Jump to content

ChannelTwoNews

Full Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,477

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    27

 Content Type 

Everything posted by ChannelTwoNews

  1. ChannelTwoNews
    Sugar Land's city limits may be nudging south a bit in the not-too-distant future. About 960 acres in the ETJ south of Greatwood, east of Tara and west of Royal Lakes is set to be developed by Pulte Homes into a community of up to 2650 single-family homes and up to 200 independent senior living units. 60 acres would be used for office and retail space. Some form of parks and recreation would be included as well. City utilities for water & wastewater treatment will be extended to this development as will FD & EMS services. That overall development could be annexed into the city a year after the water, drainage and road infrastructure is completed. Based on the 2022 map of the Rosenberg City Limits & ETJ - this is now the easternmost boundary of the Rosenberg city limits and is almost as far southwest as Sugar Land's ETJ runs at the moment.
  2. ChannelTwoNews
    Rosenberg appears to be a potential stop along a proposed Houston - San Antonio Passenger rail route from TXDOT, whose study earned federal grant money recently. Feds commit $2.5M to Texas rail developments, including service to San Antonio, bullet train (expressnews.com) "Creating a new daily intercity route along the Sunset Limited’s path for service between San Antonio and Houston that would include stops in Seguin, Flatonia and Rosenberg, sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation."
  3. ChannelTwoNews
    Costco coming next year... Costco buys 20 acres in The Grand at Aliana - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
  4. ChannelTwoNews
    Groundbreaking for New Downtown Hotel | Realty News Report
  5. ChannelTwoNews
    Cynthia Lescalleet - Realty News Report
  6. ChannelTwoNews
    Tannos developing 106-acre mixed-use district in Friendswood - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com) Tannos & Wolfrgramm Capital to develop 106 acres at FM 528 at Blackhawk Blvd. Blackhawk will be extended from 528 to connect w/ Bay Area Blvd. -54 acres will be a mix of office & retail with a boutique hotel brand and convention space. All of the commercial parcels of this side have been claimed. -52 acres will be parkland to be donated to the City of Friendswood for a space that will have 4 miles of trails and a fishing lake. -Construction expected to begin at the end of next year and wrap up three years later.
  7. ChannelTwoNews
    HGreg to open its first Texas car dealership in Houston - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com) "Florida-based used car dealership HGreg.com is ready to make its Texas debut. The company's local flagship dealership, at 6737 Southwest Freeway in west Houston, is expected to open in mid-December, according to a press release. An affiliate called H Greg Investment of California LLC acquired the property in July 2022, according to Harris Central Appraisal District records."
  8. ChannelTwoNews
    Photo from Ralph Bivins / RealtyNewsReport
  9. ChannelTwoNews
    Exactly. It's literally the first phase of a multi-phase project. A reminder... And like it was stated before, I'd also worry more if directly across OST, the MD Anderson/UT Health South Campus didn't have two structures starting to rise and whose grounds will ultimately connect to Helix Park. I mean...
  10. ChannelTwoNews
    Groundbreaking held for TSTC’s new Transportation Center of Excellence | School News | fbherald.com "The Transportation Center of Excellence is scheduled to open in time for the fall 2025 semester. It will host an expanded Diesel Equipment Technology program, as well as the addition of both the Automotive Technology and the Auto Collision and Management Technology programs."
  11. ChannelTwoNews
    An oldie but goodie... 2015. Rosenberg area picked as site of technical college (chron.com) "The new campus, which could break ground as early as June, would be located on 80 acres, north of Interstate 69 on FM 2218 at FM 359." The frontage, in reality, is along the Southwest Freeway (59/I-69) between (not on) FM 2218 & Louise Street. If it were ON 2218, it would be where Davis-Greenlawn Funeral Home & Cemetery are located. Sincerely don't know how FM 359 even ended up in that description as it's several miles from this intersection and not even in the same city.
  12. ChannelTwoNews
    Yep. It's 8 Greenway Plaza. The reflections match.
  13. ChannelTwoNews
    Sounds like their primary studio is getting an update. Should be ready early next year. mikemcguff.com: KPRC 2 gets new studio in 2024
  14. ChannelTwoNews
    The location on 290 between Hollister & Tidwell opened yesterday if this is to be believed. Tim Hortons opens newest Houston location off Hwy. 290 | Community Impact
  15. ChannelTwoNews
    Interesting project to introduce native plants to areas across the multiple area ecoregions to help with both flood control and drought survivability. Native Seed Mix Development Project — Houston Wilderness One-pager+on+Harris+County+NSM+Development+Project+(May+2023).pdf (squarespace.com) https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/environment/article/native-seed-mix-prairie-grass-southeast-texas-18521467.php "In testing over the past two years by researchers at Texas A&M Kingsville’s Texas Native Seeds Program, the new 12-species mix “handled inundation of water, it handled drought and it looks fabulous,” she said.
  16. ChannelTwoNews
    Agreed. Genuinely impressed this one seems to have come back from the dead - even though it seemed to have more momentum pre-covid. Should be decent height for that area. Marathon's tower next door isn't super tall, but it's around 340' from what I recall. This doesn't look too far off from that.
  17. ChannelTwoNews
    Mmmmm... vaporware. Not Waterline. Waterline is chunky and unfortunate looking - much like myself - but at least it is vertical and still under construction. Also like me. Modern (behind Waterline) is also going up right now. The Ritz probably won't be coming out of the ground any time soon, if at all. The same developer (M2) tried to get both the Nashville and Austin towers built at the same time and it's not going well to say the least. The signs are already down at that site in the former - and it was further ahead in the development process than the Austin one.
  18. ChannelTwoNews
    Additional comments from the co-founder of Cart.com, Remington Tonar https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/inno/stories/inno-insights/2023/11/21/cartcom-headquarters-return-houston-logistics-boom.html "What are your thoughts on how Houston’s innovation ecosystem has grown? This topic is very near and dear to me, and I’m very passionate on why it's important to continue to grow the ecosystem. Certainly, in the years since I’ve been in Houston, I’ve seen the ecosystem almost J-curve. When I moved down from New York City, I was unpleasantly surprised by the lack of infrastructure that the fourth-largest city in the country had for startups and entrepreneurs. Now we have multiple Cannon locations, the Ion, multiple national-level incubators. Omair and I and our founding investor, Jim Jacobsen, started this company at the Cannon West Houston, so in a lot of ways Cart.com is one of the most prominent examples of why we need to continue pushing for more startup infrastructure in Houston."
  19. ChannelTwoNews
    The brochure has been updated again, of course and it seems there's been some attempts to lease out the existing spaces and fill pad sites. For Phase I The previously mentioned "Pickleball" site appears to have been fleshed out to a "Pickleball/Restaurant" concept, again pointing to a user like Chicken N Pickle. The Sueba apartment complex (forever with the rendering of their Katy Boardwalk project) also remains. The Kelsey Seybold building may be going on this side as a "proposed medical" building. The SF description is about the same. Proposed new tenants for pad sites on this side include... -Feng Cha Teahouse -The Good Feet Store -Lids -Hand & Stone Massage Spa For the Phase II side... New proposed tenants include -Raising Cane's (where the IHOP currently is, and if I'm not mistaken - it's still open) -Texas Regional Bank -Dunkin (Returning to the map where the old Carl's Jr. once was) -A Montessori School along FM 2977 A Pad Site adjacent to the SpringHill Suites also appears to be under contract. We'll see who the user is soon enough, it seems.
  20. ChannelTwoNews
    Opening day for the hotel moved to January 25th https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/thompson-hotel-houston-postpones-opening-the-allen-18507306.php https://www.hyatt.com/thompson-hotels/iahth
  21. ChannelTwoNews
    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies_tv/article/kprc-2-meteorologist-khambrel-marshall-announces-18499275.php He announced his retirement late last week. His last day on air will be December 13th.
  22. ChannelTwoNews
    Cart.com is moving its HQ back to Houston from Austin for a number of reasons - citing the former's better connections to its international offices as well as supply chain and logistical knowledge and resources. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/inno/stories/news/2023/11/20/cartcom-headquarters-returns-houston.html "The company that we were in late 2020 and through 2021 and part of 2022 was absolutely a company that was built for revenue growth at all costs," Tonar said. "Now the mandate has turned towards looking at profitability and cash flow, and the culture of a place like Houston is attuned to that kind of operating model." They are currently said to be looking for a location close to The Cannon near Memorial City, where they originally started. Even though they are a primarily remote-based workforce, their focus is on hiring locally.
  23. ChannelTwoNews
    https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/11/16/beyonce-concerts-drive-hotel-bookings-houston.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=8#cxrecs_s "Hotel occupancy across the city last month came in at 59.5%, marking a 5.8% increase over September 2022. The average daily rate and revenue per available room increased 5.4% and 11.5%, respectively, over the same month last year. Houston’s hotels have maintained a steady increase in business in 2023 compared to 2022. During the first nine months of the year, hotel occupancy averaged 61.1%, up 7.8% compared with the same period in 2022. ADR and RevPAR were up 7.5% and 15.9%, respectively, so far this year compared with 2022, according to Houston First."
  24. ChannelTwoNews
    Yes, it has been since last September. Still wishing I had backed up a lot of the information from that database before CoStar took over. There were hundreds of older, unbuilt project profiles that existed only there, as well as numerous heights for buildings and other structures that were not listed elsewhere. I probably still have a good number of my notes from the field when I was doing in-person visits or making calls, and tons of microfilm copies of articles I used for research on the older buildings & projects... but like you inferred it would take time to get it all entered into one spot again. I would love to start a new database - preferably Houston / Houston-metro specific since that's where I could tell you the most complete & accurate data per project was represented on a consistent basis on that previous site. Don't have the first clue how to approach such a task though. Maybe someone else does?
  25. ChannelTwoNews
    https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/inno/stories/news/2023/11/15/accenture-houston-innovation-generative-ai-studio.html "Accenture PLC launched generative AI studios in its innovation hubs around the country, with one in Houston. The move is part of the global professional services company's $3 billion investment into generative AI technology worldwide. The local Generative AI Studio is inside Accenture’s Houston Innovation Hub at 1301 Fannin St., which is owned by Netrality Data Partners. Raymond Hodge, director of Accenture’s Houston Innovation Hub, confirmed to Houston Inno that the studios were active at launch and immediately available to any existing Accenture clients. Each city’s hub is tailored to specific industries within that city, and Houston’s hub will specialize in chemicals, energy and utilities."
×
×
  • Create New...