Tag: Headlines

• The Sublease Space Discounts at Houston’s Largest Multi-Tenant Office Buildings [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston’s Apartment Vacancy Rate Expected To Climb to 7% by End of the Year, According to Marcus & Millichap [HBJ]
• Deteriorating McCrory’s Building in Downtown Galveston Poised for Revival [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Podcast: Why Houston May or May Not Have Zoning [Houston Chronicle]
• Nao Ramen House Set To Open Later This Year at 5510 Morningside in Rice Village [Houston Chronicle]
• Dual Italian Restaurant Concepts at 500 Crawford from Bill Floyd and Bryan Caswell To Now Be Called Kristalla and Osso [Houston Chronicle]
• Juice Girl Opening in Montrose This Weekend [Eater Houston]
• Southern Goods Chef Sues Business Partner Alleging Fraud [Culturemap]
• Grimes County Residents Concerned About Eminent Domain in Dallas-Houston High-Speed Rail Project [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]

Photo: Ruben S. via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Among Top Metros Poised To Increase Its Population More Than 50% by 2040 [HBJ]
• Entergy Texas Plans To Build $1B Power Plant in Montgomery County [HBJ]
• Crescent Real Estate Acquires 192-Unit RiverBend Apartments in League City [Realty News Report]
• Florida-Based Drive-Thru Grocery Store Chain Farm Stores Entering Houston Market Next Year with Katy Location [HBJ]
• German-Based Grocer Lidl Looking To Open Stores Somewhere in Texas [HBJ]
• Field & Tides Slated To Open in December in Former Zelko Bistro Space [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Food Trucks Cousins Maine Lobster and The Lucky Fig Opening Brick-and-Mortar Locations in North Houston [Culturemap]
• North Carolina Investment Firm Buys Majority Stake in Ruggles Green, Plans To Open 30 More Locations Across Texas in Next 4 Years [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• HSPVA School Board at Odds Over Kinder Rebranding of Downtown Campus [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Economy Contracting for 21st Month in a Row [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Lynn Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• DC Partners Breaks Ground on High-End Custom-Home Community Brandy Villas Near The Woodlands [HBJ]
• Louis Shanks of Texas Inc. Closing Houston Showroom in February, Warehouse in March [HBJ]
• HISD Trustee: Bellaire HS Would Need ‘About 40 Million To Survive’ Until Potential Replacement Campus on Chevron Land Could Be Funded and Finished [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Kinders Donating $7.5M to HSPVA’s New Downtown Building, Now Named Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Midtown Pizza Joint Ponzo’s Italian American Closing Oct. 16 [Culturemap]
• Evergreen Commercial Realty’s Lilly Golden: Biggest Challenge for Tenant Rep is Finding Space [Bisnow Houston]
• Houston Astros Break Ground on Center Field Renovation at Minute Maid Park [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston’s New Residential Construction Code Favors Solar Energy [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Market Square Tower: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• CBRE: 6.4M SF of Industrial Space in Houston Delivered in Third Houston, 7.5M SF Still in Development [Realty News Report]
• Chevron Phillips Chemical’s $6B Petrochemical Expansion in Baytown More Than 80% Complete [Fuel Fix]
• ConocoPhillips Shows Off New Energy Corridor Office Building Now on Sublease Market [Houston Chronicle]
• Colvill Office Properties’ Paula Bruns on Shell’s Downtown Departure and the Future of Downtown’s Office Market [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Contempo Builder Working on 82 New Townhomes in Acres Homes Gated Community La Sierra [HBJ]
• Lovett Commercial Plans Super Bowl Popup Mall, Other Events at Post HTX at Former Barbara Jordan Post Office Building [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands Getting $11M Renovation [HBJ]
• With Temporary Permit Expired, Will White Oak Music Hall’s Outdoor Stage Be Ready by Its Oct. 22 Show? [Houston Press]
• Have We Reached Peak Beer in Houston? [Off the Kuff]
• Williams Brothers Construction Poised To Build Next Segment of I-45 Widening from League City to Dickinson [Houston Chronicle]
• Biggest Projected Job Growth in Houston To Come from Hospitality, Healthcare, Professional Services, Education [Houston Public Media]
• Richard Florida: Houston Has an Inequality Problem [The Urban Edge]

Photo: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• PM Realty Cools on Partial-Apartment Plans for Hotel Tower Planned Next to New Office Highrise on Buffalo Speedway [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Neutex Group Building $40M LED Manufacturing Facility Near IAH [HBJ]
• Johnson Development Corp. Breaks Ground on Fort Bend Master-Planned Community Veranda [HBJ]
• Clearworth Capital Acquires Ponderosa Apartments in FM 1960/Champions Area, Plans ‘Extensive Renovation’ [Houston Chronicle]
• Atlanta-Based Cousins Properties and Houston-Based Parkway Properties Complete Merger, Plan New REIT [Houston Chronicle]
• Hughes Landing on Lake Woodlands Adding 9 New Retailers, Retail Row Now 96% Leased [HBJ]
• Austin-Based Boutique Beehive Opens First Houston Store at Rice Village Location [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Platypus Brewing Now Open on Wash Ave in Former Drake Nightclub Space [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• Pluckers Wing Bar’s Second Houston Location Opening This Month in Memorial City Area, Third Underway [HBJ]
• Houston Hurricane Protection Plan Still in Limbo [The Texas Tribune; previously on Swamplot]
• Oil Lands Above $50 a Barrel for First Time Since June [Fuel Fix]

Photo of White Oak Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Randall Davis, DC Partners Break Ground on Marlowe Condo Tower Downtown [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Zimmerman Family To Turn Buildings near Allen’s Landing on Main St. into Co-Working Space [HBJ]
• Greystar Begins Preleasing at Active-Adult Community Overture Sugar Land [HBJ]
• Relish Restaurant & Bar Set To Open Monday in Former Bird & the Bear Space on Westheimer [Houston Chronicle]
• 8-Month Project Starting Next Year Will Add Grooves to Katy Freeway Pavement To Help Minimize Noise [abc13]
• How Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio Power the Texas Economy [City Journal via Opportunity Urbanist]
• Lessons Learned from the Oil Slump [Houston Public Media]
• City Council To Vote on Daytime Sidewalk Sleeping Ordinance To Reduce Vagrancy, Trespassing in Near Northside [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Judalon Lane: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Energy Corridor Vacancy Rate Climbed to 25.7% in Third Quarter, According to JLL [Realty News Report]
• Midway’s West Houston Office Building CityCentre Five Secures 2 Tenants, Now 77% Occupied [Realty News Report]
• New 600K-SF Grand Morton Town Center Addresses Retail Shortage in North Katy [Realty News Report]
• City of Katy To Begin Demolition of Downtown City Hall in January To Make Way for Entertainment Hub [HBJ]
• Houston Real Estate Firm Hansen Partners Behind Purchase of Former Mark’s American Cuisine Space [HBJ]
• Academy Sports + Outdoors Slated To Open Pearland Location This Friday [HBJ]
• Inside Third Coast Atop the John P. McGovern Commons in the Texas Medical Center [HBJ]
• Speculators Buying Condemned Houses Slated for Demo and Reselling Them To Buyers, Say Officials [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Annual Salary Needed To Own a Home in Top Houston Neighborhoods [Houston Chronicle]
• Defining Houston’s “Bad” Neighborhoods [OffCite Blog]
• What Makes Houston a Knowledge Capital, But Not a Global Giant [The Urban Edge]
• Houston Police Touring Other Super Bowl Cities To See How Security Measures Are Implemented [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Has Seen Elevated Ozone Every Day So Far This Month [Houston Public Media]
• Washington Avenue Arts District Unveils 800-Foot Art Wall Houston in Sawyer Yards [Houstonia]

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• Houston Saw the Largest Loss of Construction Jobs of Any U.S. City Year-Over-Year in August [Houston Chronicle]
• More Than 1.3M SF of New Retail Space Scheduled To Deliver This Year, According to CBRE [Realty News Report]
• As Austin, Dallas Housing Markets Heat Up, Houston Loses Momentum, Finds RCLCO Real Estate [The Urban Edge]
• Lone Star College-Kingwood To Break Ground Today on Process Technology Center in Generation Park [Houston Chronicle]
• Trademark Property Co. To Develop 82-Acre Town Center in Katy [Realty News Report]
• Surge Homes Begins Pre-Sales for Museum District Condominium Project Museum BLVD [HBJ]
• Florida-Based Advenir Buys 320-Unit Park Lakes Apartment Homes South of the Texas Medical Center [Houston Chronicle]
• JLL: Houston Will See Improvement in Demand for Real Estate from Energy Companies in 2018 or 2019 [Houston Public Media]
• 5 Tips for Homebuilders on How To Weather the Oil Slump [HBJ]
• Ross Dress for Less Opening in Fidelis Realty Partners Development in Northeast Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Commuter Bus Service Woodlands Express To Start Picking Up Reverse Commuters to Montgomery County [Houston Public Media]
• First Sunday Streets Event Held Outside Loop 610 on Mile-Long Stretch of Eldridge Pkwy. on Far-West Side [Houston Chronicle]
• Large Bat Colony Found in Walls of St. Francis Episcopal School [abc13]
• Dallas, Houston Top List of the Best Cities for Evacuating from a Disaster [Texas Monthly]

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• How Houston’s Hotel Scene Is Changing Ahead of the Super Bowl [Houston Chronicle]
• City Hall Working To Identify New Neighborhoods Where Houston Can Encourage Public and Private Development [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Freeport LNG Expanding Downtown Footprint by 16,073 SF on 49th Floor of 3 Allen Center [HBJ]
• Inside Pomona, Dallas-Based Hillwood Communities’ First Master-Planned Community in Houston [HBJ]
• Winter the Most Affordable Time To Buy a Home in Houston, According to NerdWallet [HBJ]
• Does Zoning Pose a Barrier to Affordable Housing? [Houston Chronicle]
• Aldi Planning New Stores in La Porte, Richmond and Inside the Loop Southwest of UH [HBJ]
• Amenities at Deutser’s New San Felipe Plaza Office Include Zen Room, Live Lavender Wall, ‘Interesting Chalkboard Room’ [HBJ]
• Underbelly’s Chris Shepherd To Put 5 Different Restaurants in Former Mark’s Space over Next 5 Years [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Maclane’s Cafe Planned for Current Nit Noi Space on Woodway [HBJ]
• Rama Cos. Planning Restaurant/Retail Building at Site of Torn-Down Pollo Bravo on Memorial [Houston Chronicle ($); previously on Swamplot]
• A Rundown of Where Restaurants Are Opening in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside Houston’s ‘Coolest’ Bachelor Pads [abc13]
• Some Tips If You’re Looking To Rent Property Out for the Super Bowl [The Leader]
• Appeals Court To Consider EPA’s Plan To Limit Coal-Fired Power Plant Emissions This Week [Houston Public Media]

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• Rents Near Houston’s Best Public Schools Are 46% Higher Than Those Near Low-Ranking Ones, Finds RentCafe [Houston Chronicle]
• Value of New Residential Projects Started in Houston Down 14% to $727M in August [Houston Chronicle]
• Slideshow: The Largest Office Space Available in Houston’s 13 Submarkets [HBJ]
• CBRE: The City’s Best- and Worst-Performing Submarkets in Terms of Occupancy and RevPAR [CBRE]
• Cypress Creek Plaza Shopping Center Completes Construction, 80% Leased [Houston Chronicle]
• Westside Ventures Developing Mixed-Use Project on 82-Acre Katy Parcel [Houston Chronicle]
• Lonza Plans 150K-SF Expansion of Its Pearland Biotech Facility [HBJ]
• Sitterle Homes To Expand Luxury Garden Home Line to Towne Lake, Cypress [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Momentum Indoor Climbing To Open Gym in Retrofitted Warehouse on Washington Avenue [HBJ]
• Metro’s Project List Still Includes 90A Rail Line, Airport Rail Service, Downtown-Galleria Connection [Houston Public Media]
• 8,000 Structures in Harris County Elevated to ‘Special Flood Hazard Area’ in FEMA’s Flood-Risk Map [Houston Chronicle]
• BHP Billiton Giving Nature Conservancy $8M To Buy 1,800 Acres of Brazoria County Wetlands for Preservation [Houston Public Media]

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• Energy Corridor No. 1 Market in the Country for Supply of Sublease Office Space, Finds JLL [Realty News Report]
• HFF: Most New Houston Buyers Focusing on the City’s Class B and C Apartment Market During Energy Downturn [HBJ]
• Nitya Capital Picks Up 235-unit Class B Multifamily Community The Broadmead Near the Astrodome [Realty News Report]
• Texas May Have Made It Through the Worst of the Oil Bust, Says Dallas Fed [HBJ]
• Amenities at FMC’s New Corporate Campus in Generation Park Include Auto Servicing [HBJ]
• Citizen Pilates Planning To Open Second, Crowdfunded Location in the Heights [HBJ]
• Restaurant in Bellaire’s Evelyn’s Park To Be Named Ivy & James Based on Winning Contest Entry [Culturemap]
• Last Full-Service Gas Station Closes on Galveston Island [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Air Alliance Houston Takes Kids on ‘Toxic Tour’ of the East Side [KHOU]
• 23,000-Acre Galveston Bay Oyster Lease Voided [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Inside Metro’s Social Media Team, Known By Their Initials [Houston Public Media]
• DOJ Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Bar 360 Midtown, Formerly Operated as Gaslamp [KHOU; previously on Swamplot]

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• Midway’s Project on Former KBR Site in the East End To Be Called East River [Houston Chronicle; previous on Swamplot]
• Post Properties Opens 388-Unit Apartment Complex Post at Afton Oaks at 3131 W. Loop South [Houston Chronicle]
• Master-Planned Community Kingwood Celebrating Opening of Final Residential Section, Royal Brook, Oct. 8 [Houston Chronicle]
• Venterra Realty Acquires 370-Unit Multi-Housing Complex Coles Crossing in Cypress [Realty News Report]
• Houston Rent Grew 0.3% Year-Over-Year in August, Finds Yardi Matrix Report [Inman]
• More Than 68K People Signed Up for 30K Spots on Houston Housing Authority’s Public Housing Vouchers Waiting List [The Urban Edge]
• Northwestern Mutual Latest Financial Institution To Target West Houston Area with New Energy Corridor Office [HBJ]
• New, Bigger Location of Rice Village Cafe Hungry’s Opening Next Door Next Month [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Upper Kirby’s Renovated Levy Park Slated To Open in Mid-November [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Allen Parkway parking: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• A Breakdown of What $105M Would Buy in the Proposed Astrodome Parking Garage Redo [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Slideshow: What the Inside of the Astrodome Looks Like Today [Houston Chronicle]
• JLL To Acquire Houston Affiliate of Commercial Real Estate Valuation Company Integra Realty Resources [HBJ]
• Port of Galveston Buys Out Joe’s Crab Shack Restaurant’s Lease at Pier 19 [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Lawyers for Proposed Houston-Dallas High-Speed Rail Withdraw Request for Entry to Northwestern Harris County Property [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Scientists Find “Definitive Link” Between Disposal of Fracking Byproducts and East Texas Earthquakes [Texas Monthly]
• How 9 Office Markets Besides Houston Are Dealing with Low Oil Prices [Bisnow]

Photo of TejasTreffen classic Porsche show photo shoot setup at Winter Street Studios: TejasTreffen

• Harris County Commissioner’s Court To Vote on Proposed Astrodome Parking Plan This Tuesday [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Average Vacancy Rate Within Houston’s Crane-Served Industrial Facilities Stands at 10.5%, Finds NAI Partners [HBJ]
• Holliday Fenoglio Fowler Secures Financing for 388-Unit Energy Corridor Housing Community Aura Memorial [Realty News Report]
• Braun Enterprises Closes on Montrose, Heights Properties [HBJ]
• Aloft Houston Downtown Slated To Open Oct. 4 in Historic Stowers Building at 820 Fannin [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Academy Sports + Outdoors Debuts in Valley Ranch Town Center in New Caney [HBJ]
• Pete Rose Hit King Baseball Academy Starts Construction in Katy [HBJ]
• John Hardy Opens Stand-Alone Boutique in the River Oaks District [Culturemap]
• Louis Shanks Closing Largest Showroom and Distribution Center in Houston [Furniture Today]
• Metro To Start Testing New Zero-Emission Electric Bus in Southwest Houston in December [Houston Public Media]
• Updated FEMA Coastal Flood Map Puts New 8,000 Harris County Owners’ Properties into Special Flood Hazard Zone [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Sawyer Yards: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Average Houston Rent Was $1,077 in August, Down 2.9% Year-Over-Year, Finds Axiometrics [Houston Chronicle]
• The Mitchell Group Closes on 4K-SF Lease at Downtown’s The Jones on Main [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Realty Companies Baker Katz and Braun Enterprises Buy 1920s Washington Avenue Property in the 1900 Block [Houston Chronicle]
• Ronnie Killen Opening First Houston-Proper Restaurant Called Killen’s STQ in Freshly Vacated Bramble Space [Culturemap]
• Metro’s 2017 Budget Includes Improving Bus Stops and Transit Infrastructure [Houston Public Media]
• A Review of The Dunlavy and Its Position in Buffalo Bayou Park [OffCite Blog]
• See 8 Contemporary Houses on the Houston Modern Home Tour This Saturday [Houstonia]
• Houston’s First Annual Weird Homes Tour on Oct. 8 To Feature 8 to 10 Eclectic Residences [Houston Chronicle]

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