Tag: Headlines

• Dallas Overtakes Houston as Top U.S. Homebuilding Market, Finds Metrostudy [HBJ]
• Houston Methodist in Katy To Expand with 6-Story Building [HBJ]
• Specialty Care Centers the Future of Healthcare Delivery in Houston [Realty News Report]
• BASF Corp. To Consolidate Houston Offices in Energy Tower IV by July or August [HBJ]
• Houston Sales Tax Revenue Sees Ninth Straight Year-Over-Year Decline [Houston Chronicle]
• More Than 3,000 People Have Signed Up for Tours of the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern in Coming Weeks [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• 13 Ideas That Houston Should Steal from Other Cities [Houston Chronicle]
• The Best Places To Live in Texas, According to Rentlingo’s Interactive ‘Charm Index’ Map [Rentlingo]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Daikin Industries Nearing Completion on Largest Tilt-Wall Project in the World in Northwest Houston [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• How No Zoning Laws Works for Houston [The Federalist]
• UH Students and Professors, Third Ward Community Group Envision a Revitalized Dowling Street [Houston Chronicle]
• LeBron James-Backed Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza Now Serving Travelers in Terminal A at Bush-Intercontinental Airport [Houston Chronicle]
• SoulCycle Already Planning Second Houston Location, Set To Open in the Woodway Collection Shopping Center in September [HBJ]
• HISD Board Approves the New Names for Schools with Confederate Ties [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Uniting the Previously Divided Second and Fifth Wards as Both Neighborhoods Face Redevelopment [The Urban Edge]
• Downtown District’s Banner Installation Features Quotes About Houston from 100 Past and Present Residents Including Beyoncé [Houstonia]
• In Search of the Quirky Heart of Houston [The Washington Post]

Photo of James Turrell’s skyspace at Rice University: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Housing Home Sales Slightly Slip Year-Over-Year in April, Finds HAR [HBJ]
• Houston Housing Market Proving Resilient Even as Job Growth Slows [Houston Chronicle]
• Sneak Peek at the Houston Oaks Family Sports Retreat in Former Waller County Golf Club [HBJ]
• Slideshow: Inside the Most Expensive Home on the Market in Houston, a $43M Mansion in the Memorial Area [abc13]
• Fort Bend County Named Among Best Places in the Country To Live by SmartAsset [Realty News Report]
• Breaking Down the Houston Botanic Garden-Glenbrook Golf Course Debate [OffCite Blog]
• United Airlines Planning 5 Restaurants in IAH’s New Terminal C North Concourse with Notable Houston Chefs [Culturemap]
• Harold’s Tap Room Opening by May 19 in the Harold’s Complex in the Heights [Houston Chronicle]
• A More Complete Incomplete List of What Was Burning in That Spring Branch Warehouse Fire [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Group Threatens To Sue HISD Over Plan to Rename Schools with Confederate Ties [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• More Than 1M People in Texas Are Now Licensed To Carry Handguns [New York Times]

Photo of Lynn Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• General Electric Power Conversion To Move North American Headquarters to Houston [HBJ]
• St. Francis Episcopal Day School Planning New High School on 23-Acre Plot in Piney Point Village [HBJ]
• Mark’s American Cuisine in Montrose Suspending Restaurant Service May 29 To Become Events Space [Houston Chronicle]
• RDG + Bar Annie on Post Oak Going Back to Former Cafe Annie Name [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• More Than 21% of Houston Millennials Live at Home With Their Parents, Finds Zillow [HBJ]
• Montgomery and Fort Bend Added to List of Counties Eligible for Post-Flood FEMA Aid [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• More Than 10,000 Households Experienced Some Form of Flooding Last Month, Latest Report Shows [Space City Weather; previously on Swamplot]
• Parts of Westheimer Parkway and Clay Road That Were Formerly Flooded Reopen [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• BG Group To Vacate BG Group Place Downtown by the End of the Year Following Shell Merger [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Single-Family Home Price in Houston Rose 3.8% to $208,000 Year-Over-Year in the First Quarter [Houston Chronicle]
• $3.5M, 55-Bedroom, 55-Bathroom Pearland Home Has Been on the Market for Over a Year [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• NFL Star Adrian Peterson Behind New 35K-SF Houston Gym O Athletik with Indoor Soccer Field, Sand Volleyball Pit, Running Hill [ESPN]
• Austin Export Hopdoddy Burger Bar Opening First Houston Location in River Oaks District on May 30 [Culturemap]
• Uber Competitor Wingz Launches at Hobby and George Bush Intercontinental Airports [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• How Houston Starting City Planning Without Land Use Restrictions [The Urban Edge]
• Where Are Houston’s Great Suburban Parks? [Houston Chronicle]
• City, Lakewood Church, Clay Walker To Host Flood Victim Benefit Concert Featuring Brian McKnight, Regina Belle, Tim McGraw, Kid Rock, Darius Rucker [abc13]
• 40-Ft.-Tall Inflatable Bunnies Go Up in Front of 1600 Smith Street with More on the Way [Culturemap]

Photo of Beck’s Prime at 2615 Augusta Drive: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• St. Thomas To Convert HISD Criminal Justice Campus into Sports Facilities, Student Center [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Darling Homes Prepares To Launch Sales for Second Section of Energy Corridor Parkway Terrace [HBJ]
• CBRE: Inner Loop, Energy Corridor, and Areas Around The Woodlands Have the Softest Rents in Houston Right Now [Realty News Report]
• Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern To Open to the Public This Friday [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Christian’s Tailgate on Washington Ave To Close May 24 as Chain’s Previous Owner Retires [Houston Chronicle]
• Rice Village Nightlife Institution Bronx Bar Has Closed After 18 Years [Culturemap]
• Houston Will Soon Be Home To 3 Different Grilled Cheese Restaurants [Eater Houston]
• Public Health Officials Warn Houston Vulnerable To Spread of Zika with ‘Perfect Storm’ of Poverty, Rain, and World Travelers [The Urban Edge]
• Dead Animals Piled Up Along Spring Branch Creek Following Warehouse Fire Chemical Spill [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Opera ‘After the Storm,’ Set During a Galveston Hurricane, To Premiere at the Wortham Center [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Mid Main: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• City Selling Protected-Historic-Landmark-Designated Heights Pumping Station Property [Houston Chronicle]
• Downtown’s 600 Jefferson To Be Renovated, Rebranded as 1801 Smith Street as United Prepares To Depart [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Everyone Needs To Chill Out About Houston’s Multifamily Market Amid Oil Downtown, Real Estate Experts Say [Houston Chronicle]
• Rising Prices, Lack of Inventory in Houston Putting New Homes Out of Reach of First-Time Buyers [Houston Chronicle]
• How the Bank of Mom and Dad Affects Your Chances of Buying a Home [The Washington Post via The Urban Edge]
• Residents Question Houston’s Zoning Laws After Yesterday’s Massive Warehouse Fire in Spring Branch [KHOU; previously on Swamplot]
• Some Light Rail Seats Found To Be Dirtier Than an Average Toilet Seat [abc13]

Photo of Rice University: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Saw Record Number of Visitors in 2015 with 17.5M, Up 18% from Year Before [HBJ]
• Family of Late Judge Roy Hofheinz Files Petition Ahead of UH Renovation To Keep Hofheinz Pavilion Named Hofheinz Pavilion [Houston Chronicle]
• Sneak Peek Inside Luxury Apartment Project One Hermann Place, Nearing Completion Across from Hermann Park [HBJ]
• Imagining What To Put on Houston’s Empty Lots [The Urban Edge]
• FEMA Assessing Flood Damage in Montgomery County To Issue Disaster Declaration [Houston Public Media]
• 7 Local Features That Make Houston an Interesting Place to Live [Houston Press]
• 3,000 Standalone Mattress Stores Have Opened Nationwide in the Last Decade [Marketplace]
• Interactive Visual Tool Lets You Explore Diversity Over Time in U.S. Metro Regions [CityLab]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Average Price of New Houston Home Dropped 1.2% from Last Quarter of 2015 to First Quarter of 2016, First Such Drop Since 2009 [Houston Chronicle]
• Miami-Based Investor One Real Estate Investment Unloads 4 Houston Apartment Complexes for Nearly $50M [Houston Chronicle]
• Citigroup Inks Lease for Nearly 50K SF in Galleria Tower I at 2700 Post Oak [HBJ]
• Sneak Peek at 4 University of Houston-Designed Tiny Houses Planned for Fifth Ward [Offcite Blog]
• Fresh Market To Close All Texas Stores, Including 4 in Houston Area [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Construction Underway at Steel City Pops’ First Houston Location at 420 E. 20th Street [Eater Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Now You Can Take a Virtual Tour of Houston’s Parks and Trails with Google Street View [The Urban Edge]
• Galveston County Looking To Expand Beach Reconstruction Program to State Highway 87 on Bolivar Peninsula [Galveston County Daily News ($)]

Photo of the West Loop: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• New Houston REIT To Own Greenway Plaza, 4 Other Office Properties Post-Cousins/Parkway Merger [Realty News Report]
• Ikea Distribution Center Planned Near Baytown Just the Tip of the Iceberg for New Retail Warehouses [Realty News Report]
• Gracepoint Homes Opens First Model Home in Woodsy Luxury Community Stillwater in Conroe [HBJ]
• City Wants To Do Its Own Study on a Downtown Terminal for Proposed Dallas-to-Houston High-Speed Rail [Houston Public Media]
• Super Bowl Light Show Proposed for Astrodome That Would Project Images Through Roof and Onto Walls [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Former Houston Mayor Annise Parker Lands New Gig as Member of Rice University Faculty [HBJ]
• Taking a Closer Look at Houston’s Official Flag [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Waterwall Park: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Behind the Purchase of More Than 300 Acres in Southwest Houston for University of Texas’s Planned Houston Campus [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Digesting the West Side’s Oversupply of Office Space Could Take 3-5 Years [Realty News Report]
• Proposed Modern $100M Bridge Between Pelican Island and Galveston an ‘Economic Game Changer’ for Area [Houston Chronicle]
• NewCoast Properties Set To Open Luxury Beachfront Community Seagrass Beach on Bolivar Peninsula Next Month [HBJ]
• City To Close Soon on Abandoned Oakbrook Apartments Then Knock Them Down [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• Midtown’s Sparrow Bar + Cookshop is ‘Currently Closed,’ Whatever That Means [Culturemap]
• Altitude Trampoline Park To Open 34K-SF Space at Crossing at Katy Ranch This Summer [HBJ]
• West Wharton More Vulnerable to Flooding Than East Wharton, Say Residents [Houston Chronicle]
• Why Houston Weather Predictions Were So Far Off Last Week [Space City Weather]
• How To Track the Water Levels at Barker and Addicks Reservoirs [Covering Katy; previously on Swamplot]
• Illegal Dumping Causing Worse Flooding in Houston [KHOU]
• 7-Acre Urban Farm Hope Farms Being Built in Sunnyside To Help Address Community’s Food Desert Problem [Houston Public Media]
• Texas Supreme Court Blocks Houston from Using Tougher Clean-Air Laws [AP]
• 11 Signs Houston Will Succeed [Opportunity Urbanist]

Photo of the Fifth Ward: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston and 4 Other Cities Leading the Way in Urban Innovation [Wall Street Journal]
• Why Houstonians Are Optimistic About the Economy Despite Low Oil Prices [The Urban Edge]
• Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau Wants To Increase Houston Visitors to 20M by 2018 [Houston Chronicle]
• Demolition of San Jacinto Mall in Baytown Begins as Part of Redevelopment Project [HBJ]
• Ikea in Talks To Lease Distribution Space at Cedar Port Industrial Park [HBJ]
• UH Architecture Students Envision New Housing, Amenities for Third and Fifth Wards [University of Houston]
• That Article About a Houston-Based ‘Grand Theft Auto’ is Fake [Houston Chronicle]
• Alligator Displaced by Recent Flooding Caught After Approaching Fort Bend County Porch [abc13]
• National Weather Service Issues Flash Flood Watch for Houston Area This Weekend [Houston Public Media]

Photo of EaDo: Jan Buchholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Roughly $5B in Medical Construction and Development Underway in Houston, According to Transwestern [HBJ]
• Woodbranch Investments Corp. Begins Preleasing Downtown’s Amenity-Filled Market Square Tower [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Randalls Seeks Variances To Expand 14-Year-Old Midtown Store [Houston Chronicle]
• Dallas Luxury Boutique Forty Five Ten Opening in the River Oaks District This Fall [HBJ]
• A Call To Stop Building Neighborhoods That Cause Other Neighborhoods To Flood [Houston Chronicle]
• Repairs Underway This Week on Houston Roads in the Wake of Last Week’s Flooding [abc13]
• Uber Threatens To Leave Houston if the City’s Ridesharing Regulations Do Not Change [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Grants Approval of A&M’s Campus Carry Policies Kicking in This Fall [Texas Tribune]
• Where Are the Women Architects? [OffCite Blog]
• The Strange Beauty of a Houston Thunderstorm, as Captured by Ray Kuglar in The Woodlands [Houston Press]

Photo of Meyerland: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Dangerously Flooded Underpasses Targeted in Harris County Judge Ed Emmett’s Interim Plan [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Homeowners Might Face Higher Flood Insurance Premiums Through FEMA [Houston Press]
• More Houston-Area Residents Prefer To Live Near Parks and Trails Than Ever Before, Finds New Rice Survey [HBJ]
• Video: Sneak Peek Inside the Bigger Saks Fifth Avenue Opening Tomorrow in the Galleria [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Biggest Brisket House Yet Now Slinging Barbecue on Cypress Creek Parkway in Northwest Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston’s Second Kenny & Ziggy’s Location To Debut Week of May 2 in West U Area [Houston Chronicle]
• Ãœberrito Mexican Grill To Open Fourth Houston Location at 7705 Westheimer on Cinco de Mayo [HBJ]
• Oak Forest-Area Residents Back to Pushing for a 34th Street Quiet Zone Near Train Tracks [The Leader]

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

• Is Houston As We Know It Sustainable, and Other Big Questions Post-Flood [Texas Monthly]
• Congresswoman Jackson-Lee Calls for Widening the Bayous and Even Buying Out Developments To Move People Out of Flood Plains [KHOU]
• Why Houston Can Lead Urban Change in the Sun Belt [Next City]
• 3 Things That Must Change if Houston is Ever To Be Considered a Great City [Houston Press]
• Midway Planning 2 More Office Towers Totaling 750,000 SF in West Houston [Realty News Report]
• Katy Green II Shopping Center in West Houston Sold to CH Retail/Acquisitions [Houston Chronicle]
• Mixed-Use Development The Boardwalk at Towne Lake Names 5 New Tenants [HBJ]
• St. Bernard Sports Opens First Houston Storefront in the River Oaks District [HBJ]
• Fire Destroys Houston’s 75-Year-Old Cleburne Cafeteria at 3606 Bissonnet St. [abc13]
• Traffic the No. 1 Issue on the Minds of Houstonians, Finds Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s 2016 Study [HBJ]
• How a Deadly Cloud in Houston 40 Years Ago Led to Today’s ‘Shelter-in-Place’ Strategies [Houston Public Media]

Photo: Ruben Serrano via Swamplot Flickr Pool