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• The New Texas Instruments Campus and Other Developments in Sugar Land [Houston Business Journal]
• Houston Industrial Construction By the Numbers [CoStar Group]
• Houston Cracks Top 20 as a Convention Destination — But Still Lags Behind Dallas [KUHF]
• Three Brothers Bakery Opening Third Location on Washington Ave This Fall [Culturemap]
• South Post Oak Rd. Southbound Bridge Closed Next Five Months for Construction [abc13]
• Metro Considering Cutting Back on Disabled Services [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Coyotes Coming in Homes Through Doggie Doors in Fort Bend County [Click2Houston]

Photo of Memorial Hermann: Robert Boyd via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• ExxonMobil Campus Driving Home Sales in The Woodlands, Spring, and Conroe [KUHF]
• With Grand Parkway Extensions, Katy Seen as Attractive Industrial Submarket [Houston Business Journal]
• Houston Residential Construction Contracts Up 28 Percent Over This Time Last Year [Houston Business Journal]
• Old Hobby Mansion on the Market for $2.3M, Open to Buyers This Sunday [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Redevelopment of Shopping Center at Montrose, Gray Demonstrates Range of City Challenges [The Highwayman]
• Galveston Orphans Home Sold To Become Texana-Themed Museum [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Online Flood Maps Found To Be Less Than User-Friendly [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Some Eastwood Residents Want Street Closing for Railroad Quiet Zone Reversed [abc13]

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

• Officials, Developers Remain Quiet About What’s Next for Downtown Macy’s Site [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
• Hurricane Ike-Ravaged Seabrook Waterfront Rebuilding To Offer ‘Rustic’ Alternative to Kemah [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Houston Home Inventory Finally Went Up in July [Prime Property]
• Slideshow: Houston’s Most Popular Master-Planned Communities [Houston Chronicle]
• Annual Rent Growth, Revenue Growth Down in Houston [GlobeSt.com]
• With Two Out of Three Locations Gone, Is Kobecue Chain Going Out of Business? [Eater Houston]
• FEMA Forgives $5M Hurricane Ike Loan [Galveston County Daily News ($)]

Photo of Richmond and Weslayen: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Midway Acquires Adjacent Sheraton Hotel To Grow CityCentre Footprint [Prime Property]
• Houston Hits Housing Hurdle as Land Ready for Construction Limited [Wall Street Journal ($)]
• Aging Population Driving Growth for Some Houston Businesses [Houston Business Journal]
• Lessons in Traffic Planning from Houston’s Grid-Like Rail Expansion [Walkable DFW]
• Galveston Park Board Wants Free Parking, Reserved Spots for Lifeguards on Seawall [Houston Chronicle]
• Double Decker Tour Buses Have Arrived in Houston [Houstonia Magazine]
• The Unexpected Wildlife Calling Memorial Park Home [The Texican]
• Touring the Ship Channel on the M/V Sam Houston [Houstonia Magazine]
• 100 Ideas for Making Houston a More Livable, Sustainable Place [100 [D]Ways via Houston Chronicle ($)]

Photo of the Penguin Arms apartment building at 2902 Revere St.: Molly Block via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Recently Sold $14M River Oaks Estate Sets Price Record for Houston [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Improvements Underway To Make Main Street Near Hermann Park, Museum District More Walkable [Your Houston News]
• Due to Lack of Inventory, West University, Southside Place See Decline in Home Sales [Tom Plant’s Houston Real Estate Blog]
• Proposed Program Would Help Homeowners Contract Out Sidewalk Repairs [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Chef-Operated Food Trucks Like Green Seed, Fusion Taco Having Restaurant Success [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Houston’s Suburban Sprawl Leaving Animals Stranded [Voice of America]
• New App Provides Information on Buffalo Bayou Parks, Parking, Art, Facilities, Development [Culturemap]
• Houston’s Five Best Social Bike Rides [Art Attack]

Photo: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Conservation Group Has Raised More Than Half of $4M Needed To Purchase Deer Park Prairie [Houston Chronicle;previously on Swamplot]
• Following Tenant Departures, Brookfield Office Properties Likely To Develop Plans for 40-Story 5 Allen Center Downtown [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
• Killen’s BBQ To Open in Pearland Sometime in October or November [Eater Houston]
• Parts of New Artful Navigation Blvd. Pedestrian Esplanade To Be Unveiled Next Week [Your Houston News]
• Wells Fargo Plaza ‘Sky Lobbies’ Quietly Close, and Other Lost Skyscraper Views [Houston Chronicle]
• Highway 290 Construction To Continue Until 2016 [abc13]
• Tesla To Debut First High-Powered Charging Station in Texas Next Week, Four To Follow By Year’s End [Houston Chronicle ($)]

Photo of “Twilight Epiphany” at Rice University: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Shipping Containers Arrive for Scott Arnold’s America’s Icehouse in Texas City [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Montrose’s Maine-ly Sandwiches Soft Opens Today on Shepherd near Richmond [Eater Houston]
• Texas’s First Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs Coming to Memorial City Mall in Three Months [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Metro North Line On Track for December Debut [The Highwayman]
• Zip Line Ride Coming to the Kemah Boardwalk [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston’s 19th Century Cycling Hub Today Home to a Minute Maid Parking Lot [Houstonia Magazine]
• Loopy Ideas Like Elon Musk’s Are Fine — If You’re an Entrepreneur [Pedestrian Observations]

Photo of B-Cycle station at Caroline and McKinney streets: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Bechtel Corp. Renews Lease, Expands in Galleria Office Complex [Houston Business Journal]
• Woodforest Home Sales Up 82 Percent, Fueled by Woodlands Employment Growth, Exxon Mobil’s Campus Development [Prime Property]
• Slideshow: 3-Acre River Oaks Estate Listed for $14.5M Features Houston’s Largest Private Pool [Prime Property]
• Private Donors Pledge More Than $400K To Continue Thanksgiving Parade [Houston Chronicle]
• Texans Unveil World’s Largest HD Video Displays at Reliant Stadium [KHOU]
• Women Posed as Real Estate Agent, Buyer To Burglarize Heights Home, Say Cops [KHOU]
• Heights Among Country’s Best Big-City Neighborhoods Thanks to Walkability [CNN]

Photo of 3940 Inverness Dr.: HAR

• City Oven Pub and Pizza Place Opening Another This Month in Former D’Amico’s on White Oak [Prime Property]
• Dunkin’ Donuts Wants To Open 60 Houston Stores in Next 5 Years, Cater to Commuters with Drive-Thrus, ‘In-Bound’ Locations [Prime Property]
• Bernie’s Burger Bus Setting Up Inside Reliant Stadium for Texans Home Games [Culturemap]
• Yaga’s Entertainment Launches Galveston Bus, Shuttle Service [Galveston County Dailiy News ($)]
• City Gets $94.5M in Federal Funds for Construction of North Line [KUHF]
• Metro Hopes To Lure Bus, Light Rail Customers with Free Rides Labor Day Weekend [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• This Woman Is Trying To Solve Houston’s Commuting Congestion [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Video: Inside Former Astro Shane Reynolds’s $5M Sugar Land Mansion [Culturemap]
• Here’s What You Need To Know About Elon Musk’s Pod Transportation Device Hyperloop [Gizmodo]

Photo of downtown parking garage: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• California-Based Shea Homes Moving into Houston Market by 2014 [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Landry’s To Pay $3M Lease-Termination Fee To The Flagship Hotel in Ike Lawsuit [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Bernie’s Burger Bus Building Bellaire Restaurant, with Burger Bus Inside, Later This Year [My Table]
• Why Mr. Peeples Is Called Mr. Peeples, and Other Houston Restaurant Naming Secrets [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Columbia Tap Trail Cyclists Target of Robberies [KHOU]
• Coyotes Caught on Camera Tearing Up Small Santa Fe Farm [abc13]
• Graphic: When is the Texans Roof Open? [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of BBVA Compass at 2335 Post Oak Blvd.: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Has Most Office Space Under Construction Among 20 Cities [Prime Property]
• ‘Move Over’ Law To Extend to TxDOT Construction Crews Starting September 1 [abc13]
• Commissioned Art Being Installed at New Light Rail Stations [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Active Hurricane Season Still Likely in Houston [KUHF]
• Texas Holding $461.1M in Unclaimed Oil and Gas Royalties [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Meet Mark Anderson, the Beekeeper and Honey Mogul of Bellaire [Your Houston News]

Photo of Alabama at Main: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• 14-Story Eldridge Oaks Office Tower in Energy Corridor Sold [Prime Property]
• HISD Voting Today on Putting Law Enforcement HS Back on the Market [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• County Commissioners To Vote Tuesday on Putting Astrodome’s Future on November Ballot [KUHF]
• Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Approved To Boost Development in Hiram Clarke [Prime Property]
• Cupcake ATM Coming to Highland Village by October [Houston Chronicle]
• Asking Prices for Houston Homes Up 10.2 Percent Over Last Year, According to Trulia [Prime Property]
• UH Installing in Hermann Park Solar-Powered Pavilion/Transitional Housing from Reused Office Cubicles [University of Houston]
• Houston Festival Foundation No Longer Wants To Fund Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, Will Focus on International Fest Instead [Houstonia Magazine]
• Oversized Spool Damages Bridge at North Beltway and Aldine Westfield [abc13]
• No Swimming, No Fishing Signs To Be Added at Sims Bayou Following Drownings [Click2Houston]
• Decomposing Body Went Unnoticed in Woodlands Marriott Parking Garage for Two Months [Culturemap]
• Sahara Desert Dust Moves Over Houston, Can Cause Health Problems [Click2Houston]
• Houston, According to Getty’s Stock Photography [Hot Topics]
• The Strange Bayou City Nightlife of 30 Years Ago [Houstonia Magazine]

Photo of demolition of 4444 Westheimer apartments at Westcreek and Westheimer: Swamplot inbox

• 4444 Westheimer Apartments Cleared To Make Way for River Oaks District [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
• Don’t Even Think About Bringing Your Kids to Heights Restaurant La Fisheria After 7 p.m. [Culturemap]
• Houston Leaders Say Investment in Transportation, New Roads ‘Critical’ [MyFoxHouston]
• Bill To Rename Portion of I-45 through The Woodlands after George Mitchell Will Have To Wait a Couple Years [The Highwayman]
• Is Elon Musk’s Mysterious Pod Transportation Device an Elevated Pneumatic Sewer-Pipe Railway? [Motherboard]
• Gateway, Garden Components of Hermann Park 1995 Master Plan in Sight [Houston Chronicle ($)]

Photo of Shipley Donuts at 3932 N. Main: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Fresh Market Planning Webster Store Next Year in Baybrook Village Shopping Center [Prime Property]
• Austin Dance Club Barbarella Taking Over Status in Midtown [Culturemap]
• University of Houston’s Gourmet Coffee Shop and Wine Bar The Nook Opening Next Month [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Sonic’s Washington Ave Location Now Open [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Bridgewood Property’s Village in the Heights Provides Assisted Living with a Neighborhood Touch [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• Alvin College Professor Sues Again over Paid Seawall Parking [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Mark di Suvero’s New 6-Ton Weathervane on Rice University’s Campus [The Great God Pan Is Dead]

Photo of Greenway Plaza: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Renderings of Imperial Sugar Land Homes Released [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Local Foods Taking Over Former Taco Milagro Space in Upper Kirby [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Something Called Almeda Yards Coffee Shows Up on TABC Sign at Graffiti-Covered Former Midtown Gas Station Near HCC at La Branch, Alabama [Prime Property]
• I-45 Expansion Drives New 14.3-Acre Development in Conroe [Courier of Montgomery County]
• The Street Team in the Yellow Shirts and Teal Shorts That Keeps Downtown Clean [Houston Chronicle]
• Heat Advisory In Effect for Houston Area [abc13]
• Houston Parks Board Wants Your Park, Bayou Pictures [HAIF]
• In Honor of Bridgeland Bill, Some Other Houston Neighborhood ‘Mascots’ [Houstonia Magazine]

Photo of Row on 25th in the Heights: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool