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Downtown Houston at night. Downtown is located in the very center of the city's highway system, bounded by I-45 on the south and west, I-69/US-59 on the east, and Buffalo Bayou on the north. The Skyline District is the heart of downtown and home to headquarters of various multinational businesses and financial institutions.
Uptown had 23.8 million square feet (2,210,000 m 2) of office space in 2001, whereas Downtown Houston had about 40 million square feet (4,000,000 m 2). In the late 1990s, there was a mini-boom of mid-rise residential tower construction, typically about 30 stories tall.
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards.There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions.
Downtown Houston Uptown Houston Texas Medical Center Greenway Plaza. When Houston was established in 1837, the city's founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called "wards." The ward designation is the progenitor of the current-day Houston City Council districts—there are nine in ...
The Downtown Houston business occupancy rate of all office space increased from 75.8% at the end of 1987 to 77.2% at the end of 1988. [20] By the late 1980s, 35% of Downtown Houston's land area consisted of surface parking. [18] In the early 1990s Downtown Houston still had more than 20% vacant office space. [21]
Downtown Houston Timelapse video of Downtown Seattle from atop a Community Transit double-decker bus Downtown North Adams, Massachusetts, population 13,000. This scale and style is typical of many small cities in the United States and Canada. Department stores were hit hard; most managed to keep their doors open, but few made money.
Tanglewood is located just outside the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 in the Uptown Houston area. Tanglewood was developed by the Tanglewood Corporation. Today the neighborhood is managed by the Tanglewood Homes Association. In 1997 Bob Tutt of the Houston Chronicle said that Tanglewood is "a leafy, upscale subdivision". [1]
Magnolia Grove is a small neighborhood located along Buffalo Bayou between downtown Houston and Memorial Park in Houston, Texas. The neighborhood is bounded by Memorial Drive , Shepherd Drive, Washington Avenue, and Waugh Drive.