Lightly Sterilized Beach Lagoons Planned for Land Tejas’s Bayou City Suburbs
Land Tejas’s Scottish-castle-themed Balmoral development in Humble (sketched out above) is 1 of 2 currently planned Houston-area locations for fake lake maker Crystal Lagoons’s giant outdoor pools,...
View ArticleUn-Re-Zoning of Missouri City Tract Paves Way for Shipman’s Cove Master Plans
The Missouri City council voted last week to approve a “planned development” zoning classification for a woody 95.3-acre tract at the edge of the Creekmont and Newpoint Estates subdivisions off Hwy. 6...
View ArticleHow They’re Avoiding Flooding Far Upstream from Downtown Houston
How was developer Newland Communities able to lift the first cohort of 6,200 planned new homes out of the 100-year floodplain in Elyson, its Katy Prairie development just west of the Grand Pkwy. at FM...
View ArticleHow Tiki Island Came to Be, and To Be Called Tiki Island
“I wanted to call it” — wait for it — “Buccaneer Bay,” says the peninsula’s developer Welcome Wilson Sr. in a recent interview with the Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff. For all its alliterative charm,...
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