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Seafood restaurant La Palapa will open May 16 at 6507 FM 2920, Spring, pending approval from the local health department, restaurant officials said. Owned by Albert Soto, La Palapa will offer fresh seafood dishes with a Latin flare, with menu items ranging from fried calamari and Baja tacos to octopus carpaccio and shrimp empanadas.

Seafood restaurant La Palapa targets May 16 opening in Spring Owned by Albert Soto, La Palapa will offer fresh seafood dishes with a Latin flare, with menu items ranging from fried calamari and Baja tacos to octopus carpaccio and shrimp empanadas.

Robert Graham opened in Market Street in mid-April at 9595 Six Pines Drive, Ste. 1150, The Woodlands, next to the Hyatt Centric hotel. The luxury clothing retailer sells items for men and women, including designer clothing.

Luxury clothing retailer Robert Graham now open at Market Street in The Woodlands The luxury clothing retailer sells items for men and women, including designer clothing.

The Washington Avenue corridor—a roughly 4.5-mile strip connecting downtown Houston to Memorial Park—contains about 70 establishments that sell alcohol, according to Chris Porter, a public information officer with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Some of these establishments are bars that have put Rice Military neighborhood residents on edge.

Houston studies noise rules as complaints pile up Two members of the Houston City Council, Abbie Kamin and Sallie Alcorn, are proposing amendments to the city’s noise ordinance they said they hope will work for residents and businesses alike. The Council is set to vote on the amendments at a May 4 meeting.

Texas voters will decide local elections in numerous communities across the state May 7, but they will also vote on two propositions that will have implications on property taxes statewide. Blank said both constitutional amendments received bipartisan support from legislators in 2021, and he believes they are likely to pass to provide homeowners property tax relief, but they would place more of the public education funding burden on the state.

“Ultimately what you’re doing is you are shifting the burden from ... the homeowner automatically handing over some of our property tax into the public education system and switching that to rely on the Legislature to continue to fund public education at equal or higher levels than they have in the past,” he said.

What Texas voters should know about statewide property tax propositions on May 7 ballot Propositions 1 and 2 would provide homeowners with property tax relief and received bipartisan support from legislators in 2021, but they could place more of public education funding burden on the state.

Representatives of H-E-B confirmed in an email April 26 that the Magnolia store at FM 1488 and Spur 149 will open by the end of the year. H-E-B is the anchor of the Magnolia Place development, a mixed-use project underway by Stratus Properties, Community Impact Newspaper previously reported.

Development update: H-E-B confirms Magnolia store will open by end of year H-E-B is the anchor of the Magnolia Place development, a mixed-use project underway by Stratus Properties, Community Impact Newspaper previously reported.