- Congressman Ted Poe’s Facebook Poll Finds 604 for Richmond Rail, 304 Against [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Fourth Houston-Area Sprouts Opening at Westheimer, South Kirkwood on August 7 [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
- Kroger Confirms on Facebook It’s Closing Sugar Land Location at Highway 6, Settlers Way [HAIF]
- City Council Approves Plan To Build Amphitheater, Pavilion at Eleanor Tinsley Park [Click2Houston]
- Rising Sea Levels Will Put Galveston 25 Percent Underwater, Says Researcher [Houston Chronicle]
- Downtown To Enter Next Year Greatest Period of Simultaneous Construction Activity Since the Late 1970s [Texas Leftist]
- ‘Beginning of a Nightmare’ as Rasberry Crazy Ants Swarm Conroe, The Woodlands, Montgomery Communities [Click2Houston]
- Houston Ranks Third on List of ‘Aspirational Cities,’ Behind Austin, New Orleans [The Daily Beast via Culturemap]
- Texas Ranked Last on Green State List Thanks to Air Quality, CO2 Emissions [Fuel Fix via Houston Tomorrow]
- City Hall To Start Offering Information in Five Languages with the Greatest Need [Click2Houston]
- Entrepreneurial Workshops Illustrate Growth of Houston’s Startup Scene [Xconomy]
- Yes, That’s an Art Car in the Lobby of the New BBVA Compass Plaza on Post Oak [Culturemap]
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Research based on a World Bank shill organization says Galveston will be 25% underwater? I’m buying a beach house.
I’m assuming this is the same amphitheater that was part of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s master plan?
http://buffalobayoupark.org/about-the-project/#eleanortinsley
I’d like to know if anyone’s heard about what they’re going to do with the old Houston cistern. Anyone know if they’re been some movement on this? Art gallery? Concert hall?
http://www.chron.com/life/gray/article/Gray-Buffalo-Bayou-s-dark-secret-2736594.php
‘there’s’ not ‘they’re’… long week sorry.
Buffalo Bayou Park will soon be totally paved–will any “Park” be left when they’re done
Don’t worry Shannon, after a few floods 90% of that new concrete will be buried under several feet of silt, so other than all the new bridges, in a few years grass will grow over all and it will be back to looking like it did before.
So the study is saying some at point in the unknown future Galveston is going to be 25% underwater… Profound. Well also, at point in the unknown future Yellowstone is going to blow its top destroying much of the US and I’d probably be more worried about that one.
Houston has had similar slates of proposed buildings at several times over about the last decade. The ones that get financed first tend to get built, but that won’t be all of them. And if I’m wrong, then brace for impact!