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19/03/2019

The beloved local site stopped publishing on March 7.

15/03/2019

At some point, reading a Swamplot comment made you laugh -- or scream -- or . . . change your mind about painting your house? Tell us what comments (or Comments of the Day) you read on the site are deserving of our honor roll.

WHAT ARE THE BEST SWAMPLOT COMMENTS YOU’VE EVER READ (OR MADE)? Here’s another request for longtime readers: Help us identify the greatest reader comments ever posted on Swamplot! Why is your help needed? A whopping 133,000 or so reader com

15/03/2019

We need your help compiling the best of Swamplot!

(Please respond in a comment on the post on our site.)

Hey, recovering longtime Swamplot readers! A special request: We’re putting together a list of this site’s best stories, and we need your help. If you were asked to give a quick snapshot of Swamplot by providing examples of this site at the t

08/03/2019

Thanks for everything, Houston!

(. . . and do check back in with us next week, for a bit of follow-up.)

As of today this site’s daily publishing schedule is coming to a halt. Swamplot has been covering Houston’s real estate landscape for 12 years. That’s longer than the runs of most successful teevee sitcoms, all but one U.S. presidency, and

06/03/2019

Houston's 1895 and 2019 rail systems, compared — and suitable for framing:

Here’s one way to make a graphic comparison of the tight-knit electric streetcar routes that crisscrossed tiny 1895 Houston (pop. 44,643) to today’s more spindly 22.7-mile light-rail network: Zoom way in, so that Buffalo and White Oak Bayous

06/03/2019

NASA wanted to fly this modified DC-8 to gather data about the toxic air over Houston right after Hurricane Harvey -- but the EPA and TCEQ said no thanks.

THE HOUSTON HURRICANE POLLUTION-SNIFFING NASA FLIGHT THAT NEVER TOOK OFF A week and a half after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, as damage to smokestacks, pipelines, and chemical storage tanks were still being assessed, flooded Superfund sites went unmon

06/03/2019

Here's what's coming first to East River, a mile east of Downtown Houston --- including movies, a new Houston Maritime Museum, and a whole lot of shopping:

A leasing brochure just released by Midway reveals a detailed site plan for the first phase of the company’s planned development on a 150-acre former industrial site lining the north bank of Buffalo Bayou — here upgraded to riverine status.

04/03/2019

If you renovate your 1954 bayouside Midcentury Modern and add some extra-wide doors to the front, you can park your new McLaren Senna in the living room. And maybe squeeze in a Porsche too — if you can maneuver around the kitchen.

WHEN THE CAR’S JUST TOO NICE FOR THE GARAGE “It takes a little bit of maneuvering,” explains Nick, the proud owner of a blue-and-orange McLaren Senna and the reworked 1954 William Floyd bayou-side home just north of Woodway Dr. whose

04/03/2019

The Harris County Flood Control District is getting ready to demolish a good portion of the Buffalo Bayou mountain-bike trail in Terry Hershey Park known as the Anthills.

Time’s almost up for a whole mess of trees lining the south side of Buffalo Bayou between Eldridge Pkwy. and Dairy Ashford (pictured at top), where the Harris County Flood Control District plans to construct the first 3 of a series of overflow bas

04/03/2019

Meet the Houston Chronicle's new journalism bots-for-hire, reading you Yelp EaDo brewery reviews.

TRUE ANOMALY IN LOCAL ROBO-JOURNALISM New sour-beer hotspot True Anomaly Brewing Company, which opened last month in the former electrical warehouse at 2012 Dallas St. just west of the main East Village campus in East Downtown (and possibly in the pat

22/02/2019

Go ahead, sing like nobody can hear you. (They can't!)

East Downtown’s self-styled “come-as-you-are beer garden & adult playground” Truck Yard is now taking reservations from parties of up to 20 people who want a spot where they can sing like nobody’s listening. What better loca

21/02/2019

Chuy's appears to have dibs on the I-10 spot where Boudreaux's Cajun Kitchen closed not long ago.

Amid the hodgepodge of roadside restaurants and retailers shown fronting the I-10 westbound feeder in the leasing map for the Village Plaza at Bunker Hill shopping center, a newcomer has cropped up: Chuy’s Tex-Mex. Its mark is shown on the 5,800-s

21/02/2019

A pair of bygone Toys R Us-es gear up for what's next . . .

Months after the chain that once operated them declared bankruptcy and retreated to Canada, the pair of empty Toys R Us stores situated almost directly opposite each other off the Katy Fwy. at Bunker Hill Rd. are getting ready to go their separate ways.

19/02/2019

Work is underway to turn the 2-story brick house Kaye Marvins Photography occupied for 70 years into a new location of Memorial Tailors, currently a 2-spot chain with shops in Cypress and the Village Plaza at Bunker Hill shopping center. The photo at to

11/02/2019

The judge's decision could derail Texas Central's plans in 3 of the 10 counties that its route is set to cut through.

LEON COUNTY JUDGE RULES BULLET TRAIN COMPANY CAN’T USE EMINENT DOMAIN ON ACCOUNT OF IT’S NOT REALLY A ‘RAILROAD’ YET On Friday, the judge for Texas’s 87th District Court declared that Texas Central, the company plannin

11/02/2019

COMMENT OF THE DAY: SURVIVAL OF THE WEIRDEST “As I have long observed, pretty soon the only remaining example of the original housing stock of the greater Rice Military neighborhood will be the Beer Can House.” [Miz Brooke Smith, commen

11/02/2019

Buh-bye!

The Memorial Club apartment complex at the Westcott St. roundabout is down to its final quarter following weekend deconstruction activity that left the 4-building, not-yet-redeveloped half of the complex itself cut in half. (Across the street, a 5-buili

06/02/2019

The teardown will leave a whole bunch of empty space at the corner of Montrose Blvd. and Marshall St.

The yellow excavator pictured above showed up yesterday in the driveway behind 912 Marshall St., a roughly 100-year-old home that’s been empty since its previous owners moved out December, according to a neighbor. Its new owner, an entity known si