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A retail center in Chinatown in southwest Houston, where restaurants serving authentic Chinese food are located. The Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown Management District) defines it as being roughly bounded by Redding Rd and Gessner Rd to the East, Westpark Dr to the North, Beltway 8 to the West, and Beechnut St to the South. [1]
[27] In 1990 there were a combined 21,191 Indian and Pakistani descent people in Harris County, making up 19.3% of the county's Asians and at the time being the third largest Asian ethnic group. In 2000 there were 35,971 members of the combined group in Harris County, making up 18.6% of the county's Asians and now being the second largest Asian ...
In 1960 there were about 325 people in the city of Houston of Chinese origins. [12] In the 1960s there were about 2,500 ethnic Chinese in the Houston area. [13] In the decade of the 1970s the first schools teaching the Chinese language appeared. [6] By 1983 there were about 30,000 people of Chinese origin in the Houston area. [9]
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The new Houston Chinatown in Southwest Houston can trace its beginnings to several businesses that opened in 1983. [136] The new Chinatown began to expand in the 1990s when many Houston-area Asian American entrepreneurs moved their businesses from older neighborhoods in a search for less expensive properties and lower crime rates.
This change in prices pushes them out and causes various effects for the people of Manhattan’s Chinatown so local groups and activists resist these changes. [21] Overall, residents in Chinatown, Vancouver and all other Chinatowns fight that provisions should be taken to protect their areas and the deep culture and history that comes with it. [22]