Tag: Headlines

• Riverway Properties Shelves Plans for Glass House-Themed Montrose Luxury Condo Midrise Following Sales Decline [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• What It Costs To Own a Home in Houston Neighborhoods with Restaurant, Retail, and Art Access [Houston Chronicle]
• Nobu Sushi Restaurant Slated for Galleria Mall Expansion in Late 2017 [HBJ]
• The Original Ninfa’s on Navigation Looking for Location for Another Original Ninfa’s [Houston Press]
• Taste of Texas in Houston To Expand To Include Butcher Shop [HBJ]
• Ride Indoor Cycling Opens New Gym in The Woodlands’ Hughes Landing [HBJ]
• Multilevel Parking Garage Proposed for Seawall [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Construction Starts on 3 Paths To Close Gaps on White Oak Bayou Trail [Houston Public Media]
• UH Follows Through on Threat To Sue over South Texas College of Law’s Rebranding [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• New Book Explores the Art and Science of Place Attachment [Locavesting]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston’s Downtown Trophy Towers Performing Strongest in Class A Market, JLL Report Finds [HBJ]
• First Look Inside Phillips 66’s New Westchase District Headquarters [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Lessons in Mixed-Use Development from Midway’s CityCentre [Bisnow]
• Minnesota Vikings Running Back Adrian Peterson’s Woodlands Estate on the Market for $8.5M [HBJ]
• The Townhome Takeover of the Heights, Oak Forest, Garden Oaks Area [The Leader]
• Kroger Marketplace Anchoring New Shopping Center in Spring [Houston Chronicle]
• Long-Delayed Speedsportz Racing Park at Grand Texas in New Caney Now Underway, To Open Later This Year [HBJ]
• Powers Brown Architecture Relocating from Downtown to Midtown’s Central Square [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• Attorneys To Argue Over Value of Bolivar’s Rollover Pass in Eminent Domain Case This Week [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Best Spots in Houston for a Selfie [Houstonia]

Photo: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Greensheet Property in Midtown Sold, To Be Redeveloped for Retail, Office, Event Space [Realty News Report]
• South Heights Retail Center Trades Hands [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Co-working Space Level Office Expanding Downtown Location at 405 Main To Meet Demand [HBJ]
• Porsche of North Houston Relocating to 64,000-SF Dealership [HBJ]
• The Durham House in Former Woodrows Heights Location To Close Saturday [Culturemap]
• Torchy’s Tacos To Open in Westchase Shopping Center [HBJ]
• Post Oak Bus Lanes Likely Won’t Be Ready for Passengers Until March 2019 [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• San Jacinto River Superfund Site Extremely Vulnerable to Hurricanes, Warns Flooding Expert [The Urban Edge; previously on Swamplot]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Development with Hotel, Housing, Shops, Office Tower Planned for Remaining 6 Acres of Gillette St. Incinerator Site in Fourth Ward [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Lennar Corp. Building Luxury Townhomes in Knoll Park Community in Spring Branch [HBJ]
• Homeownership Decreases in Houston Amid Tight Mortgage Credit, Limited Housing Supply, Finds Study [Houston Chronicle]
• 3 Ways Houston Homebuyers Can Get a Competitive Edge [HBJ]
• Southern Goods Owners To Open New Restaurant 60 Pioneers in the Heights [Houston Chronicle]
• A Look Back at 25 Montrose Restaurants That Have Closed in the Past 5 Years [Houston Press]
• Documentary Exploring History of Post Oak Blvd. Airing June 27 on PBS [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of the Williams Tower: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Patterson-UTI Energy Leaving Greenspoint for New Headquarters in Remington Square II Office Park [Houston Chronicle]
• The River Oaks Condo Project To Open Sales Center [HBJ]
• The Groves Master-Planned Community Adds Perry Homes, Westin Homes To Lineup of Builders [Houston Chronicle]
• Morgan Group To Implement Package Locker Rooms Across Its Pearl Apartments [HBJ]
• Abandoned Shopping Carts Add To Houston’s Flooding Issues, Says City Councilman [Click2Houston]
• High-Tech Mosquito Traps by Microsoft To Be Placed in Houston Area over Next Few Weeks To Combat Zika Virus [KHOU]
• Port of Houston Prepared To Take Giant Ships Going Through Expanded Panama Canal [Houston Public Media]
• Chase Tower Sky Lobby Closure Takes Something Wonderful Away From Houstonians, Tourists [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Commercial Building Permits in Houston $400M Behind Pace Set Last Year from January to April [HBJ]
• Carson Cos. Starts Third Phase of Bayport Industrial Park, Adding 397,775 SF Across 4 Buildings [Houston Chronicle]
• Dow Chemical Latest Tenant for Clay Development’s Deerwood Office III Office Building in Deer Park [Realty News Report]
• The Market at Springwoods Village Now 80% Leased After Signing Torchy’s Tacos, Chick-fil-A, MOD Pizza [Houston Chronicle]
• This $13M River Oaks Unit Might Be the Most Expensive Penthouse Ever Listed for Sale in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Sneak Peek Inside The Grand at LaCenterra, the First Midrise Apartment in Katy [HBJ]
• Elon Musk-Chaired Solar Power Installation Company SolarCity Expanding to Houston Market [HBJ]
• How Houston Stacks Up On Transit Equity [The Urban Edge]
• New Houston Bike Plan Expected To Go Before City Council for Adoption in August or September [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Has the Qualities Millennials Want in a City But Fewer Than 1% Want To Live Here, Finds Abodo Study [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of the San Jacinto Monument: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Hines Completes First Phase of Beltway Southwest Business Park [Realty News Report]
• How ExxonMobil’s North Houston Migration Has Shaped Houston [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• D.R. Horton/Express Homes The Biggest Builder in Houston as Entry-Level Homes Expand [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Oil Market to Stabilize at Some Point This Year, Forecasts BP Economist [HBJ]
• Healthcare Dominates Houston Job Growth as Energy Hurts [Houston Chronicle]
• Leading GDP per Capita, Rise in Patent Count Make Houston a City of the Future, Says AT Kearney [Tech Insider]
• What Houston Can Do About All Those Floods [Texas Observer]
• Fulshear, Cinco Ranch Ranked Among the Best Suburbs in the Houston Area To Raise a Family by Niche [Houston Chronicle]
• Remembering Tootsie’s Founder Mickey Rosmarin [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Rice University: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• MetroNational Office Building in Memorial City Tops Out, Slated To Open in Early 2017 [HBJ]
• How Houston’s Vast Jurisdiction Leaves Its Fringe Suburbs in Limbo [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston May Be on the Brink of Recession, According to Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Report [UPI]
• Heights Restaurant Zelko Bistro Has Permanently Closed Following Appearance of Lease Sign [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• What Does the YIMBY Movement Want, Exactly? [The Urban Edge]
• What Houston Looked Like Before and After Densification Reforms Were Adopted in 1999 [City Observatory]
• Houston Homeowners Take 1 Year, 5 Months on Average To Break Even on Their Purchase, Finds Zillow [HBJ]
• Slideshow: The Winners of the Houston Apartment Association Honors Awards [Houston Chronicle]

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• Buc-ee’s Closes on 15 Acres for Katy Location at I-10 and Cane Island Pkwy. [HBJ]
• Skanska’s Downtown Capitol Tower Won’t Break Ground Until Market Improves [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• So Far About Half of the 520 Homes in First Phase of 4,000-Home Lago Mar Community in Texas City Have Been Built [HBJ]
• New Owner to Renovate Historic Houston Bar Center at 723 Main into Upscale Hotel [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Single-Family Home Sales in Houston Up 10% Year-Over-Year in May, According to HAR [Realty News Report]
• Average Price of 1-Bedroom in Houston Decreased $1,482 to $1,398 from May to June, Finds Abodo [Culturemap]
• Latest Liberty Kitchen Location Now Open in Garden Oaks [HBJ]
• Houston Had Its Wettest 60-Day Period on Record from April 14-June 12 [Space City Weather]
• Lessons from How Pensacola, Florida, Reacted After Its 200-Year Flood in 2014 [Houston Public Media]

Photo of San Luis Pass: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Amazon Planning To Build $136M Warehouse in Pinto Business Park in Northwest Houston [Click2Houston]
• How Houston Developers Are Experimenting with Millennial, Baby Boomer Offerings [HBJ]
• Drees Custom Homes, Perry Homes Unveil Home Plans for Grand Central Park in Conroe [Houston Chronicle]
• How to Address the ‘Affordability Crisis’ in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• UH Will Rename Street, Erect Statue in Honor of Roy Hofheinz in Legal Fight Over Basketball Arena Name Change [The Texas Tribune]
• El Gato Coffeehouse Cat Café Looking To Open in Early 2017 Somewhere in Houston [Houstonia; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Area Ranked 20 Out of 30 U.S. Metro Areas for ‘Walkable Urbanism’ [The Urban Edge]
• PocketCab Ready To Launch New Dispatch App for Taxi and Limo Companies If Uber Leaves Houston [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• City Allocates More Than $21M for MLK Boulevard Reconstruction [[Houston Public Media]
• Volunteers Clean Up Overgrown Evergreen Cemetery in the Fifth Ward [KHOU]

Photo of Discovery Green: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• 35-Acre Energy Corridor Development Republic Square Put on Hold Amid Oil Rout [Houston Chronicle]
• Hines Partnership Turning 6-Building Office Complex Greenspoint Place Over To Its Lender [Houston Chronicle]
• UT’s Plans for the 300 Acres It Bought in Houston Do Not Include a Full ‘4-Year Campus with a Mascot’ [Houston Chronicle]
• How the Grand Parkway Will Help and Hurt North Houston Retail [HBJ]
• Inside Morgan Group’s New Luxury Pearl Apartments Near CityCentre in Memorial Area [HBJ]
• French-Vietnamese Restaurant Le Colonial Opening in River Oaks District in August [HBJ]
• West U Now the Richest City in Texas with Median Household Income of $207,429, According to 24/7 Wall Street [PaperCity Magazine]
• Houston-Galveston Area Council Bring Back Regional Safety Council To Confront Traffic Safety [Houston Public Media]

Photo: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Land Tejas Cos. Breaks Ground on New Residential Community Called Balmoral Near Generation Park [HBJ]
• Crews Relocating Trees Ahead of Uptown Dedicated Bus Lanes Construction Next Month [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Serendipity Labs Suit-and-Tie-Set Coworking Space Headed to Esperson Building, More Houston-Area Sites [Houston Chronicle]
• AllTransit Report Highlights the Catch-22 of Bus Service to Houston’s Suburbs [Houston Chronicle]
• Videos: What It Was Like to Ride the Rides of AstroWorld [Houston Press]
• David Crossley: In Houston’s Mobility Future, the Car Can No Longer Be King [Houston Chronicle]
• Are We in a Mattress Store Bubble? [Freakonomics]

Photo of Galvez: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• JPMorgan Asset Management Buys River Oaks District in Cash Sale Valued at $550M [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• South Florida-Based Real Estate Company Elandis Buys Nearly 1,000 Units in 4 Multifamily Communities in Houston [Realty News Report]
• Meritage Homes Developing High-Density Residential Development on 3.2 Acres in Spring Branch [HBJ]
• Steak 48 Opening in the River Oaks District June 14 [HBJ]
• Third Houston Location of Piada Italian Street Food Now Open in Vintage Park [Community Impact Newspaper]
• Closed Since Last Week’s Rain, Hwy. 6 Reopens North of I-10 [Houston Chronicle]
• At Least 20 ‘Community Solar’ Farms Scheduled To Built or Come Online This Summer in Texas [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Salvation Army on Bissonnet: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Avera Acquires 41.5 Acres to Develop Bayport Industrial Park Near Port of Houston [Realty News Report]
• The Only Parcels Left for Sale Along the Northwest Grand Parkway [HBJ]
• Houston Home Price Growth Lags Behind Nation Amid Oil Slump, Finds CoreLogic Report [HBJ]
• Interactive Map Shows Where Renters Live in Houston [The Urban Edge]
• 90-Room Boutique Hotel To Rise at Galveston’s Falstaff Brewery Site [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Antone’s Famous Po’Boys Building Empire with New Restaurant, Kiosks in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Stretch Of Yale Street Between 6th and 19th Streets Closer To Becoming ‘Green Corridor’ [Houston Public Media]
• Free Press Summer Fest Has Been Owned By Live Nation for About 6 Months Now [Houston Press]

Photo of Memorial Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Opens 150,000-SF League City Hospital [HBJ]
• Loews Hotels and Resorts Considering Developing Hotel on Land It Owns in Uptown [HBJ]
• Powers Brown First Tenant in Under-Renovation Midtown Office Complex Central Square [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Luxury Apartments Offering Apple Watches, Flat-Screen TVs, Cruises To Woo Tenants [Houston Chronicle]
• Frankel Building Group Sees Increased Demand for Raised Homes Post-Floods [HBJ]
• Cajun Brasserie Eunice from Chef John Besh Opening in Greenway Plaza Area Next Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Commuter Bus Shofur Launching Service Between Houston and Dallas Starting July 14 [Culturemap]
• Anthony Bourdain Begins Filming Houston Version of ‘Parts Unknown’ at Plant It Forward’s Montrose Farm [Culturemap]
• 24 Houston-Area Firms Make Fortune 500 List, Led by Energy Companies [Houston Chronicle]
• Oil Settles Above $50 a Battle for First Time in Nearly a Year [Fuel Fix]

Photo of Bissonnet near Kirby: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool