Freight lines: After months of scouting Texas City sites, California-based Harbor Freight Tools has settled on a space at what’s become a bustling retail center at the business office building formerly occupied by Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery, 3403 Palmer Highway.

Apartment department: It looks like Galveston is getting a complex — a luxury apartment development on the seawall.

A new downtown coffeehouse is coming to Galveston; another hotel planned for Seawall Boulevard

Tasty tidbit: If your fortune cookie predicts a new Texas City restaurant will soon come into your life, believe it. Yummy Yummy Hibachi Sushi & Buffet was planning to open Monday, provided final inspections went well. The eatery is in the building previously occupied by steak and buffet…

Prost: When a German tells you, Das ist nicht dein bier, which translates to “That is not your beer,” what he’s really telling you is, “This is none of your business.”

Tex-Mex tattle: Remember reports back in June that a regional purveyor of Tex-Mex cuisine was planning to move into the former CVS building, 201 FM 270 in League City?

Retail detail: Friendswood attorney and developer Jerome Karam has high-profile projects around the county, but none in League City — until now.

Ready to roost: After much clucking and pecking for opening date answers, there’s finally something to crow about. The Chick-fil-A underway for months at 3440 Palmer Highway in Texas City plans a 6 a.m. April 4 opening, the operator, Lori Chalmers, confirms.

Greek drama: The sudden, surprising closure earlier this month of Olympia Grill in League City is only temporary, according to a sign at the restaurant, 2535 Interstate 45 in Pinnacle Park.

Cashing in chips: This might give some readers heartburn, but it doesn’t appear Alfie’s Fish & Chips in Texas City is returning, at least not to 2115 Palmer Highway, where it operated for decades.

Is poke the next sushi? 

And what's the outlook for Dairy Queen restaurants in Texas City and Galveston?

HQ coup: La Marque is now home to the headquarters of a growing industrial services company that plans to make the city its base of U.S. and international operations.

Meanwhile, a restaurant and bakery plans a May opening on League City's Main Street.

Along with apartments, an international businessman plans to add a rooftop bar and event center, along with a street-level yoga studio to the United States National Bank Building in the island's downtown.

Will a government shutdown slow down a beer garden? And what ever happened to plans for downtown island eatery The Southern By The Strand?

Covert operation: For all those readers hungry for opening-date status of Dickey’s Barbecue Pit in La Marque, there’s news.

Nailing it down: After 63 years in the same Galveston spot, Village Hardware might be making a move.