- Quasar Galleria Ltd. Buys 11-Story Galleria-Area Office Building 5433 Westheimer [Realty News Report]
- Downtown KBR Towers To Be Rebranded as Jefferson Towers at Cullen Center [HBJ]
- Construction To Start This Month on Kroger-Anchored Market at Springwoods Village [HBJ]
- Labor Shortage Amid Petrochemical Plant Boom in East Houston, Says Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership [Realty News Report]
- Graphs of Residential Permits from 2005-2015 Show Variable Nature of Houston’s Building Patterns [Houston Chronicle]
- Video: Inside a Model Home at Tiger Wood’s Bluejack National Luxury Golf Resort [HBJ]
- First Houston Location of Austin’s Hopdoddy Burger Bar To Open in April in the River Oaks District [Click2Houston]
- Hospitality USA Opening Restless Palate Restaurant with Eatsie Boy Menu in Katy’s LaCenterra Shopping District in Mid-April [Culturemap]
- Opening of Niko Niko’s West Houston Location Nears as Sign Goes Up on Building [HBJ]
- Houston Targeting Illegal Dump Sites To Reduce Mosquito Breeding Grounds in Fight Against Viruses Like Zika [Houston Public Media]
- A Discussion on Houston’s Public Space Transformation with Architects Andrew Albers and Ernesto Alfaro [OffCite Blog]
Photo of the Gus Wortham Fountain: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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I will never understand the popularity of Niko Niko’s.
Wow. That thing (fountain) looks awseome.
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memebag: I’m soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo with you on that. I hate that place yet everyone always wants to go there. (okay, I shouldn’t say I “hate” it but I have 0 desire to go there)
Re: KBR – “The building owners’ want to ‘reposition these properties with a new team in order to accelerate leasing velocity’ – having a hard time finding tenants? You’re not alone – downtown is slowly bleeding out right now. I’ve noticed shorter lines at lunch, more spaces in the parking garage, and more companies trying to sub-lease vacant space to supplement cash flow. I bet having the KBR moniker does not help, as there is still a lot of political animosity out there about the no-bid contracts during the Iraq war.
Re: Building permits – Someone at the Chronicle learned how to make a simple bar graph! Congrats! And no, your 2 bar graphs do not “tell a story” about construction trends.
Superdave,
First they were up. Then they were down. Then they were up. Now they are not quite as up.
@Cody: Right? Houston has vastly superior versions of everything on Niko Niko’s menu. All I can think is the people who love it don’t get out much.
I thought springwoods village was suppose to be a somewhat walk-able community? I dont see any sidewalks in the development picture.