HTX-BAY: Impact 10/13/2025

Read about some of the latest updates on road and capital projects around League City. This list is not comprehensive.

Upcoming projects
League City Parkway and Walker Street intersection
Project: Work includes a redesign of the intersection to add additional lanes and adjust drainage.
Update: Permitting from the Texas Department of Transportation is almost approved.

• Timeline: bidding in 2026
• Cost: $2.1 million
• Funding source: Galveston County’s 2018 bond

• Timeline: project expected to be done in July 2026
• Cost: $6.12 million
• Funding source: city reinvestment fund

• Timeline: work began in the summer
• Cost: $123,500
• Funding source: city park funds

Check out the latest real estate data for September in the Bay Area and how it compares to the same month last year.

What you need to know: Overall, fewer homes were sold across the area's four ZIP codes. Just one saw an increase in the total number of homes sold.

Diving in deeper: Three of the area's four ZIP codes saw a decline in the median price of a home. Most ZIP codes saw only a slight change.

Also of note: The number of days a home sat on the market in September compared to last year varied. While two ZIP codes saw decreases, two saw increases. One saw its number of days more than double.

What else: Most homes sold in the Bay Area in September fell between $200,000 and $399,999.

After operating as a mobile coffee business that popped up at local events, Monarch Pastries & Coffee House is opening a brick-and-mortar storefront in Friendswood. 

The gist: The coffee house was designed around the concept of metamorphosis and offers coffee, matcha and pastries, according to the establishment’s website. 

Owned by Dillon and Victoria Seals, the coffee house was designed to be more than just a coffee shop and instead, a place for connection, creativity and community.

• 2114 El Dorado Blvd., Friendswood

Texas’ power grid is unlikely to have issues this December, according to an Oct. 3 report by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

The details: During the winter, demand for electricity spikes when people get up in the morning and return home in the evening. This December, the tightest period is expected to be from 7-8 a.m. each day, when little to no solar power is being produced. ERCOT found that there will be a 1.81% chance of a grid emergency during that time.

“Under typical grid conditions, the deterministic scenario indicates that there should be sufficient generating capacity available," the report reads.

The background: Texas' grid withstood three cold snaps early this year. ERCOT last asked residents to voluntarily reduce their energy use in January 2024.

Legislative approach: State lawmakers approved legislation this spring that is designed to make the grid more reliable by tightening regulations on large electric consumers, such as data centers. In extreme grid conditions, those customers will be required to switch to backup power to reduce strain on the grid.

Over one year after Hurricane Beryl, 1 in 8 Houston-area residents reported their lives were still “very” or “somewhat” disrupted by Beryl, according to an Oct. 2 report from the Houston Population Research Center at the Kinder Institute.

Looking back: According to the report, Beryl caused an estimated $2.5 billion to $4.5 billion in property damage.

Quote of note: “Now, a year down the road, residents are having to grapple with the reality of repairs that are still needed, credit card bills from unexpected hotel rooms or refilling the fridge that are still unpaid, and their expectations that these things should already be resolved but they’re not,” Dan Potter, co-director of the research center and lead researcher on the survey work, said in the report.

Going forward: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delivered the majority of its disaster aid, but there is still a gap to fill. As of early 2025, federal estimates suggested there was about $800 million in repairs needed between the destruction from Beryl and the May 2024 derecho.