Solar farm could energize development in Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood

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HOUSTON — Eight miles south of downtown, Sunnyside’s old, overgrown 240-acre landfill undeveloped for decades is going to become a farm and perhaps Houston’s newest energy hub.

“It’s really (going to) become a destination just like we used to go to Astroworld,” Efrem Jernigan, president of South Union Development.…