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Lower Westheimer is an area in Houston, Texas, United States. It is centered on Westheimer Road , and is considered to be East of Shepherd, and West of Midtown. Several historic neighborhoods are partially or completely located within the area including Montrose and Hyde Park.
5333 Westheimer Road is a 10 story, 178,468 square feet (16,580.2 m 2) office building. [2] In 2003 5333 Westheimer was 87% occupied, and the Information Handling Services Group leased 49,400 square feet (4,590 m 2) of space, the largest continuous chunk of leased space in the building. [3]
Guitar Center was founded in Hollywood in 1959 by Wayne Mitchell as The Organ Center, a retailer of electronic organs for home and church use. In 1964, after a supplier required him to carry Vox guitar amplifiers, to continue receiving organs, Mitchell added the amplifiers to his inventory and renamed the store The Vox Center, leveraging the Beatles association with the Vox brand.
City of Houston officials, including the Mayor of Houston Bill White and the Houston City Council, said that there was a public need for the park. [53] The City of Houston operates the 4.7-acre (1.9 ha) Grady Park, which is located outside Uptown and two blocks away from the site of the Post Oak Lane Park. [53] [54]
Westheimer Road and Westheimer Parkway are named after Mitchell (Michael) Louis Westheimer, [13] a prosperous German Jewish immigrant and flour salesman who had settled in Houston in 1859. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] He purchased a 640-acre (260 ha) farm west of Houston's city limits at the time, where Lamar High School and St. John's School are currently ...
By 2005, Music & Arts Center was operating 60 retail locations and 7 educational support centers throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. [3] On February 9, 2005, Guitar Center announced the acquisition of Music & Arts Center and its plans to merge Music & Arts Center with its American Music Group division of band and orchestral instrument ...