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Generally east of Interstate 45 and west of Interstate 69 from Interstate 10 north to Little York Road Houston Southeast: Third Ward, the Texas Medical Center, Riverside Terrace, South Union / OST: East of Main Street and Interstate 69, south of Interstate 45, and west of Texas State Highway 35 (Spur 5) International Management District
Village Name County Population Total Area Land Water Elevation Bailey's Prairie, Texas [1]: Brazoria County, Texas: 727 (2010 Census) 7.7 sq mi (19.9 km2) 7.5 sq mi (19.3 km2)
Katharine Shilcutt of the Houston Press said that Third Ward is southwest of Interstate 45, southeast of Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59/Texas State Highway 288, north of Blodgett and Wheeler, and west of Texas State Highway 5/Calhoun. Shilcutt said that in her article on the best restaurants on the Third Ward, due to historical reasons she ...
Windsor Village was developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Mary Ann Fergus of the Houston Chronicle said that thirty years prior to 2003, the community, back then an all White neighborhood, "seemed remote." [2] Around that period the first black families moved in. [2] Fergus said that Windsor Village "was going down for the count" in the mid-1990s. [2]
Rice Village began operations in 1938. [1] It is an unplanned, high density hodge-podge of old and new retail stores. [citation needed]David Kaplan of Cite wrote that during the 1950s and 1960s Rice Village "filled up and prospered" but the economic boom in Greater Houston in the 1970s caused development to come elsewhere. [2]
Parkway Villages is a 577-lot, [1] 224-acre (91 ha) subdivision in western Houston, Texas. [2] It is located north of Lakes of Parkway, the former Barnhardt land tract. [3] It was the first single family housing development by Sueba USA, [4] a subsidiary of Süba Freie Baugesellschaft. [5]
The Houston Business Development, Inc. (HBD) and the Business Information Center (BIC) are in Palm Center. [19] Over 40 small businesses are in the complex. [18] The Houston Texans YMCA was built on 5-acre (2.0 ha) of land, [20] on the site of a previous building that had been abandoned; this building had the original Palms Center sign. [18]
Circa 1981 the Houston Planning Department ruled that, in the words of Kaplan, Washington Terrace was "in the stage of accelerating decline." [7] In 2002 Katherine Feser of the Houston Chronicle reported that gentrification was coming to Washington Terrace. [8] In 2004 the Houston Press named the neighborhood as having the best neighborhood ...