- Frost Bank To Open New Regional Headquarters This Week on Ground Floor of BLVD Place [Prime Property]
- Memorial-Area Senior Community The Buckingham To Add 10-Story Tower on Adjacent Property [Houston Chronicle]
- Construction Delays Mean Hundreds of UH Students Still Waiting To Move into Private Housing Near Campus [Prime Property; previously on Swamplot]
- Building Permits Taking 3.5 Months, Complains Realtor [Houston Public Media]
- A Dozen New Dunkin’ Donuts Franchises Will Open in Houston, San Antonio, and Austin by Year’s End [Houston Business Journal]
- Mayor Appoints Steering Committee To Develop ‘General Plan’ for Houston [Houston Public Media]
- Keeping Up with Mosquito Spraying a ‘Daunting’ Challenge in Cities, Unincorporated Areas, Says Galveston County Judge [Click2Houston]
- Returning Native Trees to 1,000 Acres of Grasslands North of Brazos Bend State Park Could Reduce Air Pollution, Study Suggests [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Drops from No. 3 to No. 11 on United Van Lines’ List of Places People Are Moving To [Houston Business Journal]
- Capsule Descriptions of 11 Houston Neighborhoods, from Aldine to West University [Houston Chronicle]
Photo of Discovery Green: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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So after we ended the Ward system some 100 years ago or so, we haven’t had a ‘general plan’ for the city? This explains so, so very much….