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The restored building was converted to apartments and re-opened in February 2017 as "The Star", a reference to Texaco's start-shaped logo. [2] The luxury building holds 286 one- and two-bedroom apartments, ranging from 730 to 1,730 square feet, and 21,000 square feet of street-front retail space.
The Stages Repertory Theatre has resided in the building since 1985, and the Children's Museum of Houston resided there until 1992. [5] The building became the subject of controversy in 1992 when then-owner 3201 Allen Parkway Ltd. indicated its intent to evict the Stages Theatre and the Children's Museum in order to develop the building into loft condominia in partnership with developer Gross ...
811 Main (formerly BG Group Place and MainPlace) is a 630 ft (192 m) tall skyscraper in Downtown Houston, Texas. It was completed in February 2011 and has 46 floors. It is LEED Platinum Certified. [2] When it was completed, BG Group Place became the 15th tallest building in Houston and features a skygarden on the 39th floor. [3]
During the Houston Astros' 2004 NLCS run (playoffs), the top of the building was crowned by hundreds of tiny blue lights while an enormous Astros star (logo) made of white lights was hung on the south side of the building. [8] In 2011 the company announced they would relocate all employees in the building to a new ExxonMobil office in Spring. [9]
Southern Star Amphitheatre [1] was an amphitheatre located at AstroWorld in Houston, Texas.It opened in the southeast corner of the theme park in 1985. The venue was frequented by notable performers including The Beach Boys and Kansas.
The Main Street Market Square District has irregular boundaries. The district includes all of the blocks between Travis and Main from Texas Street to the northern boundary of University of Houston-Downtown. From the southern edge of Market Square at Preston Street, it captures all of the blocks northward until Buffalo Bayou. It includes three ...
Prior to July 1, 2013, [38] the North Forest Independent School District (originally Northeast Houston Independent School District) served the community. [5] When Northeast Houston ISD was segregated, Settegast had its own high school. [5] A grade 1-8 school called Settegast High School opened in 1951 to serve black students. It had a student ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...