Tag: Headlines

• Early Estimates Predict the Total Economic Impact of the Floods Could Be as High as $1.9B [HBJ]
• Flooding Could Delay Homebuilding Projects, Make Labor Harder To Come By [Builder Magazine]
• More Than 560 Abandoned Vehicles Have Been Towed So Far Since the Floods Started [Houston Public Media]
• CBRE’s Randy McCaslin: There is a ‘Drastic’ Need for More Luxury Hotels in Houston [Realty News Report]
• Houston-Based Halliburton Cut 6,000 Jobs Worldwide in the First Quarter [Fuel Fix]
• All-Cash Home Sales Down 4% Year-Over-Year in January, Finds CoreLogic Inc. [HBJ]
• The Average Houstonian Needs To Earn Nearly $61,000 Per Year To ‘Live Comfortably,’ According to GoBankingRates.com [Houston Press]
• Midtown Redevelopment Authority Founder F. Charles LeBlanc Passes Away [HBJ]
• Las Vegas is Betting It Can Turn Itself into a Hub for Innovative Water Technology [Politico]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Flooding Woes Have Meyerland Residents Anxious About Neighborhood’s Curbside Appeal [Houston Chronicle]
• Is Meyerland Now a Detention Pond for the Texas Medical Center? [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• Public Works Didn’t Install Barriers for 27 Flood-Prone Underpasses Because It Assumed Drivers Would Ignore Them [Houston Press]
• Bison Found Roaming in Floodwaters in Bear Creek Park [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Tiger Evacuated from Harris County Rescue Farm Captured After Seen Wandering the Streets of Conroe [CNN]
• The Scene from the Westador Subdivision in North Houston, Which is Still Flooded and Without Power [Houston Public Media]
• Available Houston-Area Office Space at a 16-Year High of Nearly 20%, According to NAI Partners [Houston Chronicle]
• Midway’s Mixed-Use Development Memorial Green Signs 6 Commercial Tenants [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
• BHGRE Gary Greene Opens 23rd Houston-Area Sales Office in Tomball [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Homeowners Carry One of the Highest Mortgage Debt Loans Nationally, Finds Wallethub [HBJ]
• Southeast Houston Railroad Crossing on Mykawa near Long Considered Among the Most Dangerous in the U.S. by the FRA [KHOU]
• San Francisco First Major U.S. City To Require All New Buildings 10 Stories or Under To Have Solar Panels [The Guardian]

Photo of Midtown: Jackson Myers via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• How To Develop Houston Through Market-Based Solutions That Discourage Building in Floodplains [Houston Chronicle]
• What You Can Do To Protect Houston’s Forested and Prairie Wetlands [Houston Chronicle]
• Officials Monitoring ‘High Risk’ Addicks and Barker Dams and Reservoirs Following Storms [AP; previously on Swamplot]
• Highway 6 Between Clay and Park Row Could Be Closed for up to 6 Weeks in Wake of Houston Floods [Houston Chronicle]
• 2 Southwest Houston Synagogues Near Brays Bayou Flooded for the Second Time in Less Than 2 Years [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Ways To Help Flood Victims in the Houston Area [abc13]
• After the Houston Rains Will Come the Mosquitoes [Houston Chronicle]
• Developer Jerome Karam Acquires Former Site of Dickinson Country Club and Golf Course for Gated Community [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Down Payment a Major Hurdle To Homeownership for Houston Millennials, Finds Apartment List [HBJ]
• The Top Features That Sell a Home in Houston, According to Zillow [HBJ]

Photo of Main Street: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Insurance Companies Prepare for Deluge of Claims Following Flood [HBJ]
• How Parts of Houston Got 5 Months’ Worth of Rain in 1 Night [Forbes]
• A Quick Formula for Converting Paved Area to Potential Additional Flood Damage Costs [Marketplace]
• Houston’s Flood Control Efforts Haven’t Kept Up With Population Growth and Urban Sprawl [AP]
• Houston Will Flood Again if More Land is Paved Over Without Developers Controlling Excess Runoff [Houston Chronicle]
• Homes Will Be Ruined Until Officials Fix Brays Bayou and Addicks and Barker Dams [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
• National Weather Service’s New Flood Forecasting System Could Warn About Flooding Up to Days in Advance [Houston Public Media]
• City Has Installed 19 High Water Flashing Lights Since May, 8 More Planned [abc13]
• Houston Sublease Space Increased to 9.2M SF in First Quarter, According to Colliers International [Realty News Report]
• Purple Time Space Swamp Tumblr Captures the Abandoned Gas Stations, Rundown Storefronts, Concrete Expanses of Houston [Houston Press]
• Slideshow: The 6 Homes Featured in This Sunday’s Garden Oaks Homes Tour [HBJ]

Photo of I-45: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• More Flooding Possible as Thunderstorms Hit Houston Area Today [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Losses Could Be in the Billions After ‘500-Year Flood’ [Houston Chronicle]
• At Least 4 Deaths in Harris County, 1 in Waller County Blamed on Flooding as Hundreds Flee Their Homes [CNN]
• Eyewitness News Reporter Helped Rescue Man Trapped in High Water on Studemont Street on Live TV [abc13]
• Capturing Houston’s Flooded, Abandoned Freeways [Houston Chronicle]
• Photos of Neighborhood Flooding and Destruction from Houston Residents [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Could Better Data Keep Houstonians Safe During Floods? [The Urban Edge]
• Phoenix Tower on the Market, Could Fetch $104M According to Real Estate Alert [Realty News Report]
• Realtors Added 11,466 New Listings to the Houston Housing Market in March, Raising Inventory to 3.7 Month Supply, Finds Redfin Corp. [HBJ]
• A Sneak Peek at the Galveston Historic Homes Tour Kicking Off April 30 [Houston Press]

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• Ongoing Flash Flood Warning Issued as Severe Weather Moves Through Houston [abc13]
• NAI Partners’ Joel Michael on Selling Cedar Port Industrial Park, America’s Largest Industrial Park [Realty News Report]
• Second Select Specialty Hospital in Houston To Close This Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Lavish Open Houses, Gift Cards, Technology Upgrades, Assistance with Closing Costs on the Table as Sales Slip [Houston Chronicle]
• Group Wants To Use BP Oil Money To Shield Galveston Beachfront from Future Development [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Eureka Heights Brew Co. To Open in Greater Heights This Summer [HBJ ($); previously on Swamplot]
• Planned Woodlands Goode Company Barbecue and Cantina Spot Will Include 2 Separate Adjacent Restaurants [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Area Could Have Fewer Jobs at the End of This Year Than It Started With [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of the Kemah Boardwalk: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Named One of the Best Cities for First-Time Home Buyers by SmartAsset [Realty News Report]
• Houston a Case Study in How Non-Zoning Regulations Can Produce Sprawl [The Urban Edge]
• Japanese Grocery Giant Hidejiro Matsu’s Ashford Village Shopping Center Supermarket Named Seiwa Market [Houstonia]
• Heights Resident Considers Moving to Avoid Traffic from Next Week’s 18-Month-Long Yale Street Bridge Closure [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• An Aerial Look at the Construction Progress Thus Far of Schlitterbahn Galveston’s Massive Watercoaster [abc13]
• ExxonMobil Seeks To Block Subpoena Over Climate-Change Documents [AP]
• Art Blocks at Main Street Square Aims To Activate Downtown Houston [Not Of It; previously on Swamplot]

Photo of Travis Street: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Home Sales Fell 2.2% as Inventory Increased to 3.6 Months Last Month, Finds HAR [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston-Area Home Market Shows Resiliency Amid Oil Downturn [Houston Chronicle]
• Tunnels to Close as Houston Chronicle Building Becomes Parking Lot [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• New Hope Housing To Break Ground on First Mixed-Use Development This Week [HBJ]
• Sneak Peek Inside Martin Fein’s Olympia at Willowick Park Luxury Apartments [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Downtown Galveston Frost Bank Office Building Eyed for Apartments [Galveston County Daily News]
• City Approves $5M in Loans for Acquisition of Abandoned Crestmont West Apartment Complex [Houston Public Media]
• Booker T. Washington HS Breaks Ground on New $51.7M Campus [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• Astro Craig Biggio To Open 2-Story Sports Bar Biggio’s Inside the Marriot Marquis This November [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• More Details on Tout Suite’s Planned Second Houston Location Inside the Memorial City Mall [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Residents of TIRZ 17 Call for Self-Selected Representation on TIRZ Board Amid Flooding Concerns [Houston Press]
• Houston Homebuilder Casa Villarreal Builders Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy [HBJ]
• A Computer-Generated Video Ride of the World’s Tallest Watercoaster Coming to Schlitterbahn Galveston [Houston Press]

Photo of former Houston Chronicle building: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Academy Sports & Outdoors To Join Kroger Marketplace and Sam’s Club at Valley Ranch Town Center Near Porter [Houston Chronicle]
• Zara To Open Store in Recently Renovated Willowbrook Mall by December [HBJ]
• Kiran’s Indian Restaurant Signs Lease at Midway Mixed-Use Project Kirby Grove in Upper Kirby [Realty News Report]
• FreeRange Concepts Breaks Ground on The General Public, Its Second Restaurant Concept in CityCentre [HBJ]
• Kirby Ice House from Little Woodrow’s Owner Now Open at 3333 Eastside St. [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• 14-Acre Crestmont West Apartments in South Acres Abandoned Since Ike Now Eyed for Redevelopment [Houston Chronicle]
• HAR.com Adds Austin Home Listings, Now Offers 92% of All Real Estate Listings in Texas [HBJ]

Photo: o texano via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• New Senior Living Community Methodist Retirement Communities Now Open in League City [Houston Chronicle]
• Hospitality USA’s Restless Palate Restaurant Opens in Former D’Amico’s Italian Market Cafe Space at LaCenterra at Cinco Ranch [Covering Katy]
• Cullen’s Abrupt Closure Left Weddings in Limbo [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
• Texas’s First Toucan Traffic Signal Now Installed But Not Yet Operational at Yale and Seventh [Houston Chronicle]
• I-45 Feeder Between Scott And Wayside Near U of H Campus Awarded $5.6M For Reconstruction [Houston Public Media]
• In Defense of Keeping the Pierce Elevated in the New I-45 Plan [Opportunity Urbanist; previously on Swamplot]
• Restaurants Offering Free Parking, Shuttles to Minute Maid Park To Avoid Expensive Parking Lots [abc13; more here]
• New Houston CityBook Launching This Fall Will Target Readers in ‘Emerging Centers of Power and Prosperity’ [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of White Oak Music Hall: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Stream Realty Starts Construction on Center at Pearland Parkway II [Realty News Report]
• Fulshear Ranch Being Sold in 9 Parcels To Prevent ‘Dense Development’ [Houston Chronicle]
• New Kroger Marketplace Store in Clute That’s Replacing Smaller Kroger Opening Wednesday [Houston Chronicle]
• Studio Movie Grill To Open 12-Screen Pearland Location May 5 [HBJ]
• Prince’s Hamburgers Taking Over Former Jack in the Box in the Garden Oaks/Oak Forest Area Plans To Open This Summer [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• With Uber Gone, Dallas Ride-Hailing Company Get Me Applies for Permit To Operate in Galveston [Galveston County Daily News ($); previously on Swamplot]
• In Defense of the Urban Freeway [The Urban Edge]
• How Houston Can Prioritize and Improve Street Safety for Pedestrians and Cyclists [Houston Chronicle]
• Cypress Mills HOA Removes 4 Wild Peacocks After Complaints from Residents [abc13]

Photo of Trumpet Flower installation at Main Street Square [previously on Swamplot]: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Senterra Real Estate Group Cancels 16-Story Office Tower on Van Loc’s Former Spot After Failing To Meet Prelease Requirements [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Red Lion Hotels Planning New 150-Room Hotel in Downtown Houston at 1005 St. Emanuel St. [HBJ]
• Mixed-Use Project in the Works for Mann Eye Institute Site in the Museum District [HBJ]
• Houston Methodist West Hospital Breaks Ground on Expansion That Will Add Patient, Operating, and Emergency Rooms, Parking Garage [Community Impact Newspaper]
• Chevron Shedding 655 Jobs in Houston at Its Downtown Offices [Houston Chronicle]
• Making Houston’s Case as One of the Great Eating Capitals of America [New York Times]

Photo of construction near Discovery Green: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Added Nearly 563K SF of Sublease Space This Quarter, The Most Since 2009, Finds CBRE [HBJ]
• Simon Property Group Planning 30-Story Hotel, Apartment Tower on Site of Former Macy’s in the Galleria [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Kuraray America Inc. Opening New Chemical Plant in Pasadena on April 21 [HBJ]
• NAI Partners To Handle Leasing at 3 Dornin Investment Group Office Properties in the Energy Corridor [Realty News Report]
• Residents Near White Oak Music Hall Wondering Where 3,000-Person Crowd Will Park [KHOU]
• The Woodland Heights Home Tour is Back This Weekend After a 5-Year Hiatus [HBJ]
• Inmates in Huntsville, Livingston, 5 Other Texas Prisons Refuse To Leave Their Cells in Protest of Living Conditions [The Austin Chronicle]

Photo of White Oak Music Hall: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Office Vacancy Rate Increased to 14.3% in First Quarter from 12.6% Last Year, Finds CBRE [HBJ]
• Residential Construction Cools as Building Permits Issued in January for Houston Home Projects Worth $112.2M, Down 35% Year-Over-Year [HBJ]
• St. Luke’s Breaks Ground on New McNair Campus Tower in the Medical Center [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Construction Starts on Build-Out of Rice University’s BioScience Research Collaborative Building [HBJ]
• Ride Indoor Cycling Planning To Open Second Houston-Area Location This June in The Woodlands’ Hughes Landing [HBJ]
• Houston One of the Best-Run Cities in Terms of Efficiently Using Taxpayer Dollars, According to WalletHub [Culturemap]
• Houston Named by Dell as One of the 50 Most ‘Future-Ready’ Cities in the World [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston-Area Custom Home Builder Drvenkar Custom Homes Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy [HBJ]
• Streetfilms Documentary ‘Why Houston is Back on the Bus’ Shows City’s Transit Transformation [CityLab]
• Neighbors Say White Oak Music Hall Taking Advantage of City Loophole with Upcoming ‘Temporary’ Events [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Johnson Development’s ‘Houston’s Largest Home Tour’ To Open Up Model Homes Across the City This Month [Your Houston News]

Photo of McGovern Lake at Hermann Park: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Worthing Cos. Taking a Break from Developing in Houston’s ‘Oversaturated’ Multifamily Market [Houston Chronicle]
• Heights General Store at Harold’s in the Heights Location Being Turned into Harold’s Tap Room [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Dallas-Based Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar To Open First Houston Location in Katy [HBJ]
• Houston’s Emerging Biotech Hub Lures Louisiana-Based Cancer Treatment Firm Esperance Pharmaceuticals [HBJ]
• Early Estimates Put Light-Rail Ridership During the Final Four at 6,000 People an Hour [Houston Public Media]
• U-Haul Has Helped More People Move Out of Than Into Houston So Far in 2016 [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Buffalo Bayou: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool