- BP To Sell LEED Platinum Helios Plaza in the Energy Corridor, Lease Back Its Space from New Owner [HBJ]
- Midway’s 20-Story Hotel Alessandra Tops Out Downtown [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- What’s Next for the Houston Housing Authority’s Briargrove Project [The Urban Edge; previously on Swamplot]
- Apartment-Search Startup Ranks Houston No. 33 Among the 100 Most Expensive Rental Markets Nationally [HBJ]
- Construction Starts on ‘Anti-Mall’ Heights Mercantile [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
- Mattress Firm’s Houston HQ at 5815 Gulf Freeway Changes Hands [Houston Chronicle]
- Sugar Land City Council To Consider Acquiring Sugar Land Auditorium [Community Impact Newspaper]
- Upscale Bowling Alley Bowl & Barrel To Open in CityCentre This Month [HBJ]
- Houston’s First Cat Café El Gato Coffeehouse Will Pop Up for One Night Ahead of 2017 Opening [Houstonia]
- I-45 HOV Lane Extension to Conroe To Open by the End of This Month [Houston Chronicle]
- Fast-Growing Fort Bend County Community Sienna Plantation Experiencing ‘Epidemic’ of Power Outages [Houston Public Media]
- City To Tackle Abandoned Shopping Cart Problem [Houston Public Media]
- What the Latest Version of Google Maps Tells Us About Cities [The Urban Edge]
Photo of Tampico Seafood, 2115 Airline Dr.: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Headlines
Re: City To Tackle Abandoned Shopping Cart Problem
“What is a homeless person supposed to do when you got your personal stuff to get it from one place to another?â€
Apparently their answer is to STEAL a shopping chart.
@WR, to be fair, that guy doesn’t sound very representative of most homeless. Sounds like a newbie who hasn’t gotten robbed yet.
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“…. and his girlfriend are homeless and were camping under a Gulf Freeway overpass.
They had nine – yes, nine – shopping carts to transport their tent, a stove, and food for them and for their three dogs.”
“Ft. Bend power outages” On my side SW side of town noticing lights flickering where they haven’t done so before. Thankfully, don’t live in Ft. Bend–in fact you couldn’t pay me to live there.
I love Swamplot, but I wish there was a better way to understand the correlation between the picture on these threads and the article to which it’s associated. To me, it’s not always clear.
John: Quite often, there is no correlation. There, solved that one for you!
But someone needs to do a story about that “Cheese” shop photobombing the pic. I have driven by there 100 times, and would like to know “what’s up with that?”
I’m pretty sure it’s just a random picture from the Flickr pool.
@Al: That is Houston Dairymaids.
That’s Houston Dairymaids! A fantastic and friendly place with craft and artisanal (and local?) cheeses, meats and other products!
I highly recommend stopping in for some samples; you’re bound to walk out with something.