- Mission Cos. Acquires Energy Corridor Office Buildings Ashford Place II and III; Won’t Redevelop for a Few Years [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Methodist Expanding in the Spring Area with the Building of New Primary Care Facility [Houston Chronicle]
- Slideshow: Inside the New Petroleum Club on the Top Floor of Total Plaza [Prime Property]
- Spring Branch Home Shows Off Micro-Trigeneration Technology with Mini Power Plant for Power, Heat, and Cooling [HBJ]
- Unnamed Major Supermarket from Japanese Chain Hidejiro Matsu To Open in Ashford Village Shopping Center This Fall [HBJ]
- Common Ground To Build Development Housing Several Restaurants, Club on Main between Mcllhenny and Hadley [Eater Houston]
- Scaled-Down Version of Liberty Kitchen Coming to Former Ruggles Cafe Space in Rice Village [Culturemap]
- Restaurant Component of Asia Market Now Closed, Will Reopen 2 Miles East at 4822 Fulton St. in Late June [Culturemap]
- Part of Historic Wunsche Bros. Cafe & Saloon in Spring Gutted by Early Sunday Morning Fire [Houston Chronicle]
- Dog-Friendly Winston’s on Washington at 5111 Washington Ave. Has Closed [Houstonia]
- City, Business Owners, Historians Look To Develop Historic District Plan for League City’s Downtown [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- City’s First Protected 2-Way Cycle Track Now Open, Linking Sam Houston Park to Discovery Green [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
- Appraisal Values of almost 90% of Harris County Homes Up This Year by About 15% [Click2Houston]
- The Signs of a Rental Property Scam [abc13]
- One Bin Recycling Program Bidding Process Taking Longer Than Expected as Proposals Raise Questions About Technology, Cost [Houston Chronicle]
- The Church of Scientology’s High Profile Real Estate Plan: Local Legitimacy Through Historic Preservation [Gizmodo]
Photo of Guitar Center opening, 195 Yale St., March 26: Swamplot inbox
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“How do you have the time to use all the various leisure areas of a house like this? You gotta be working a lot to afford it so when do you have the free time to ski, play hoops, work out, dine in the dining room, swim in the pools, sit in one of all the outdoor sitting areas, sit in the kitchen or the bar or the living room or the den and so on . . .” [
An official opening date has finally been set for Houston’s 2 new light-rail lines — and it’ll be later than the expected early-April debut. 
“The site plan for this block, where the apartment complex stands like J.J. Watt blocking the retail from the park for which it should have been the activity generator, stands as a symbol of a city at a pivot point in its urbanization, where all the lessons it has learned the past ten years still can’t make up for the decades it snoozed in urban neglect and public space amnesia. Imagine if you took the George R. Brown and dropped it halfway across Discovery Green, splitting the park’s integral components and killing its interaction with surrounding elements — that is the Superblock in a nutshell. Midtown will still benefit from a central greenspace, and the little pocket park at the north end might turn out to be something nice. But however modestly successful this becomes will only be a painful reminder of what could have been.” [
“I’ve heard 610 called a lot of things, but never ‘prestigious,'” writes a Swamplot reader who is curious to learn 
