September was a big month for Houston real estate! The winds . . . the flooding . . . the neighborhood barbecues. If you were out of power for any of it, you may have missed some of these great stories on Swamplot:
- Swamplot wins a “Best of Houston” award from the Houston Press . . . for what?
- Microsoft’s Photosynth will revolutionize online real-estate ogling . . . someday. Maybe.
- What are all those mysterious new buildings in the new Discovery Tower video?
- The Ashby Highrise: Docked, for now
- A little bit of England comes to Studewood’s Wild Wild West
- The Last Days of Royce Builders
- The new green condo building planned for Hyde Park — and its solar-powered sales center
- Landscape students take on the Washington Corridor
- Lots of lonely new construction in Katy!
- The Slow Building movement gets some attention in the Heights
- Randall Davis’s Sonoma doubles down on the “knock down buildings first, secure funding later” strategy
- Gawking at River Oaks gates
- Protesting renovation plans for the old Sterling Bank building on I-45
- Touring Hurricane Ike destruction: Kirby Dr., the Heights, Idylwood, Downtown offices, the Beatles, Crosby, around town
- Can beer bring power?
- After Ike, “finding your home online” takes on a whole new meaning
- A heartwarming story of just-in-time demolition
- Toxic Taylor Lake
- Full-on Houston deck porn
- You do not want to look at this apartment. Seriously.
