Tag: Headlines

• Houston Community College Losing $10M in Deal To Sell Off Missouri City Campus to Fort Bend County [Houston Chronicle]
• Fore Property Entering Houston Market with Luxury Midrise Apartment Project on 1.1 Acre Lot North of Wash Ave [HBJ]
• Neighbors Oppose Affordable-Housing Complex in Galleria Area [Houston Chronicle]
• Construction Begins on Restaurant, Beer Hall and Bowling Alley Bowl & Barrel in CityCentre [Houston Chronicle]
• New Chinese Restaurant Ginger & Fork Slated To Open in Former La Fisheria Spot in Mid-March [Houston Chronicle]
• Federal Report Finds More Than 1,000 Texas Bridges Are ‘Structurally Deficient’ [Houston Chronicle]
• Scientists Trace Source Of Toxic Benzene Vapors in Houston Communities to Pipelines Carrying Crude [Houston Public Media]
• Group Exploring Options for Improving Water Quality of Highland Bayou [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• 10 Great Drone Videos of Houston [Houston Press]
• Chatting with the Cordon-Bleu-Trained Owner of Killen’s Barbecue in Pearland [Vice]

Photo of the Johnny Steele Dog Park: Brandi Lynn via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Shell Oil Seeks To Sublease 350K-SF of Downtown Office Space in One Shell Plaza [Houston Chronicle]
• A Third Chateau Ten-Branded Luxury Condo Project Planned in the West University Area [HBJ]
• Randall Davis’s 29-Story Uptown Condo Astoria Expected To Open in May, Be Finished in June [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Draft Bike Plan Lays Out Ambitious Vision for Houston’s Future [OffCite Blog]
• Houston Chronicle Staffers Say Goodbye to Downtown Building on Social Media [mikemcguff.com; previously on Swamplot]
• A Brief History of Newspapers in Downtown Houston [Houston Chronicle]

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

• New 106K-SF H-E-B Clear Lake Marketplace Now Open [Houston Chronicle]
• St. John’s School in River Oaks Planning Athletic Campus on Former Blanco’s Honkytonk Site [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• First Residents Move into Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor’s New East Tower [Houston Chronicle]
• Buying Beats Renting in Houston If You Stay in Your Home for 2 Years or Longer, According to Zillow [HBJ]
• Bayport Cruise Terminal in Pasadena To Have Zero Cruise Ships Once Again as Early as Late April [Click2Houston; previously on Swamplot]
• Mayor’s Pothole Promise Checks Out, Finds Kinder Institute for Urban Research [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of La Carafe: Brandi Lynn via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Bans Open Carry, Concealed Handguns [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Demo of Grocers Supply Property About Halfway Along [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Genesis Energy LP Expanding Office Space at 919 Milam Street by About 19,136 SF [HBJ]
• More Than 70 Homes or Home Sites Sold or Spoken For So Far at Tiger Woods’ Luxury Golf Resort Bluejack National [Houston Chronicle]
• Fewer Houstonians Refinanced Their Home Mortgages in 2015 Compared to Previous Year, Finds SmartAsset [HBJ]
• Midtown Pub Celtic Gardens Closes, Irish Cowboy To Take Its Place [Culturemap]
• The Kinder Institute Wants To Change the Way Houston Studies Itself [The Urban Edge]
• How Managed eXpress Lanes Could Help Fix Houston Congestion [Houston Chronicle]
• Nearly 275 High-Tech Parking Pay Stations Being Installed Downtown [Houston Public Media]
• Houston Named Among Best Cities in the U.S. To Raise a Family by ValuePenguin [Culturemap]

Photo of the Orange Show: Brandi Lynn via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• German Firm Dräger Leases 37,651 SF in Hines’ Beltway Southwest Business Park [Realty News Report]
• How Off-Campus Student Housing Affects the Third Ward Community Around the University of Houston [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Sneak Peek Inside New Katy Water Park Typhoon Texas [ABC13; previously on Swamplot]
• What Franchises May Set Up Shop in Houston in the Coming Months and Years [HBJ]
• Private-Dining Restaurant Manor House at the Houstonian Hotel Open to the Public for Its 30th Birthday [Houston Chronicle]
• The Broader Point About Pedestrian Safety Missing from the Debate over Artsy Crosswalks [The Urban Edge]

Photo of Pleasure Pier in Galveston: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Opening Date of First Phase of Katy’s Boardwalk District Pushed Back to Early 2017 [Your Houston News]
• Greenspoint Mall Being Marketed as a Redevelopment Opportunity To Potential New Buyers [Realty News Report]
• 1,000-SF Homes or Smaller for Sale in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Chronicle To Complete Move To Former Houston Post Headquarters on Southwest Freeway [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Johnny Rockets To Open First Houston Restaurant in Not-Yet-Open Paragon Outlets [HBJ]
• Stuttgarden Tavern Opening Second Location at Mall of the Mainland in Texas City [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Mayor Halts Stoning of Mecom Fountain To Rethink Alterations [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Steps Up Cleanup in Effort To Combat Zika Virus [Click2Houston]
• ‘Rent the Chicken’ To Let Houstonians Try Their Hand at Having a Coop of Their Own [Houston Press]

Photo of the East End: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Saks Fifth Avenue Set To Open New Galleria Store April 28 with 20K More SF [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Slideshow: The Most Expensive Homes Sold in Houston Last Year [HBJ]
• Houston Among the Most Pet-Friendly Cities for Renters in the U.S., According to Abodo [Houston Chronicle]
• Lusk Group Breaks Ground on Upscale Asian Restaurant Next to Indika at 520 Westheimer Called 520 Westheimer [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Jerry Built Burgers Chain Adding Third Houston Location with Memorial City-Area Restaurant [Houston Chronicle]
• After Permitting Delays, Tacos A Go Go Now More Likely To Open in Former Roznovsky’s Hamburgers Site in April [The Leader]
• City Moves Forward on Plan To Demolish Long-Vacant La Marque Elementary School [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• HISD To Rename 3 More Schools Named After Confederate Figures [Houston Chronicle]
• A Photographic Exhibition of Houston’s Mid-Century ‘Background Buildings’ [OffCite Blog]
• Remembering That Time Houston Got Hit with 4.4 Inches of Snow [abc13]

Photo of Somerset Green: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Single-Family Home Sales Slipped Just 2% Year-Over-Year in January, Finds HAR [HBJ]
• Construction Starts Fell 28% to Nearly $4B in Houston Last Year, According to Dodge Data & Analytics [HBJ]
• Houston Foreclosures Fell 28% Year-Over-Year in January to 6,067, According to CoreLogic [HBJ]
• Expansion of Reserve at Clear Lake City Adding Second Phase of 86 Single-Family Lots [Houston Chronicle]
• Houstonia Magazine Store Now Open in George Bush Intercontinental Airport’s Terminal C [Houstonia]
• City Council Now Debating Whether GRB Sculpture Commission Depicting Migratory Birds Reflects Houston’s Brand [Houston Chronicle]
• Hundreds of Pearland Residents Complain About Mysterious Stench [Houston Public Media]
• Open-House Type Tour This Saturday Wants You to ‘Fall In Love’ with the East End [Houstonia]
• How Reconstruction After the Civil War Shaped Houston [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of MetroNational office building going up in Memorial City: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Led the Nation in Home Building in 2015 with 38,315 Single-Family Building Permits, Finds U.S. Census Bureau [Realty News Report]
• Parkway Properties Has Shed $179M Worth of Houston Office Buildings Since January 2015 [Houston Chronicles]
• PulteGroup’s Houston-Area Home Sales Dropped 16% Last Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Residential Part of Kirby Collection To Feature Townhomes, Garden Lofts, Apartments and Penthouses [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• What You Need To Know To Potentially Own Up-for-Auction DanMar Manor in the Woodlands [HBJ]
• Owners of Alpine Spring Water Company Plans Bottling Facility for Pasadena [HBJ]
• League City Council Moves Forward with Annexing More Land [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Texas Ranked Among Top 10 States for LEED-Certified Building Activity by U.S. Green Building Council [Houston Chronicle]
• City Council Member Says Chocolate-Brown Water in Kingwood Taps is Safe To Drink [Click2Houston]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• State Construction Unemployment Rate Stood at 5.2% in December, Finds Associated Builders and Contractors [Houston Chronicle]
• Redevelopment Interest Picking Up in the Energy Corridor So Far This Year [HBJ]
• Wabash Feed & Garden Store Moving into Old Plumbing Supply Store on N. Shepherd [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Cinema-Microbrewery Flix Brewhouse Planning First Houston Location in Sugar Land, More Likely To Follow [HBJ]
• New Tech Startup Skyler360 Acts as Personal Assistant for Houston Realtors [HBJ]
• No, Houston Will Not Make a Lot of Money Hosting the Super Bowl [Houston Press]
• How Will Houston Accommodate Nearly 1M Additional Residents by 2020? [Houstonia]
• Conference Will Explore How Houston Is Changing Its Identity Through Landscape Architecture [The Dirt]
• Rothko Chapel’s Iconic Obelisk Temporarily Removed for Restoration Work in Connecticut [Glasstire]

Photo of Spring Valley: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Northwest Suburbs Brace for Growth with Opening of Latest Grand Parkway Section [Houston Chronicle]
• Enjoy a Free Ride on the Grand Parkway from U.S. 290 to I-45 Until Feb. 15 [Houston Chronicle]
• Multi-Million-Dollar NRG Stadium Will Have a Tough Time Winning a Third Super Bowl Against New Crop of Billion-Dollar Stadiums [Houston Chronicle]
• A Growing Katy ISD Breaks Ground on New Football Stadium [Your Houston News]
• A Quick Update on Salt N Pepper Group’s Operations, for ‘Industry Insiders and Swamplot Obsessives’ [Culturemap]
• The Apartment and Condo Guide to Houston [Houstonia]
• How Houston Became the Country’s Most Welcoming City for Refugees [Houstonia]
• 10-Acre Buffalo Bayou Nature Park Opening Near Port of Houston This Wednesday [HBJ]
• Remembering Jim Goode, Founder of Goode Company Restaurants [Houston Chronicle]
• What Houston Can Do to Make Public Bike-Sharing Feel Safer [The Urban Edge]

Photo of Amegy Bank’s new headquarters: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Grey House, the Apartment Complex with Direct Views of the River Oaks District, Now Open for Leasing [Houston Chronicle]
• Apartment, Townhome Complex Going Up Near Main Entrance to UH Will Naturally Be Geared Toward Students [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston Multifamily Destined for Negative Absorption in 2016, Predicts Colliers [Realty News Report]
• Equus Capital Partners Adds 2 Buildings at 5300 Memorial and 10497 Town & Country Way to Its Houston Office Portfolio [Houston Chronicle]
• What KPRC’s New Building Under Construction 15 Feet from Its Existing One Will Look Like [Houston Chronicle]
• Hillary Clinton Campaign Sets Up Shop in Former Labor Union Hall in South Houston [Houston Chronicle]
• Underground Food Hall Conservatory Debuting March 1 Downtown [Houston Chronicle]
• First Houston Cabela’s Opening March 17 at 2421 S. Gulf Freeway [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Cataloguing the Empty Lots of Lower Westheimer [Houston Streetwise]

Photo of the Southwest Freeway: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Southwest Houston Charity Sues Landlord for Not Making Repairs Following Memorial Day Flooding [Fox 26]
• Katy City Hall Delayed by Late Doors and Roofing Materials [Community Impact]
• ‘Cook & Collins’ To Be Replaced by ‘Stoked Tacos’ [CultureMap]
• ChaiOne To Sell 1920s EaDo Schlumberger Building or Get a Hand Running It  [HBJ, previously on Swamplot]
• Port Arthur Developer Buys Galveston’s Vacant Medical Arts Building [The Daily News ($)]
• Another Peek Inside the Ivy Lofts [HBJ, previously on Swamplot]
• World’s Tallest Watercoaster Coming to Schlitterbahn Galveston [Houston Chronicle]
• A Sixth BB’s Is Headed for Pearland [Culturemap]
• New Home Starts in Houston Down 14.7% Last Quarter Year-Over-Year, Finds Metrostudy [Houston Public Media]
• League City Mixed-Use Development Pinnacle Park Signs on 3 New Restaurants [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• 6 Homebuilders Selected To Construct Hundreds of Custom Homes in Bluejack National Community [HBJ]
• Texas City Public-Housing Duplexes To Be Torn Down To Make Way for New Homes [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Creek Group Owner Buys Site of Former Wabash Feed & Garden on Washington Ave [The Leader; previously on Swamplot]
• Plans for Botanic Garden on Glenbrook Golf Course Move Along Amid Neighbors’ Protests [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Vacant Third Ward Property Infested with Termites, Raccoons, Possums, Say Neighbors [abc13]

Photo of the Lancaster Hotel and Calpine Center: Fritz Dickmann

• 2015 Was the Best Year Ever for Texas Homes Sales [Realty News Report]
• Air Conditioning Supplier and Natural Gas Equipment Manufacturer Headed for Land in Rosenberg Business Park  [Realty News Report]
• 12-Story, 157-Room Hyatt Place Houston Galleria Now Open at 5252 W. Alabama [Houston Chronicle]
• Shoppes at ParkWest Near Grand Pkwy. Signs Anchor Tenants, Nears Completion [HBJ]
• New $45M Typhoon Texas Waterpark Next to Katy Mills Mall Will Open May 28 [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Kirby Ice House Set To Debut in Late March in Upper Kirby [Culturemap; previously on Swamplot]
• Houston’s First Micro-Unit Condo The Ivy Lofts Already Has Dozens of Buyers Lined Up [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
• Westmoreland the Best Inner-Loop Neighborhood for First-Time Homebuyers, According to Redfin [HBJ]

Photo: Jen Buccholtz via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Australia-Based BHP Billiton Files Building Permits for 30-Story Class A Office Tower in Uptown District [HBJ]
• Woodlands Mansion Carlton Woods Estate Recently on the Market for $19M To Be Auctioned This Month at a Discount [Houston Chronicle]
• Stacked Retail on the Rise in Houston [HBJ]
• Smart Home Technology, Pet Rooms, Material Accent Walls Among the Latest Luxury Home Design Trends in Houston [HBJ]
• Beaver’s Planning Second Houston Restaurant Near the Galleria [Culturemap]
• New Tequila and Taco Joint Already Set To Take the Place of the Just-Shuttered Cook & Collins in Midtown [Culturemap]
• Mayor Turner Tells Texas DOT Not To Focus on Highway Expansion [CityLab]
• Kinder Institute Expanding Research Efforts To Include Development and Transportation, Urban Disparity [Houston Public Media]
• Uber Shuts Down in Galveston After New Regulations Pass [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Inside the Effort To Restore Montrose’s Historic African-American Cemetery [Montrose District]
• Slideshow: The Various Trash, Debris and Other Weird Junk Found in Houston-Galveston-Area Waterways [Houston Chronicle]
• Notable Over-the-Top Homes for Sale in Houston’s Suburbs [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of Braesvillage: Christof Spieler via Swamplot Flickr Pool