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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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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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Reminder: Northpark Phase II Input Meeting Wednesday, 5-7 PM

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:46:37 +0000

TxDOT, the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority (LHRA), City of Houston and Tax Increment Redevelopment Zone (TIRZ) 10 will solicit public comments at a Northpark Phase II Input Meeting, from 5-7PM Wednesday, March 6 at the Kingwood Community Center. A significant part of the effort to provide an all-weather evacuation route from Kingwood in the event […]

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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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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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