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Scaling Back the Upscale: Allegro Builders, Downtempo
Allegro Builders president and CEO Lambert Arceneaux has no more employees to let go from his company, and has had problems paying his subcontractors, a source tells Swamplot. Starting way back in the...
View ArticleAnd What About the River Oaks Shopping Center?
His company’s stock down more than 70 percent since last year and the 2009 calendar wiped clean of all new development projects, Weingarten Realty president and CEO Drew Alexander tells analysts and...
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Popping That “No Housing Bubble in Houston” Myth
Enjoy your spring, everyone! Armed with a few pointed charts fueled by the latest data from HAR, Swamplot’s spreadsheet-wielding correspondent writes in again, this time with comments on March’s...
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Comics Relief: Hard Times at the West Oaks Mall
What’s a struggling mall to do these days? How about turning off the air conditioning . . . and hosting a comic-book convention! Robert W. Boyd reports from the scene: Despite a great location [on...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Back at the Office
Who says the architecture business in Houston is slow? Busy Bees [BRAVE/PRAXIS]
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Leaner and Meaner: The EDI Architecture Story
A reader fills us in on the toll the nationwide downturn has taken over the last year on EDI Architecture, once one of the largest architecture firms in Houston. EDI, which specialized in multifamily...
View ArticleComment of the Day: O Brother, Can You Spare a T-Square?
“. . . The reality is that we’re all trying to endure circumstances that possibly could be described as the Great Depression in architecture. Spoke to a Boston Architect last week who said the...
View ArticleHouston Neighborhoods That Are Still Growing, and the Interesting People...
Reporting on the growth and development of Houston for a continuing NPR series on how cities grow and change, national Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep hopes to get some tips from Swamplot...
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The View from AIG: This Time We’re Sure Houston’s Never Gonna Flood Again
From his perch high in the (formerly AIG) America Tower on Allen Parkway, Swamplot reader Stephen Cullar-Ledford forwards this latest dramatic scene, which aches for suitably metaphorical captioning....
View ArticleThe Biggest Loser
“An analysis of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures by the Associated General Contractors of America shows Houston lost 25,500 construction jobs between December 2008 and December 2009. The...
View ArticleComment of the Day: When the Hormone Stimulus Wears Off
“A bad economy causes low testosterone levels so it’s not surprising low-grade breastauranteurs are suffering. The only thing up is the stock market and that’s only because the Fed is gobbling Viagra,...
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Are Houston’s B-Cycles ‘Merely Toys for Urban Bohemians’?
Houston has some 175 rent-a-bikes available at swipe-a-credit-card kiosks here and there in Midtown, Montrose, and Downtown, with plans to expand to the East End, Med Center, and universities soon....
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