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Comment of the Day: Parking in the Front, Business in the Back
“It’s not BS. Local independent businesses may be relatively willing to provide their parking on the side / back / top / below or wherever. But I’ve heard from several retail developers that...
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Now Ready To Be Looked At: Montrose “Funnel Tunnel”
On Friday the volunteer-painted strips of donated scrap wood were weaved through the previously installed steel frame, completing Patrick Renner’s “Funnel Tunnel.” Funded in part by $10,000 from the...
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Arting Around on Navigation Blvd.
A 3-block stretch of the median along Navigation Blvd. was outfitted yesterday with some functional swag — bike racks, bus stops, solar panels and LED string lights, shade screens, benches — designed...
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Louisiana Elevated: A Peek at the See-Through Skybridge of Chevron’s New...
A reader sends this rendering of the skybridge that would hook up the existing Chevron buildings Downtown with the new 50-story big blue tower planned to rise at 1600 Louisiana and Pease, on the site...
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Mayor Parker’s Downtown Retail Task Force Suggests Developing Lots of Retail...
That retail task force that Mayor Parker put together about the same time that Macy’s announced it was closing the Downtown store came through with its first report yesterday, recommending that Dallas...
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These Parking Spaces Are Temporarily Reserved for Board Games Only
All day Friday these 3 parking spots in Market Square in front of Frank’s — and where Hines wants to build that 33-story residential tower — will be unavailable. Why? Well, Gensler and the Houston...
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What a Parklet Looks Like in Downtown Houston
Rolled-in brick planters, some fake grass, a place to sit to sip your Starbucks: You’ve got yourself a park! Or, in this case, a seat-of-your-pants impromptu parklet, a li’l green gesture toward...
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Here’s a Bit of Bagby St., New(ish) and Improved
There are almost 6,000 miles of street in Houston, according to the Memorial Examiner, and now about a half a mile of one in Midtown can call itself remarkable. The Greenroads Foundation, which...
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Scraping Along: East Downtown Pedestrian Path Underway
And 4 more blocks to go: Site work began last week here in East Downtown to chunk up the pavement into such tidy piles and clear the way for that 5-block pedestrian path known as the EaDo Promenade....
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Where the Sidewalk Goes Private in Cinco Ranch
A regular Swamplot reader has a question about the sidewalk on the south side of Cinco Ranch Blvd. as the street passes between retention ponds for the North Lake Village and South Lake Village...
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Comment of the Day: The Parking Spaces Out Front
“So my friend’s neighbors on both sides and across the street have used pea gravel to make head-in parking spaces in front of the their houses in the Heights. In doing so they eliminated 2-3 parallel...
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Comment of the Day: A Linear Shopping District from Highland Village to the...
“I love that all these projects are coming to fruition on Westheimer. As more and more private investment comes to this area of Westheimer between Post Oak and Weslayan, will the city of Houston invest...
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