Tag: Headlines

• Where Apartment Rents Rose and Fell the Most in Houston in 2016 [HBJ]
• Why Houston is Fertile Ground for Microgrid Development [HBJ]
• Upland Estates Planning New Home Community on Spring Branch Industrial Site [HBJ]
• City’s New Traffic Operations Building Receives LEED Gold Certification [Houston Public Media]
• Luby’s Looking To Reduce Office Space at Northwest Houston Headquarters [HBJ]
• Mockingbird Bistro To Close Next Month When Lease Runs Out After Nearly 15 Years on Welch [Houston Chronicle]
• Opening of Ronnie Killen’s Barbecue-Steakhouse Hybrid STQ Further Delayed [Eater Houston]
• Poké Chain PokéWorks Appears To Be Planning Houston Location [Eater Houston]
• Heights Dual-Concept Seafood Restaurant Black & White Temporarily Closes for ‘Renovations and Rebranding’ [Culturemap]
• U of H Institution Chinese Star Restaurant Closing Dec. 17 as University Eyes Building Upgrades [abc13]
• Trump’s Choice of Ben Carson for HUD Secretary Raises Concern Over Fair Housing Laws [Houston Chronicle]
• Slideshow: The 6 Homes That Will Be Featured in This Weekend’s Houston Heights Holiday Home Tour [HBJ]

Photo of the George R. Brown Convention Center: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Named Among the 4 Global Office Markets Hit Hardest by the Oil Bust [Realty News Report]
• Houston Office Market Will Bottom Out in 2017, Predicts NAI Partners’ Jon Silberman [Realty News Report]
• Average Houston Sublease Transaction Signed in 2016 is 6,200 SF, According to JLL [HBJ]
• Grand Central Park Model Homes Open on Former Camp Strake Property [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• What $300,000 Buys in the Houston Area [Houston Chronicle]
• LEED-Certified Apartments Can Charge Higher Rents in Houston, Finds RENTCafe [HBJ]
• Sugar Land Nightclub Blu Transforming into The Sugar Refinery Grub & Grogs with Crowdsourcing Help [Culturemap]
• Houstonians Want More Sidewalks, Fewer Parking Minimum Requirements, Finds Traffic Study [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Named Among Best Places To Live in the World by InterNations Expat Survey [HBJ]
• David Chang: The Next Food Capital of America Might Be Houston [GQ]

Photo of NRG Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Ranks in the Top 10 of the Nation’s Most Expensive Office Markets, According to JLL [Houston Chronicle]
• Fort Bend Office Submarket Sees Rising Vacancy Rates, Declining Rental Rates, Finds Colliers International [Realty News Report]
• Luxury Mixed-Use Project The Kirby Collection at 3200 Kirby Drive Tops Out [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• High-End, Downtown-esque Condo Project The Shoreline Underway Along Lake Conroe [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• River Oaks District Marketer Launches New Houston Real Estate Marketing and Design Firm [HBJ]
• Stoked Tacos & Tequila Closes After 6 Months in ‘Cursed’ Midtown Spot [Culturemap]
• Low-Income Housing Doesn’t Actually Impact Nearby Property Values, Finds Trulia [San Antonio Express-News]

Photo: Ruben S. via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Construction Permits Fell 27% Year-Over-Year in October to $537.9M [Houston Chronicle]
• I-10 Office Submarkets Show Dramatic Vacancy Split on Either Side of Beltway 8 [Houston Bisnow]
• One of Baytown’s Last Major Tracts of Land Zoned for Multifamily Use on the Market [HBJ]
• Baybrook Mall Outdoor Lifestyle Center About 95% Leased, New Power Center About 90% Leased [HBJ]
• Dallas-Based Luxury Retailer Forty Five Ten To Open in River Oaks District This Week [HBJ]
• How Houston’s New International Energy Conservation Code Will Result in Greener, Pricier Buildings [HBJ]
• These Houston-Area Grocery Stores Are Open on Thanksgiving Day 2016 [Houston Press]

Photo Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• What Trump Could Mean for Houston’s Construction Industry [HBJ]
• 5 Tenants Sublease 165,000 SF of Space at Downtown’s Heritage Plaza [Realty News Report]
• LGI Homes Acquires 281 Acres in Waller County for New Residential Community [HBJ]
• Energy Corridor Independent Living Complex Eagle’s Trace Expands with $25M Amarillo Terrace Building [HBJ]
• Nekter Juice Bar Opening First Houston Location at 2800 Southwest Freeway in Greenway Plaza Next Year [Eater Houston]
• Dallas-Based Rodeo Goat Ice House To Open near EaDo’s East Village in Spring 2017 [Eater Houston]
• Allen Pwky. Pedestrianization Measures Officially Declared Open with City Council Album Cover Photo Ops [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of 2016 Houston Via Colori: theranth via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Slideshow Tour: 609 Main Set To Wrap Up in January [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot]
• USGS Estimates 20 Billion Barrels of Oil and 16 Trillion Cubic Ft. of Gas in Wolfcamp Shale [Houston Public Media]
• Why the Oil Slump Keeps 2 Houston Housing Developers Up at Night [HBJ]
• 217 Percent More Wealthy Households Have Become Renters from 2005 to 2015 [Bisnow]
• Affordable Apartment Complex Cleme Manor in the Fifth Ward To Get $41 Million for Comprehensive Renovation [Houston Chronicle]
• 32 Locations of Hot Dog Franchise Wienerschnitzel Planned for Houston Area over Next 15 Years [Houston Chronicle]
• Owners of After Hours V Live Club on Richmond Ave. Get Locked Out, Owe Nearly $200K in Taxes [Houston Chronicle]
• Video: The Difference Between Streets, Roads, Ways, Boulevards, Avenues, and More [Vox]

Photo of 2nd Hotel ZaZa top-off: Swamplot inbox

• Inside the Menil Drawing Institute, Less Than a Year Out from Planned Opening [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Thompson & Knight Law Firm Subleases 70K SF in BG Group Place Building Downtown [Realty News Report]
• More Specs on Leafy Mimosa Terrace Condo Midrise, Planned for Glendower Court Area [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Home Listings That Have Energy-Saving Measures Priced $60,900 More Than Homes That Don’t, Finds Zillow [HBJ]
• Hotels Planned or Underway in Galveston Will Push Island Room Count Past 5,000 [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• How Older, Inner-Ring Suburbs Like Near Northwest Are Reinventing Themselves [The Urban Edge; previously on Swamplot]
• More Parking and Mobility Infrastructure Planned for Montrose [Houston Chronicle]
• City Comes to Agreement for Ride-Sharing Companies To Operate in Houston [Houstonia; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Four Leaf Towers: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Sugar Land Annexation of New Territory and Greatwood Gets Final Approval, Will Add 30,000 Residents [Houston Chronicle]
• Apache Industrial Services, McCord Development Relocating Headquarters to 250 Assay St. in Generation Park [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• How Houston’s First Agrihood Harvest Green Is Coming Along So Far [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• First Phase of Fairfield Town Center in Cypress To Wrap Up Just in Time for Black Friday [HBJ]
• Heights Theater Renovation Nearly Complete Ahead of Friday’s Reopening [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Hopdoddy Burger Bar Planning Third Houston Location in Vintage Park with Spring 2017 Opening [Culturemap]

Photo of Bellaire: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Riverway Properties To Redevelop Former Berger Iron Works Site Near the Heights into Mixed-Use Property Called The Ironworks [HBJ]
• Kenneth Cole To Shutter All U.S. Outlet Stores Including 3 in Houston ]HBJ]
• Ronnie Killen’s First Houston-Proper Restaurant Killen’s STQ Slated To Open Nov. 28 in Former Bramble Space [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Food Truck Chi’Lantro BBQ Plans Return to Houston with Brick-and-Mortar After ‘Shark Tank’ Investment [HBJ]
• Bryan Caswell Departs from Dual Italian Restaurant Concepts Kristalla and Osso at 500 Crawford [Culturemap]
• Indoor Cycling Chain Full Psycle Close To Signing Leases in The Woodlands and Town and Country Area [HBJ]
• Construction Starting Today on $815M State Highway 288 Toll Lane Project [Houston Public Media]
• National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, in Houston for First Time in 70 Years, Starts Today [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Ed Wilson’s Embattled Bird Sculpture ‘Soaring in the Clouds’ Debuts at Convention Center [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of The Lights Festival: thranth via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• University of Houston System Completes Purchase of 46 Acres for New Mall Ring-Road Campus in Katy [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Transwestern: Medical Center, Montrose, Downtown Have Most Apartments Under Construction in Houston [HBJ]
• Houston Has Fifth-Largest Number of Wealthy Apartment Renters Nationwide, Finds RENTCafé [HBJ]
• Houston the No. 1 ‘Sell’ Market in the U.S. for Industrial Investors, According to Tex-X LLC [HBJ]
• Affordable Housing Property Cleme Manor Apartments in the Fifth Ward To Get $41M Renovation [Houston Chronicle]
• Ruggles Green Close To Signing a Lease at Vintage Marketplace [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Raising Cane’s Opening 23rd Houston-Area Location in Kingwood Tomorrow [Houston Chronicle]
• Austin’s Ramen Tatsu-Ya To Open First Houston Location in Montrose [HBJ]
• Houston Economist Bill Gilmer Predicts 2017 Will Be Slow But Still Better Than 2016 [Realty News Report]
• These Charts Show Poverty’s Startling Spread Across Houston [The Urban Edge]
• Texas Nationalist Movement Still Working with State Legislators To Draft Bill for Secession [Dallas News]

Photo of 8th Wonder: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Home Sales Flat in October as Prices Set Records, Finds HAR [HBJ]
• Nearly Half of Houston Apartment Residents Considered Rent-Burdened, Finds Abodo [HBJ]
• Will President Trump Be Good for the Texas Oil and Gas Industry? [Dallas News]
• Houston-Based Shoreline Energy LLC Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy [HBJ]
• How the Oil Price Plunge Has Affected Houston’s Local Businesses [Energy Voice]
• Lawsuit Alleges City Work Caused $2M in Damages to Mansion Near River Oaks [Houston Chronicle]
• Mattress Mack Lost $10M on Election Night Bet [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• 12,300-SF Medical Office Building in Southeast Houston Trades Hands [Realty News Report]
• Austin-Based PPA Group Acquires First Houston Apartment Project [Realty News Report]
• Rosewood Estates Developing Hamilton Park Townhome Community Near Memorial Park [Realty News Report]
• 45 Apartments Damaged in Fire at The Hampstead at Museum District [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Second Houston Location of The Halal Guys To Debut Nov. 19 in Vintage Marketplace [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Viking-Themed Restaurant Ship & Shield Opening in Former Byzantio Space in Montrose [Culturemap]
• Heights Dry Zone Voters Overtun To-Go Alcohol Sales Prohibition [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Ranks No. 2 Behind Dallas in Nationwide Housing Starts in the Third Quarter, According to Metrostudy [Realty News Report]
• Shadyside Mansion on National Register of Historic Places Still on the Market for $18M [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• La Porte White House Look-Alike Sterling Mansion To Be Auctioned Off in December [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Scenes from Shake Shack’s First Day in Houston [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Inside Houston’s Latest Flotation Therapy Center, Now Open in the Galleria Area [HBJ]
• Minority Applicants More Likely To Be Denied Mortgages in 2015, Finds Zillow Report [Houston Chronicle]
• There Has Been a Fatal Traffic Crash in Texas Every Day Since Nov. 7, 2000 [Houston Public Media]
• TRIP Gives Houston So-So Marks for Its Road Conditions in National Rankings [Houston Chronicle]
• Memorial City Mall To Unveil 4,000-SF Green Area Dubbed The Square at Memorial City on Nov. 12 [HBJ]
• Former Houston College of Law Will Now Go By South Texas College of Law Houston [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Golfsmith To Close 4 Stores in Houston During Bankruptcy [HBJ]
• North Texas Upscale Community Trident Lakes To Feature Underground Bunkers [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Shake Shack at the Galleria: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Office Vacancy Rate Rose to 17.1% in Third Quarter, Up from 14.5% Last Year, Finds Colliers [Realty News Report]
• CBRE’s 2017 Outlook for Houston’s Commercial Real Estate Market [Realty News Report]
• In the Past Year Stone Mountain Properties Has Acquired $60M in Houston Office Properties [HBJ]
• Protected-Landmark-Designated Heights Pumping Station Property To Be Sold to Undisclosed Buyer [The Leader]
• Video: Peek Down From at Market Square Tower’s 40th-Story Clear-Bottomed Pool [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Spring-Based Residential Real Estate Brokerage Re/Max Integrity Opens Second Office in Willis [HBJ]
• Texas Junk Company Closes for Good in Montrose [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Why Shake Shack Landed in the Galleria [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Exploratory Oil Drilling Project Near Lake Houston Ends [Houston Chronicle]
• Metro, Yellow Cab Houston, and Zipcar Offering Free Rides to the Polls on Election Day [abc13]

Photo of Central Station Main: Ruben S. via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Park Ten Center in the Energy Corridor Now 100% Leased [HBJ]
• Shake Shack Plans To Open a Third Houston Location by 2018 [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Cordúa Restaurant Group To Replace Woodlands Americas with a Churrascos [HBJ]
• Houston Pedestrian Deaths ‘Dramatically Going Up’ But HPD Can’t Explain Why [Houston Chronicle]
• I-45 Downtown Shutdowns Will Cause Traffic Mess for the Next 4 Weekends [Houston Chronicle]
• I-10 Restriping Project To Reduce Lane Width from Beltway 8 to West of Highway 6, Add Lanes at Exit Ramps [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Bankrate Ranks Houston Among Worst U.S. Metros for Building Wealth [HBJ]

Photo of Richmond Ave.: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool