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Wylie W. Vale, 1917-2013
Houston architect Wylie W. Vale passed away early this morning. He was 96. Vale’s career, according to photographer Ben Hill, who has documented his works, spanned from 1939 to 2001. Working in an...
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Katy Home Listing Photo of the Day: Fifty Yard Dash
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Homebuilders Playing Through Old Katy Golf Course
Just flip the sand traps to sandboxes and the water hazards to water features, and you’re most of the way there: A 440-home master-planned community, reports The Rancher’s Zach Haverkamp, is aimed for...
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Where Hilton Will Be Putting Another Hotel on the Katy Fwy.
The sign in the dirt tells you all you need to know: Hilton plans to build one of its newish line of Home2 Suites here on the eastbound Katy Fwy. feeder between S. Mason and Westgreen Blvd. A reader...
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Feeding New Apartments to the Grand Pkwy. Feeder
Austin developers Oden Hughes say that they have been eager to build in Houston, but the company’s first project here has come only as far east as Katy: A 354-unit apartment complex is going up a few...
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Trader Joe’s Opening New Store Outside Every Loop in Cinco Ranch
Here’s a look at Houston’s next Trader Joe’s, set to open in Cinco Ranch sometime next year. It’ll be at 2643 Commercial Center Blvd., right in the center of all that commerce just west of the Grand...
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Park That Bus: Bernie’s To Open 3 Non-Mobile Locations
Justin Turner of the cheddar-colored, school-themed burger bus — a frequent visitor to the can-you-hear-me-above-the-generators Houston Food Park in East Downtown — tells Eater Houston that he’s...
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Katy Home Listing of the Day: The Finishing Line
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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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Minding Manors: A Colonial House Rambles Across Katy Meadows
This Manorwood Estates property isn’t horsing around, but it could. The neighborhood’s large lots permit one equine per acre. Previously a red brick Colonial, the recently whitewashed 1980 home sits...
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Katy Contemporary Arts Museum Creating Its Own ‘Museum District’
Where is the new Katy Contemporary Arts Museum? “In the heart of Katy’s Museum District,” boasts the brand-new institution’s website. That appears to be shorthand for “right across from the Katy...
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Katy Home Listing Photo of the Day: Spider Plant
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It’s Been Colder Than Usual in Katy
“Subdivision Waterfalls” may have been frozen out of the winners’ circle in the Favorite Design Cliché category of the just-concluded Swamplot Awards for Houston Real Estate, but the florid...
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Katy Home Listing Photo of the Day: What’s Eating U?
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Fresh Drone Aerial Videos Show Progress of Houston’s Government-Funded Sprawl
From the self-described “guy with a quadcopter” behind Skyhawk Videos, here’s new aerial footage from high above the brand-spanking-new intersection of I-10 and Houston’s latest orbiting ringroad, the...
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Katy Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Wine Pulls
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Katy Garage Apartment Floor Collapse Ends Celebration, Injures Dozens of Guests
Dozens of people were sent to area hospitals after the floor of an upstairs garage apartment collapsed this afternoon during a private religious ceremony attended by more than 100 people. The structure...
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