Tag: Headlines

• More Than 13M SF of Office Space Under Construction in Texas Triangle, Finds CBRE Research [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Vacant Former ExxonMobil Building in Greenspoint To Get $2.8M in Renovations To Modernize Common Areas [HBJ]
• How Amegy Bank Plans To Take Over Downtown’s Historic Esperson Building [HBJ]
• 5 Energy Companies That Could Add Space to Houston’s Sublease Market Before Year’s End [HBJ]
• Majority of Oil and Gas Execs Think Downturn Will Be Over by End of 2017, Finds Deloitte Survey [Houston Public Media]
• Metro Prepares for Lower Sales Tax Revenues in 2017 Budget [Houston Public Media]
• Construction on New Galveston Wastewater Treatment Plant Wraps Up 8 Years After Ike [Galveston County Daily News ($)]

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• Lone Star College Kingwood To Break Ground Next Month on Technology Center in Generation Park [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Miami-Based One Real Estate Investment Buys Avalon at Royal Oaks Apartment Complex for $30M [Houston Chronicle]
• Downtown Post Office’s Historical Elements Include ‘Spy Catwalks,’ Bomb Shelter Bunkers [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• What $465,000 Gets You in Houston, Besides J.J. Watt’s Pearland Home [HBJ]
• Downtown’s Magnolia Hotel To Become First Texas Hotel To Join Tribute Portfolio Brand [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Artist Takes Inspiration from Daily Freeway Commute[Houston Public Media]

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• Sublease Supply Up 118% in Houston Office Market Since First Quarter of 2015, Finds Transwestern [Realty News Report]
• Swiss Manufacturer Sulzer Relocating U.S. Headquarters to Energy Corridor from Sugar Land [HBJ]
• Beyond Westchase District, TechSpace Planning 4 More Co-Working Spaces in Houston [HBJ]
• Broad Mix of Homes Helping Sales at Cross Creek Ranch Amid Softer Houston Housing Market [Houston Chronicle]
• Melange Creperie Finally Finds Brick and Mortar Home Inside Heights Mercantile Development [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• The Burger Joint Opening Second, Bigger Houston Location Next Year in the Heights [Houston Chronicle]
• Allen Parkway Rebuilding To Wrap Up by Sept. 26 Save for Cosmetic and Landscaping Issues [Houston Chronicle]
• River Oaks Restaurant Corner Table Closing for Renovations Ahead of Super Bowl [Culturemap]
• Meet Sandra Lord, Founder of Discover Houston Tours, Better Known as ‘The Tunnel Lady’ [Houston Chronicle ($)]
• Houston Man Arrested in FBI Sting for Allegedly Trying To Buy Explosives Online To Blow Up Building [Houston Chronicle; more here]

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• Hotel Revenue Down in Houston, Up Across Texas, Finds Source Strategies [HBJ]
• Friendswood Development Making ‘First Real Foray into Urban Redevelopment’ with Knoll Park in Spring Branch [HBJ]
• ARA Newmark on 5 Trends in Houston Real Estate Amid Downturn [HBJ]
• Sigma Brewing Company Taproom To Debut Sept. 30 in East Downtown [Eater Houston]
• Nobie’s Taking Over Former Au Petit Paris Space on Colquitt St. [Houston Streetwise; previously on Swamplot]
• Dallas-Based Juicery Buda Juice Opening in Rice Village This Fall [In the Know Houston]
• Uber Experimenting with Daytime Fixed-Price Fares in Houston To Help Curtail Congestion [Houston Chronicle]
• The Effort To Save the Endangered Houston Toad, Last Found in Houston Around 1975 [Houston Public Media]
• A Walking Audio Tour of the Bayou City with ‘Remote Houston’ [Houstonia]

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• Energy Company Freeport-McMoRan Puts 475K SF of Pennzoil Place, 717 Texas Space on Sublease Market [HBJ]
• Downtown’s Newest Office Building Partnership Tower Now Open [Realty News Report]
• How New Living Aims To Redevelop the East End’s Former Imperial Linen Services Plant Without Pricing People Out [Houston Chronicle]
• Average Apartment Unit in Houston Has Shrunk by 1% in Recent Years, Finds RCLCO [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Housing Authority Opening Wait List for Voucher Program for First Time in 4 Years [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• City Has Applied for $12M Loan To Buy HCC Land Eyed for H-E-B [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• J.J. Watt’s Pearland Home On the Market [Houston Chronicle]
• Juice Girl Opening in Former Flow Juice Bar Space in East Montrose [In the Know Houston]

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• Halliburton Selling West Houston Office Complex Known as Oak Park [Houston Chronicle]
• SI Group Buying 10-Acre Baytown Chemical Plant [HBJ]
• Presales, Model Home Construction Begin for Long-Delayed Lago Mar Community in Texas City [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Single-Family Home Prices Hit Record Highs for an August, Finds HAR [HBJ]
• Brooke Smith to See ‘Same Kind of Transformation’ as the Heights, Predicts Cove & Cobble Builders [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside 2 of the Morgan Group’s Pearl Apartments Designed to Woo Millennials [HBJ]
• Restaurant Called Indigo Opening in Former Chinese Buffet in North Lindale Next Year [Culturemap]
• Members-Only Oakwood Social Club Planned for Former Red Room Space in River Oaks [Culturemap]
• Should Houston Have Its Own Version of the Sydney Bridge Climb on Beltway 8 Over the Ship Channel? [Opportunity Urbanist]
• Houston Just Above Rock Bottom on Valuepenguin’s Ranking of Safe Cities for Women [Houston Press]

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• Residence Inn To Break Ground Near NRG Stadium, Texas Medical Center in Next 6 Months [HBJ]
• General Electric Shutting Down Turbine Manufacturing Operations at Channelview Plant Amid Energy Downturn [Fuel Fix]
• Hopdoddy Burger Bar Planning Second Houston Location in Former Baker St. Pub & Grill Space in Rice Village [In the Know Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Nobu, Fig & Olive Slated To Open in Fall 2017 in Galleria’s Former Saks Fifth Avenue Space [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Will the Houston Bike Plan Reduce Deaths and Injuries of Bicyclists by Drivers? [Houston Press]

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• Federal Agency Launches Civil Rights Investigation of Houston’s Housing Practices Stemming from 2640 Fountain View Project [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• NAI Partners: Demand for Crane-Served Manufacturing Buildings Down in Houston Amid Oil Decline [Realty News Report]
• Drones Now Helping the Construction of Hines’ 32-Story Aris Market Square Tower Downtown [KHOU; previously on Swamplot]
• Francois de Menil’s NoLo Studios Artist Development in Acres Homes To Get Naming Tweaks [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• City, Housing Authority Targeting Repairs of Remaining Ike-Damaged Roofs in Blue-Tarp Program [Houston Chronicle]
• Retail ‘Floater’ Under Construction at Garden Oaks Shopping Center Will Add 2 to 3 More Tenants to Complex [The Leader]
• Galveston To Start Putting Away More Money for Operation of Its Trolley System [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Peppermill Place Apartments Residents Worried About Apparent Mold Growing in Apartment [Click2Houston]

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• LyondellBasell To Build $700M Plastics Plant in La Porte [Fuel Fix; previously on Swamplot]
• Telephone Square Acquires Kroger-Anchored Glenbrook Square Shopping Center Near Hobby Airport [Realty News Report]
• Prime Real Estate Group Buys 207-Room Holiday Inn Houston Southwest-Sugar Land Area [Realty News Report]
• Class A Office Rental Rates Increased 18% Between 2010 and 2015, According to Newmark Grubb Knight Frank [HBJ]
• Average Price of 4-Bedroom, 2-Bath House in Houston is $274,061, Finds Coldwell Banker [Houston Chronicle]
• Renters Give Houston a B- in Overall Satisfaction in Apartment List Survey, Up from D Grade Last Year [HBJ]
• Reef Chef Ryan Lachaine’s New Restaurant Riel Opening on Fairview in November [PaperCity Magazine; previously on Swamplot]
• Montrose Mining Company Owner Closes Long-Running Gay Bar, Planning New Concept in Its Place [Houston Chronicle]
• Super Bowl Host Committee Seeks To Raise $10M More in Sponsorships [HBJ]

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• GE Betz Planning $25M Lab, Office Space Project in Tomball Business and Technology Park [HBJ]
• Halliburton Exec on Oil Price Collapse: ‘We’re Past the Worst Right Now’ [Houston Chronicle]
• More Than $10B in Texas Homes Bought by International Buyers from April 2015 to March 2016 [Culturemap]
• ‘Inner-Loop Atmosphere’ Coffee Shop Dandelion Cafe Opens in Bellaire Triangle [Culturemap]
• Breastaurant Concept Tight Ends Sports Bar & Grill Planning Texas City Location [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Residents Have Made 69 Loud Noise Complaints Against White Oak Music Hall Over Last 5 Months [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Permit for Exploratory Drill Near Lake Houston Raises Concerns About Possible Hydraulic Fracturing [Your Houston News; more here]

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• Law Firm Leases Top 2 Floors of Office Building on Site of Former Courtyard on St. James Place Wedding Venue [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• More Details on DC Partners, Tianqing’s Unnamed Mixed-Used Project Near Buffalo Bayou Park [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Toll Brothers Considering Entering Active-Adult Market in Houston [HBJ]
• Private Events Space The Astorian Eyed for Top Floor of Former David Adickes Building [HBJ]
• Richard Sandoval Opening Bayou & Bottle in the Four Seasons Early Next Year [Eater Houston]
• Grilled Cheese Restaurant The Melt Wants To  Open as Many as 20 Houston-Area Locations [Culturemap]
• Pappas Restaurants Closes Pappas Meat Co. in East Houston [Culturemap]
• $12.4M Project Will Reduce Road Noise Along I-10 West of Loop 610 [Houston Chronicle]
• Tanker Fire Temporarily Shuts Down Part of Ship Channel, Crude Deliveries [Reuters]
• Read This If You Want To Be Houston Metro’s New Urban Designer [The Urban Edge]
• Canada’s Enbridge To Buy Houston-Based Energy Firm Spectra for $28B [Fuel Fix]

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• Houston Will Lead Nation in Retail Space Construction This Year With More Than 3.2M SF Completed [Realty News Report]
• ExxonMobil Moves To Dismiss Its Own Property Tax Lawsuit with Appraisal District [Houston Chronicle]
• 98.3% of Houston Homes Have Positive Equity in 2016, Finds Fannie Mae, CoreLogic Report [HBJ]
• Fiesta Mart Reopens Redesigned Store at 800 S. Wayside Drive [HBJ]
• Pappasito’s Opening Woodlands Cantina Technically in Shenandoah on Sept. 13 [Houston Chronicle]
• Inside Vitol’s New Kirby Grove Office Space Designed To Look Like a Museum [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• How Houston Was Robbed of Its Tallest Skyscraper [Houston Chronicle]
• Hurricane Evacuation Main Topic at First-Ever Galveston County Transportation Summit [Houston Public Media]
• Harris County Public Health Director Calls On EPA To Remove Toxic Waste from San Jacinto River [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

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• Bankrate Ranks Houston Among the Worst U.S. Cities To Own a Home Based on High Maintenance, Insurance [Houston Chronicle]
• Despite Slowdown, Houston Faces Shortage in Skilled Construction Workers, According to Construction Companies [Houston Public Media]
• David Assid Tapped To Be Toll Brothers’ Houston Division President [HBJ]
• Baybrook Mall’s Transformation into a Modern Shopping Destination [Houstonia]
• Texas City Theme Park Adventure Pointe Nears Construction Start 3 Years After Announced [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Tout Suite Owners Putting a Co-Working Space In Next Door to East Downtown Spot [Houston Chronicle]
• Floyd’s Cajun Seafood Rumored To Be Eyeing Prime Pier 19 Spot in Former Joe’s Crab Shack [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Harris County To Pay for $45M in Street Improvements Within Houston City Limits [Fox 26]

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