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Where on Richmond Ave That New Greenway Plaza Office Tower Is Going
This was the scene yesterday on the southeast corner of Richmond Ave and Cummins St. near Greenway Plaza, where the Redstone Companies and Hansen Partners are planning to build a new 11-story office...
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Signature City Homes Pays $225K for Chopping Down 2 Signature City Oaks
The city has extracted $225,000 from the owners and contractors of a Bellaire developer who extracted two 100-year-old Live Oak trees from public property adjacent to 2 separate Inner Loop...
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Comment of the Day: Isn’t Nearby Retail Enough?
“I don’t understand the ground floor retail ‘litmus test’ that is applied to every new building proposed for downtown/midtown. That is, it is not a ‘good’ building if it does not have a retail...
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Comment of the Day: Don’t Let the Locals Get in the Way of Your Project
“Good idea, let the Peasants with Pitchforks have an Illusion of Choice. Let them pretend to participate, let them vent some hot air, and then throw them a bone to the side so while they bark over...
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Houston Planning Dept. Launches Website To Launch Plan for Houston
Efforts to create an actual “general plan” for the city of Houston have revved into high internet gear with last week’s launch of the Plan Houston website. There, the planning department has floated...
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How a Stretch of the Memorial Dr. Strip Earned Its Newest Strip Center
Katherine Feser has the inside scoop on how the $7 million strip center portrayed above — but loaded with a Dunkin’ Donuts, a dry cleaner, and — yes, a mattress store — is coming to land in its...
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Why Superblock Construction Is Moving Superslow
Other apartment developers have been rushing to complete their latest construction projects. But not Camden Property Trust. Not only has the company put 2 Downtown projects on hold, CEO Ric Campo...
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New Midtown Whole Foods Market Will Stand Apartments on Its Head, Shut Down a...
Now we know why the Morgan Group, the developer that applied for a variance last year to allow for a Pearl on Smith apartment complex to fit onto the block surrounded by Elgin, Smith, Brazos, and...
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You May Yet Have Your Chance to Live On Top of the Sur La Table by the River...
Senior Leasing VP Gerald Crump of Weingarten Realty Investors told Nancy Sarnoff of the Chronicle last week that even bigger changes are likely on their way to the River Oaks Shopping Center section...
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Sunnyside Passed Over for List of Houston Places That Always Get Passed Over
The Texas Low Income Housing Information Service released a statement right after Mayor Turner’s Monday announcement on the Complete Communities program questioning why Sunnyside didn’t make the cut,...
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More Scenes from the Ongoing Great Cottage Moveout at the Gardens of Bammel Lane
Developer Giorgio Borlenghi may have just shelved plans to build the 26-story condo tower he had dubbed Villa Borghese on the 1.43-acre site a block south of Westheimer at Bammel Ln. and Earl Ln., but...
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How It Came To Pass That Hundreds of Families Purchased Homes Inside...
Many of the flooding victims upstream of Addicks and Barker dams learned for the first time that their homes were inside government-designated reservoirs only after rains from Harvey flooded their...
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