- Private Oil and Gas Company Pioneer Exploration Buys 2-Story Allen Pkwy. Office Building for New HQ [Houston Chronicle]
- Gilley’s-Themed Dance Venue Cancelled Along with La Porte Town Center It Would Have Anchored [HBJ ($); previously on Swamplot]
- Goodnight Charlie’s Owners To Exchange Shuttered Westheimer Buffalo Exchange Next Year for Trio of Restaurants All Under One Roof [HBJ]
- Construction To Begin on Spice Route in Galleria’s Former Saks Fifth Avenue Space [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Johnny Steele Dog Park Reopens Inside Buffalo Bayou Park With a Few Tweaks [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- Australian Developer Caydon Property Group Will Put Alexa in Every Unit of Its New Melbourne Condo, Considers Doing the Same for 2850 Fanin Project in Midtown [CoStar Group]
- A Short History of Jackson Blvd. in Hyde Park [OffCite]
Photo of the Tradition Buffalo Speedway: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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So many HBJ articles anymore …. is Swamplot getting lazy? If so, I will just go elsewhere, like HBJ, and forget about Swamplot
Good article on Jackson St, spent a lot of time there and never knew the history of it. If I’m not mistaken the phone exchange for Montrose was named after the street. JA on a dialpad = 52.
I don’t understand the use of “anymore” in WR’s comment. I have colleagues from the Midwest who use the word in a similar fashion. Is it just a Midwestern thing or am I missing something?
It’s a word…..
Definition of “anymore” from the Miriam Webster Dictionary :
adverb \ any·more \ ˌe-nē-ˈmȯr
1 : any longer
I was not moving anymore with my feet —Anaïs Nin
2 : at the present time : now, nowadays
Hardly a day passes without rain anymore.
WR is using the “positive anymore” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore). It’s confusing to people who exclusively use the “negative anymore”. “No one goes there anymore” sounds right to me. “Everyone goes there anymore” sounds awkward. The positive anymore usage isn’t common in Houston.
I think the dog park rocks but man does it fill with sand during a flood.
Sounds like I was missing something, WR. Thanks for the explanation, Memebag.
Are we taking bets on Johnny Steel dog park being flooded again after this weekend rain? If so, I propose an over under on how long it will be closed down after 1 month and an over under on how much money the city has spent repairing this location since its inception ($2 million).