The Real Deal

Residences, commercial space, hotel will have access to activities like kayaking

Planned Community Developers has a vision to transform a soon-to-be-vacated office campus in Sugar Land.

Houston Chronicle

The longtime home of construction and engineering giant Fluor in Sugar Land could become a 53-acre mixed-use waterfront destination if one real estate firm’s plans come to fruition over the next several years.

Houston Business Journal

A few months after Irving, Texas-based Fluor Corp. (NYSE: FLR) announced it will leave Sugar Land after 40 years, plans are underway for the redevelopment of the campus it’s vacating.

RNR Realty News Report

SUGAR LAND, Texas – The 53-acre Lake Pointe Plaza, one of a handful of prime development sites remaining in the City of Sugar Land, is being acquired by Planned Community Developers for a significant mixed-use project.

Houston Chronicle

Richard Nixon was sitting in the middle, Charles Hurwitz remembers, that champagne-soaked night in 1989. It was around 1 or 1:30 a.m., at an after-party at Tony’s, the swankest restaurant in Houston. Hurwitz sat next to Nixon. And on Nixon’s other side was Donald Trump, a flamboyant New York businessman whom no one yet expected to be president.

The Wall Street Journal

"This is a cautionary tale," begins U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes's ruling last week against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and is that ever an understatement...

Houston Chronicle

A Sunday boat crash killed a prominent Houston businessman and community leader. Shawn Hurwitz, CEO of Sam Houston Race Park, which ran the race track in northwest Houston, died around 5 a.m. on Lake Austin...

Houston Business Journal

Houston-based Hines announced July 26 that it has purchased 107 acres in northwest Houston to develop a new business park.

The site is at the southeast corner of Beltway 8 and Gessner Road and adjacent to the Sam Houston Race Park, according to a July 26 press release.

Houston Chronicle

Victory seems to forever elude Charles Hurwitz.

In 1999, he hammered out an agreement with California and federal officials to preserve old-growth redwood trees while allowing his logging company, Pacific Lumber, to cut enough new-growth trees to make a profit...

On December 22, 2006, Mr. Hurwitz and MAXXAM Inc. field a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit challenging an appeal that had been filed with the Fifth Circuit by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...

Houston Chronicle

If at first you don't succeed, spend more taxpayer money. That seems to be the attitude of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in its relentless pursuit of Houston financier Charles Hurwitz...

Texas Monthly

1986 Houston businessman Charles Hurwitz buys a lumber company in California. 1989 The feds investigate Hurwitz for his role in the failure of a Texas savings and loan...

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System has opened a diabetes clinic at the Reliant Astrodome complex, thanks in large part to a gift from Charles E. Hurwitz...

Houston Chronicle

I don't envy the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Having botched the case against Charles Hurwitz at almost every turn, facing rare and hefty sanctions of as much as $72 million, the FDIC's board must now decide what to do next.

On August 24, 2006, Judge Lynn N. Hughes, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, ordered that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) pay MAXXAM Inc. over $72 million dollars in...

In this legal opinion, Charles Hurwitz was found to be the victim of corporate collusion between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Thrift Supervision...

This legal decision details the faults found within arguments made by the Office of Thrift Supervision against Charles Hurwitz and his associates...

This congressional report details inappropriate efforts by the FDIC and OTS to execute a debt-for-nature scheme against Charles Hurwitz, regarding one of his operations in the state of California...