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Houston Center was one of the largest private development projects ever, however only a small portion of the plan was realized, leaving a large swath of downtown Houston covered in parking lots and vacant land. [6] Panhandle Eastern Corporation acquired Houston Center when Texas Eastern was sold to Panhandle for $2.5 billion in stock in June 1989.
In 1993, the 1011 Walker location closed after the restaurant management discovered that the building was being condemned by the city, in favor of building a high rise on the property. [9] As of February 2021, the chain had 17 locations. [10] In August 2021, the 4320 W Sam Houston Pkwy and Clay location closed after operating since 2008.
CityCentre is located on the former site of Town & Country Mall, a 1-million-square-foot (93,000 m 2) shopping center which competed with neighboring Memorial City Mall from 1983 to 2004. [6] Poor accessibility to the site due to the construction of the Sam Houston Tollway , as well as a local recession in the late 1980s, resulted in the ...
Historic – This was the original town center of Houston and dates from the 19th century. The center of the historic district is the Market Square, where the ...
The Houston Theater District, a 17-block area in the heart of Downtown Houston, Texas, United States, is home to Houston's nine professional performing arts organizations, the 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m 2) Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas, and parks. More than two million people visit the Houston Theater ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
Byrne died in the St Patrick's Presbytery, Toowoomba on the 11 February 1938 aged 68 years. He was survived by two sisters. [ 2 ] His funeral was held on Monday 14 February at St Patrick's Cathedral, conducted by James Duhig (Archbishop of Brisbane) and John Heavey ( Vicar Apostolic of Cooktown ).
Market Square is a public plaza bounded by Travis and Milam streets, and Congress and Preston avenues. Numbered as Block 34 and named "Congress Square" in the original Borden Survey of Houston, it was renamed Market Square after Augustus Allen chose a site for the capitol at the northwest corner of Main Street and Texas Avenue in 1837.