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Houston is home to many companies that have worked for NASA in previous decades, but now they have new competitors — and customers.

Nap Bar aims to use the airport location as a launching point to expand nationwide with the goal of opening 30 locations in three years.

Nippon, which touts itself as the oldest Japanese-owned restaurant in Houston, will close after nearly four decades in the Montrose neighborhood.

The latest fund brings EnCap’s closed funds across its upstream, midstream and energy transition platforms to about $9 billion of capital raised this year.

A Houston-based activist investor wants to break up The Cheesecake Factory to spin out three restaurants founded by Phoenix’s Sam Fox, the WSJ says.

TGI Fridays is now managed by an outside consultant known for facilitating bankruptcies. Here’s the latest on the chain.

A company intended to create biotech startups leased space in the Texas Medical Center’s new campus with Rice University’s backing.

The $25 million boutique condo project in the Uptown/Tanglewood area will offer 4,400-square-foot units, each with its own generator.

The Sugar Land store is Trader Joe’s sixth in Greater Houston and first to open since 2016.

Holt Truck Centers, a division of San Antonio-based Holt Group, now has 35 truck and parts dealerships in Texas and Oklahoma.