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The Jerry Built cow across from West University Place is being put out to pasture. Pipeline Realty, which recently acquired the building at 3501 W. Holcombe that housed Jerry Built Homegrown Burgers before its sudden departure in May, has taken down the cow that sat on top of the building. The cow will join the Rubenstein family's art park at its Texas Pipe & Supply yard at Texas 288 and Bellfort.

Q: It pains me to see so many crape myrtles chopped down to ugly stubs. I see it everywhere, with properly pruned myrtles almost outnumbered by crape "murdered" trees. Will you provide pruning advice? Betty Pritchett, Houston A: The annual "crape myrtle murder" discussion has begun, so here are guidelines to prune these low-maintenance flowering trees. Crapes do not need to be pruned to bloom. However, a tree can benefit from late-winter pruning to remove dead, weak or crossing branches and suckers at the base. But avoid mutilation. Trim to maintain or restore a natural shape. Remove branches 2 inches or less in diameter, if necessary. Don't top the trees.

ONGOING The Mercer Society Gift and Plant Shoppe: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays at 400 Main, Old Town Spring; 281-651-5475, themercersociety.org/ways-to-give/donate. Sales proceeds benefit flood-damaged Mercer Botanic Gardens. SATURDAY First Saturday Birding: with Al Barr. 7:45 a.m. at Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center, 20634 Kenswick, Humble; 281-446-8588, hcp4.net/community/parks/jones. Free, ages 10 and older. Amend, Feed, Protect - Simple Steps to Grow Better: with David Young from Soil Menders. 10 a.m. at Enchanted Forest, 10611 FM 2759, Richmond; 2 p.m. at Enchanted Gardens, 6420 FM 359, Richmond; myenchanted.com. Free. Tomato Time: with the Gunters. 9 a.m. at Buchanan's Native Plants, 611 E.

Houston-based Camden Property Trust reported fourth-quarter property revenue Thursday of $229.8 million, up from $217 million a year earlier.

Kinokuniya, a Japan-based book store with 12 locations in the U.S., has signed up for 4,000 square feet in Katy for its first store in the Houston market. The store, along with 85°C Bakery Café and Kura Revolving Sushi Bar, will be part of NewQuest Properties' second phase of the Cinemark-anchored Katy Grand retail center at the northeast corner of the Grand Parkway and the Katy Freeway. The new phase, on 7.4 acres, will add two buildings totaling 36,000 square feet this fall. Dave & Busters has signed on as an anchor tenant in Dallas-based Sam Moon Group's 175,000-square-foot Metropark Square development near The Woodlands.

Transwestern announced several leases in the North Houston (Greenspoint) submarket in 2017: Hunting Energy Services, 62,137 square feet at 16825 Northchase Drive; Vinmar, 37,671 square feet at 16825 Northchase Drive; Our Lady of the Lake, 20,000 square feet at 600 N. Sam Houston Parkway; and Air Products and Chemicals, 16,748 square feet at 16945 Northchase Drive. Michelle Wogan, Evelyn Ward and Paula Musa were involved in the transactions. Global Tubing has leased 6,355 square feet at 250 Assay for relocation of its global headquarters to McCord Development's Generation Park. It will keep its manufacturing facility in Dayton. Entoro has leased 6,270 square feet in Woodway Tower, 4900 Woodway. Diana Bridger of JLL represented the tenant.

Dallas-based Sam Moon Group has landed Dave & Busters as an anchor tenant in its Metropark Square mixed-use development near The Woodlands.

The Montrose Management District can go back to operating as usual, but a judge late Tuesday ordered it to do a more thorough review of a petition seeking its dissolution. The district earlier had rejected the petition by declaring more than a quarter of the signatures invalid. But state District Judge Daryl Moore, calling the district's refusal to undertake a more extensive analysis "arbitrary and unreasonable," gave the district 45 days to conduct the additional review.

The best of Houston's public and private spaces earned top honors at the Urban Land Institute Development of Distinction Awards Tuesday. A jury of three outside real estate experts selected five projects that displayed best practices not only in design, but also in construction, economic viability, healthy places, marketing and management. The projects - all highlighted by the judges for demonstrating a sense of community, belonging and Houston - ranged from converted industrial spaces close to the city's core to an underutilized park that's become a community gathering space in Upper Kirby. The 11th annual awards, presented by Winstead, were handed out at a cocktail reception at The Astorian, which was attended by some 300 guests.

The United Orthodox Synagogues will demolish part of their severely damaged campus in Meyerland after flooding three times in as many years.

Transwestern has been hired to provide leasing services for Brookfield Property Partners' recently acquired Houston Center complex on downtown's southeast side.

Global Tubing will move its headquarters to Generation Park, a project of McCord Development in northeast Houston. The company, which will keep its manufacturing facility in Dayton, has leased 6,355 square feet at 250 Assay Street.

The Montrose Management District, temporarily barred from collecting or spending any of its assessments, has set up an account to keep the bridge lights over U.S. 59 burning.

Pipeline Realty is getting into co-working with the launch of Local Office at 2617 Bissonnet near Rice Village. The Houston-based real estate firm has converted a two-story industrial/office building into shared workspaces and private offices with capacity for about 125 members. Local Office, in West University Place, targets entrepreneurs and professionals who want the flexibility of a month-to-month arrangement in a neighborhood setting. Most of its initial members hail from nearby West U, Braes Heights, Bellaire and the Texas Medical Center. "Most of the co-working and shared office spaces that we see tend to be located in kind of the downtown cores or some of the trendier parts of town," said Scott Rubenstein of Pipeline Realty.

Hundreds of grassy acres in a semi-rural area near Tomball for years were home to an elite horse farm where Egyptian Arabians were bred, shown and sold to equine enthusiasts from far and wide. But the local family that operated the farm until a few years ago has sold it to a Houston development firm planning to build 1,000 home sites on the 370 acres and turn an existing 7,000-square-foot building on the site into a recreation center for the community. Michael Cox, president of Johnson Development Services, envisions an outdoor area with cabanas, a lanai and pools that cascade toward a lake. A show arena used for the horses would be converted into a dog park for the residents.

DrillChem Drilling Solutions has leased 5,500 square feet at 8701 New Trails in The Woodlands, Newcor Commercial Real Estate announced.

A seed packet may be small, but it speaks volumes. While seed catalogs promote thousands of types of plants, seed packets tell gardeners how to grow one. All the information is printed on the back of a paper pouch slightly larger than the size of your wallet, and at prices that won't empty it. Although the cost of seeds has risen over the past few years, they're still an economical way to garden, said Elsa Sanchez, a commercial vegetable crops specialist at Penn State University Extension. "The other option would be to buy transplants, which is generally more expensive," Sanchez said. "You also find a lot more options for types and cultivars when you start from seed.