Skyline District of Downtown

Downtown Houston is Houston's largest business district. In terms of office square footage, it is the seventh largest in the United States and has the third most concentrated skyline after New York City and Chicago. Image File history File links Houston_Texas_CBD.jpg Houston, Texas From : http://de. ... Image File history File links Houston_Texas_CBD.jpg Houston, Texas From : http://de. ... Nickname: Space City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Country United States State Texas Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Incorporated June 5, 1837 Government  - Mayor Bill White Area  - City  601. ... Downtown Honolulu in United States, an example of an urban downtown district Central business district, (CBD used in Australia, New Zealand and sometimes elsewhere), or downtown (used mainly in North America) are terms referring to the commercial heart of a city. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ...

Downtown Houston contains the headquarters of many prominent companies. Many people do not know this, but there is an extensive network of pedestrian tunnels and skywalks connecting the buildings of the district. The tunnel system is home to many fast food restaurants, shops and services.

Most of the residential units in downtown are conversions of older buildings into modern and luxurious loft spaces. A number are located around the performance halls of the theatre district and near Main Street in the Historic District. Downtown will be adding another 600 plus units in the next couple of years with the developments of Marvey Finger's Park Tower (high rise) and the Houston Pavilions' two midrise loft towers. Houston Pavilions is a proposed commercial development in Downtown Houston, Texas. ...

A noticeable trend is that Houston is becoming more "downtown-centric". The baseball, basketball, and hockey teams have moved into downtown facilities. January 1, 2004 marked the opening of the "new" Main Street, a plaza with many eateries, bars and nightclubs, which brings many visitors to a newly renovated locale. To complete the scene, Main Street Square offers dancing fountains throughout the day and offers a dramatic scene as one of the METRORail trains pass under. Along the Main Street corridor is the original Foley's department store which was transformed into Macy's on September 9. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... METRORail is the light rail service in Houston, Texas, United States that started on January 1, 2004. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ...

Architecture

JPMorgan Chase Tower

In the 1960s, downtown comprised of a modest collection of mid-rise office structures, but has since grown into one of the largest skylines in the United States. In 1960, the central business district had 10 million square feet (930,000 m²) of office space, increasing to about 16 million square feet (1,500,000 m²) in 1970. Downtown Houston was on the threshold of a boom in 1970 with 8.7 million square feet (800,000 m²) of office space planned or under construction and huge projects being launched by real estate developers. The largest proposed development was the 32-block Houston Center. Only a small part of the original proposal was ultimately constructed. Other large projects included the Cullen Center, Allen Center, and towers for Shell Oil Company. The surge of skyscrapers mirrored the skyscraper booms in other cities, such as Los Angeles and Dallas. Houston experienced another downtown construction spurt in the 1970s with the energy industry boom. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (600x800, 100 KB) Took this pic. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (600x800, 100 KB) Took this pic. ... The 75-story, 305 m (1000 ft) tall JPMorgan Chase Tower of Houston, Texas, formerly the Texas Commerce Tower, is the tallest building in Texas and one of the tallest structures in the world. ... A skyline is best described as the overall or partial view or relief of a citys tall buildings and structures consisting of many skyscrapers. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A square foot is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 foot long. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A real estate developer (American English) or property developer (British English) makes improvements of some kind to real property, thereby increasing its value. ... The Shell emblem known as the Pecten Shell Oil Company (SOC) is the Houston, Texas based wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type mayor-council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  465. ... Nickname: Big D Location in the state of Texas Country United States State Texas Counties Dallas, Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Incorporated 2 February 1856  - Mayor Laura Miller Area    - City  385. ...

Wells Fargo Bank Plaza

The first major skyscraper to be constructed in Houston was the 50-floor, 218 m (714 ft) One Shell Plaza in 1971. A succession of skyscrapers were built throughout the 1970s, culminating with Houston's tallest skyscraper, the 75-floor, 305 m (1,002 ft) JPMorgan Chase Tower (formerly the Texas Commerce Tower), which was completed in 1982. In 2002, it was the tallest structure in Texas, ninth-tallest building in the United States and the 23rd tallest skyscraper in the world. In 1983, the 71-floor, 296 m (970 ft) Wells Fargo Bank Plaza was completed, which became the second-tallest building in Houston and Texas, and 11th-tallest in the country. Skyscraper construction in downtown Houston came to an end in the mid-1980s with the collapse of Houston's energy industry and the resulting severe economic recession. When the 53-floor, 232 m Texaco Heritage Plaza was completed in 1987, it appeared that no more skyscrapers would be constructed for a while. Twelve years later, the Houston-based Enron Corporation began construction of a 40-floor skyscraper in 1999 (which was completed in 2002)^[1] with the company collapsing in one of the most dramatic corporate failures in the history of the United States only two years later. Chevron bought this building to set up a regional upstream energy headquarters and in late 2006 announced further consolidation of employees downtown from satellite suburban buildings and even Ca. and La. offices by leasing the original Enron building across the street. Both buildings are connected by a second-floor unique walk-across, air-conditioned circular skybridge with 3 points of connection to both office buildings and a large parking deck. Other smaller office structures were built in the 2000–2003 period. As of December 2001, downtown Houston had about 40 million square feet (3,700,000 m²) of office space, including 28 million square feet (2,600,000 m²) of class A office space. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 612 KB) Description: The Wells Fargo Bank Plaza in Houston, Texas, USA. Taken from approximately 29°45′29. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 612 KB) Description: The Wells Fargo Bank Plaza in Houston, Texas, USA. Taken from approximately 29°45′29. ... The Wells Fargo Bank Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Bank Plaza, is located in Downtown Houston, Texas. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The 75-story, 305 m (1000 ft) tall JPMorgan Chase Tower of Houston, Texas, formerly the Texas Commerce Tower, is the tallest building in Texas and one of the tallest structures in the world. ... Antarctica Oceania Africa Asia Europe North America South America Middle East Caribbean Central Asia East Asia North Asia South Asia Southeast Asia SW. Asia Australasia Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia Central America Latin America Northern America Americas C. Africa E. Africa N. Africa Southern Africa W. Africa C. Europe E. Europe N... The Wells Fargo Bank Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Bank Plaza, is located in Downtown Houston, Texas. ... Texaco is the name of an American oil company that was merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001. ... Heritage Plaza is a 53 story tower in downtown Houston, Texas. ... Enron Corporation was an energy company based in Houston, Texas. ...

Notable buildings

Bank of America Center

Heritage Plaza

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• The Sweeney, Coombs & Frederick building was built in 1889 and is located on the corner of Main Street and Congress Street at 301 Main Street. Sweeney is a jewelry firm which is still in business. It is one of the very very few Victorian structures in the Bayou City. The county nearly plowed it under, but instead chose to move the Engineering Department into it. Some people believe this building wasn't entirely built by George Dickey. They believe parts of the W.A. Van Alstyne Building still live in the current structure, even though it was supposed to be demolished in 1861. The first level is Cava Bistro. The second and third floors are attorney's offices, with the law firm of Scardino & Fazel on the third floor.
• The Esperson Buildings, 'Neilson' built in 1927 and 'Mellie' in 1942, were modeled with Italian architecture.
• The Houston City Hall was started in 1938 and completed in 1939. The original building is an excellent example of the Art Deco Era. In front of City Hall is the George Hermann Square.
• Houston Public Library's Central Library, consisting of the Julia Ideson Building (1926) and the Jesse H. Jones Building (1976).
• The Houston Industries Building, formerly the 1100 Milam Building, was built in 1973 and renovated in 1996.
• Pennzoil Place, designed by Philip Johnson,built in 1976, is Houston most award winning skyscraper known for its innovative design. Johnson's forward thinking brought about a new era in skyscraper design.
• The First City Tower was built in 1981.
• The JPMorgan Chase Tower, designed by I.M. Pei built in 1981 and formerly the Texas Commerce Tower, is the tallest in Houston and the second tallest in the United States west of the Mississippi River. The Transco (now Williams) Tower in the Houston Galleria is often mistaken as the tallest in Houston when, in fact it is the third tallest in the metropolitan area.
• The Chevron Tower, formerly the Gulf Tower, was built in 1982.
• The Bank of America Center, formerly the RepublicBank Center and the NationsBank center, designed by Philip Johnson was built in 1983.
• The Enron Center North, also the Four Allen Center, was also built in 1983.
• The Wells Fargo Bank Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Center, also built in 1983 is the second tallest building in the Houston Area.
• The Heritage Plaza was completed in 1987.
• The Enron Center South, also the Enron II, designed by Cesar Pelli was completed in 2002. (Note: Enron went bankrupt before the building's completion and was sold soon after it was completed for about half of its $200 million construction cost).
• The Hobby Center for Performing Arts was started in 2000 and completed in 2002.
• The Lyric Centre is filled with lawyers, but is named for its adjacency to the many performing arts venues in Houston's Theater District.

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Other venues

Downtown Houston has two major league sports venues. Minute Maid Park (formerly Enron Field), which opened in 2000, is home to the MLB Astros and the Toyota Center home to the NBA Rockets, WNBA Comets, and AHL Aeros opened in 2003. Minute Maid Park (formerly Enron Field and Astros Field) is a baseball stadium in Houston, Texas that opened in 2000 to house the Houston Astros. ... The Toyota Center is a sports stadium located at 1510 Polk Street in Downtown Houston, Texas. ...

The Downtown Theater District is ranked second, only behind New York City, for the number of theater seats. Houston is one of only five cities in the United States with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing art disciplines of opera, ballet, music, and theater. Venues in the theater district include the Wortham Center (opera and ballet), the Alley Theater (theater), the Hobby Center (resident and traveling musical theater, concerts, events), the Verizon Wireless Theater (concerts and events) and Jones Hall (symphony). Verizon Wireless owns and operates the second-largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. ... Jones Hall in Houston, Texas The Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, commonly known as Jones Hall, is a performance venue in Houston, Texas, and the permanent home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Society for the Performing Arts. ...

The George R. Brown Convention Center, with its 1.2 million square feet of flexible exhibit, meeting, and registration space and adjacent hotel, is frequently used for conventions, trade shows, and community meetings.

In comparison to other major cities, Houston has relatively few hotel rooms downtown, partly because downtown Houston is not a large leisure travel market. Major hotels in downtown Houston are the Hilton Americas Convention Center Hotel with 1,203 rooms , the Four Seasons Houston Hotel and Residences, the Doubletree Hotel Downtown Houston and the Hyatt Regency Houston. Of note, the Hyatt Regency Houston has a revolving restaurant, the Spindletop, located on the hotel's 30th floor. In addition there are a number of upscale boutique hotels in the CBD such as the Landcaster, Hotel Icon, Magnolia Hotel, Inn at the Ballpark, and the Alden Hotel. There are approximately 5,000 hotel rooms in downtown Houston. The word Hilton or Hylton can be a place name or personal name. ... For the inventor of Celluloid, see John Wesley Hyatt. ... A revolving restaurant is a restaurant on a revolving floorplate. ... Houston redirects here. ...

Retail and transportation

A METRORail train approaching Preston Station in Downtown Houston

Downtown Houston is home to the flagship Macy's (former Foley's) Department Store (founded in 1900), which moved to its current location in 1947. It has 10 levels and it occupies an entire Houston square city block. In 2006 this store, along with all other Foley's stores, was renamed Macy's. This is the only freestanding middle-market department store in a central business district in the Southern United States. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... METRORail is the light rail service in Houston, Texas, United States that started on January 1, 2004. ... A METRORail train approaching Preston Station in Downtown Houston, Texas. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... Historic Southern United States. ...

The Shops in Houston Center is an enclosed shopping mall. It houses ninety stores and the building itself straddles two city blocks. It has been suggested that Retail park be merged into this article or section. ...

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The Houston Pavilions is a major project recently announced for Downtown. This project comes from the same developers of the Denver Pavilions in Denver; spanning three square blocks, however, Houston Pavilions is said to be larger. [1] This article refers to the state capital of Colorado. ...

Also, a new Downtown Park is currently underway, intended to be Houston's version of Millennium Park in Chicago. The park will have underground parking, an amphitheater, two restaurants, a dog run, a jogging trail around the park, a great Lawn, an interactive fountain and more. The park has a website here. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Millennium Park is a prominent new civic center of the City of Chicago in Illinois and an important landmark of the citys lakefront. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works, Second City (reference to when Chicago was second in population and prestige to New York). ...

Government

Federal and state representation

Downtown Houston is in Texas's 18th congressional district [2]. Its current Representative is Sheila Jackson Lee. The current boundaries of Texas District 18. ... Sheila Jackson Lee Sheila Jackson Lee (born January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. ...

Parks

Sam Houston Park, on the western edge of downtown between McKinney and Dallas/Allen Parkway, is home to the Houston Heritage Society and a collection of historic buildings and homes from around Houston.

Tranquility Park, bound by Rusk, Smith, Walker, and Bagby, uses open green spaces and a series of interconnected fountains to commemorate NASA's landing on the moon's Sea of Tranquility.

Market Square, between Travis, Milam, Preston, and Congress, preserves the block formerly covered by Houston's open air market which fronted the old City Hall.

Allen's Landing, on Buffalo Bayou at Smith and Preston, commemorates the landing site of the Allen Brothers, founders of the City of Houston.

Sesquicentennial Park, across Buffalo Bayou from Allen's Landing, contains a statue of George H.W. Bush, Houstonian and 41st President of United States.

Main Street Square, a pedestrian mall with a reflection pool and fountains on the MetroRail line between Lamar and Dallas.

Root Memorial Square, a one-block park across La Branch St from the Toyota Center.

Sisters of Charity Park, a quiet area in St. Joseph's Medical Center in the southeast corner of downtown.

Discovery Green, west of the George R. Brown Convention Center, is slated to be completed in January 2008 [3].

Fire service

Houston Fire Department Station 8 Downtown in Downtown is under construction. Houston Fire Department (HFD) is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Houston, Texas, United States. ...

Police service

The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's Central Patrol Division [4]. A typical Houston Police Department cruiser The Houston Police Department (often referred to simply as HPD) is the primary law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston, Texas, United States. ...

Corrections

Harris County, Texas's jails are in Downtown [5]. Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. ...

Education

Colleges and universities

There is one school of higher learning located in Downtown Houston:

The University of Houston-Downtown, an open-enrollment teaching university located at One Main, is a member of the University of Houston System. The school currently has an enrollment of 12,000 traditional and non-traditional students from around the Houston Area. One Main Building One Main Building as seen from the merger of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou Commerce Street Building The University of Houston–Downtown, often called UH–Downtown or UHD, is a four-year college in Houston, Texas. ... The University of Houston System, often called UH System or UHS, is a state system of higher education which oversees and funds four independent, self-governing universities and two multi-institution teaching centers (MITCs, pronounced mit-sees). It also administers a radio station, KUHF, and a television station, KUHT. The...

Primary and secondary education

The grade-school children of Downtown are served by the Houston Independent School District. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Very few children live in Downtown; according to the 2000 U.S. census, there were only 550 inhabitants under the age of 18 in the Downtown Super Neighborhood, which also has a strip of land east of Downtown. Of those children, any well-off children usually attend either other public schools or attend independent schools.

Six elementary schools have zoning boundaries that extend to Downtown; they are:

• Bruce Elementary School
• Crawford Elementary School (as of 2006 there are no residential areas in Downtown zoned to Sherman)
• Crockett Elementary School
• Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (in the Fourth Ward)
• J. Will Jones Elementary School (in Midtown) (as of 2006 a Holiday Inn Express is the only area zoned to Jones in Downtown that has capacity to be residential)
• Sherman Elementary School (as of 2006 there are no residential areas in Downtown zoned to Sherman)

E.O. Smith Education Center (in the Fifth Ward) takes most of Downtown's students at the middle school level. Marshall Middle School (in Northside Village) takes students at the middle school level from a small section of northern Downtown. Gregory-Lincoln Education Center is a combined primary and secondary school located at 1101 Taft in Houston, Texas, United States. ... When the city of Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, its founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called wards. ... Midtown Houston is just south of downtown Houston, Texas, bordered by the Montrose area and U.S. Highway 59. ... This article is about the hotel chain; for the film, please see Holiday Inn (film). ... E. O. Smith Education Center is a combined primary and secondary school located at 1701 Bringhurst in Houston, Texas, United States. ... The Fifth Ward is the area of Houston, Texas north of Buffalo Bayou, east of U.S. Highway 59 and in the Inner Loop. ...

Davis High School (in Northside Village) takes students from almost all of Downtown at the high school level. Reagan High School (in the Houston Heights) take students in the high school level from a small section of northwest Downtown. Jefferson Davis High School is a secondary school located at 1101 Quitman in Houston, Texas with a ZIP code of 77009. ... Reagan High School John H. Reagan High School is a secondary school located at 413 East 13th Street in Houston, Texas with a zip code of 77008. ... Houston Heights, often nicknamed The Heights, is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas. ...

The portion zoned to Bruce was zoned to Anson Jones Elementary School [6] until spring 2006, when Anson Jones closed its doors.

Foley's Academy [7] was formerly located inside the Foley's (now Macy's) in Downtown Houston. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Macys is a chain of American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ...

Incarnate Word Academy, a Catholic all-girls' school founded in 1873, is the only high school actually located Downtown. The academy is operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. A nearby 4-8 school called the Holy Name School is north of Downtown [8]. Incarnate Word Academy is a Roman Catholic secondary girls school located in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. ... The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (Latin: Archidioecesis Galvestoniensis Houstoniensis) encompasses 8,880 square miles of ten counties in the southeastern area of Texas: Harris; Galveston; Austin; Brazoria; Fort Bend; Grimes; Montgomery; San Jacinto; Walker; and Waller. ...

See also

Houston Portal

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External links

• Downtown at the official Houston web site
• Downtown District
• Downtown Houston Alliance
• Downtown Houston Interactive Map
• Houston Theater District