Tag: Headlines

• Sneak Peek at the Terrace-Top Pools at Condo Tower Arabella [HBJ ($)]
• Lennar Opens 2 Urban Townhome Developments Near Spring Branch [Houston Chronicle]
• Resort-Style Montgomery Community Bluejack National On Target To Beat Last Year’s 45 Property Sales [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Proceeds from Sale of Former Hill Country Boy Scouts Camp To Help Pay for Development of Camp Strake [HBJ ($)]
• Northside Lexus Relocating Further North on I-45, To Mixed-Use Development South of The Woodlands [HBJ ($)]
• Bryan Caswell’s Le Meridien Hotel Restaurant Oxbow 7 Opening Aug. 29 [Culturemap]
• Texas Undergoing a ‘Fundamental Shift’ with Housing Boom — Like California, Florida, and New York Before It [Curbed]
• A Tribute to Houston Architect John S. Chase, Whose Largest Collection of Work Can Be Found on the Texas Southern University Campus [Curbed]
• Hundreds of Protesters Demand Removal of Spirit of the Confederacy Monument at Sam Houston Park [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Six Flags Replaces Confederate Flag with Stars and Stripes at Arlington, San Antonio, and Atlanta Parks [Bloomberg]
• Where To Watch Today’s Solar Eclipse in Houston [abc13]

Photo of the Astoria and adjacent McDonald’s on Post Oak Blvd.: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Trulia: Dallas, Houston, and Austin On Track To Build More Than 10% of All New Homes in the U.S. This Year [Bloomberg]
• Houston Has Second-Highest Office Vacancy Rate in the Country, Finds Avison Young [Realty News Report]
• Apartment Search App Firm: Rent Not Affordable for Half of Houston Residents [HBJ ($)]
• Bauer-Pileco Building Facility for Its North American Headquarters in Conroe Park North [Houston Chronicle]
• Container Yard for Empty Containers Breaks Ground in Port of Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Slideshow: How Houston ISD Schools Have Transformed After the 2012 Bond Projects [Houston Chronicle]
• Some Recognizable Names from Modeling, Restaurant, and Media Industries Who Have Become Realtors [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Now You Can Buy Your Own Blue Tile To Help Restore Those Lost to Development [Houston Chronicle]
• Willie Nelson Mini Mural Pops Up on Stoplight Box at Corner of Ella Blvd. and 34th St. [The Leader]

Photo of Heights Mercantile: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• 3,000-Acre Tract in Montgomery County on the Market [HBJ ($)]
• Vigavi Realty To Start Construction on 2 Spec Industrial Buildings in Pasadena [Realty News Report]
• Chinese Developer Yihai Group Breaks Ground on Master-Planned Community Grand Oaks Reserve in Cleveland [HBJ ($)]
• First Model Homes Open in Land Tejas Community Balmoral in Humble [Houston Chronicle]
• Apartment Occupancy Up in Houston, Finds Berkadia Report [Realty News Report]
• Majority of Lake Houston Residents Want More Farmers Markets in the Area, Finds Community Survey [Houston Chronicle]
• Restaurants Nobu, Fig & Olive Coming to the Galleria [HBJ]
• Katy ISD’s New $72.1M Legacy Stadium To Open for Public Tours Following Today’s Dedication Ceremony [Houston Chronicle]
• Concrete About To Pour To Build New State Highway 288 Toll Lanes [Houston Public Media]
• Dan Friedkin Latest Local Billionaire To Express Interest in Buying the Rockets [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• City Compiling List of Confederate Statues in Houston, Will Consider What To Do About Them Next [Houston Press]
• Is Houston Prioritizing Industry Over the Health of Its Communities? [Texas Monthly]

Photo of mural at 1848 Airline Dr.: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Demolition, Construction To Start Next Week for Farb Homes’ City Place Memorial Park [Multi-Housing News]
• Dallas, Houston Lead in Single-Family Home Starts Nationally, Finds Metrostudy [Realty News Report]
• Apartment List: 56% of Houston Renters Plan To Move To Another Town Versus 64% Nationwide [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Bucks Trend on How Rising Rents Impact Homelessness, Finds Zillow [HBJ ($)]
• Red Circle Ice Cream Now Open at 6838 Ranchester in Chinatown [Houston Chronicle]
• Final Public Hearing for Proposed Heights Development Guidelines To Be Held Sept. 28 [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Center for Houston’s Future’s Brett Perlman on the Strengths, Challenges, and Future of Energy in Houston [The Urban Edge]
• Installation Brings Hundreds of Thousands of Streamers Downtown for Discovery Green, Convention Center Anniversaries [Houston Public Media]

Photo of I-45: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• DCT Industrial To Build Industrial Park on 35 Acres Near Port of Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Seventh Area Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel Opens in Webster, off Bay Area Blvd. [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside Toll Brothers’ New Line of Smaller, Lower Cost Homes Called T Select, Available at the Wildwood at NorthPointe Development in Tomball and Wooded Bend at Woodson’s Reserve in Spring [HBJ ($)]
• Bosscat Kitchen Owners Opening BCK: Kitchen & Cocktail Adventures in Former Glass Wall Space on Studewood in the Heights [Culturemap]
• Developer Texas Central Hiring Fluor Enterprises To Work on Design and Engineering of Houston-to-Dallas High-Speed Train [abc13]
• Podcast: Paradigm Shifts That Have and Could Make Greater Houston a Better Place to Live [Houston Public Media]
• Lawyers Still Trying to Figure Out How to Transfer Control of U.S. 290 Toll Lanes to TxDOT [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Crews Digging Sewer Tunnel Under Post Oak Blvd. by Hand [Click2Houston]

Photo of Gulf Fwy. Telephone Rd. underpass: Christine Gerbode

• Australian Developer Caydon Property Group Buys Midtown Parcel Next to the Old Greensheet Building [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Industrial Market Full of Long-Term Holders [HBJ ($)]
• Housing Assistance Scarce for Houston’s Lowest-Income Renters, Finds Federal Report [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• East End Rebranding Itself as Hub for Entrepreneurs, Millennials, and Tech Start-Ups [Houston Public Media]
• Dick’s Sporting Goods Opens in Galleria; Westlake Marketplace Location Next [HBJ ($)]
• Japanese Restaurant Kukuri from Michelin-Starred Chef Shimao Ishikawa Makes Houston Debut on Wash Ave [Eater Houston]
• Dallas-Based Sweet Shop Milk & Cream Opening First Houston Outpost at 9630 Clarewood [Eater Houston]
• Texas Department of Criminal Justice Buses 1,000 Inmates from Sweltering Wallace Pack Unit to Air-Conditioned Facilities [Houston Chronicle]
• The Connection Between Streetlights and Crime in Houston [The Urban Edge]
• Another Video of Market Square Tower’s Glass-Bottomed ‘Sky Pool’ Goes Viral [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Parent Company Plans to Close 105 to 135 Applebee’s, 2 Dozen IHOPs, Open 125 New Restaurants [USA Today]
• Find Some of the Highest Rents in Houston at New Hines Residential Tower The Southmore, Now 39% Leased [Houston Chronicle]
• Justin Yu’s Oxheart Replacement Theodore Rex To Open Later This Month [Eater Houston]
• Aqui, Paul Qui’s First Houston Restaurant, Opening in Montrose This Weekend for a Preview [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Near Northside Gastropub Edison Receives Cease and Desist Order To Stop Using the Name Edison [Houstonia]
• Bond Package Before City Council Contains $2.2M Funding for Houston Bike Plan, Possibly Enough for 10 to 24 Miles of Bike Lanes [Houston Press]
• City Clears Out, Cleans Up Midtown Homeless Camp Underneath the Southwest Fwy. Between San Jacinto and Almeda [KHOU]
• Activists Call for Independent Testing To Confirm Fifth Ward Superfund Site Was Thoroughly Cleaned Up [Houston Public Media]

Photo of the Williams Tower: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston-Area Home Sales Had 10th Consecutive Month of Growth, HAR Declares [Houston Public Media]
• H-E-B Market at Lake Houston Parkway in Atascocita Trades Hands [HBJ ($)]
• Houston’s Spaceport Moving Forward with Phase 1 Even After Losing Blue Origin Bid [HBJ ($)]
• Spencer Ogden Tripling Size of Houston Office with Relocation to Downtown’s GreenStreet [Realty News Report]
• City Releases Revised Draft of Development Guidelines for New Construction in 3 Houston Heights Historic Preservation Districts [Houston Chronicle]
• Roofstock, an Online Marketplace for Rental Home Investors, Expands to Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Michael’s Cookie Jar Opens Third Houston Location, in Briargrove [Culturemap]
• Massive Rebuild of Entire West Loop 610 and I-69 Interchange To Start Later This Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Interactive Map Shows Current Demographic and Income Data of Redlined Neighborhoods [The Urban Edge]
• It’s Houston and Detroit vs. Silicon Valley in the War for the Best Workers [Houston Chronicle]
• The Troll Operation That Sparked the Hermann Park Sam Houston Monument Protest [Texas Monthly]
• Remembering Austin Architect Dick Clark [Texas Monthly]

Photo of Conrad Sauer Detention Basin and 10100 Katy Fwy.: Bayan Raji

• Tenants To Begin Moving Into Generation Park Office Building Redemption Square [Community Impact Newspaper]
• H-E-B Under Contract To Buy Northwest Corner of Kirby Dr. and W. Alabama, Across from Upper Kirby Whole Foods [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside Caldwell Homes’ New Line of Active-Adult Homes in Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Median Price of New Woodlands Homes Hits $577K, Up from $559K a Year Earlier [Houston Chronicle]
• New Name for Downtown Project Formerly Known as Food Hall at Main and Rusk: Finn Hall [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Outback Steakhouse Near Meyerland Has Been Torn Down To Make Way for Retail Center [Houston Chronicle]
• CBRE’s Hal Holliday: Houston Going To See a ‘Stampede’ of Investors within the Next Year [Realty News Report]
• Neighbor-Based Social Media Platform Nextdoor Launches Real Estate Section in 10 U.S. Cities, Including Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• David Adickes’ Beatles Statues Set on Sale for $350K, Temporarily on Display at 8th Wonder Brewery [Houston Chronicle]
• Remembering Mai’s Restaurant Founder Phin Nguyen [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of statues by David Adickes: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Dallas-Based Investors ATCAP Partners Adds 3 Industrial Buildings to its Houston Holdings [Houston Chronicle]
• Insite Commercial Real Estate Acquires Westway Park Office Property Intellicenter in Northwest Houston [Realty News Report]
• New Amazon Fulfillment Center Opens in North Houston [abc13]
• Inside Co-Working Space WorkFlourish at Ascension Luxury Apartment Complex [HBJ ($)]
• Zoes Kitchen Opening in Spring and Westchase Within the Next Month [Houston Chronicle]
• Colorado-Based Restaurant Chain Lost Cajun Planning To Open 5 More Locations in Houston [HBJ]
• Chef Paul Qui’s Aqui Taking Reservations on OpenTable Starting Aug. 14 [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Urban Planner Pete Saunders on the Persistent Appeal of the Suburbs [The Urban Edge]
• A Status Report on that Long-Vacant 30-Story Former Holiday Inn Downtown [Bisnow; previously on Swamplot]
• Measure Loosening Heights Alcohol Rules Headed for November Ballot [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Magic Island: Swamplot inbox

• Trammell Crow To Start Building 40-Story Residential Tower Downtown Early Next Year [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Clear Lake City ZIP Code Named Among Top 20 in the U.S. with Highest Real Estate Returns by HomeUnion [Culturemap]
• Vacancy Rates Soar for Houston Office Space [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Parsley Photo Studio Selling Its Building at Yale and 15th After 75 Years in the Heights [The Leader]
• Making the Case for Downtown To Be Houston’s Innovation District [Houston Strategies]
• Houston Food Truck The Bird Stolen, Trashed, Set on Fire, and Recovered in Brays Bayou [Eater Houston]
• Sneak Peek at a 10,000-SF, 32-Foot-Tall Bounce House Coming to Houston in October [abc13]
• How Houston Can Improve Its Flood Rescue Abilities [Houston Public Media]
• Texas Transportation Commission Approves Removal of Toll Lanes on Cesar Chavez Border Highway [El Paso Times]
• GreenSpace Holdings Using Used Shipping Containers in Construction of Pearland Self-Storage Facility [HBJ]

Photo of Lake Livingston: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Office Vacancy Hits Highest Point Since 1994, Colliers Reports [Realty News Report]
• TierOne Development Starts Construction on Spec Office, Medical Development in Sugar Land [Realty News Report]
• 45-Acre Galveston Tract Eyed for Hotels Hits the Market [HBJ ($)]
• Octagonal Memorial Villages ‘Treehouse’ Designed by Architect Mark Mucasey for Sale for Nearly $1.9M [Houston Chronicle]
• Redevelopment Work Begins on Midtown Common Entertainment District [Bisnow; previously on Swamplot]
• Port of Galveston Considering Using Drone-Detection Technology for Cruise Terminals [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Spaceport Loses Out to Huntsville, Alabama on Bid for Blue Origin Rocket Engine Manufacturing Facility [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Urban Observatory Lets You Compare Cities by Metrics Like Housing Density, Flood Zones, Transit Access [The Urban Edge]
• A 360-Degree Tour of Manchester, ‘One of America’s Most Polluted Neighborhoods‘ [New York Times]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Best Buy Looking for 600,000SF Distribution Space in Houston [HBJ ($)]
• Residential Solar Panel Firm Sunrun Enters Houston Market, Leases Flex Space at 12560 Reed Rd. in Sugar Land [Realty News Report]
• Why CoreLogic Is Concerned About Houston Home Prices [HBJ ($)]
• Bill Passed in Texas Senate Could Kill Big Cities’ Ability To Grow Through Annexation [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Montrose Restaurant Emmaline Debuts Next Week Where Teala’s Used To Be [Eater Houston]
• Proposed Bill Would Protect Iconic Sam Houston Statue in Hermann Park [Houston Chronicle]
• Sun Belt Cities Need Unique Solutions to Urban Issues Like Public Transit, Affordable Housing [The Urban Edge]
• Podcast: A Visit to Houston’s Only Functioning Drive-In Movie Theater [Houston Public Media]
• I-45 Expansion Might Displace SEARCH Homeless Center Recently Completed EaDo Headquarters [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• How the New Sunset Coffee Building, Now Designed To Handle Regular Flooding, Connects To Its History [OffCite; previously on Swamplot]
• The Coast Guard Wants To Know Who Owns This Mermaid House Floating in the Gulf [The Advocate]

Photo of Houston Chronicle building: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Camden Says It Will Begin Construction of Delayed 20-Story Apartment Tower Near Toyota Center Later This Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Cabot Properties Acquires Techway Southwest in Southwest Houston for $33M [Realty News Report]
• Realtor for Glenbrook Valley ‘Time Capsule’ House Surprised There Hasn’t Been An Offer Yet [Houston Chronicle]
• H-E-B Anchoring Mont Belvieu Marketplace Near Baytown Breaks Ground [HBJ]
• Podcast: Details on the New Airline Dr. Farmers Market, from Seating and Sidewalk Improvements to Role of Current Vendors [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Beyoncé May Be Interested in Buying a Stake in the Houston Rockets [Bloomberg; previously on Swamplot]
• Please Stop Painting Houston’s Electrical Boxes [Glasstire]

Photo of Elysian St. Viaduct Bridge demo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Investor Interest ‘Extremely High’ for Downtown’s Houston Center [HBJ ($)]
• The 8 Largest Houston Assets for Sale Right Now, Including Houston Center [Bisnow]
• Market Square Park’s Revitalization a Decade in the Making [Houston Public Media]
• The Hidden Costs of Buying a Home in Houston [HBJ ($)]
• CHI St. Luke’s Health To Join ‘Vivacity’ Medical District in Valley Ranch [HBJ]
• Developer of River Oaks Condo Revere Park Gets OK To Build Closer to Street [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Inside the River Oaks Estate Built for George R. Brown, on the Market for $10M [abc13]
• A’Bouzy Opens Today in Former 60 Degrees Mastercrafted/Harwood Grill Space on Westheimer Near Kirby [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Mala Sichuan Bistro Expanding to New Asian Town Shopping Development in Katy [Eater Houston]
• Maison Pucha Bistro Planned for 1001 Studewood, Previously Home to Black & White and Stella Sola [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Fifth Ward Activists Protest EPA Budget Cuts in Front of Superfund Site Currently Under Redevelopment [Houston Press]
• Metro Considering Closing Certain Downtown Rail Lanes to Cars [Houston Chronicle ($)]

Photo of Vistas de Sevilla, Cottage Grove: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool