Houston

Here's a look at the trends, announcements and deals you may have missed in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

By utilizing new technologies, companies can continue to build and help Texas grow, despite lack of available labor, which helps to keep overall costs down, says Joel Galassini in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b>.

H-E-B has previously announced plans to add six more stores in Houston this year and because the grocer typically owns its stores here, very few come up for sale: one exception was Tanglewood Court.

There is a high level of interest in Houston, having recovered from the 2014 downswing, and its strength reflects resurgent domestic energy demand, along with a more diversified economy in recent years.

It is a complex subject but Transwestern and IMEG Corp. have tacked it in a report in which 24 healthcare-related executives speak.

Across Houston, the population growth is not slowing down but speeding up, which is great for retail, along with industrial, which are neck and neck, both at 95% occupied.

Here's a look at the trends, announcements and deals you may have missed in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

US economic cycles tend to run for seven to eight years, yet the current expansionary cycle, which started in 2009, already is among the longest on record for the American economy.