Brandi Smith is a Digital Anchor at KHOU 11. She focuses on themes related to construction and real estate, including commercial real estate, housing market trends, and urban development, while also exploring logistics and planning. Brandi's work has been featured in prominent outlets such as Yahoo News, E! Networks, and Rice University.
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By: Brandi Smith
When performance falters, systems get exposed. For Roman Stephens, those moments are not setbacks. They are entry points. Over nearly 25 years in commercial real estate, Stephens has built a career stepping into underperforming or complex environments and turning operational discipline into durable value creation.
By: Brandi Smith
Elk Grove Village bills itself as the data center capital of the Midwest and Illinois runs on a grid in which nuclear supplies roughly a third of generation, according to ComEd data cited by CBRE. By JLL ‘s count, the state has also watched at least $200 billion in data center projects originally planned for Illinois get built somewhere else.
Photo by Masi: https://www.pexels.com/photo/warehouse-interior-with-boxes-and-supplies-30625278/
As the 2026-27 Aleko Endowed Artist, Julia Bullock curated an evening of song, chamber music and poetry celebrating the Harlem Renaissance.
By: Brandi Smith
Generation Park has collected nearly $9 billion in pharmaceutical manufacturing investment in under a year. Eli Lilly and Co. started construction this summer on a $6.5 billion active pharmaceutical ingredient campus spread across 236 acres of the northeast Houston district. Bristol Myers Squibb followed in August, selecting the same 4,300-acre McCord Development project for a $2.3 billion, 600,000-square-foot multi-modal campus expected to employ nearly 500.
Start with a single apartment property assessed at $20 million, roughly the size of most deals that used a traveling housing finance corporation to come off the tax rolls. At a 2.5% millage rate, that property has been abating about $500,000 a year in property taxes. Doug Banerjee, Senior Managing Director at Greysteel
The Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival gathered players, composers and scholars to test the instrument’s next act.
By: Brandi Smith, Pete Linforth
Texas spent the past two years selling itself as the center of American AI infrastructure. On Sept. 21, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop issuing permits sought by data center projects statewide and his office said he will work with the Legislature next session to eliminate any financial incentives for the industry.
By: Brandi Smith
Three years ago, aging office campuses in Chicago’s northwest suburbs had a ready exit. Compass Datacenters paid $194 million for the former Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates. Aligned Data Centers assembled a row of office buildings along Elk Grove Village’s Northwest Point Boulevard to clear for a data center campus.
By: Brandi Smith
Here’s a fun little calendar plot twist: Halloween lands on a Saturday this year *and* daylight saving time ends at 2 am that same night. The clocks fall b
