- Tanglewood H-E-B with Kiddie Play Area, Wine and Beer Bar, Restaurant Opens Today on San Felipe at Fountainview [Houston Chronicle]
- Preferred Apartment Communities Buys Tomball, Cypress Apartment Communities for $76M [CoStar Group]
- Baytown’s Cedar Crossing Industrial Park Infrastructure Improvements Will Allow for Nearly 11,000 Acres of Development Along the Houston Ship Channel [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Gourmet Sandwich Shop Local Foods Opening a Third Houston Location This Fall in Tanglewood Shopping Center on San Felipe Near Bering [Culturemap]
- India Grocers Owner Yatin Patel Opening Indian Restaurant in Former Mozelle’s Cajun Seafood Market Next to Art Car Museum [Eater Houston]
- Generic Central Station Main, Subject of Failed Metro Design Competition, Opens Today with Snøhetta Nowhere in Sight [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- Buffalo Bayou Park Now Sprouting 14,000 New Trees; Planting To Be Complete by June [Culturemap]
- Area Residents Worried About Their Health a Month After ‘Catalyst Fines’ from Former BP, Now Marathon Texas City Refinery Blanketed Neighborhoods [Houston Public Media]
- Art Guys’ ‘Tunnel of Love’ Opens in One Allen Center Lobby [HBJ]
- Worker Falls About 20 Ft. from Base of Downtown Highrise Crane on 609 Main Construction Site [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of I-45 at Buffalo Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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14,000 trees and 17 acres of grasslands. This will be a destination for wildflower season in the area. More people can get bluebonnet pictures without leaving the city and in fact the city will be in the background. I’m excited to see everything come together.
Point of fact, the Cedar Park Industrial Park is not along the Houston Ship Channel. It is along Cedar Bayou, which is only 10 feet deep. There is a barge dock.
I remain skeptical about the ability of this project to lure tenants. Houston is not a major distribution hub, railhead capacity utilization at Barbour’s Cut has always been abysmally low, and the Panama Canal expansion is unlikely to change any of that because it still makes economic sense to serve the Dallas market by way of ports on the west coast. The only thing that might change the formula is if unions (i.e. labor cartels) continue to threaten disruption to west coast port operations and pose a credible-enough threat to influence capital expenditure decisions.
The folks over at Metro should not get paid the last 25% of their salary until they actually meet a deadline.