Marissa Luck covers commercial real estate, economic development and business in Houston for CoStar News, with occasional stories about Austin, Texas. Prior to joining CoStar News in fall 2019, Luck wrote about the energy and petrochemical industries...
Marissa Luck covers commercial real estate, economic development and business in Houston for CoStar News, with occasional stories about Austin, Texas. Prior to joining CoStar News in fall 2019, Luck wrote about the energy and petrochemical industries for Houston Chronicle, where she covered breaking news and developed in-depth features and enterprise stories. Previously, Luck worked for Austin Business Journal covering commercial and residential real estate in the fast-growing Texas capital and before that wrote about business, energy and real estate for The Daily News of Longview, Washington, a Pulitzer-prize winning community newspaper outside of Portland, Oregon. Previously her byline has appeared in numerous publications including Associated Press, MSN.com, Dallas Business Journal, Houston Business Journal, San Antonio-Express News, Crosscut, Seattle Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer and more. Luck grew up in the Pacific Northwest and is originally from Honolulu, Hawaii. She lives in Midtown Houston with her husband and pets.
In a boon for Houston’s startup community, a nonprofit real estate developer is launching an industrial innovation incubator and makerspace in the East End that is expected to house high-tech ...
An activist investor is calling for a real estate investment trust tied to commercial property investor CIM Group to sell itself or liquidate because of what it calls poor returns and conflicts of ...
Companies that had been taking more real estate to start or expand chemical operations are now pumping the brakes as a way to cut costs during the economic downturn from the coronavirus.
A massive master-planned community in a growing suburb of northeast Houston is getting more development after developers bought hundreds of acres to expand.
Many landlords can start eviction and debt proceedings in Texas this week under a state Supreme Court order lifting the moratorium on evictions for renters because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some ...
Bars can begin to reopen Friday and professional sports teams can return later this month under the phase two reopening plan Texas Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled Monday.
Electric car maker Tesla has reportedly picked the two finalist U.S. cities where it plans to build its largest factory, meaning a real estate deal comprising thousands of acres could be just around ...
A collapse in tax revenue because of the coronavirus pandemic is forcing the biggest cities in Texas to furlough hundreds of government employees and slash budgets for the next fiscal year.
Casinos in Louisiana will start to reopen for business next week in what will be the first major market for gambling industry properties to test demand and new protocols stemming from the ...
A $15 million renter relief fund set up by the city of Houston to help residents who are hurting financially from the coronavirus ran out of funds within 90 minutes.
A liquefied natural gas company has doubled its footprint in a Houston office tower in a rare piece of positive leasing news for energy companies during the pandemic.
Whitestone REIT, a national retail real estate investment trust, said about 36% of its tenants did not pay rent in April, but executives are cautiously encouraged by signs of an early recovery as ...
National discount department store retailer Stage Stores Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is putting itself up for sale, becoming the latest retailer seeking options as its more ...
Camden Property Trust, a Houston-based real estate investment trust with 56,000 apartment units across the country, said about 2.5% of tenants deferred rent and 3.2% were delinquent in April as it ...
A Richmond, Virginia-based investor has scooped up a three-property portfolio in Texas, reentering the Austin market and adding to its San Antonio portfolio.
Six weeks after furloughing 3,500 corporate employees at its Houston headquarters, energy services giant Halliburton Co. is making 28% of those jobs permanent layoffs.
City of Houston officials are encouraging landlords of low- and moderate- income apartments to enroll in a new $15 million rental assistance program to help financially strapped tenants during the ...
Hair salons, barber shops and tanning studios can officially reopen in Texas this Friday, a move to stem some of the economic disruption from pandemic-related closings. It comes as one public health ...