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Major Northpark Milestone: Bore Under Tracks Completed

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:23:12 +0000

10/18/2025 – Yesterday, on 10/17/2025, the Northpark Expansion project reached a major milestone. Some might say the project cleared a major hurdle, except the hurdle is about 15 feet below the UnionPacific Railroad tracks. Whatever you call it, the completion of the second bore under the railroad tracks caused jubilation among board members of the […]

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Major Northpark Traffic Change Coming Next Week

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:09:58 +0000

7/31/2025 – According to the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority website, contractors will soon move all eastbound traffic on Northpark Drive between Italiano’s to GS Tire & Auto to newly constructed lanes on the south side of the thoroughfare. This will eliminate two major swerves within 3,000 feet and straighten out inbound traffic east of Loop […]

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UPRR Almost Finished, Northpark to Reopen This Afternoon

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:49:24 +0000

3/7/25 Updated at 2:30 PM– The UnionPacific Railroad (UPRR) has almost finished with Northpark work that caused a three day closure of one of two major traffic arteries out of Kingwood. UPRR hopes to reopen Northpark this afternoon. They say it should be open for evening rush hour. Reasons for Closure UPRR installed a single […]

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Full Kingwood Area Drainage Study Now Available Online

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 01:16:03 +0000

1/11/25 – On July 15, 2020, Neel-Schaffer Engineering delivered the Kingwood Area Drainage Study to sponsors Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD), City of Houston and Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ 10. HCFCD held a community meeting to discuss the results. The District delivered a 24-page high-level summary to the community at the time. However, I […]

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Northpark Construction: From Mistletoe to Milestones

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:58:35 +0000

1/7/2025 – In the week after a holiday lull, Northpark construction is ramping back up and should reach some milestones later this week. According to the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority website: In other news, crews will continue: See the pictures below, all taken on Tuesday morning, 1/7/25. New Lanes and Sidewalk Between Loop 494 and […]

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Entergy Makes Some Northpark Progress, but Significant Issues Remain

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:46:41 +0000

Entergy has made more progress on the Northpark Drive expansion project in the last two weeks than in the previous four years. But despite what you see in the photos below, significant issues remain to clear the way for the first all-weather evacuation route from Kingwood. Some Progress, But… Last week, Entergy, a $4 billion […]

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Northpark Expansion Update, Still No Sign of Entergy

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:36:39 +0000

In the last three weeks, the Northpark expansion project has made slow, but steady progress, despite the fact that Entergy still has not moved any power poles or its transformer. For the moment, contractors seem to be working around the absentee utility issues, which have lingered for four years. The bulk of activity has focused […]

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Entergy Ignores City Deadline to Move Northpark Power Lines

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:52:13 +0000

Today, Entergy missed yet another deadline in a long series of deadlines to move its power lines to make room for Northpark Drive expansion. On February 6, the City of Houston sent a letter to Entergy, demanding that the company move its power lines out of the City’s right of way within 30 days. That […]

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TxDOT, LHRA Engage Kingwood at Northpark Phase II Meeting

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:09:42 +0000

On 3/7/24, TxDOT, the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ10 and the City of Houston hosted an open house at the Kingwood Community Center to share detailed project plans at a Northpark Phase II Meeting. The informal “come-and-go-when-you want” style of the meeting gave authorities a chance to mingle with residents and solicit their feedback on plans. […]

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Entergy Escalates Battle with COH over Northpark

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:51:22 +0000

Entergy power poles sit on City of Houston (COH) rights-of-way. The company also runs underground wires in an easement near US59. Yet after years of discussion, the company still has not moved them to make room for the widening of Northpark Drive. Nor did the company comply with a request by the City to say […]

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Northpark Tree Moving Starts; Pond Excavation Next

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:51:38 +0000

The Northpark Drive expansion project understandably slowed during the holidays. But Northpark tree moving started in earnest this week. Contractors have returned and started moving trees to clear the areas where two detention ponds will be excavated at 59. In other news: To learn more about each of these items, see below. Moving Day Arrives […]

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Contractors Clearing South Side of Northpark Entry at US59

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:11:22 +0000

October 2, 2023 – Contractor have finished clearing the north side of Kingwood’s Northpark entry last week. Now they have shifted their focus to the south side to make room for two stormwater retention basins that will double as decorative lakes. TxDoT requires the basins to catch extra runoff caused by widening of the road. […]

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New Design for Northpark Entry, Construction Schedule Update

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:17:37 +0000

Harper Brothers Construction has encountered another unexpected problem in the Northpark Drive expansion project. While attempting to place 5’x7′ culvert in the median, it uncovered a water line much closer to the surface than it should have been. While developing a solution with the City of Houston, crews will continue to focus on other areas […]

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Deeper Dive into Northpark Expansion, Drainage Plans

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 02:15:07 +0000

On 7/27/23, I interviewed Ralph De Leon, Northpark project coordinator for the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority (TIRZ 10) and Kevin Perkins, a project manager for HNTB, one of the contractors on the job. The discussion covered both the eastern and western phases of the project from Woodland Hills Drive on the east to US59 and […]

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Northpark Drive Expansion Begins in Earnest

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:56:30 +0000

After what turned out to be a ceremonial groundbreaking on 4/13/23, the Northpark Drive expansion project appears to have started in earnest today, 7/25/2023. Northpark is a vital evacuation route for tens of thousands of Kingwood and Porter residents during floods. Cones and Culvert Line Northpark Center Ditch Traffic cones line the center ditch between […]

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Northpark Drive Expansion Details

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:58:36 +0000

On July 28, 2021, Stan Sarman, chairman of the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority (LHRA), discussed details of the Northpark Drive expansion project with a group of Kingwood executives. The story below is based on his comments. Improvements Motivated by Traffic Congestion, Railroad Delays and Flooding The severely congested Northpark Drive will expand from four lanes […]

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