A well-known restaurant in the Houston area is on the way out after being at Houston Hobby Airport for decades.
The vote comes after Pappa's Restaurant started a petition claiming Houston City officials were evicting them from Hobby. Following the vote, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said, "This is a competitive bid process. It is not a popularity contest. I would be vilified if I brought you the second place choice. Pappas chose not to go up." "What Pappa's is offering the city for the next 10 to 20 years is less than what they are giving the city right now.
"It's a sloppy-flawed system. I believe the Mayor had his thumb on the scale the whole time. It was almost an anti-Pappas sentiment so if you work for the Mayor you are going to have that sentiment when you score," said Michael Kubosh, who serves as the At-Large Position No. 3 Council Member.
"Look at all the participants involved, they are all the Mayor's friends and people he's been associated with for years. The optics are really bad," Kubosh added.
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