- Houston Ranked Fourth in Nation for First Quarter Industrial Real Estate Sales by Colliers International [Houston Chronicle]
- First Tenants at Grand Central Park’s 336 Marketplace on Former Camp Strake Land To Include Kroger Signature Store, HomeGoods, Michaels [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- Apache Corp. Extends Office Lease at 2000 Post Oak Blvd. in the Galleria Area [HBJ]
- Cat Cafe El Gato Plans To Open Full-Service Coffeehouse in a Shipping Container by August [Houstonia; previously on Swamplot]
- Cash-Strapped Houston Sells off $2M Worth of City Streets [Houston Chronicle]
- Why Some Houston Neighborhoods Bear the Brunt of Junk Waste [The Urban Edge; previously on Swamplot]
- Three Years Later, Where Does Sunday Streets Go from Here? [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Bryan-Based HeliBacon Lets You Gun Down Feral Hogs from a Helicopter [San Antonio Express-News; previously on Swamplot]
- Treehouse Hotel To Debut 30 Feet Over Creek Near Columbus 75 Miles West of Houston [Culturemap]
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Re: Texas company lets you gun down feral hogs with an M16 from a helicopter
That’s the most TX thing I’ve read all morning.
Re: Cash Strapped Houston Sells Off $2M Worth of City Streets
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Slightly tongue in cheek but I’d pay $500 to buy my stretch of street (heavily traffic inside the Loop). I’ll toll it. Heck, I’ll even give a percentage to the city in perpetuity for more blocks.
Cash-strapped Houston: Meanwhile Turner is taking a bunch of his crew on a vacat…errr “trade mission” to Israel for a week.
Helibacon. Love the name. Those are some smart critters. Seems like they’ll quickly pick up on the relationship between that distant egg beater sound and seeing their chaps getting killed.