By Jesus Acevedo Jr.
Out with the old and in with the new.
Richmond City Commission convened Monday for the first time since Mayor Evalyn Moore and new city commissioners Jesse Torres and Glen Gilmore won their respective races.
By Jesus Acevedo Jr.
Out with the old and in with the new.
Richmond City Commission convened Monday for the first time since Mayor Evalyn Moore and new city commissioners Jesse Torres and Glen Gilmore won their respective races.
By Elizabeth Rhodes
Aspen Heights, a builder and developer of off-campus student housing across the United States, is planning to build a $56 million private dorm complex on Cullen Boulevard just north of I-45. Set to be completed by the fall of 2015, the complex will be located a quarter of a mile from the University of Houston’s main campus.
By Bryan Kirk
Fresh Market is now open in the Baybrook Village shopping center.
Community leaders joined Fresh Market executives May 7 to cut the ribbon on the fourth store in Texas.
The grocery, 1519 West Bay Area Blvd. is 26,400- square-feet.
By Dan Hill and Ross Ramsey
Maps of voter turnout rates by county in Tuesday’s runoffs for U.S. Senate and lieutenant governor paint ghostly pictures of Texas.
State Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston won the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor with 65 percent of the votes cast in last night’s runoff election, but he earned votes from only 3.5 percent of registered Texas voters, according to the secretary of state.
By Josh Cain
While plenty of questions might remain, the debate over Houston’s equal rights ordinance protecting gay and transgender residents from discrimination in the workplace is done for now: the Houston City Council passed the long-awaited law 11-6 on May 28.
By Shawn Arrajj
With all precincts reporting, Mike Schofield has unofficially defeated Ann Hodge in the Republican Primary runoff election for Texas House District 132 with 67.61 percent of the vote.
Schofield has 3,446 votes while Hodge trails with 1,651 votes. Schofield will face Democrat Luis Lopez in November. Lopez ran unopposed in the Democratic Primary.
By Kimberly Sutton
Jim Clark endured a long, hard-fought race to replace retiring Montgomery County Precinct 4 Commissioner Ed Rinehart with a victory in Tuesday night’s Republican primary runoff race.
Clark received 1,785 votes (60.59 percent) to opponent Bob Bagley’s 1,209 votes (39.41 percent), giving the lifelong Montgomery County resident even more to celebrate for his upcoming birthday Saturday.
By Jesse Mendoza
According to unofficial results, Charlie Riley has won the Republican nomination for Montgomery County Precinct 2 commissioner.
Riley tallied 6,021 votes, compared to 4,372 votes for opponent Rob Harmon, with 87 of 89 precincts reporting. All results are unofficial until canvassed.
By Brandon K. Scott
Voters overwhelmingly decided Will Metcalf will face Democratic and libertarian candidates in the November general election for Texas House District 16 after he handily beat opponent Ted Seago in a Republican primary runoff election Tuesday.
In a contentious race for the local district seat in Austin, Metcalf received 8,909 votes (62.08 percent), while Seago garnered 5,441 votes (37.92 percent).
The number of homes for sale in April leaped on annual basis, suggesting that sellers “are much more optimistic than a year ago,” according to a report issued by realtor.com today.
The number of listings in realtor.com’s database jumped 14.2 percent year over year last month. On a monthly basis, supply rose a seasonally unadjusted 8.6 percent, realtor.com reported.
By Catherine Dominguez
In a sea of maroon shirts, new County Judge Craig Doyal shook hands and hugged supporters at the Red Brick Tavern in downtown Conroe Tuesday night as the final results of his Republican primary runoff election against Mark Bosma showed the longtime commissioner won the hard-fought race by a commanding margin.
With all 89 precincts reporting, Doyal garnered 18,104 votes (54.67 percent) to Bosma’s 15,010 (45.33 percent).
By Madison Henry
A study from Biz2Credit.com ranked Houston at No. 15 in its 2014 list of The 25 Best Small Business Cities in America report. Biz2Credit used average annual revenue, credit score and age of business to create an index of the 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas.
Houston beat out other Texas cities in the overall ranking, but lost out to Dallas — No. 18 — in average annual revenue and average age of business.
By Mike Ward, David Saleh Rauf
State Sen. Dan Patrick, riding a wave of tea-party populism from relative obscurity as a Houston radio talk-show host to statewide prominence in just eight years, defeated incumbent David Dewhurst Tuesday to win the Republican nomination to become Texas’ next lieutenant governor.
Dewhurst conceded defeat in a phone call to Patrick shortly after 8:30 p.m. He did not immediately promise to support Patrick.
The Texas Medical Center Portfolio, which is comprised of El Mundo Park, Plaza Del Oro and San Marin, three Class A multi-housing communities near the Texas Medical Center in central Houston has been sold to an Atlanta group.
HFF marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller, LeCesse Development Corp. Entities owned by Georgia-based JMG Realty Inc. purchased all three properties for an undisclosed amount.
By Jordan Blum
The Houston-area economy added about 3,600 energy jobs through April, which represents a 56 percent increase during the same timeframe in 2013, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics.
Oil and gas-related jobs have grown to about 110,300 in the area that the federal government designates as the Houston, Sugar Land and Baytown region. That represents an increase from 104,300 jobs in April 2013. There was a hiring lull in the second half of 2013, but jobs are on the rise again.
By Erin Mulvaney
Construction permitting set a record for the second month in a row in April.
Data analyzed by the Greater Houston Partnership show the running 12-month total of building permits issued by the City of Houston topped $6.8 billion, the highest value since January 2002. Residential permit values rose 32 percent from last year and nonresidential rose 26 percent.
By Katherine Feser
Houston-based Partners in Building is making its “build on your lot” program more accessible to property owners in suburban areas, starting with an office in Conroe.
“We are already seeing signs of increased BOYL (build on your lot) activity just with the first small wave of Exxon Mobil employees now relocating to the north Houston area, and we decided that the best way to serve these customers is with our first BOYL office in this area,” Wes Bryant, Houston BOYL president at Partners in Building, said in an announcement.