01/28/16 12:00pm

Swamplot Sponsor: Personal Coach Cricket Buchler

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Personal Coach Cricket Buchler

Today’s sponsor is personal coach Cricket Buchler. Thanks for your continuing support of Swamplot, Cricket!

If you’re looking to make some changes in your life, or just searching for a creative spark to jump-start the year, consider a 90-minute personal coaching session with coach Cricket Buchler. An experienced corporate trainer who has helped top executives, Hollywood celebrities, and employees in a range of industries address personal and professional development issues, Cricket also works one-on-one, guiding clients to explore and unlock possibilities and design plans to realize change, and coaching them through their journey toward an intentional life.

A coaching session can also be a great gift for anyone who is looking to take the next step forward in life, work, or relationships, but feels a bit stuck as to what next steps might look like. You’ll find a sampling of testimonials from Cricket’s clients on her website, along with more information about coaching sessions.

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01/28/16 10:45am

Stolen Buick First Out as Crews Start Fishing for Used Cars in Houston’s Bayous

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Sunken Vehicle Removal from Brays Bayou at S. Wayside Dr., Gulfgate, Houston, 77023

A 1987 Buick Regal was pulled from Brays Bayou yesterday, as a $49,500 pilot program to remove about 127 vehicles thought to be sunk along the bottom of several of Houston’s major bayous revved up. Divers working at the crossing of S. Wayside Dr. attached bright yellow floaties to the sedan to help it swim to the surface before it was lifted onto the shore, where police identified it as reported stolen in 1998. Mike Talbott of the Harris County Flood Control District expects that crews will be able to remove some 20 to 25 cars before the money runs out.

The Buick is one of the drowned cars mapped by Texas Equusearch in 2011, as the nonprofit used a sonar-equipped boat to look for a missing woman in a Black Dodge Avenger (later found in a retention pond off Old Galveston Rd.). Assistant Chief Mark Curran of HPD told ABC 13 that most of the cars at the bottom of Brays and Sims Bayous were probably joyridden and then dumped. Stolen vehicles have been found in other Houston-area water bodies, including that 1985 Fiero uncovered in 2011 during the extended drought which brought down Lake Houston water levels.

Floating yellow containment booms spanned the waterway downstream of yesterday morning’s operation to catch any oil or gasoline that might leak from the vehicles during the removal process:

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Nice Catch Under Wayside Dr.
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01/28/16 8:30am

Half a Billion Dollars Coming for Freeway Updates; A Montrose Superbowl Makeover

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Photo of Marquis II at 2631 Bissonnet: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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Cypress
01/27/16 3:45pm

Tin Hall To Reopen after Two-Stepping Down Spring Cypress Rd.

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Tin Hall Sign at 16614 Spring Cypress Rd., Cypress, TX 77429

Cypress’s Tin Hall has found a new place to set up shop, according to an announcement posted to the venue’s Facebook page this morning. The 127-year-old dance hall will move its operations and its building to a spot at 16614 Spring Cypress Rd., just over 2 miles from its long-time location off Huffmeister Rd. to the east. The new property is across the street from the Cypress post office, next to Cypress Woods High School.

The venue writes that an auction, to be held this Friday at noon, will help finance the move and the building’s preservation. Tin Hall posted a subject-to-change list of the items up for grabs, including most of its interior decor and equipment, 5 “vintage” urinal troughs, and “all taxidermy, including the buffalo.” (The building, included on the posted flier, is not for sale.)

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01/27/16 2:30pm

New DeLoreans Speeding Into the Future at a Plant in Humble

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DeLorean Motor Company, 15023 Eddie Dr., Humble, TX, 77396

The DeLorean Motor Company will begin production of a limited number of new DMC-12s at its plant at 15023 Eddie Dr. in Humble — the first new ones to be produced since 1982. Following recent changes to federal vehicle regulations impacting small-volume car manufacturers, DMC will assemble the iconic gull-winged sports cars mostly from long-stockpiled parts at its facility just southwest of the intersection of 59 with Beltway 8, though the engines will need to meet modern EPA emissions standards.

DMC CEO Steve Wynne tells KPRC that the company expects to roll out the first of the unpainted stainless steel machines in 2017, and hopes to eventually produce a DeLorean per week. The company currently services and supplies parts for the original early-1980s DeLoreans, as well as renting out replicas of the DeLorean-based time machine employed in the Back to the Future movie franchise.

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Back to the Production Line
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01/27/16 12:00pm

Sponsors Make Swamplot Happen

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Swamplot Sponsors

What keeps Swamplot running — and providing you with the Houston real estate news ’n stuff you need? In large part, the generosity and savvy of this site’s sponsors. Our thanks go to the most recent group of Sponsors of the Day, who’ve made Swamplot possible in the past couple of weeks:

Please consider clicking on the links above (and the links in those links) and checking out the offerings of the businesses that support this site.

And if keeping Swamplot healthy is important to you — or you recognize how reaching Swamplot readers this way can help your own business — please contact us to find out how you or your business can become a Sponsor of the Day.

It’s easy (and affordable) and it’s a great way to get a lot of people who pay attention to Houston to notice what you’re doing.

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Demolitions
01/27/16 11:30am

Watch As Former River Oaks Honky-Tonk Blanco’s Gets Torn to Shreds This Morning

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Here’s some hot and heavy demo footage of a frenzied excavator tearing apart the former Blanco’s Bar and Grill at 3406 W. Alabama St. this morning, as a worker hoses down the scene from off to the side. A reader captured the final show at the little blue honky-tonk, which housed live music for nearly 32 years before its November 2013 closure.

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01/27/16 9:15am

Tiny iPic Theater Wins Injunction Against Giant Rival Over Claims of Anticompetitive Conduct

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TINY IPIC THEATER WINS INJUNCTION AGAINST GIANT RIVAL OVER CLAIMS OF ANTICOMPETITIVE CONDUCT iPic Theater, 4444 Westheimer Rd., River Oaks District, Houston, 77027 Florida-based iPic Theaters, reports Olivia Pulsinelli, has won a temporary injunction against Knoxville-based Regal Entertainment in a Harris County court last week. The boutique theater chain, whose first Houston location opened at 4444 Westheimer Rd. in the River Oaks District shopping center last November, filed a suit late last year alleging that Regal and fellow competitor AMC were muscling the new theater out of the market through ‘anticompetitive and unlawful conduct’, including demanding exclusive rights to show certain films or refusing to screen films also offered to iPic; Regal opted not to screen several major releases (including the latest Hunger Games installation and December’s Star Wars episode) at many of its Houston locations.  iPic’s 12 theaters nationwide generally screen fewer films than its larger competitors while offering pricier amenities, such as dine-in service,  pillows, and semipartitioned 2-recliner “pods”. A trial date for the lawsuit is set for October 3rd. [HBJ, Houston Press] Photo: Liz J. via Yelp

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01/27/16 8:30am

The Future Is Now in Houston; Yet Another New Heights Project from Treadsack

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Photo of Spring Valley: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

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Antoine Forest
01/26/16 3:45pm

An Overarching View of An Antoine Forest Estates Home on White Oak Bayou

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6118 Oak Pass Dr, Antoine Forest Estates, Houston, 77091

Wood and tile details trim the spaces throughout much of this Northwest Houston home, starting with the large wooden arch positioned next to the front door between the living and dining rooms. Sold in 2007 for $121k, the 4 bedroom and 3 1/2 bath home went on the market last April at $320k; the 3,522-sq.ft. house was pulled in late October at $300k, and was relisted for the same amount in early November.  The 9,000-sq.-ft. lot, which abuts the White Oak Bayou Greenway trail, also includes a workshop and a small aviary.

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6118 Oak Pass Dr.
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01/26/16 2:00pm

Comment of the Day: Sizing Up Houston’s Refinery Boom

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COMMENT OF THE DAY: SIZING UP HOUSTON’S REFINERY BOOM Refineries” . . . The total investment ongoing in the Petrochemical complex is about $50 billion. 1000 Main sold in 2014 (after the crash was underway) for $0.5 billion. There are about 50 skyscrapers in downtown. Therefore, with the investment ongoing in the Petro complex, we could rebuild downtown Houston twice with only our classiest of class A skyscrapers.” [awp, commenting on A Tale of 2 Houstons During the Oil Bust; Inside 500 Crawford] Illustration: Lulu

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