- City Council To Consider Granting $1M in Tax Rebates to Costco Being Built Outside City Limits Near 1-10 and Grand Pkwy. [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Famed Cedar Lawn Maceo House Off the Market [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
- Fresh Market Announces Opening Dates for 4 Houston Stores [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
- Slideshow: Sprouts Copperfield Location Opening July 17 Will Be Houston’s Largest One Yet [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
- Houston Makes List of Metro Regions With Improving Residential Real Estate Markets [Prime Property]
- Why It’s Your Fault Your Trash Isn’t Collected Sometimes [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- New Rice Design Alliance Charrette Challenge is To Integrate the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s Campus [Glasstire]
Photo of Buffalo Bayou: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool
If CoH wants to get involved, it should just annex the Cimmaron UD.
The city has streets with deferred repairs, parks with deferred maintenance, and yet we can rebate $1 million to profitable companies that aren’t even building within the city limits.
The trash collection in this city is terrible. They routinely ignore COH official trash bags for yard clippings when they are supposed to collect them. I’ve even seen them bypass my entire block during heavy trash day, forcing my entire street to haul heavy trash items back to the house to hold onto them for another month. Pathetic.
@ Brian – just do what the folks on my block do…leave it out on the curb for the next month. I’ve seen mattresses, furniture, tree limbs, and much more rotting on the curb for weeks on end.
IMHO the issue with COH garbage service is the plethora of complex regulations, coupled with putting enforcement in the hands of the truck drivers. I’ve encountered a few (including an intense shouting match with mine that I instigated in the middle of the street), and I’ve found them to be non-motivated government employees with little or no oversight, and a god complex. The guys that run my neighborhood repository (aka “dump”) are even worse.
So many new grocery store announcements, but still waiting on something east of downtown.
Most likely not the type of grocery store East Enders are wanting but a Joe V’s Smartshop is being proposed off Harrisburg @ Eastwood, according to Lovett Commercial.
The Costco article makes my blood boil.
If you’re a city resident, call your city council person and tell them you’re fed up with this kind of cr@p:
http://www.houstontx.gov/council/whoismycm.html
http://www.houstontx.gov/council/
In no way do we need to give incentives for development like this! We already did that when we built the dog-gone not-needed freeway!This 380 agreement / developer welfare has to stop. It’s only more exacerbated when the area isn’t even in the city limits!
And I thought the Heights Wal mart deal was bad. Bravo Houston city council for ‘one-upping’ yourself. To even bring this up at a council meeting is a travesty.
@DNAguy, with all due respect, this a perfect place to use “You Have No Power Here!” meme from lord of the rings.
The City tax rate is lower than some MUDs’, also, so that’s some tax incentive right there on annexation.
DNAGuy – you are absolutely right. Another giveaway of our tax dollars for nothing. Call/email the Council Members and tell them NO.
Say NO to this Costco tax rebate. Say YES to auditing the other retail 380’s.
@commonsense
Touché
Seriously, the 380 agreements have to stop. Welfare for mega-corps, absolutely disgusting.