- Houston Economy Expands for Second Straight Month, Finds The Purchasing Managers Index [Houston Public Media]
- Why Rising Property Values in Texas Don’t Lower School Property Tax Rates [The Texas Tribune]
- More Housing Geared Toward Nation’s Growing Boomer Population Needed, Finds Harvard University Study [Houston Chronicle]
- Inside Simon Property Group’s Galleria IV Wing in Remodeled Former Saks Fifth Avenue Store [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Downtown Taco Spot Dizzy Kaktus Now Open in Historic Sweeney, Coombs, and Fredericks Building [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- Academy Sports + Outdoors To Buy Naming Rights for Katy ISD’s Future Football Stadium [Houston Chronicle]
- Replicas of ‘Be Someone’ Overpass, Astrodome, Space Shuttle Among Winners in AIA Gingerbread Build-Off [HBJ]
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State funding for education: Not mentioned in the article is the robbing hoods provision to redistribute funding from ‘rich’ to ‘poor’ school districts. Your increased property taxes are being used to educate someone else’s kids across the state. The situation is far more screwed up than anyone can imagine.
Sad there’s still no “Bork” store in the new Galleria IV.
I thought the southern wing with anchors Macy’s and Nordstrom was Galleria IV?? Shouldn’t the new Saks wing be a III, since it technically replaced Galleria III?
@Eddie
I’m not sure the Nordstroms/Foley’s wing ever got a formal “Galleria IV” designation. I guess now it’s the Galleria III, since the old one has been wiped from memory.
“Be someone”
-singed a vandal that spray paints railroad crossings under the cover of darkness
hey…… at least he/she’s bein someone…..