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The University of Houston–Downtown (UHD) is a four-year state university, located within the Main Street Market Square Historic District. Founded in 1974, it is one of four separate and distinct institutions in the University of Houston System. UHD has an enrollment of 12,900 students—making it the 13th largest public university in Texas ...
Supermercados Teloloapan ("Teloloapan Supermarkets") is a chain of supermarkets located in Texas, with its headquarters in Houston, [1] and with locations in Greater Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. As of 2008 there are nine supermarkets, with most of them being located in Hispanic neighborhoods . [ 2 ]
Sellers Bros. is a chain of grocery stores and convenience stores based in Houston, Texas, United States. The company was formed in 1921, [1] and its officers are George R. Sellers; Joseph L. Sellers; and John L. Sellers. [2] Sellers Bros. operates 12 supermarkets/grocery stores and five convenience stores. [3]
By 1985 the company was the second largest grocer in the five-county Greater Houston area, with 17% of the sales in the market. [ 9 ] In 1989, Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin , who later became the President of Russia , visited a Randalls store in Clear Lake .
Plaque at Rice Village marking the site of the first Rice Food Market. Founded on May 5, 1937, by William H. Levy, grandfather of the current owners, the first Rice Food Market store, a 2,400-square-foot (220 m 2) building located on Rice Boulevard in Houston, was named Rice Boulevard Food Market. [citation needed] The store was located in Rice ...
The bulk of Safeway units in Houston dated from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a logo change in 1981-1982 was the only alteration, if any, to most of such stores before the AppleTree split. Many former Weingarten's stores, which had been acquired by Safeway in 1983, were even older.
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.
Foodarama, also known as Cox's Foodarama, is a supermarket chain in Texas, with its headquarters in Foodarama Store #1 in Brays Oaks, Houston. In Greater Houston, as of 2016 Foodarama operated ten stores. [1] [2] Carrol Cox is the founder and president of Foodarama. [3] As of 2011, 1,000 people worked for Foodarama. [4]