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HOW BELLAIRE’S NEW H-E-B IS RISING ABOVE ITS OLD PARKING LOT H-E-B’s double-decker replacement in Bellaire is now hovering over the spot where its old store, neighboring strip, and adjacent parking lot once fronted Bissonnet and Cedar streets. The photo above — tweeted out by KHOU’s Bill Bishop views the elevated supermarket’s southwest corner from the intersection of 5th St. and Cedar, showing its second-story grocery level towering above a 3-acre, all-parking first floor. Not visible in the scene: the additional acre of parking that sits on the opposite side of upstairs deck, along Bissonnet in front of the store’s main entrance. Construction on the building is expected to wrap up later this year. In the meantime, the property’s owner Brixmore Holdings recently listed it for sale. [Previously on Swamplot] Photo: Bill Bishop

77401, Bellaire, New Construction, Retail

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04/13/18 8:30am

Plans Unveiled for Midtown Innovation District; ‘Harvey’ Enters Hurricane Name Retirement

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Second Phase of Fallbrook Pines Business Park Under Construction in Northwest Houston [Houston Chronicle]
Mayor Turner Reveals Plans Thursday To Transform Former Midtown Sears into an Innovation Hub [Bisnow]
Signorelli Co. Building New Subdivision Called Granger Pines Near Conroe [HBJ]
Kelvin St. Senior Living Tower Dubbed The Village of Southampton Now on the RiseÂ [HBJ]
Kings Cove Apartments in Kingwood Wraps Up $6M Renovation After Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
Sears Looking To Unload 3 Houston-Area Retail Stores Through Online Auction [HBJ]
South Korean Soft Serve Chain Milkcow To Debut on S. Mason Rd. off Highland Knolls [Eater Houston]
Sweet Paris CrÃªperie & CafÃ© Opens New Location in Katy [Eater Houston]
National Weather Service Officially Retires ‘Harvey’ as a Hurricane Name [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Bellaire H-E-B: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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02/16/18 4:00pm

Comment of the Day: A Closer Grocery Quarters on Westheimer

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COMMENT OF THE DAY: A CLOSER GROCERY QUARTERS ON WESTHEIMER “Four grocery stores in the same mile of West Alabama is a pretty good selection. Reminds me of the Westheimer Supermarket Battle Royale near the Westchase area, where Fiesta, Phoenicia, HEB, Sprouts, Trader Joeâ€™s, Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods are vying for your food dollars in a 2-mile stretch.” [slugline, commenting on The Great W. Alabama Grocery Store Corridor] Photo of Phoenicia Specialty Foods, 12141 Westheimer Rd.: Farrah A.

77077, Quicklink, Supermarkets

Headlines

01/31/18 8:30am

Homes for Former Horse Farm; Keeping the US-59 Bridge Lights On; Texas Tops in Wind Power

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Houston Apartment Experts Predict Growth, Tight Supply in 2018 [HBJ ($)]
Foundation Poured for Midtownâ€™s First Highrise [HBJ]
Co-Working Space Dubbed Local Office Opens in West U. [Houston Chronicle]
Former Arabian Horse Farm Near Tomball To Make Way for 1,000 New Homes [Houston Chronicle]
Wulfe & Co.: Houston Expected To See 3.28M SF of Retail Space Built and Opened This Year, Down 23 Percent from 2017 [HBJ]
How Houston Lost Amazonâ€™s HQ2 [Texas Monthly]
Proposed ‘Innovation Corridor’ Between Med Center and Downtown Could Be Lasting Legacy of Failed HQ2 Bid [Houston Chronicle]
Yummy Pho & Bo Ne First Business To Open in the New Katy Asian Town Shopping Center [Community Impact Newspaper]
United Orthodox Synagogues To Demolish Part of Harvey-Damaged Campus [Houston Chronicle]
Harris County Hurricane Harvey Recovery by the Numbers [Click2Houston]
State Proposes Diverting Some Funds Earmarked for Harris County Disaster Recovery [Houston Chronicle]
Harvey-Damaged LULAC Houston Clubhouse To Undergo Repairs After National Treasure Designation [AP]
Montrose Management District Sets Up Fund To Help Keep US-59 Bridge Lights On [Houston Chronicle]
Texas Still Leads Country in Installed Wind Power Capacity [Houston Chronicle]
The Winners of the Urban Land Institute’s 2018 Development of Distinction Awards [HBJ]

Photo of Levy Park: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

Headlines

01/30/18 8:30am

Dallas Bullet Train Stop Preview; Hurricane Harvey, the Movie; New Retail Inbound to Greenway Plaza

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Liberty Property Trust Sells Legacy at Fallbrook Office Building [Realty News Report]
NewQuest Properties To Break Ground on Second Phase of Katy Grand Retail Center This Spring [Houston Chronicle]
New Restaurants, Salon Slated for Greenway Plaza [Houston Chronicle]
Leeland House Opens in Former Arloâ€™s Ballroom Space in East Downtown [Culturemap]
Houston Residents Can Weigh In on $12B Houston-to-Dallas Bullet Train Plan at Feb. 5 Meeting [Houston Chronicle]
A Look at the Unofficial Plans for the Bullet Trainâ€™s Dallas Station [Houston Public Media]
Rice University’s Jim Blackburn: Houston Needs to ‘Really Get Serious’ About Flood Regulations [Click2Houston]
National Weather Service Time-Lapsed Radar Imagery Shows Harvey’s Path in Under 30 Seconds [Houston Chronicle]
A Review of Harvey Relief Funding and Spending 5 Months After the Storm [The Texas Tribune]
Some 300,000 Children in the Houston Area Displaced by Harvey Still Waiting To Return to a Stable Home [Houston Public Media]
A Houston Film Company Is Promoting a Movie About Hurricane Harvey [abc13]
Last Texas Blockbuster Video Store Closes Its Doors [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of H-E-B under construction at 5130 Cedar St., Bellaire: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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01/23/18 11:45am

Curbside Service Moves in Where San Felipe H-E-B’s Table 57 Restaurant Shut Down

Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Tanglewood

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Note: Story updated below.

Thereâ€™s a new sign on a curved portion of H-E-B’s facade at 5895 San Felipe, marking a replacement for the former Table 57 in-store restaurant, which closed quietly sometime shortly before the new year. The supermarket’s new curbside service area is taking over the restaurant’s old space along the northwest corner of store.

Table 57 opened along with the rest of the H-E-B on the corner of San Felipe and Fountain View back in 2015. At the time, it was Houston’s first sit-down dining destination inside an H-E-B store. (The supermarket had already debuted similar venues in Austin and San Antonio.) The photo above shows the restaurant’s automatic entryway and patio frontage extending west towards Fountain View.

Here’s what the doorway to the former restaurant looks like now, stripped of its overhead signage:

Cleanup on Table 57

77057, Openings and Closings, Restaurants, Supermarkets, Tanglewood

12/21/17 4:45pm

A First Look at the New 2-Story H-E-B Ready To Stake Out the Northwest Corner of Meyerland Plaza

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The first ever H-E-B with a skybridge connection to a neighboring JCPenney is indeed on its way to Meyerland Plaza. The grocery chain’s newÂ 95,000-sq.-ft. building will replace its previous store atÂ South Braeswood and Chimney Rock, which flooded during Harvey.Â Some of the land that the H-E-B is taking over is occupied now by theÂ BBVA Compass bank branch building at the mall-turned-shopping-centerâ€™s northwest corner, although the store will extend back all the way to the existing JCPenney, far southeast of where the bank branch sits now.

The rendering at top shows the grocery store’s second-story entrance; like the new stores under construction in Bellaire and the Heights, this one will sit on top of a parking deck. TheÂ second rendering shows the structure fronting a driveway that heads into Meyerland PlazaÂ from Beechnut St. A replacement BBVA Compass branch is planned inside the new complex.

Below, a view of the store’s reinforced northwest corner just across Endicott from an off-camera Chick-fil-A on the right:

Bright Red Corners

77096, Meyerland, Meyerland Plaza, Proposed Developments, Supermarkets

10/13/17 10:15am

The New Second-Story Heights H-E-B on N. Shepherd Is About To Begin Construction

Houston Heights, New Construction, Retail

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16 months after the Fiesta Mart on site was torn down and 11 months since Heights-area voters approved a modification to longstanding local dry-zone prohibitions to allow alcohol sales for off-premises consumption, H-E-B at last appears ready to begin construction of its store at 2300 N. Shepherd. This week fencing went up around the site, which stretches between W. 23rd and W. 24th streets — and a couple of trailers have rolled onto it. An official groundbreaking is scheduled for October 24th.

The store will sit on the east side of the site but up one level, on top of a concrete parking deck. Here’s a view looking east along 23rd St. toward that part of the site and Lawrence St. beyond:

77008, Grocery Stores, Houston Heights, New Construction, Retail, Variances

Cinco Ranch

09/20/17 1:30pm

How It Came To Pass That Hundreds of Families Purchased Homes Inside Houston’s Reservoirs

Development Strategies, Disaster Aftermath, Flooding, Fort Bend County, Quicklink, Real Estate Marketing

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HOW IT CAME TO PASS THAT HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES PURCHASED HOMES INSIDE HOUSTON’S RESERVOIRS Many of the flooding victims upstream of Addicks and Barker dams learned for the first time that their homes were inside government-designated reservoirsÂ only after rains from Harvey flooded their neighborhoods, reports Naomi Martin. How had they come to live there? “The corps didn’t feel the need to acquire all the land at the time the reservoirs were built, [the Army Corps of Engineers’ Richard] Long said, because that land was nothing but rice farms and fields where cattle grazed. It didn’t stay that way. In 1997, developers came before Fort Bend County government for approval to put subdivisions on the pastures. Aware of the flood risk to the area, the county was in a bind. It didn’t have the authority to prohibit development or establish zoning rules, said County Judge Robert Hebert, who has been in office since 2003. So the county insisted, ‘over great objection’ by developers, on including a warning on the plat, Hebert said. The county, he said, ‘felt it was a defect on the land that should be pointed out.'” The warning appeared as a small note on the plat document establishing some later Fort Bend County subdivisions, but equivalent declarations were absent on documents establishing nearby Harris County subdivisions. [Dallas Morning News] Aerial view of flooding in Canyon Gate, Cinco Ranch: Michael Fry

Barker Reservoir, Canyon Gate, Cinco Ranch, Development Strategies, Disaster Aftermath, Flooding, Fort Bend County, Hurricane Harvey, Real Estate Marketing

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09/07/17 8:30am

The Benzene in the Air; Those Pink Things on Trees; How Harvey Taught the World About Houston

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Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp Tapped To Lead Harvey Rebuilding Effort [The Texas Tribune]
City Considering Leasing Former Star of Hope Shelter in East Downtown To House up to 300 Harvey Evacuees for a Year [Houston Chronicle]
Why These Houston Homes Didn’t Flood During Harvey [HBJ ($)]
More Than 30,000 Federal Workers Involved in Harvey Recovery [Houston Public Media]
3 Texas Churches Sue FEMA Over Access to Harvey Emergency Relief Funds [Houston Chronicle]
Wortham Theater Center Expected to Stay Closed Through at Least Oct. 15 [Houston Press]
TxDOT Begins Pumping Water from Flooded Beltway 8 Lanes Between I-10 and Westheimer [Community Impact Newspaper]
Sinkhole Develops on West Beltway 8 Feeder Road in Memorial Area [abc13]
More Than a Dozen Texas Chemical and Refining Plants Reported Harvey Damage [Houston Chronicle]
EPA Investigating After Benzene Detected in Air Near ManchesterÂ [WSJ]
Mercury Mysteriously Washed or Blown Ashore in Channelview [New York Times]
Those Pink Things Dotting the Houston Landscape Now are Snail Eggs [Houston Chronicle]
Hospitals See Uptick in Skin Infections from Harvey [Houston Chronicle]
Cypress Floodwater Samples Had E. Coli Levels 125 Times Higher Than What Is Considered Safe for Swimming [Houston Press]
A Peek at How H-E-B’s Emergency Preparedness Department Operates [Texas Monthly]
Houston Cleanup Has Little Crime and Lots of Helping Hands [AP]
How One Near Northside Couple Ended Up Helping Rescue Evacuees with Their Kayak [Houstonia]
The Web Developers Behind HarveyNeeds.org [Forbes; previously on Swamplot]
Harvey’s Heroes: ‘Two Regular Guys in a Bass Boat’ [Texas Standard]
7 Lessons Federal Responders to Harvey Learned from Katrina [New York Times]
How Hurricane Harvey Taught the World About Houston [Houston Press]

Photo of Bayou Bend: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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06/22/17 9:30am

H-E-B To Scoot Groundbreaking Back to End of Summer Break, Scoot Building Up Toward N. Shepherd

by Christine Gerbode

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H-E-B TO SCOOT GROUNDBREAKING BACK TO END OF SUMMER BREAK, SCOOT BUILDING UP TOWARD N. SHEPHERD WorkÂ on that Fiesta-supplanting H-Â E-Â B on N. Shepherd Dr. is now scheduled to kick off onÂ August 25th, Scott McClelland tells Landan Kuhlmann in The Leader this week. That’s purportedly due to variance-related pushbacks — namely, to H-E-B’sÂ request to put the edge of its proposed 2-story structureÂ closer to the street (like the requestÂ it brieflyÂ filedÂ around the start of NovemberÂ butÂ pulledÂ just before the alcohol sales election). That variance requestÂ was re-filed in January andÂ was granted, butÂ triggered another round of permitting approvals and associated waiting periods, McClelland says. Estimates on anÂ opening date have also slid back to the end of nextÂ year’s summer vacation — by which time we’ll know whether the rest of the area’s alcohol sales laws have gone the way of the off-site sales rules H-E-B helped campaign to remove last fall.Â [The Leader; previously on Swamplot] RenderingÂ of H-E-B with N. Shepherd setback variance approval, as originally filed in 2016: Houston Planning CommissionÂ

77008, Construction, Grocery Stores, Proposed Developments, Variances

Washingto Corridor, Washington Ave

05/09/17 5:15pm

Latest Glamor Shot Renderings of the Washington Ave. H-E-B Show Off Designer Labels, Street-Facing Parking

by Christine Gerbode

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A little more of the what’ll-go-where has been filled in lately for Midway’s H-E-B-footed midrise, planned at the corner of Waugh St. and Washington Ave. (and now under construction following the corner’s clear-outÂ earlier this year). Â The glassy box overlooking Washington from above the main H-E-B entrance will hold the structure’s office spaces, withÂ the face of theÂ parking garageÂ visible a bit further to the left; an updated siteplan also shows that the sides of the development will also be insulated from the street and sidewalks with a layer or 2 of parking spaces:

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77007, Apartments, Demolitions, Memorial Heights, Memorial Heights Apartments, Proposed Developments, Redevelopment, Washington Corridor

Swamplot Sponsor: Nan and Company Properties

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5559 Holly Springs Dr., Tanglewood, Houston

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02/06/17 4:30pm

Memorial Heights Construction Is Out with a Starting Gate

Memorial Heights, Proposed Developments

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The peculiar scene pictured above, of a freestanding but fenceless gate, greeted residents of the Memorial Heights Apartments near the corner of Washington Ave and Studewood late last week. Demolition of buildings 1 through 6 of the complex, on the northwest corner of the complex, for a planned new 5-story apartment complex atop a new H-E-B market, appears imminent.

In anticipation, workers have been constructing fencing (now attached to the above gate) that appears to be intended to surround a portion of the remaining parking lot of the remainingÂ complex. There’s alsoÂ this construction going up at the corner of Studewood and Washington Ave.: