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HOUSTON – (Realty News Report) – The Welcome Group is developing an industrial project on the South Sam Houston Parkway, just west of Highway 288 near Almeda School Road. The South Sam Houston Parkway has a significant amount of industrial construction with new projects under construction by Clay Development and Construction, Hines and other firms. KDW is constructing the 23,100 ... Read More »

THE LEGENDS OF REAL ESTATE AWARDS 2016 – Ralph Bivins, editor of Realty News Report, has selected the most significant people, projects, deals and ideas of the Houston real estate market for 2016. These aren’t necessarily the largest or the first. But the deals point to future trends, potential gold mines, noble visions and notable accomplishments by the brilliant professionals ... Read More »

Thanks to the fracking boom that began a decade ago — providing low cost energy and low price feedstock for the area’s chemical manufacturing facilities — Houston’s Eastside has been on a roll. Numerous chemical manufacturing plants in the area have expanded while other firms began shopping around the Eastside for sites. An estimated $35 billion worth of chemical facilities ... Read More »

DEER PARK, Texas – Clay Development & Construction has landed Dow Chemical as an tenant in the “Petrochemical Corridor” office market on the east side of Houston. “Situated in Houston’s petrochemical corridor, Deerwood Office III is a full-service office location for companies serving industrial operations near the Ship Channel,” says company president Robert Clay. “This is Class A office space ... Read More »

HOUSTON – Ensinger, a global producer of engineering plastics, has purchased a 61,875 -square-foot, custom-built manufacturing facility under construction on nine acres at 12331 Cutten Road, in Northwest Houston, from Clay Development & Construction. Completion of the one-story building is scheduled for summer 2016. The design/build project is the fourteenth building in Cutten Road Business Park, a 165-acre site acquired ... Read More »

EAST HOUSTON (Realty News Report) – If you think Houston is only losing jobs, then take a ride to the city’s eastside. Drive by the ChevronPhilips chemical facility under construction in Baytown. It employs thousands of construction workers and will need approximately 400 full-time employees to run the plant once completed. “Unfortunately the upstream side — exploration and production — ... Read More »

Ralph Bivins’ Realty News Report Awards – The Best of Houston 2015 Realty News Report editor Ralph Bivins has selected the most significant projects, deals and ideas of the Houston real estate market for 2015. These aren’t necessarily the largest or the first. But the deals point to future trends, potential gold mines, noble visions and notable accomplishments by the ... Read More »

Realty News Report editor Ralph Bivins has selected the most significant projects, deals and ideas of the Houston real estate market for 2015. These aren’t necessarily the largest or the first. But the deals point to future trends, potential gold mines, noble visions and notable accomplishments by the smart professionals who are making them happen. Ralph Bivins’ Realty News Report ... Read More »

BAYTOWN, Texas – Clay Development & Construction will develop 1.5 million square feet of distribution space on 80 acres it just purchased in the Cedar Port Industrial Park in Baytown, east of Houston. The surge in plastic production at Gulf Coast chemical plants is driving the demand for more industrial space in the area, says Houston developer Robert Clay, president ... Read More »

Despite the drop in energy prices, Houston’s industrial sector remains robust. Earlier this year, heating, cooling and refrigerant product manufacturer Daikin Industries announced it was expanding in Space City with a new 4 million-square-foot campus with 4,000 jobs. Such activity is providing a boon to firms such as Clay Development & Construction, a design/builder of industrial build-to-suit facilities. Clay has ... Read More »