State Representative Sylvester Turner officially kicked off his mayoral campaign at Minute Maid Park today.
Turner lost two previous runs for the position in 1991 and 2003.
State Representative Sylvester Turner officially kicked off his mayoral campaign at Minute Maid Park today.
Turner lost two previous runs for the position in 1991 and 2003.
Rise Communities has announced it will embark on the development of Meridiana, the premier master-planned community on Texas 288 minutes south of the Texas Medical Center in Manvel and Iowa Colony.
Located near the interchange of Texas 288 and Highway 6, Meridiana also is close to several large-scale employers in Freeport including new projects planned by Dow Chemical and BASF.
By Aman Batheja
In what’s expected to be a marathon budget debate on the Texas House floor Tuesday, lawmakers are likely to veer into hot-button issues including abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration, school vouchers, racism and gender equality.
By Erin Mulvaney
Construction on a 188-acre development in Conroe is now underway.
Gracepoint Homes broke ground on the community Stillwater, which is near Interstate 45 just south of FM 1488. When completed, the community will offer 55, 65 and 80-foot properties. There will also be gated 100-foot homesites in a gated section. Pricing is expected to start in the mid $400,000′s. Presales will start this summer. The community ultimately offer 381 single-family homes in six sections.
Despite the downbeat tone of economy in the oil-rich Lone Star State, Houston continues to put up some impressive jobs growth numbers.
The Houston metro area created 96,700 jobs in the 12-month period ending February 28, 2015, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.
By Kevin Diaz
The Lone Star state’s two U.S. senators came out on opposite sides Friday of a GOP budget blueprint that was heralded as a sign that Republicans can govern better than Democrats.
The largely party-line 52-46 vote followed a marathon “vote-a-rama” of amendments, none of them binding, on a 2016 budget document which serves mostly as a guideline for federal spending over the next decade.
By Nancy Sarnoff
The new Petroleum Club is almost settled in to its new multi-million-dollar home on the top floor of Total Plaza, after recently moving from the former Exxon Mobil building at 800 Bell.
The new space has a cigar bar, an expansive kitchen with a chef’s table (reserved for those who have donated at least $50,000 to the club) and just like in the old space, a collection of geodes on loan from Houston’s Museum of Natural Science.
By Michael Sudhalter
Missouri City is building consensus to increase compensation for its police officers and to address capital improvements for the police station as the Fiscal Year 2015 budget process begins.
“We will determine the best way for us to address the pay situation,” Missouri City Mayor Allen Owen said.
By Erin Mulvaney
The Harris County Appraisal District has sent out notices that may induce “sticker shock” to some homeowners.
Tax Assessor-Collector Mike Sullivan said claiming exemptions is the easiest way property owners can lower their tax burden.
By Michael Theis and Olivia Pulsinelli
The Houston and Dallas metropolitan areas were the only two nationwide to add more than 100,000 people between July 2013 and July 2014, according to new data released March 26 by the U.S. Census Bureau.
By Barbara Kuntz
A change in ownership of development companies, as well as the drastic drop in oil prices, have moved new property holders to reevaluate a $1 billion plan to transform Uptown Park.
Officials with the complex’s new owner, Edens Investment Trust, announced the pause, almost a year after AmREIT, a Houston-based real estate investment trust and the former owner, revealed an ambitious plan to make over a wide swath of the shopping and dining destination located along the West Loop at Post Oak Boulevard.
The nation’s best markets for single-family investment are Texas cities: Houston (1), Austin (2) and Dallas (3), with Denver (4) and Orlando (5) rounding out the top 5, all which have seen substantial job and population growth.
That’s according to the latest data from Dallas-based HomeVestors (operator of the “We Buy Ugly Houses” organization) and Local Market Monitor, the national real estate forecaster.
The Senate approved a package of bills Wednesday that would cut taxes in Texas by more than four billion dollars. Senate Finance Committee Chair Jane Nelson told colleagues that now’s the perfect time to give taxpayers relief. “When our economy is healthy, when we have billions of dollars in our coffers, I feel like we ought to give some of that back to the people that sent it to us,” she said. Tax cuts have been a major priority for Senate leadership, with Lt. Governor Dan Patrick promising meaningful tax relief in his first press conference of the session and Governor Greg Abbott promising to reject any budget that lacked significant tax reduction. The budget currently being considered by the Finance Committee is written to anticipate the tax cuts passed Wednesday.
By Paul Takahashi
Skyrocketing apartment rents have begun to soften as new supply hits the Houston market, according to a new report.
Annual effective rent growth — how much rents, minus concessions, are going up on an yearly basis — fell for the second consecutive month and is at its lowest level in more than a year, according to Axiometrics Inc., a Dallas-based multifamily research company.
By Katherine Feser
Cyclone Anaya’s Mexican Kitchen and Nick’s Fish Dive & Oyster Bar are preparing to open at 20 Waterway Avenue in The Woodlands Waterway Square.
The two restaurants will take over the spaces vacated by La Lupita Mexican Cuisine & Bar and Luca & Leonardo Ristorante last year.
By Mike Morris
A fight over lucrative long-term contracts for the right to hawk everything from handbags to hamburgers at Houston’s airports has spurred allegations that some winning bidders have stretched city rules on ethics and contracting, prompting two City Council members to return recent campaign contributions.
Representative Ed Thompson has announced that he will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting in April. The event will take place on Saturday, April 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., and will be held in the Pearland ISD Educational Support Center in Pearland.
“I hope this gathering will allow Brazoria County residents to ask questions, exchange information, and receive an update on ongoing issues of the 84th Legislative Session,” Rep. Thompson remarked. “Ensuring that the voices of District 29 residents are heard is extremely valuable to me as we begin to review more and more legislation each day.”