BY BRANDI SMITH
Just 30 minutes south of Houston, tucked right along State Highway 146, the town
of Seabrook is quietly making waves around Clear Lake.
Category: Focus 2017
Central Texas Association of Realtors March Event Addresses Rough Proportionality Measures
By Philp Loyd
The CTCAR March 23rd event addressed the topic of new Rough Proportionality measures and their negative impacts in and around the Austin area. One of its featured speakers was real estate developer, Pete Dwyer.
Don’t buy the hype: The Texas retail market is stronger than ever
By Brandi Smith
Assessed purely by the headlines, the past few years have been a challenge for some of the nation’s largest retailers. Payless ShoeSource announced in April that it would shutter nearly 400 stores. In January, JCPenney started closing 140 locations across the country. Even mall stores have taken a hit with retailers Abercrombie & Fitch and Guess pulling the plug on 60 locations within the next year. Though many analysts cite those cases as examples of how the retail sky is falling, many Texas experts are saying, “Hold up, Chicken Little.”
Capitalizing on investment: Houston-based retail brokerage firm celebrates success
By Brandi Smith
When Eric Walker and several friends decided to start Capital Retail Properties in 2011, they had one goal in mind: “We wanted to create an environment where we all want to come to work every day.”
Where there’s a Wheless, there’s a way: How a 1940s deal led to 2017’s hottest Houston-area market
BY BRANDI SMITH
“It took 70 years to come to fruition,” William “Bill” Wheless III, president of Wheless Properties chuckles as he surveys a map of more 5,000 acres nestled along Lake Houston.
Bill Wheless’s grandfather, William M. “Fishback” Wheless Sr., J.S. Abercrombie and others purchased the property in the 1940s before the City of Houston erected a dam along the San Jacinto River, creating the lake in 1953. That was shortly after Wheless Sr. and Abercrombie bought the acreage that would become Cinco Ranch in Katy.
Buzzword or fixture? Texas experts weigh in on the future of coworking
BY BRANDI SMITH
Last month’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival is a reminder of what Texans already know well: Austin is one of the hottest spots in the country when it comes to technology and innovation. The festival’s “Interactive” track drew more than 30,000 people to sessions highlighting smart cities, digital journalism and more over the course of five days. The other 360 days of the year, the crowds are smaller, but the ideas and passion are still there.