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Headlines: Downtown Tailgating Win; Dueling Houston Futures

Tailgating OK at Designated Dynamo Lots; Astros on the Fence [Houston Chronicle] Post Oak Bank Expands at 2000 W. Loop [CoStar Group] Dropped Bank Lawsuit Made $40M Diamond Beach Resort Loan Dispute Public, Randall Davis Complains [Galveston County Dai... »

Headlines: Townhomes Slipping into Bayou; Woodlands Down 2 Bronze Deer

Memorial Woods Townhomes ‘One More Rain’ Away from Falling in Banks-Eroded Bayou [KHOU] 2 Bronze Deer Statues Stolen from Woodlands Entrances [Courier of Montgomery County] Houston No Longer In Drought, Just ‘Abnormally Dry’ [Hair Balls] Highway Graffi... »

Apple’s First See-Through Store, Unveiled

Live from the corner of Westheimer and Drexel, photographer Karen Dressel sends Swamplot this first view of the Highland Village Apple Store, which opens Friday at 8 am. The black paper covering the panels on the company’s first-ever glass-roofed, doub... »

Drawings Reveal Highland Village Apple Store’s Secret Spaces Above Paper, Cupcake Stores

The first-of-its-kind Apple Store scheduled to open to long lines of new iPad buyers 2 days from now in the Highland Village Shopping Center is much bigger than it appears from the outside. That’s because more than a third of the space in the 9,000-sq.... »

Confirmed: New iPad Will Hit New Houston Apple Store on Opening Day

To guarantee there’ll be Apple addicts camping outside the new Highland Village store on its opening day next Friday, Apple announced today that March 16 will also be the day the new iPad — yes, that’s what it’s being called — goes on sale for the firs... »

Highland Village Apple Store To Debut with the iPad 3

The Apple Store still under construction at the corner of Drexel and Westheimer in the Highland Village Shopping Center will open just in time for the debut of the iPad 3. If, that is, workers scramble quickly enough to get the glass-roofed, walk-throu... »

Doors Open Early at the Highland Village Apple Store: Your First Peek Inside

Lines aren’t forming outside Houston’s first non-mall Apple Store, and the glass on the front on back facades are still blacked out and protected — it’ll be a little while before the building at the corner of Westheimer and Drexel in the Highland Villa... »

Headlines: Pleasure Pier’s Return; Bayou Trail Construction Dangers

New Retail Businesses Opening Downtown Get Free Rent, District Grants [Houston Chronicle] Landry’s Pleasure Pier Redo To Open by Memorial Day with Whac-A-Mole, Bubba Gump [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot] Highland Village Apple Store’s Glass ... »

Highland Village Apple Store Reboot

Did you know the shiny new Apple Store with the glass roof and front and back walls in Highland Village was scheduled to open very soon? Well, not any more, says Nancy Sarnoff. A source tells her the opening of the first Houston-area non-mall store has... »

Highland Village Apple Store Update: Back Door, Hidden Chambers

Dedicated Houston Apple Store sleuth Tracy Evans has posted a revised sketch of the glass-ceilinged retail space going up at 4012 Westheimer Rd. in the Highland Village Shopping Center, showing a number of details he’s figured out from careful study. T... »

Highland Village Apple Store Will Have Glass Ceiling, Front, and Back

How might a Houston building with an all-glass roof stand up to the Gulf Coast’s formidable sun, heat, and gloppy rainfall? We all should be able to find out after Apple’s Highland Village store opens early next year. Thanks in part to the sleuthing of... »

Headlines: Texas Cities Hunt for More Water; Highland Village Restoration Hardware Debuts

Future Texas Water Supply Uncertain [Houston Chronicle] Fears in Galveston That Expanded Park-and-Ride Would Cause Exodus from the Island [Galveston County Daily News] Houston’s Office, Industrial Real Estate on an Upswing [Houston Business Journal] HI... »

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