- Hotel Occupancies Downtown, in Galleria, Med Center, and Westchase Expected To Return to Pre-Recession Levels by Year’s End [Houston Chronicle]
- BP’s Texas Refinery Could Sell for Less Than Half of Asking Price, Say Analysts [Bloomberg]
- Hines-First Baptist Church Leasing Deal Could Bring in More Than $1M in Tax Revenue [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- BBVA Compass Plaza To Feature New Restaurants from Chefs of Mockingbird Bistro, Hugo’s [Culturemap]
- Calliope’s Po-Boy Wants Help Renaming East Downtown Restaurant [Eating Our Words]
- Pasadena Breaks Ground on First Habitat for Humanity Subdivision [Pasadena Citizen]
- Contractors Suing METRO over Safety Monitoring System Technology [KUHF]
- State Reduces Yale St. Bridge Load Limit Again, Affecting Some SUVs, Pick-Up Trucks [Click2Houston]
- Houston Ranks as America’s 22nd-Best City, Behind Austin [Bloomberg Businessweek via Houston Business Journal]
Photo of Galveston Pleasure Pier: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Re: Yale St. Bridge weight limit. Maybe someone on here can help me understand the weigh limit. As I now sit on that bridge for an extremely long time waiting for traffic on the “improved” access roads, what is the cummulative weigh that bridge can hold, and for how long? I can guarantee that there is more weigh cummulatively on that bridge waiting for the light to change than an SUV driving across, or probably many trucks. Maybe I will start driving on Heights or Shepherd.