Seabrook City Council awarded Pomodoro’s Cucina Italiana an $850,000 construction and development grant at its July 21 meeting to incentivize the Italian restaurant to build a location in Seabrook.

The details: City Council voted 6-1, with council member Angela Cervantes casting the sole vote opposing the incentive as written.

The cost: Earlier in the meeting, Cervantes said the incentive should be capped at $200,000 to protect taxpayer money and that the Seabrook Economic Development Corp., which will fund the incentive with sales tax revenue, had implemented guardrails limiting incentives to $200,000.

In response, Rick Guerrero, director of economic development for the city, said negotiations with Pomodoro’s began in August 2025, before SEDC adopted that policy in January 2026, thus grandfathering in the $800,000 amount.

What’s next: The grant will be awarded in three installments, beginning with $600,000 upon opening, followed by two annual payments of $125,000, according to previous reporting by Community Impact.

The Back Nine Golf, a golf simulator lounge, will celebrate its grand opening in League City, staff confirmed.

The details: The grand opening will take place from 1-4 p.m. and feature golfing contests like closest to the pin and longest drive to win $100 gift cards, staff said. There will also be hourly raffle prizes, staff said.

The cost: The lounge offers memberships that begin at $199, according to the business' website. 

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With large parts of the state under an extreme heat warning or heat advisory through July 23, the operator of Texas’ independent power grid is projecting record-breaking electric demand this week.

What's happening: As of 3 p.m. July 22, there were 90,027 megawatts of demand on the grid with 113,543 megawatts of power available, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' real-time supply and demand dashboard. One megawatt of electricity can power about 250 homes during peak times.

This would break ERCOT’s current demand record of 85.5 gigawatts, which was set during an August 2023 heat wave. ERCOT spokesperson Trudi Webster cautioned that this week’s demand records are preliminary.

What it means: Texans should not expect a grid emergency during this week’s extreme heat.

ERCOT previously projected that demand would surpass 92,000 megawatts this summer, due to high temperatures, moderate rainfall and the growth of data centers.

This week's triple-digit temperatures come during the sunniest parts of the day, allowing the state to rely in part on solar energy to power the grid.