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Westbury Square. Coordinates: 29.657227°N 95.479584°W. Westbury Square was a shopping center located on a 7.5-acre (3.0 ha) site near the intersection of Chimney Rock Road and West Bellfort Avenue, [1] in the Westbury neighborhood in the Brays Oaks district of Southwest Houston, Texas. [2] It was built as a part of Westbury Section 3.
The Warehouse Live is a large club/small theater-sized live entertainment venue located in East Downtown (EADO), Houston, Texas. [1] [2] Warehouse Live was converted from a warehouse built in the 1920s. The venue is distinctive for its LED chandeliers. There are three separate performance rooms: The Ballroom (capacity 1,300), The Studio ...
Weiner was an immigrant from Vilnius, Lithuania. [4] The first shop was located on what was then the outskirts of Houston. [3] In 1932 the firm filed for bankruptcy during the Great Depression. [4] Greg Hassell and Deidra M. Lemons of the Houston Chronicle said that Weiner's achieved "its zenith" in 1994, when it had 158 locations. [4]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas.It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.
Weingarten, Inc. (hereinafter sometimes called "Weingarten") is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, with its principal office at 600 Lockwood Drive, Houston, Texas." ^ " District Boundary Map Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine." Greater East End Management District.
It features Macy's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue. With 3 million square feet (280,000 m 2) of space that includes 2,400,838 square feet (223,045.1 m 2) of gross leasable area with 400 stores, the Galleria is the largest mall in Texas and the seventh largest shopping mall in the United States. [8][9]
History of Texas. The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, the town developed as a regional transportation and ...
The first Globe Discount City opened in Houston in November 1960 by United Mercantile Inc. United had formed earlier in 1960 to operate the existing seven-store chain of Danburg's Department Stores which had existed since the 1930s and the forthcoming big-box Globe retail locations – the first three of which were each built with over 100,000 square feet of space. [2]