- United Airlines, Houston Airport System To Break Ground on IAH’s New Terminal C North Concourse Today [HBJ]
- Archway Properties To Break Ground on 8-Story Spec Building at GeoSouthern Energy’s Wildwood Corporate Centre Campus in May [HBJ]
- Three Hughes Landing Office Building, Embassy Suites Simultaneously Top Out in Hughes Landing [HBJ]
- Home Sales To Begin in Village of Sawmill Lake, the Last Major Undeveloped Part of Sienna Plantation [HBJ]
- Darling Homes Built the Most Houses in The Woodlands Last Year with 85 New Home Sales [Prime Property]
- Stag Provisions Opening in the Former Buffalo Hardware Location in Upper Kirby/River Oaks on May 22 [Houstonia]
- What $325,000 Buys in and Around Houston Right Now [Houston Chronicle]
- Brazoria Residents Shoot Down $1.75M Bond Referendum That Would Have Funded a Christian-Themed Water Park [Houston Chronicle]
- I-45 Widening from 3 to 5 Lanes from Dixie Farm Rd. to Bay Area Blvd. To Offer Relief to Commuters, Beach-Goers by Late 2017 [Houston Chronicle]
- Metro To Debut New High-Tech Tools for Customers, Bus Routes in Fewer Than 100 Days [Click2Houston]
- Mapping Rice Village’s Lot and Street Parking Inventory [Kinder Institute for Urban Institute]
- Montgomery County Voters Reject More Than $350M in Proposed Road Bonds — Again [Houston Chronicle]
- League City Commuter Bus Service Connect Transit Working To Provide Service into Downtown Houston [Houston Public Media]
- Since 2014 More Than 6,600 Citizens Have Complained About Parking Meters to Houston’s 311 Hotline [KHOU]
- Unlike Other Cities, Houston Doesn’t Pay for Pothole Damage [KHOU]
- Galveston Tourism Reached New Highs in 2014 with 6M Visitors Who Spent More Than $723M [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- As EPA Pushes for Cleaner Air, Refineries Push Back [Houston Public Media]
- Volunteers on the Lookout on Galveston Beach for Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Nests [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- The Most Energy-Efficient Home in Houston [MyFoxHouston]
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Re: Christian themed Water Park
What a great idea. I’m picturing very long lines for the Walking on Water ride driving impatient parents to the Water into Wine bar.
Montgomery county republicans getting the government and infrastructure they deserve.
Re: New Concourse C for United
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I’ve become quite jaded on any public project that benefits United. How much of the $149 million cost is United kicking in? (I doubt one penny.) From reading the article, Terminal B South was for United’s benefit, too. Unfortunately, I think UA’s fortress at IAH is only making it harder for competition and designed to suck as many dollars as possible out of the Houston metro area consumer wallets.
Major Market: United is funding a majority of the cost for their new gate facilities. Terminal C North is being reworked to be the western side of a new Leeland International Terminal ( D) that will double the gate space available to foreign flagged carriers. As such, United is paying to construct a new gate area in what is now Terminal B north, to which they will have exclusive leases. They are giving up their leases in Terminal C north.
As to Terminal B South, of that $149 million project, United airlines paid $97 million to construct the building, with the remaining $52 million paid for by the airport authority covering the cost of the apron, ramp, and utilities placement. All of this info is available on the HAS website.
I can’t believe no one identified the real problem with the whole parking meter issue. The technology does have a problem and it sounds like there is a process to mitigate it. The real problem is that the parking cops arent following the process.