{"id":596334,"date":"2026-02-17T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/596334\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:44:12","slug":"world-cup-world-baseball-a-promising-2026-for-houston-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/596334\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup, World Baseball: A Promising 2026 for Houston | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Houston appears to be gaining economic momentum as 2026 progresses, with more new projects appearing in an already busy year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The income from all the projects is expected to bring a healthy financial boost to the Southeast Texas region.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the FIFA World Cup, the World Baseball Classic and the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball South Regional, but that&#8217;s in addition to the year-long move of Chevron from its old base in California to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re going to get One City Center at 1021 Main Street, developers are going to convert it to a 550 unit residential location. <\/p>\n<p>And the Houston Texans are preparing to build a new headquarters near 99-The Grand Parkway at Bridgeland. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;ll be new income for locals such as security companies, too, as preparations for the big international sports events get underway very soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re waiting for countries to start sending representatives to Houston, and we can move further on those details as they arrive,&#8221; Houston Police Assistant Chief Megan Howard told City Council recently.<\/p>\n<p>And Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey sums it up:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These kinds of opportunities don&#8217;t come along every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston appears to be gaining economic momentum as 2026 progresses, with more new projects appearing in an already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":596335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,425,50,358,3187],"class_list":["post-596334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116086037853786393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}