Set To Open in Webster Near Existing Nobi Public House [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Zoo Lights Up Nov. 17 [Houston Chronicle]
• A Look Around the New Menil Drawing Institute [Curbed]

Photo of White Oak Music Hall: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Leads the County in Construction Job Growth, According to Feds [Houston Chronicle]
• Veteran METRO Bus Driver Hits and Kills Woman at Peakwood Dr. and Red Oak in Cypress [abc13]
• Hewlett Packard Claims 2 Buildings in Master-Planned Springwoods Village South of Near I-45 and Grand Pkwy. [Houston Chronicle]
• 24-Hour Fitness Signs Long-Term Lease in 60-Acre Subsection of Springwoods Village Dubbed CityPlace [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Carpet Giant and 3 of Its Sampson St. Neighbors Sell [Realty News Report]
• Nearly 2,000 Pinwheels Will Sprout in Discovery Green Next Month Courtesy of Mexico City Design Firm [Houston Chronicle]
• Balloons Tied to City Storm Drains as a Reminder That They’re Up for Virtual Adoption [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Attorney Tony Buzbee Announces 2019 Mayoral Bid [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Bayou City Art Festival at Hermann Square: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Where Apartment Rents Rose and Fell the Most in Q3 [HBJ ($)]
• Chevron Demolishes Former Downtown Auto Dealership Turned Houston Press Building [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• San Jacinto College Schedules Groundbreaking on New 57-Acre Campus in Generation Park for Next April [HBJ ($)]
• Vinny’s Pizzeria Opens in East Downtown This Week [Eater Houston]
• Fourth Location of Grill-It-Yourself Japanese Barbecue Chain Gyu-Kaku Planned Near Willowbrook Mall [Eater Houston]
• A Look Around Dun Huang Plaza’s Culinary Offerings at Bellaire Blvd. and Beltway 8 [Houston Press]
• Alamo Drafthouse Will Close All Locations on Election Day Until Mid-Afternoon [Entertainment Weekly]

Photo of O’Quinn Medical Tower: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Wash Ave.’s Kitchen 713 Gets 86’d [Culturemap]
• 363-Unit Apartment Complex Incoming Across Taylor St. from Sawyer Heights Village [HBJ ($)]
• Coworking Chain Called Spaces Signs Up for First 3 Floors of Two Post Oak Central [HBJ]
• Former Imperial Cleaners Building Now Sports a Full-Facade Mural of Beto O’Rourke as Superman [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Checking In on the Houston Cricket League’s 4-Field Complex off 290 [Houstonia]

Photo of Arne’s Warehouse: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Faulty Electrical Outlet Sparks Fire at Presidio on 11th St., Forcing Closure [CultureMap]
• Japanese Cream Puff Chain Beard Papa’s Signs Up for Under-Construction Bellaire Food Street Complex [Eater Houston]
• MFAH Wraps Up Work on Its Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation, Designed by Lake Flato and Built Atop Fannin St. Parking Garage [HBJ]
• Half of the 12-Acre Lagoon Planned for Private Texas City Community Could Be Kept Open to the Public [HBJ ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Early Eastwood Home at 4620 McKinney St. Hits the Market for $825K [Houston Chronicle]
• Johnson Space Center Hosts Open House Celebrating NASA’s 60th Anniversary [Houston Chronicle]
• Antone’s Famous Po’ Boys Will Overnight Sandwiches to Austin Nightclub from Production Facility Near 610 and I-10 [HBJ]
• Barker Flood Prevention Group Gives Proposed ‘Super Tunnel’ a Hopeful Thumbs-Up [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of container home under construction on McGowen St. between Hutchins and St. Emanuel streets: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• The Most Expensive Apartment Buildings Per Sq.-Ft. in Houston [Bisnow]
• New Brewery Klaus Brewing Debuts in Office Park North of Jersey Village [Houston Food Finder]
• Food Truck Daddy Duncan’s BBQ Planning First Brick-and-Mortar Location in Katy [Eater Houston]
• Popsicle Shop Popfancy Is the Fourth Confirmed Vendor for Bellaire Food Street Development [Eater Houston]
• Yet-to-Open California Chain Mendocino Farms Announces Third Planned Houston Location [Eater Houston]

Photo of Conservatory food hall, 1010 Prairie St., Downtown: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool