Tag: Headlines

• Former ExxonMobil Office Space at Greenspoint Place Now Leased By Champion Pipe & Supply [HBJ]
• University of Houston Regents Approves $60M Hofheinz Pavilion Renovation [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
• Pelican Builders Opens First Model Units in Luxury Residential Project Ashlar Commons in Montrose [HBJ]
• How Scientists Are Working To Save Native Texas Plants Threatened By Climate Change [Houston Public Media]
• Montrose Homeowner Fighting To Protect American Elm Tree Being Chopped Down To Make Way for Concrete Fence [abc13]

Photo of Houston Via Colori 2015: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Shelved Regent Square Mixed-Use Project at Site of Former Allen House Apartments ‘Ready To Go’ [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• Construction To Start on First Phase of Texas A&M Maritime Campus in Galveston This Month [Realty News Report]
• Downtown’s Louisiana St. the 15th Most Expensive Street in America with Average Rent $43.67 Per Square Foot, Finds JLL [Culturemap]
• The Texas Medical Center Has Ambitious Plans for a New Houston Campus [The Urban Edge]
• Hakkasan Group, Simon Property Group To Open Chinese Dim Sum Teahouse Yauatcha at the Galleria Next Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Bernie’s Burger Bus Opening Third Houston Outpost in the Heights at 22nd and Yale Street in Late Summer 2016 [Houston Chronicle]
• El Tiempo Cantina To Open Latest Houston Location at 21810 Kingsland Blvd. in Katy in February [HBJ]
• Art Studios Made from Shipping Containers Coming to the Fifth Ward Near I-10 off US-59 [HBJ]
• Pearland Officials Planning Pear Art Sculpture Trail To Foster City’s ‘Sense of Place’ [Houston Chronicle]

Photo: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• OrangeStone Capital Closes on 8989 Westheimer, Plans To Redevelop Office Building [Bisnow]
• Avanti Senior Living To Break Ground on Assisted-Living Community in Tomball Next Year [HBJ]
• San Antonio-Based McIver Properties Opens First Houston Office, To Specialize in Commercial Real Estate Land Acquisitions [HBJ]
• Mobility, Air Connectivity Key Concerns for State as ‘Texas Triangle’ Expected To See Massive Growth in Coming Years, Says CBRE Research [Realty News Report]
• Galveston City Council Approves How To Spend Remaining Hurricane Ike Recovery Money [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• Mapping Which Houston Neighborhoods Have Higher Rates of Heart Attack, Stroke, Asthma [Click2Houston]

Photo of McGovern Centennial Gardens: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• McCord Development Planning New Hotel, Office/Retail Building, Apartment Project Called Redemption Square in Generation Park [HBJ]
• Video: Inside First Phase of Baybrook Mall’s Massive Expansion [HBJ]
• New Retail, Restaurants and Entertainment Options Coming to CityCentre [Houston Chronicle]
• Goode Co.’s Armadillo Palace on Kirby Drive Undergoing an Expansion That Will Triple It in Size [HBJ]
• Nature-Themed Parks Becoming More Prevalent in Houston Master-Planned Communities [Houston Chronicle]
• University of Houston Architect Students Design Urban Farm Proposed for Sunnyside [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston Eyes Ways To Stop Erosion Along Highland Bayou Canal Near Homes in Hitchcock Subdivision [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• 12-Foot-Long Alligator Captured Outside First Colony Commons Shopping Center in Sugar Land [abc13]

Photo of Minute Maid Park: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Wulfe & Co. To Develop East Shore Placed Mixed-Used Project in The Woodlands [HBJ]
• Johnson Development Corp. Buys 590-Acre Tract in Richmond for 2,500-Home Master Planned Community [Realty News Report]
• New Redevelopment Project with Retail, Office Space Planned for East Montrose [Montrose Management District]
• How Houston Can Avoid a Negative Moody’s Downgrade [HBJ]
• Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty Presidents Martha Turner, Tom Anderson Step Down into Chairman Emeritus Roles [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston City Council Set To Approve $38.5M of Remaining Hurricane Ike Recovery Money [Galveston County Daily News ($)]

Photo of The Treehouse at Memorial City: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Galleria Office 4600 Post Oak Place Sold for Undisclosed Amount [Houston Chronicle]
• Oden Hughes Acquires 18.7 Acres Near Katy Mills Mall and Grand Pkwy. To Build New Parkside-Branded Class A Apartment Project [HBJ]
• Houston Likely at Midpoint of Downturn That Will Last Another 12-18 Months, Says Greater Houston Partnership’s Patrick Jankowski [HBJ]
• Houstonians Are Better Off Buying Than Renting a Home, According to Zillow [HBJ]
• 8th Wonder Brewery Opens New Taproom, Beer Garden at Its East Downtown Location [HBJ]
• 11.9-Mile Segment F-1 of Grand Pkwy. Between U.S-290 and State Hwy. 249 On Track To Be Completed This Year [Your Houston News]
• Why Houston Isn’t Getting a Price Break on New Pavement Despite Low Oil Prices [Houston Public Media]

Photo: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Urban Land Institute Panel Says Downtown Living Initiative Could Spur More Development in the East End [HBJ]
• Transwestern Predicts Houston’s Commercial Real Estate Market Will Soften in 2016 [HBJ]
• Wulfe & Co. Chairman and CEO of Ed Wulfe on the Future of Houston’s Shopping Center Scene [Realty News Report]
• First Hotel Opens in Springwoods Village Near Exxon Campus [HBJ]
• Houston Community College Plans To Funnel $8.5M Back into Delayed North Forest Campus Included in 2012 Bond Package [Houston Chronicle]
• Original Killen’s Steakhouse Set To Close Saturday in Pearland, New Killen’s Steakhouse Set To Open Monday in Pearland [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston-Dallas High-Speed Rail Won’t Go into Downtown, U.S. 290 and Loop 610 Likely End of the Line [Houston Chronicle]
• TXDOT Proposes Lowering the Speed Limit on I-10 to 65 from 75 on a 15-Mile Stretch Between Houston and Beaumont [Houston Public Media]
• Top 5 Neighborhoods with the Worse Streets in Houston [Click2Houston]
• Manifest Destiny Billboard Project Transformed Billboards into Works of Art Along 2,400 Miles of I-10 [Smithsonian]
• One of the Hottest Architecture Books on the Market Right Now Is a Coloring Book [The Urban Edge]

Photo of McGovern Centennial Gardens: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Phase Two of 2100 Post Oak Blvd. Office Tower On Hold For Now [HBJ]
• Houston-Area Home Sales Fell 10% in October, The Biggest Drop Since Spring 2011, Finds HAR [Houston Chronicle]
• Average Houston Rent Hits Record High, Climbing 6.5% Year-Over-Year in Third Quarter to $1,007, Finds Marcus & Millichap [Houston Chronicle]
• H-E-B Now Open in La Porte as Anchor of Deer Park Shopping Center [HBJ]
• Dave & Buster’s Opening Entertainment/Dining Complex at Baybrook Mall on Monday [Houston Chronicle]
• Why Houston is More Congested Than Dallas [The Urban Edge]

Photo: Jackson Myers via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Downtown District and Downtown Redevelopment Authority Planning $12.1M Project To Improve Main Street [Houston Chronicle]
• Galveston Has the Most Expensive Housing Market for 4-Bedroom Homes in Texas, According to Coldwell Banker [HBJ]
• Costco Currently Under Construction at Townsen Blvd. and I-69 in Humble [HBJ]
• Longtime Montrose Dry Cleaners McGowen Cleaners Closing Friday, Owners Plan To Sell Property [Culturemap]
• $8.9M Galveston Beach Revitalization Project Wrapping Up Any Day Now [abc13]
• Comparing How Austin, Denver, Fort Worth and Houston Use Public Bike Sharing Program B-Cycle [The Urban Edge]
• Houston Named Among the 10 Best Food Cities in America [The Washington Post]

Photo: Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Hunington Properties Under Contract for Nearly 200 Acres in Baytown Slated for Mixed-Use Project [HBJ]
• The Bracewell & Giuliani Law Firm Signs 189,061-SF Long-Term Lease Renewal at Pennzoil Place [Realty News Report]
• Inside the Hyatt Regency Houston Galleria, Now Open in Uptown [HBJ]
• MedSpring Urgent Care Opens Sixth Houston Facility with Heights Location, Another Underway in Midtown [HBJ]
• Will Shake Shack Be a Future Tenant for the Renovated Galleria III? [Culturemap]
• Newly-Built Home Closings Fell 27% in September from Year Before, According to Metrostudy [Houston Chronicle]
• What the Defeat of HERO Could Mean for Houston’s Tourism and Convention Industries [HBJ]
• 610 Loop the Third-Worst Freeway in the U.S., According to Thrillist [Click2Houston]
• New, 2-Mile Piece of White Oak Bayou Greenway Under Construction [The Leader]
• Toll Brothers Debuts Optional Dog Wash Station in Its Latest Model Homes in Katy and The Woodlands [HBJ]
• So Far 34 Utility Boxes Have Been Painted in City’s Mini-Mural Program, Another 52 Planned Next Year [Houston Chronicle]
• Life Hacks for Living in Houston [Houston Chronicle]

Photo of CityCentre Five: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• University of Texas System Acquiring More Than 300 Acres To Build New Campus in Buffalo Point [American School & University]
• Lone Star Flight Museum To Break Ground on New $35M Museum Today at Ellington Airport [HBJ]
• City Street Residential Project Domain New Forest To Feature Pool, Clubhouse with Arcade Room, Dog Park, Private Garages [HBJ]
• Moody Rambin Co-Founder J. Howard Rambin III on the State of the Houston Real Estate Market [Realty News Report]
• Developers McCord Development and Crescent Communities Create West Lake Alliance To Promote West Lake Region Northeast of Houston [HBJ]
• How B-Cycle Will More Than Triple Bike Sharing in Houston [The Urban Edge]
• The Link Between Parks and Bike Sharing in Houston [The Urban Edge]
• Wind Predicted To Power More of Texas as State Sets Record for Use [Houston Public Media]
• 800-Pound Alligator Caught Behind Sugar Land Strip Center on US-50 Near Williams Trace [Click2Houston]
• New York State Attorney General Investigating Whether Exxon Mobil Lied To Public About Risks of Climate Change [HBJ]

Photo of Lee’s Fried Chicken and Donuts, 601 Heights Blvd.: Brie Kelman

• Texas Home Sales Increased 7.8% to 91,704 in Third Quarter Over Same Time Last Year, Finds Texas Association of Realtors [Realty New Report]
• Dray Group Developing Medical Building in The Heights at Studewood and Omar [Realty News Report]
• Sugar Land City Council Passes Resolution That Could Reverse New Development Code, Limit Units in ‘Planned Development Districts’ [Houston Chronicle]
• Downtown Aquarium Expansion Plans Include $15M Investment in New Rides, Games and Carnival-Like Amusements [Houston Chronicle]
• The Burger Joint Food Truck Opens First Storefront in Former Little Bigs Location in Montrose [HBJ]
• Urban Land Institute Houston Announces Finalists for Its 2016 Development of Distinction Awards [HBJ]
• Houstonians Are Less Likely To Be Rejected for Home Loans Than the Average American, Finds Zillow [HBJ]
• An Analysis of Houston METRO’s Data on the First Full Month of Ridership Following the Bus Network Reimagining [The Urban Edge]
• Where Exactly is Inner Westheimer? [Houston Streetwise]

Photo of Centennial Park: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• 70 Houston Office Buildings Have At Least 100,000 SF of Vacant Space, According to Colliers International [Realty News Report]
• 60-Acre Residential, Retail Development Dubbed Point Preserve Planned for League City [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
• The Blair House at 4139 Bellaire Demoed To Make Way for Trammell Crow’s Alexan Southside Place [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
• All Property Management Ranks Houston No. 4 Among the Best Cities in the Southwest U.S. To Own Rental Property [HBJ]
• Four Myths About Houston’s Growth [The Urban Edge]
• How a Couple Turned Their Galveston Beach Getaway Into a Full-Time Home [Houston Chronicle]
• Houston Home to 5 of the Top 10 Most-Trafficked Roads in Texas, According to TxDOT Study [HBJ]
• Voters Approve Local and Statewide Measures That Would Provide New Funding for Road Improvements [Houston Public Media]
• What It’s Like To Live Carless in Houston [OffCite Blog]
• New 35-Foot David Adickes ‘Art’ Sculpture Debuts in the First Ward [Houston Public Media]

Photo of 609 Main: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

• Houston Active Home Listings Increased 28.2% to 22,810 in Third Quarter Over Last Year, Finds Texas Association of Realtors [Houston Chronicle]
• Milwaukee-Based REIT Physicians Realty Trust Acquires Katy Medical Office Building for $40.4M [Realty News Report]
• Apache Extends Its Lease at Post Oak Central in Uptown By One Year [HBJ]
• Bryan Danna of Revive Development To Overhaul Stop and Shop-Anchored Shopping Center at 34th and Ella [The Leader]
• Novel Creative Development Reveals New Details About Houston’s First ‘Micro-Unit’ Condominium Project Ivy Lofts [HBJ]
• Equinox Fitness Club To Open in River Oaks District on Dec. 3 [HBJ]
• Houston Housing Authority Withdraws Threat of Eminent Domain over Fifth Ward Church Properties [Houston Press]
• Amy Bernstein on What’s Next for Relocation Realty in Houston [Realty News Report]
• Main Street Theater Unveils Rice Village Building After $2M Overhaul [Houston Chronicle]
• Pappas Bros. To Open Downtown Steakhouse in Former Strip House Space at 1200 McKinney on Nov. 5 [HBJ]
• Harris County Flood Control Getting FEMA Funds to Update Online Flood Mapping [Houston Public Media]

Photo of Wells Fargo Plaza: Jackson Myers via Swamplot Flickr Pool